The first day of tryouts at my new high school was going extremely well. Socializing on the sideline‚ I thought‚ “Maybe high school isn’t going to be that bad after all.” However‚ The last drill of the day destroyed my hopes for making the lacrosse team. Running toward the goal‚ I felt a massive pop in my hip. A ligament had torn‚ and I could hardly walk. For weeks as I hobbled along on my cane‚ I would catch people staring at me in the hallways. Whether the cane or just low self-confidence‚ I never
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As the main tenet of Buddhism is "suffering"‚ "impermanence" and "no soul"‚ many have the misconception that it has a pessimistic outlook and is devoid of any kind of aesthetic appreciation. Although this may at first appear to be very convincing‚ they are in fact far from the truth and are no more than mistaken generalizations. The primary aesthetic concept at the heart of Buddhist culture is the aspiration of leading a holy life. In Buddhism‚ beauty is not for beauty’s sake. It has been viewed
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A January 23‚ 2013 press release from the Department of Tourism The Philippines welcomed a total of 4‚272‚811 foreign visitors in 2012‚ posting a 9.07% increase from 3‚917‚454 visitors in 2011. This marks the first time in the country’s tourism history to surpass the 4 million visitor arrival mark. South Korea set a new all-time high by supplying a total of 1‚031‚155 visitors or 24.13% of the total visitor volume to the Philippines. Registering 11.45% growth from 2012‚ South Korea remains
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Introduction : What is advertising? Advertising is a form of communication for marketing and used to encourage or persuade an audience (viewers‚ readers or listeners; sometimes a specific group) to continue or take some new action. Most commonly‚ the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering‚ although political and ideological advertising is also common. In Latin‚ ad vertere means “to turn the mind toward.” [1] The purpose of advertising may also be to
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The Demographic for our product is targeted towards parents and youth in New Zealand ranging from middle to upper class that spend a lot of time in the harsh New Zealand sun. This demographic is primarily concerned about protecting themselves and their families from developing skin cancer. Parents are concerned about the overall health and wellbeing of their children‚ which is why they are our target market. For children of young age‚ their parents are responsible to ensure that their children have
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Carbon‚ an element discovered before history itself‚ is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. It can be found in the sun‚ the stars‚ comets‚ and the atmospheres of most planets. There are close to ten million known carbon compounds‚ many thousands of which are vital to the basis of life itself. Carbon occurs in many forms in nature. One of its purest forms is diamond. Diamond is the hardest substance known on earth. Although diamonds found in nature are colorless and
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Introduction a. We can observe through Plato’s various works that he has some difficulty in defining universals; like justice‚ piety‚ etc. b. In an attempt to provide a definition for intangible universals‚ Plato constructs a theory of forms to show that the sensible world of particulars are mere imitations of the real world where forms reside‚ independent of thought and existing in their own metaphysical domain that can be accessed through the mind using reason. Plato’s theory of forms is strongly
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As a high school student‚ I have to put much thought into the future. I was born in Guatemala‚ but I was raised in Baton Rouge‚ Louisiana all my life. We came from a very poor place where we had nothing‚ education was low‚ crime was high‚ and food was scarce. When we first came here we honestly didn’t have much. My Mother and I didn’t know English but at the time I was only 3 years old. My mother was carrying my sister so it was very tough at the time for her to find a job because she was expecting
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similar interests or goals. In this essay‚ I will prove you that I effectively joined a discourse community of high school dance by learning dance terms‚ earning credibility‚ and leading my classmates. Now I am going to show how I successfully became the part of my high school discourse community by mastering
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