VICTORY! “When you walk into the gym you leave everything behind. It’s like a total different world. It’s you second family. We gymnasts spend more time in the gym then with our parents. We do gymnastics not to please our family but to please ourselves.” The day I found out all my training was worth it‚ was at the Glencoe- Silver Lake Gymnastics Invite. I got to this moment by joining gymnastics and making the high school team‚ going to practice every day and giving it my all‚ and all the other
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colonist army in order to break free from tyranny and claim freedom. In “The Crisis” Paine employs analogy‚ aphorisms‚ and parallelism to buttress the colonist’s needs to stay motivated throughout this cruel and acerbic revolution. Paine uses analogy to reinforce England as without God in order to persuade soldiers on the battlefield and patriots at home to continue to fight for freedom. The occurrences of analogy he uses portray a profound anathema towards England’s providence. For instance
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“If she was a white girl‚ she could still be alive.” A sentence in the lyric of the song our keynote speaker plays echoes in the assembly hall‚ crammed with more than one thousand people—students and faculty members. The song Not One More by TWOCC grieves the loss of several transgender women of color. Our keynote speaker says that the life expectancy of transgender women of color in the US is merely 35 years. Compared to the average global life expectancy of 70 years old‚ that number is depressing
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Why Teachers Should be Paid More Jenni Malone How many of you believe teachers should be paid more? In my opinion they should be getting paid twice as much as their current income. Teachers are like a power source. They teach students everything they need to know to be prepared for their futures; they even go out of their way to make sure that students understand the lesson. For those of you that believe that teachers don’t deserve to be paid more‚ you obviously don’t understand
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More Wealth‚ Less Happiness Most people want and aim to be wealthy. But one of the key findings of happiness research is: Although more money delivers big increases in happiness when you are poor‚ each extra dollar makes less difference once your basic needs have been met. Having more income may not necessarily bring more happiness. Studies show that when incomes rise for everybody‚ well-being doesn’t change much. Surveys have found virtually the same level of happiness between the very rich
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non-citizen slave who was given to his owner’s wife after he died‚ and she took him to a free state. He pleaded for freedom. His famous court case was taken to the Supreme Court and Roger B Taney‚ Supreme Court Justice at the time‚ ruled that he must go back to his owner because the Fifth Amendment stated that you cannot be stripped of your property‚ and slaves were property. During the Mexican war‚ it was a very large concern that the new land acquired during the war would become slave states. In
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Role of African Americans in American Wars Imagine fighting a war for the freedom of a country in which you yourself were not free. Could you fight for a country that had enslaved you‚ a place where you have few or no civil rights? Throughout the history of American wars‚ these were the types of issues that African Americans had to deal with. They were forced‚ and many times volunteered‚ to serve‚ protect‚ defend‚ and preserve the freedom of the United States. They went to war for a country in
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making their lives seem to be almost a waste. Therefore‚ in order to change society’s opinion as well as to make the lives of teenagers more meaningful‚ two areas would therefore need to be changed: the condition of the mind as well the taking of actions‚ which works hand in hand in causing this improvement. Firstly‚ having a goal in life would be the first step towards making one’s life more meaningful through the condition of mind. By setting goals‚ the teenager would therefore have some focus in
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Thomas Paine In September of 1776‚ on the outskirts of Newark‚ among the tired‚ discouraged‚ soldiers‚ as they paused from their daily retreat‚ sat Thomas Paine. He wrote many papers that would have a major effect on the outcome of the quest for independence. Born the son of a Quaker Laymaker on January 29th‚ 1737 at Thetford‚ Norfolk England. He received a basic elementary education‚ and started to work for his father as an apprentice‚ and later as an excise officer. He was not a huge success
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question now is how the state government can function more effectively and provide better governance. It is such a change from the last time I visited Bihar five years ago‚ again in the thick of electioneering. Then‚ Bihar began where the rule of law ended. The only industry which thrived in the badlands of the state was crime. Kidnapping‚ carjacking and extortion were rampant‚ and Bihar’s fertile soil had turned into killing fields with bloody caste wars erupting with destructive regularity. With most
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