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    The essence of a good doctor is their ability to love all without discrimination‚ to have patience‚ to listen and to understand their patients in order to find an appropriate treatment. William Carlos Williams embodied this essence. To have experience‚ to have lost himself in the minds of his patients has given William Carlos Williams the ability to love and care for his patients‚ which is seen throughout his poetry. As many of us know‚ life as a physician is hard. Williams explains a time where

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    hard to see people go through that suffering‚ but do people gain any wisdom from that suffering. Through the short stories that we have read this year‚ we have seen on many occasions that it did not. One of those times is in the short story ‘The Discus Thrower’ we see that the man is in much pain‚ and clearly is suffering and yet he is mean to the nurse and makes them do things that they shouldn’t have to do. Another story that had suffering was ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ we see her suffer and not once

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    Starfish Thrower

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    starting to make a difference‚ A starfish thrower way. “Marry your crush” – The most quoted speech of all‚ I guess‚ during the AYLC 2013. It’s like choosing to pursue and being engaged to a course of action that you really love to do and which you can live with everyday. With this motivation‚ one can achieve real efficiency and extreme tirelessness. This was the most of all the loads of positive vibes‚ realizations‚ thoughts and feelings that the 15th Ayala Young Leaders Congress 2013 has

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    The Knife Thrower Essay The Knife Thrower is a short story written by Steven Millhauser and appeared in Harper’s Magazine for the first time‚ in 1997. The story is about a well-known knife thrower‚ named Hensch‚ who is visiting a small town for a single Saturday night. There are a lot of rumours about Hensch and the people in town are excited to see if they are true. Young women want to bear the knife masters wounds proudly‚ and rumour is that he once wounded an assistant badly. At the

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    How to Throw a Discus

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    Discus: The Other Frisbee Discus; a field event as ancient as the Olympics‚ is always underestimated. Many believe discus is an event in which you throw a disc like a Frisbee‚ but it’s not. There’s so much more. The so called Frisbee is actually a metal or rubber disc‚ which can vary in weight from 1 kg to 2 kg. In order for a throw to count‚ one must remain in the 8 ft ring at all times until the announcer says‚ “Mark!” Also‚ the disc must land in between the sector lines. The overall goal

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    The Discus Thrower is a article on a man who is tan but not from the sun‚ has blue eyes‚ but blind and legless- the right leg missing from his mid thigh down‚ the left from just below the knee. He lives at the hospital in room 542‚ the room is very bland‚ there are no decorations‚ no flowers‚ and it only has the basic things the hospital provides. He doesn’t talk to anyone or more around; he nods his head few times‚ which shows that there is some intensity of pain occurring. When the doctor came

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    DISCUS DRILLS AND THROWING PROGRESSIONS BY JOHN SMITH SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Drill #1 Non-Reverse Standing Throw Followed By a Reverse Standing Throw 1.) Feet are placed shoulder width apart with the left toe splitting the middle of the right foot. 2.) Thrower transfers 80% of bodyweight onto the ball of the right foot‚ with the torso rigid and hips under the thrower. Right toe should be pointing towards the 11.00 o’clock position in the ring with the back of the ring being 12.00 o’clock

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    TSGT Fredrick Lamar Thrower TSGT Fredrick Lamar Thrower was one among four men who lost their lives in the greatest single combat loss of Combat Controllers on 4 September 1967. The element of CCT was a member of the 8th Aerial Port Squadron out of Bien Hoa‚ Vietnam and was under the leadership of MSGT Charles A. Paradise. The CCT element was being transported on a mission aboard an Air Commando C-123 K Provider #54-0621. Their mission was to relieve another 4 man CCT element that was providing

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    My visual loosely represents the storyline of The Star Thrower. I chose to begin my art with a representation of the picture the Eiseley finds in part three of this piece. It is encompassed by flames to represent his mother’s death. This picture is connected to the starfish with the eye in the center of it. The starfish is the central symbol of The Star Thrower. It represents hope and the answers to life’s biggest questions. The eye is in the center of this symbol to show how the narrator is constantly

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    Discus Ring Short Story

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    I can feel the heaviness of anxiety in the air as many of my opponents await to hear their name to be called into the discus ring. One by one ‚each girl goes into the disc ring‚exiting grinning excitingly or walking out with their head hung with disappointment.I hear many of the girl’s instructors lashing out at them for mistakes they made‚ hoping the could fix the problem before their next turn .Soon my name was called and as I thought I could go up there and win it all with my strength I soon found

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