enough so I couldn’t hear. I knew I would have to work harder than anyone trying out to make the team and that is exactly what I did. I got my spot on the team. Workouts for varsity baseball at London High School were some of the hardest things I had ever done but I knew that it would be worth it once the season rolled around. We ran‚ lifted‚ ran‚ ran and then we ran. It was exhausting but rewarding. Towards the end of our offseason workouts the team started to throw inside the gym so our arms would
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There have been forty-four presidents throughout the course of American history‚ but only a few can be classified as a great president. Of those few historians’ rank Abraham Lincoln‚ also know as “the great Emancipator”‚ as the greatest president that ever lived. He is accredited with preserving the union‚ freeing the slaves‚ and enacting various new policies. Lincoln was a strong‚ confident president who remained steadfast in his principles. At a time of crisis he led the nation into an
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3 April 2013 The Pieces That Made The Movie Many films come out each year that are unrealistic in comparison to the real world‚ making it hard for viewers to relate to the characters or to the story. Some of the best films make fiction believable‚ or they are based around real life events from the past. Movies released based on holidays in particular‚ can give the world visions of stereotypical American families that live and interact with one another unrealistically. Pieces Of April‚ directed
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To Save a Life is a story that I feel could transform lives if viewed by teens. Since I first watched this I have shown to my children and my youth group and can honestly say that it impacted at least two. The movie is about Jake Taylor‚ a senior at Pacific High School. Jake is the typical high school jock that has it all popular friends‚ a beautiful girlfriend and is planning on attending college on a basketball scholarship. He parties with the most popular and everyone looks up to him. He is
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Movie: The Last Supper Directed by Stacy Title The Last Supper‚ by Dan Rosen‚ supposedly dares to take on deep subjects in a vein of sarcastic humor. But‚ what it says is that liberals‚ because of their belief‚ have the right to pass death sentences on opponents. The story was amusing at times and there was some comedy in the film‚ but it didn ’t really go anywhere. The most famous actor in the film was Mark Harmon‚ and they showed him for about one minute‚ before he got killed. The movie
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Was Mozart the Greatest Composer in History? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be the greatest composer to ever live. He and his sister were both considered very gifted child prodigies. He started composing music when he was four and he started to write minuets by the age of five. When Mozart was around eight or nine‚ he started to write symphonies. Mozart also played quite a few instruments. When he was three years old he was already playing the harpsichord. He also was very talented on the keyboard
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Benedictow‚ Ole J. "The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever." History Today. 01 Mar. 2005: 42. eLibrary. Web. 11 Dec. 2015. This website told me how people could catch the Black Death. It says that people did very little to help but some people helped carry and bury dead bodies. That was a major hazard though. The disease still lived on dead people‚ so even just touching a dead body could get yourself killed. This website was very good because it gave you
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little. Her coaches all said she was a natural. She was on a dance team called the Leaping Leopards. She was on the team with her best friends Ava‚ Sydney‚ and Ashlyn. The Leopards were undefeated and the best in their league. They were trained by some of the best coaches in the nation and they seemed nearly unstoppable. The final national dance competition of the year was coming soon to Hollywood and the Leopards were practicing harder than ever. One day in practice Hailey was working on a difficult jump
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12 December 2011 Case #: 10SM04402 The Best Mistake I Ever Made It was the last day of competition at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach‚ when I was arrested for a DUI. During the day‚ I drove up to Huntington Beach from my apartment in Mission Viejo and spent the whole day at the beach‚ enjoying the sun with my friends. After the final competition was over‚ we headed back to a house of a friend of mine. He was throwing a party since his parents were out of town. All of my friends were
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Movie: The Last Emperor On 1908 in Peking The emperor I-Sin-Ger-Oh-Who-Eee‚ son of prince Dredd‚ at the age of two‚ was crowned because emperorist Dowager was dieing. He was chosen because Dowager was his grandmother. The only thing that was bad was that they took him from his mother and gave him this lady that they called his "Wet nurse"‚ which mainly breast fed him and took care of him. Also he was not allowed to leave the empire. In the beginning after he was crowned emperor everybody waited
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