Think back to summer vacation. What did you do to fill those two months? Most kids would just sit around all day waiting for school to start. But if you were out trying new things and meeting different people‚ Thomas Jefferson would be proud. As Jefferson once wrote: "Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." I agree with this statement and believe that staying active will ultimately lead to progress. For instance‚ while Bob sits waiting for the
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Stevie Smith’s Metaphor of “Not Waving But Drowning” How is it possible to be surrounded by a million people yet feel so alone? In 1957‚ British poet Stevie Smith wrote a short poem‚ “Not Waving But Drowning‚” composed of twelve lines broken up into three stanzas. The literal words of the poem leave the reader with the image of a distressed man‚ thrashing around in the sea as onlookers lying around on the beach watch but do not help‚ as they believe the frantic man is fooling around and waving
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1 2023 Copyright 2011 By Dr. John Ivan Coby Chapter One CAPRICORN DANCER 1 2 From Andromeda‚ the galaxy looked like just another fuzzy point of light dotting the infinite void of the cosmos. As he approached close enough‚ he noticed its spiral shape with its arms of higher concentrations of stars. Located about two thirds out from the centre‚ in one of the spiral arms‚ was the small solar system that was his destination
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A sound body is the most splendid treasure a man can cherish. A sound body means that you are so splendidly strong and well that you can bear the roughest experiences without becoming ill. The body is a living thing to be put out in the air and the sunshine. The more roughly you treat your body‚ the stronger will it be. Physical harmony is an index and expression of a harmonious mind. If one wants to build up one’s mind‚ one must build up first the body. Man has a body as well as a mind. So intimate
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The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World By Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa‚ Translator THE FIRST CHILDREN who saw the dark and slinky bulge approaching through the sea let themselves think it was an enemy ship. Then they saw it had no flags or masts and they thought it was a whale. But when it washed up on the beach‚ they removed the clumps of seaweed‚ the jellyfish tentacles‚ and the remains of fish and flotsam‚ and only then did they see that it was a drowned man. They had been playing
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Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the life of Johnny Cash I. The Introduction A. Johnny Cash is one of the most liked and well know musician of all time. B. Johnny Cash was an artist who took a stand for what he believed in and this was all too evident in the music he wrote. C. I have been a fan of Cash ever since first introduce to his music several years ago. D. I will be taking you through the life of Johnny Cash‚ country music icon! [Transition: Johnny Cash was born
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Charles Lindbergh Shortly after Charles Lindbergh landed‚ he was swarmed by 25‚000 Parisians who carried the wearied pilot on their shoulders. They were rejoicing that Charles Lindbergh‚ the American aviator who flew the first transatlantic flight‚ had just landed at Le Bourget field in France. Having just completed what some people called an impossible feat‚ he was instantly a well-known international hero. Despite his pro-German stance during World War II‚ Charles Lindbergh is also an American
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1. As Charlie Duke‚ an astronaut on the Apollo 16 mission said‚ “We have been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times‚ if we faked it?" It is a pertinent question and it does seem that if you are going to tell a lie‚ it is far easier to do it once and then stop‚ than to keep exaggerating the lie over the course of the next few years. Sooner or later somebody would have made a mistake to give the game away. The fact that nobody did‚ again‚ illustrates the fact that indeed‚ these astronauts
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On April 9‚ 1959‚ NASA’s administrator‚ Dr. Keith Glennan formed its first astronaut class‚ the Mercury 7. Project Mercury’s objective was to place a human spacecraft into orbital flight around Earth. It was to observe how the human body reacted in space conditions. Many questions appeared as to whether they would come back safely or if were they the right people to do the challenge. The selection process in order to be qualified for NASA’s project took awhile. More than 500 applicants qualified
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In the movie Apollo 13 three astronauts go up to space in the space craft odyssey and encounter many problems. The astronauts‚ Jim Lovell‚ Jack Swigert and Fred Haise were on a rushed mission to go to the moon when Jack went to go stir the oxygen tanks and one of them exploded. The explosion led to a whole host of problems. The astronauts had to abort the mission and focus on a safe return home. A monomyth plotline is when a person leaves a place‚ encounters obstacles and comes back a different
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