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    Peculiar path In one of the coldest days of winter‚ I opened my eyes to this mysterious world in a private hospital located in the most entertaining city‚ Tehran. Since that day‚ my dreams and aspirations have been shaped in an odd manner in a conflict of values. I grew up in Iran in a traditional Persian family that was also influenced by western values. We were living in the middle of an Islamic Republic with a fundamentalist Islamic ideology that conflicted with my family values. “Our Family

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    I consider myself someone who is a people person. I have always enjoyed interacting and working with others as opposed to working on a task by myself. My experiences have taught me that it has always been in situations that involve team dynamics or social interactions (starting in high school as rugby captain) that I have thrived both as a leader and as a firm contributor towards a common goal. I start off with this point because to me it seems that one must have the ability to lead others and to

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    react to modern earthquake‚ if they only believed in myths Earthquakes have been a mystery to humans for thousands of years. They have been speculated and written about. But what if we as twenty first century humans did not understand how earthquakes worked? How would we respond to an earthquake if we only believed that earthquakes were created by angry gods or mischievous animals? In ancient time catfish‚ snakes‚ elephants‚ and turtles were all associated with earthquakes. The civilizations

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    For my personal interview I interviewed Patrick McDougal a counselor at a PTSD group for veterans. I meet him when I had to drive my grandpa to the weekly meet up. When I first saw McDougal I thought he was one of the group members. I was a little taken back when my grandpa introduced me he looked like he was one of the guys. I picked him due to the fact his personality made it easy for me to talk to him and how long he had been in the profession a total of twenty-five years. He was happy that I

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    Autobiography Anecdote I intend to write about the time when I broke my wrist. I am writing this autobiographical anecdote in 1st person and my target audience is students. The purpose of this text is to write a recount of the event. I checked my watch for the fifth time this period‚ 2.40pm‚ only three minutes had passed since I last checked. Thirty minutes into the period and I had only completed one equation. I couldn’t concentrate; I dropped my pen and looked around to find something entertaining

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    Irum Kauser 10 Chatsworth Street Derby DE23 6NR‚ 01332239401 irumkauser@hotmail.co.uk Personal Profile I am hard working‚ flexible and always guarantee reliability. Helping others is what I can do best and I very much enjoy working as part of a child care team. I always ensure excellent time keeping‚ ensuring punctuality while always offering my good communication skills. I work well as part of a team but can also manage to work alone whenever needed. My strongest point is my communication skills

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    Aryan Tayal Personal Essay Being the son of two immigrants in America‚ I never felt that I was a true “American” or a true “Indian.” Being brought to America at six months of age‚ I never got to experience the culture that my parents had been raised in. I was living two lifestyles‚ half day American and the second half‚ when I got home from school‚ I lived an Indian lifestyle. At home‚ I spoke Hindi but at school‚ I was being taught a whole new language‚ English. Having these differences I did not

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    and raised in Florida‚ a southern state that is not considered to have a stereotypical southern opinion. I never saw the effect of a confederate flag. Of course you learn about the flag and the civil war in school‚ but that doesn’t teach you the personal symbolism some have with the flag. I never cared about the confederate flag‚ it wasn’t something I saw other than on the occasional car or shirt. As I got older I became a person who liked to try

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    The seminar is about Earthquake‚ Climate Change‚ Fire Prevention and NSTP History. It happened in Lyceum Of the Philippines University of Batangas‚ at the SHL Building in the Freedom Hall. Let’s talk about first the earhtquake. An earthquake is a series of vibrations induced in the earth’s crust by abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. It is a natural phenomenon that results from underground movement along fault plane. Things to do incase

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    EARTHQUAKE PERFORMANCE OF REINFOCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS: A CASE STUDY FROM MARMARA TURKEY Korkut Mirzai 08074260 Bachelor Science with Honors Degree in Construction Project Management. Oxford Brookes University. Department of the Built of Environment. March 2012 List of Abbreviations: RC: Reinforcement Concrete TR: Turkey UK: United Kingdom USA: United States of America EU: European Union MHI: Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure EQ: Earthquake Code EE: Earthquake Engineering TSE: Turkish

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