I left before joining my current passion. Trampoline is a popular sport that MANY people partake in either recreationally or competitively. The first trampoline was created by George Nissen‚ a competitive gymnast in 1936. Nissen was interested in how trapeze artists could drop into a net and return doing flips. Inspired by these artist‚ Nissen decided to build the first trampoline prototype in his garage in Iowa. His first prototype was successful and later inspired a nation. Trampoline has grown
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was tutored by Aristotle throughout his teenage years. He later went on to become King of Macedonia after his father’s death at eighteen. He led military campaigns across the middle east and south Asia‚ but why was Alexander so important? How did he change the world? Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia in 356 BC to King Philip and Queen Olympia. King Philip was absent most of his life and the prince grew to resent him‚ and at age 13 the King assigned the famous philosopher
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Speech on Global Warming I would like to begin with a statement. Our earth is in trouble. Can anyone of you argue with that? I suppose you could argue. And why is that? Because you have never deeply researched the concepts of either global warming or climate change. So what can we learn from that? The first step of solving a problem is being aware of it. So you would ask “what is global warming?” Global warming is exactly what you hear. The warming of the globe. The earth’s climate gets hotter and
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How Star Wars Changed the World George Lucas was a young Hollywood director in the mid-1970s that had the opportunity from 20th Century Fox after his hit movie American Graffiti to create his own original space adventure movie that will soon be known as Star Wars. It has been forty years since Lucas has transported us to a “Galaxy Far‚ Far away.” The huge blockbuster franchise movie that we all know as Star Wars has truly changed the film industry‚ special effects and pop culture with just a draw
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family that graduated from Leaguetown High. One student’s relatives have graduated from the school for the past two generations. “All my life I’ve heard stories about how they played basketball in the legendary Stewart Gym‚” freshman‚ Ray Roma said. “ I’ve waited my whole life to play in the gym‚ and now Principal Falcon wants to change the name.” Roma said that Principal Stewart sounded like a decent principal. However‚ the history teacher responsible for the discovery of Principal Stewart’s past doesn’t
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Being over 40 years of age doesn’t mean you automatically become out of shape. This all too acceptable in our nation. Countless times have I heard the comments "I’m too old to get in shape" or "I’m too old to have a flat stomach". Most of my clients‚ when they first come to me‚ can’t look down and see their feet. I usually ask them "What happened? Why did you let yourself get out of shape?" The responses I receive vary but the general consensus is that life took over. I interpret this as working
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around the nation have taken a stand‚ hosted events‚ educated the American population at large‚ and shared stories of immigrants and Dreamers. Now is your chance to make the American public proud and support America’s future. As Congress considers how to overhaul our nation’s immigration laws this upcoming year‚ I hope that you will keep these views in mind. This issue is extremely important to me and to our nation’s future. Please support common sense immigration reform and finally fix this broken
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Parks as a activist that stood up for African Americans civil rights‚ but she is so much more. Rosa Parks changed the world because she was one of many voices that started a movement that changed the lives of millions of people. She showed America that everybody deserves equality and respect. She left a legacy as America’s “ Mother of freedom movements.” Rosa Parks changed the world by giving voting rights to African Americans‚ she did this by noticing the amount of segregation in voting. For example
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Pakistan not only have been selling us for fraction of what we’re worth to other countries around the world for decades‚ but also have been killing us for centuries now. Hopefully it didn’t surprise any one‚ because this is nothing new to Afghans in Afghanistan‚ our neighboring Islamic and non Islamic countries in the region‚ United States of America‚ United Nations‚ and to the rest of us around the world. Most of Pakistan’s peaceful killings started when our other kind neighboring country Russia occupied
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money One important question that we came up with was the amount of money ballerinas are making all around the world. The usual amount of money that ballerina’s all around the world make‚ is about $1‚000 a week. A normal season for a ballerina includes a 34 to 44 week timeline filled with shows and practices. So on average a ballerina makes about $35‚585 a year! Thats a lot of money‚ how much you might ask? Enough to buy 21‚966 chocolate bars bars! Time Constraints A Prima Ballerina could train
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