ultimately become some of my better moments‚" she said Patrick‚ who was the favorite to win the pole‚ said she felt some nerves because of the high expectations. "I feel more nervous when there is more on the line‚" she said. "It was‚ ’Just don’t make a stupid mistake.’ " She said that driving a qualifying lap at Daytona -- where drivers shift gears three times then run the engine pretty much wide open -- was 90% crew preparation and 10% driver. Not so‚ said her crew chief‚ Tony Gibson‚ who said
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Helen Keller “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart”. American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians. Together with the help of her beloved teacher Anne Sullivan‚ who was also partially blind‚ Helen was able to achieve many goals in life. Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27‚ 1880 in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama. Keller was born with her
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Adversity can bring out the positive and negative sides in a person. In “The Proof of Worth‚” Edgar Albert Guest demonstrates how challenges in life can help someone understand what he or she is capable of during a hardship. Similarly‚ “The Importance of Adversity in Growth and Development” written by Patrick Kohan exemplifies how children will never learn how to conquer an obstacle if they are always given assistance. Furthermore‚ Laura Hillenbrand’s novel‚ Unbroken‚ indicates that experiencing
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Families look forward to vacation time it is always exciting. The family has to choose where they will vacation. There are things to consider when picking the right vacation location that everyone in the family will enjoy. Two common-places families choose for vacation is Disney‚ and a cruise. Both places have a variety of activities‚ which are fun. The cruise offers activities that Disney cannot offer and Disney offers activities the cruise cannot offer. Disney‚ and the cruise are totally different
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postwar prosperity led to discontent in western European societies during the 1960s. The decade following WWII was surprisingly prosperous‚ with many nations in a state of political and economic recovery. Material wealth seemed to be growing for the middle classes of both continents. During the 1960s a new generation of baby boomers were approaching the forefront of revolution. These college students were inspired by a combination of Marxist radicalism and anti-Authoritarianism‚ which led them to resist
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Math/Stat 394‚ Winter 2011 F.W. Scholz Central Limit Theorems and Proofs The following gives a self-contained treatment of the central limit theorem (CLT). It is based on Lindeberg’s (1922) method. To state the CLT which we shall prove‚ we introduce the following notation. We assume that Xn1 ‚ . . . ‚ Xnn are independent random variables with means 0 and 2 2 respective variances σn1 ‚ . . . ‚ σnn with 2 2 2 σn1 + . . . + σnn = τn > 0 for all n. 2 Denote the sum Xn1 + . . . + Xnn by Sn and observe
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Reflections For the past few weeks‚ we had been having English classes with Madam Diana. She had been a great teacher. Alright‚ maybe great is not the right adjectives to describe her. Madam Diana is a fabulous teacher! English classes always bore me‚ but not with Madam Diana. Different approaches are used by her in teaching us‚ leaving a big impact on us. As a part of learning process‚ we are also assigned with weekly reflections which requires us to reflect on whatever we have learnt throughout
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What�s your best friend�s name? Erika|| When is their birthday? 8 junio || Where was this person born? Venezuela|| How old are they? 16|| How long have you been friends? 5 años || Do you love them? Yessss♥|| Does this person love you? I hope so!|| Do you care about them? Of course!|| Do they care about you? I think she does!|| Would you die for them? Estemmmm wut?!|| Do you think they would die for you? I don’t think so!|| What exactly would you go threw for them?id catch a grenade for
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My Best Friend When we were in high school we do things to fit in with others‚ and to be able to say that you have at least experienced with things. Well‚ when I was in high school I got mixed up in the wrong crowd and started doing things that I am not so proud of. I was mixed up with people who used drugs and drank every day. This became such a routine thing for me that I dropped out of school after finishing my freshman year. I enrolled into GED classes but that didn’t work out because I was
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Adversity‚ we all have it in our lives at some points. It may result in some very tough times for an individual or group‚ but it can also cause some significant growth that is normally for the better. Sometimes the person(s) may have even caused the issues in the first place‚ and that’s exactly what this is focused around. People and societies with a higher power than the majority can get tendencies to think that they can do whatever they want. This happens a lot like with Creon from Antigone Doing
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