Information Pam Muñoz Ryan‚ has written over 25 books for young people including the novel‚ Esperanza Rising‚ winner of the Pura Belpre Medal‚ the Jane Addams Peace Award‚ an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults‚ and the Americas Award Honor Book. Her novel‚Riding Freedom has garnered many awards including the national Willa Cather Award‚ and the California Young Reader Medal. Her picture books for the very young and picture books for older readers‚ include the award-winning Amelia and Eleanor Go for a
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Eliezer Wiesel a brave man‚ a role model‚ a leader. These traits describe an honorable man‚ and that man is Elie Wiesel. I truly believe he deserves the Medal of Honor for his many milestones and accomplishments‚ and sadly losses‚ and experiences. From trembling in fear for months to being a recipient of a hard earned Nobel Peace Prize. Elie truly conquered life. In May of 1944‚ young Wiesel was deported by Nazis to the Auschwitz camp at just fifteen years old. Elie’s mother and younger sister perish
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general theme‚ such as‚ number the stars is set in a different culture and era but all her books tell the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings. Lowry has written 20 novels and she has won the Newberry Medal award twice (Lowry‚ Lois Lowry-Bio). She also tackles hard topics such as‚ adoption‚ mental illness‚ cancer‚ Holocaust‚ and futuristic societies. Her website is www.loislowry.com/bio.html. She measures her success as an author by her ability to help
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Silver Bracelet It was selfish‚ I knew in that moment that it was selfish. My sister‚ Bridgette‚ was only six years old‚ and I took advantage of being only a year older than her. She was oblivious to what I was doing in that moment. We were at the arcade in the middle of July in Stone Harbor‚ NJ. We decided that after we were done playing all the games‚ that we would combine our tickets and split it. After about an hour‚ we came together to add up our tickets. To my surprise‚ she had won more tickets
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One of the aspects that makes my Silver Leadership Challenge unique is that I had two coaches. I started off my first coach April Marshall. We had three coaching sessions before I switched to my second coach‚ Ericka Gonzalez. Both coaches have proved invaluable to helping me discover my potential and guiding me during my leadership journey. One of the hardest experiences of my journey was switching coaches. Although I was making progress with April‚ I found April and I’s styles did not work well
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sport specialization than there are advantages. Do you realize that sports affect us all in one way or another Whether or not you like sports has nothing to do with the whether or not it affects you. It’s one thing for kids to dream of Olympic gold medals or Super Bowl rings and to work toward those goals. But it’s another matter if parents are pushing their kids to do something they don’t want or pressuring them to succeed in a way that’s hurtful. They may have to sacrifice other interests and give
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prior‚ it was a major stun." She will contend in 100m backstroke warms on Sunday and would like to better her national record of 1:07.31 in the occasion in Rio. Singh broke Nepal’s dry spell of individual decoration at global occasion‚ asserting one silver (200m individual variety) and three bronze awards (200m backstroke 100m backstroke‚ 400m free-form) amid the twelfth South Asian Games in Assam and Guwahati in India early this year. She has been preparing at the Barnett Copthall Swimming Club in
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The Silver Tsunami: The Challenges in Developing an Adequately Trained Nursing Force to Meet the Rising Tide of Elderly Baby Boomers Carel D. Peterson San Francisco State University The Silver Tsunami: The Challenges in Developing an Adequately Trained Nursing Force to Meet the Rising Tide of Elderly Baby Boomers In what is described as a silver tsunami‚ the baby boomers (boomers) are turning sixty-five years old at an alarming rate (Heise‚ et al.‚ 2012). Beginning in 2010 when the first wave
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The Giver "The giver" is a novel which was written in 1993 by Lois Lowry. Lois Lowry has written over 20 books and received two awards‚ one being the Newbery medal for "The giver". The novel was partly inspired by Larry’s relationship with her father who was at the time in a nursing home having lost most of his long-term memory. "The giver" is her attempt to criticize reality by creating an ideal society‚ but we will quickly realize that this idealistic is false. The genre of the giver is science
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with him on “Hell’s Angles.” At the peak of the depression‚ these men were happy just to have a job‚ let alone an interesting one that allowed them to work for Hughes. Together the team help him build his plane “Hughes H-1 Racer” also known as “The Silver Bullet.” On September 13‚ 1935 Hughes set the world’s record for flying land planes‚ at 352 mile per hour. Hughes was not a stranger to setting records. Another record was set by Hughes in 1937. He set a transcontinental record; making the world’s
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