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    The Boston Bombing

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    In this essay I will be talking about the Boston bombing. In the month of April there was a record of over fifteen terrorist attacks including in the United States. On April 15‚ 2013‚ during a marathon in Boston two bombs exploded just meters away from the finishing line. The bomb exploded during the marathon which was held on Boylston Street. During the bombing two people were killed and over two hundred people were injured. Three days later‚ one of the suspects‚ Tarmelan Tsarnaeav was killed during

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    BRAC Bank CSR

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    BRAC Bank started its journey on 4th July‚ 2001 as a private commercial bank focused on Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). In just a decade‚ the Bank has become a leading bank in Bangladesh‚ keeping its core focus in SME yet becoming one of country’s leading financial hypermarket.  Today BRAC Bank holds a dynamic network of 157 branches‚ 400 SME unit offices‚ 500 Remittance Delivery Points‚ nearly 350 ATMs and 14 Financial Kiosks across the country.  The stakeholders of the bank are BRAC‚ the largest

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    trained for and completed a half marathon. I finished with a time of 1:42 and won the eighteen and under age group. My training for this race included running‚ biking‚ and weightlifting. Every night‚ many times by myself and other times with my mother‚ I would go out and run or workout. I remember going out Christmas Eve for interval training and then rushing home to make sure I did not miss the Christmas Eve service. The next year I completed another half marathon in 1:32 averaging a 7:09 mile pace

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    Study Guide

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    CP Western Civilization Chapter 4 Sections 1-3 Minoan Civilization: lived on Crete; after king Minos; earliest civilization; based on trade not conquest; used art to reflect them; used others cultures and customs Polis: a city-state; political Oligarchy: rule by some people Acropolis: high city; city built high up on a cliff for defense purposes City-State: independent; own government; isolated; doesn’t answer to anyone Crete: island off the coast of Greece that was the cradle of an early

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    Paula Radcliffe

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    Paula Radcliffe Paula Jane Radcliffe (December 17‚ 1973) is an English long-distance runner and is currently the World Record holder for the marathon‚ which she set during the 2003 London Marathon‚ with a time of 2:15.25. Radcliffe was born in Northwich‚ Cheshire‚ and studied modern languages at Loughborough University. Radcliffe is not known for her sprint finish‚ and so to win a race must attack and leave her competitors behind‚ as was seen in the 10‚000 metres at the 2000 Olympic Games

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    Funk and Goal

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    timely. Give yourself a reasonable amount of time to achieve your goal. 2. How did the runner in the video apply the elements of a SMART goal to completing a marathon? The runner applied SMART goal by first started out with her specific goal which was to run a marathon. Measurable‚ she started out by running a 5k not the whole marathon right away. Attainable‚ she was able to accomplish her goal over time. She gave herself a realistic goal by starting out with3.1 miles then 5 and from there kept

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    as Miltiades and Themistocles. Miltiades was elected to serve as one of the 10 stratagoi (generals) to command the Athenian forces in 490 BC and was crucial to the victory at the Battle of Marathon. According to Herodotus Miltiades was the architect of several Greek strategies that achieved victory at Marathon. The Greek offensive‚ although contributed to Miltiades as a brilliant strategic decision‚ is an important historiographical issue for modern historians. Herodotus tells us that opinion among

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    Sport Pyramid

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    pyramid shows the Structure of Sporting Organization‚ Government Systems in Sports and‚ explain what is sports/sport management. One example to explain the Sport Pyramid is the 2013 Sundown Marathon. It all start from the HiVelocity Events Pte Ltd. HiVelocity is responsible organizer to manage the 2013 Sundown Marathon. But without a corporate sport support they could not run and start to plan the event. So somehow they have the support from Aviva that convince with their proposal and sponsor for the

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    Metabolic Race

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    GREAT METABOLIC CHALLENGE Metabolism is a series of vital biochemical processes that take place in order to sustain life. During a marathon run‚ the individual relies on the breakdown of carbohydrates and lipids‚ in order to provide energy release in the form of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP). This essay will focus on the role of mobilization and structures of both carbohydrates and lipids in the production of ATP. Mobilization of Carbohydrates When carbohydrates are consumed during a meal‚ catabolism

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    battles; at the Battle of Marathon‚ Miltiades used the Vrana Valley to prevent a Persian march on Athens‚ at the Battle of Thermopylae‚ Leonidas used the narrow‚ Thermopylae pass to invalidate the Persian numbers‚ and at the Battle of Artemisium‚ Themistocles used the Artemisium Strait to aid in his battle against the Persian fleets. The best manipulation and use of terrain by the Greeks in the Greco-Persian War was at the Battle of Marathon. In the Battle of Marathon Miltiades and his men chopped

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