involved in volunteering with animals until I moved to Washington though. One of my current volunteer efforts is with Concern for Animals(CFA)‚ a local non-profit helping to supply food‚ medical‚ and caring to all pets and their owners; located in Olympia‚ Washington. I started volunteering with them in July 2012‚ and I am hoping to get back into it more during the coming summer. As a volunteer with CFA‚ I mostly just volunteer at events where I hand out information to passersby. I realize though
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Thank you members of Congress for your time and consideration. I come today to speak on an issue very near and dear to me. As a preprofessional student at the University of Notre Dame‚ I aspire to work in the health care system and to provide medical services to those most in need. Here‚ in the US‚ one of the wealthiest countries in the world‚ there’s an issue in providing health care to our most vulnerable. As I see it‚ a silent and growing majority of our citizens can no longer afford insurance
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many bills that enter the houses of committee and about 85-90 percent of those bills do not come out. In the committee consideration stage‚ the presented bill is sent to committees that deal with that specific type of bill. For an example‚ Senator Olympia Snow introduced the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2003‚ (Genome.org). If a bill is survived‚ there is a hearing that contains the government officials or lobbyists so they can present their points of view to the committee members that
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D4.1 Roman Influence After reading chapter three and doing some research‚ I will describe how in my opinion the Legislative Building (built in1928 on Olympia‚ WA) design was influenced by Roman architecture. Just like most of the buildings around us‚ over 90% of the main component in the foundation of this building is concrete. The Legislative Building also counts with an internal water system which is the modern version of the Roman aqueducts. The outside infrastructure of this building contains
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contests to honor of Zeus and other deities at Olympia. The games were also helped to solve the constant civil wars among the Greek city-states. The ancient Greek Olympics were held every four years during the full moon of midsummer. For this day we are attending the first Olympics. According to the earliest records‚ the first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. The Olympic Games originate in athletic contests to honor of Zeus and other deities at Olympia. The games were also helped to solve the constant
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ALBERT EINSTEIN: The Miracle Mind The book‚ Albert Einstein: The Miracle Mind‚ written by Tabatha Teatts is about this century’s greatest physicist‚ Albert Einstein. He was born on March 14‚ 1879 in Ulm‚ Germany to Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch. Albert’s original name was Ainstein and his ancestors were of Jewish origin. Down the generation‚ for some unknown reason‚ the name was changed to Einstein. When he was about one year old‚ his family moved to Munich to set up an electrical engineering
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the audience how outrageous the doll’s body’s proportions are. She states that G.I‚ Joe’s “biceps bulge so much that they are larger around than his waist . . . human size‚ they would be larger than even the arms of the grotesquely muscular Mr. Olympias of today” (486). She wants to inform the audience that dolls that kids plays with are abnormal. The fact that kids plays with these kinds of dolls can have an effect on boys and girls. Angier also conveys that because kids want the type of bodies
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The Sacredness of Mount Olympus � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� Sacred places represent the essential spirit of human kind‚ and at some point in time‚ was part of a significant event‚ ceremony‚ or spiritual worship. People venture to sacred places to satisfy the human spirit ’s desire for communion with themselves and their collective humanity. Sacred sites are the most loved and visited places on planet earth. When one arrives at a spiritual destination they find themselves closer to their individual
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ROLE AND STATUS OF SPARTAN WOMEN Spartan Women played a pivotal role in a society which was renowned for its military power. (Womens Role in Society‚ 2010) In no other city or state were women so well incorporated into a society (Womens Role in Society‚ 2010)‚ which enabled them to have more power‚ influence and freedom than neighbouring Greek states. (makedbyteachers‚ 2009) Although Spartan women did not have citizenship‚ could not hold political office or serve in the military‚ they were well
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Empire Alexander the Great and His Empire William the Conqueror’s early life was filled with threats and wars. William’s early life must be studied in order to understand these events. William was born in Falaise‚ Normandy in 1028 from Robert I of Normandy and Arlette. Unfortunately‚ these two were not married and William became their illegitimate son. William had another nickname during his life‚ William the Bastard. (http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page18.asp) After giving birth to William
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