INDENT It was my first race of the season on the no-cut cross country team and when I crossed the finish line‚ I nearly collapsed. By the next race‚ I knew that I wanted to improve. After the second race‚ I looked at my time and as usual‚ I came in last place. Having the least athletic experience on the team‚ it did not surprise me. However‚ what came as a shock to me was that it would be a personal win. INDENT The starting gun fired and it felt as if everything was in slow motion. The clatter of
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runner collapsed at the royal court. To commemorate Pheidippides’s heroic effort and his spirit of patriotism‚ in 1896 a long distance race named Marathon was introduced at the Olympics. Fittingly a Greek postal worker called Spyridon Louis won the first ever marathon. 26.2 MILES. Since it’s inception the marathon had been run for 25 miles in keeping with the distance covered by Pheidippides. At the 1908 London Olympic Games
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Looking up at the clock‚ the hands finally read three o’clock‚ the piercing sound of the school bell ringing‚ releasing my classmates and I from our first day of kindergarten. As I step outside the front doors‚ I see the long line of buses‚ which seems to infinitely extend into the distance. “Six”‚ I said to myself over and over‚ “find bus number six.” After walking for what I felt like eternity‚ I finally arrived at my bus. I managed to draw final breath of the heavy emission-polluted air as I
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Executive Summary First Farms Corporation started as a small animal feeds manufacturing in 1950s. The company has expanded to other agribusiness products and set up nationwide facilities. Though the company has performed well‚ it has a dilemma – a huge deficit in the operating cash flows of Php 719 million despite increasing revenues. Also‚ return on equity (ROE) is decreasing. In analyzing the case‚ the group is taking the point of view of the Vice President for Finance – addressing the
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The Fifty-First Dragon | By Heywood Broun | | | Heywood Broun‚ who has risen rapidly through the ranks of newspaper honor from sporting reporter and war correspondent to one of the most highly regarded dramatic and literary critics in the country‚ is another of these Harvard men‚ but‚ as far as this book is concerned‚ the last of them. Broun graduated from Harvard in 1910; was several years on the New York Tribune‚ and is now on the World. | | There is no more substantially
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My first pet Convincing a family to adopt a pet kitten can prove to be quite troublesome. Owning a pet requires a decent amount of free time and great responsibility. Staying persistent in your endeavors and showing your family just how serious you are can prove to be rewarding in the end. Caring for a pet cat can prove be a major responsibility for an eight year old. Even though I was fully aware that I was far too young to take on the responsibility that comes with owning a pet‚ I was very
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THE IMPACT OF FAIR TRADE ON PRODUCERS AND THEIR ORGANISATIONS: A CASE STUDY WITH COOCAFÉ IN COSTA RICA. LORAINE RONCHI PRUS WORKING PAPER NO. 11 June 2002 Poverty Research Unit at Sussex University of Sussex Falmer‚ Brighton BN1 9SJ Tel: 01273 678739 Email:pru@sussex.ac.uk Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/PRU Abstract Fair Trade attempts to address the poverty issues of small Southern producers through the payment of a ‘fair price’ for their goods and the provision of
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In this paper‚ I will discuss the brain and its functions as related to the movie 50 First Dates. The paper will discuss the three main characters and the cause-effect relationships that have affected their brains‚ as well as an analysis of what portion of the brain has been affected. In the romantic comedy‚ Lucy is the main character who suffered a brain injury in a car accident. Her main symptom was loss of short-term memory. This is caused by damage to the hippocampus‚ inside the temporal
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26-year-old Italian in the Elementary English Class. He is a student at the University of Verona‚ studying International law. He can be described as both extrinsic and intrinsic learner because he said he is learning English for basically two purposes; first‚ for the course he is studying ’International Law’‚ which involves global communication‚ so with English he will be able to deal with international clients in the future. His second reason according to him‚ is that‚ the world is now a small village
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Facts: · First Investments Inc. owned stock of Basic Industries (BI)‚ a diversified multinational corporation with major shares in various electrical related markets · The BI annual report of 1994 shows a decline in the return on owners’ equity (ROE) · Fred Aldrich‚ a trainee in First Investment‚ was asked to conduct a financial analysis on BI · Three years financial statements (1994‚ 1993 and 1985) and reported 10 year financial highlights (1985 to 1994) were available for the
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