Race day‚ those words may not mean much to an ordinary bystander‚ but those words now light something inside of me that I once never knew existed. Waking up with butterflies in my stomach‚ I had my first cross country meet. After months of intense training‚ it was time to display our fitness to the competition. The meet was at our home course‚ it had rained the night before and I swear I still remember the exact smell of the morning air. A combination of grass & mud‚ almost as if they were blended
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The first major foreign crisis for theUnited States after the end of the Cold War presented itself in August 1990. Saddam Hussein‚ the dictator of Iraq‚ ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait. This was no ordinary act of aggression. Iraq’s army was well equipped. The United States had provided massive military aid to Iraq during their eight-year war with Iran‚ giving them the fourth largest army in the world. Kuwait was a major supplier of oil to the United States. The Iraqi takeover
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Six months ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq‚ the United States had very little incisive evidence and relied greatly on analytic reviews and judgment in assessing what it knew about Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction and their WMD Programs. This is according to declassified U.S. intelligence report. The September 5‚ 2002 report from the Glen Shaffer‚ (which was initially classified as secret) showed the U.S. knew about Iraq’s internal expertise in building nuclear weapons but failed to mention
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soon as I saw the blazing sphere floating on top of a scorpions head‚ I didn’t hesitate. I just ran. One of the biggest sins a human being could ever commit is having the need for violence. Those who start war belong in “Guerra”. The map revealed level number six. Here‚ souls suffer a war that lasts all eternity against huge furious and furious bulls. There is no aid‚ no rest‚ and no mercy. The sound of pain‚
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friend pulled me farther away. “Did you know‚” The man leans back on the wall and smiles brightly and calmly at me bringing me back from my vision. My eyes follow his pen as he moves it back and forth with his thumb and forefiger‚ “this was the hardest war we had to face?” I shake my head no‚ when I mean yes. He just smiles and gets off the wall. We begin to move again. A noise zipped past my ear and I turned to see my friend stumble to the ground. “Tyler!” I yelled. My hearing appeared along with all
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A Paragraph on Advantages of City Life Advantages of City Life The tendency of modern civilization is to give prominence to city life. City life has many advantages. Here one can get all the amenities of modern life. So‚ the standard of life is higher in a city. All cities have good schools‚ colleges and universities to provide quality higher education. City life has nowadays become attractive too. Most of the people living in cities are generally educated. A great many people lead a life of
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The 2003 invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq by the United States will be viewed as failure by future generations. The United States absolutely had to take action to secure the unstable nation of Iraq‚ however the invasion was poorly planned and had tragic effects that would haunt the area for decades to come. After the invasion the United States made the unfortunate decisions to disband the Iraqi Army and remove all Baathist-party affiliates from their positions. The very critical successes that came
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Economics of Military Spending during Iraq/Afghanistan war People are under the impression that wars are beneficial to an economy. They seem to create jobs and give a variety of businesses work. But do they really turn a profit or is there more spending being done than profit being turned in. The Iraq and Afghanistan war has been very controversial. Part of that controversy comes from the economic perspective of the war. One of the many sub-topics to the war is job creation or job loss. For every
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For the majority of my life‚ I’ve never worried about being oppressed. I’ve been lucky enough to be raised in a middle class‚ white family. I may not feel directly oppressed as a result of my gender and sexuality‚ however there are people that do and they shouldn’t be denounced as a result of my experiences. Due to being a woman‚ I’m likely to be shamed for the way I present myself. For example‚ I’m unable to have my hair grow out (underarms or legs) without being scorned by others. Through personal
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first day of school. I remember approaching the classroom which was filled with chattering and laughter. I remember my teacher trying to communicate with me. As I tried to recall the English I heard in my cartoons and Disney movies‚ I understood only about forty percent of what she said. I was excited to begin this new experience of school‚ but wasn’t quite sure how to deal with it all. It
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