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    Intro: Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back is the movie that brought people of all ages to have a passion for Star Wars. It inspired people and even me to think beyond our universe to a universe with intergalactic travel‚ lasers and even lightsabers. The Empire Strikes Back movie brought new heart and depth into the characters of the series. It gave people something that they had never seen and experienced before‚ something that would leave them with questions that wouldn’t be answered until the

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    up in a hippie commune called Garland Farms that only included him and his Grandmother Rain at the beginning of the story‚ from the novel Schooled written by Gordon Korman. Capricorn lives in Garland Farms. Capricorn is isolated from the outside world and homeschooled. When an emergency occurs with his Grandmother‚ Capricorn has to go into the community and live with strange people and attend the regular middle school which is totally unfamiliar. Can Capricorn handle being thrown into a strange

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    3 Back Exercises to Help you Swim Faster 1. 3 Point Y This is an exercise I’ve taken from Swimming Science founder Dr. John Mullen‚ and it has found its way into my programs as a mainstay for warm ups and as a ‘filler’ exercise. The goal is to encourage humeral extension‚ and scapular upwards rotation in a less-than-optimal position. Although the athlete is placed in thoracic kyphosis (rounded upper back)--a position normally thought to be harmful‚ here‚ encourages more activation of the musculature

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    Looking Back and Looking Ahead Education has been a major part of life. Thanks to education‚ I am able to continue my studies now at a college level and soon I will be able to achieve my professional goals. These goals could not be met without having the proper habits of mind. According to Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing‚ habits of mind are “ways of approaching learning that are both intellectual and practical”. These habits include: curiosity‚ openness‚ engagement‚ creativity‚

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    of its own. Culture is a huge aspect of this novel‚ and the issues that accompany it‚ along with other themes‚ create a world revolving not only around immigration and cross-cultural differences‚ but love and the length to which one family will go to save a girl who was once just another victim of an African oil war. Little Bee takes the reader on a journey across the world‚ through the perspective of its title character as well as a British woman‚ Sarah‚ now entangled in the life of an orphan

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    Laurenz Carlo G. Salindong Mr. E.P. Salazar Composition IV 17 August 2012 Bring It Back to the Gold Standard The 2007 global financial crisis considered by many economists to be the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s caused the downfall of large financial institutions such as drop of interconnected stock markets and the bailing out of major banks. This was triggered by the complex interplay of over-valuated mortgages‚ accumulated malpractice of trading between buyers and sellers

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    However‚ in the novel “Until They Bring the Streetcars Back‚” by Stanley Gordon West‚ Cal Gant demonstrates this principle of giving time and time again. If love is not something you say‚ but something you do‚ then how many acts of loving go unnoticed throughout a day? It seems that the simplest actions‚ such as waving hello to an elderly couple on the street‚ can be the most sentimental. This theme plays out in Until They Bring the Streetcars Back‚ through Cal’s kindness and blind compassion. Despite

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    Polingaysi Qoyawayma is a great Hopi leader. Polingaysi is dealing with a straggle to live between two worlds‚ her Hopi culture and the Christian culture. Polingaysi is an author of two books called "No Turning Back" and "The Sun Girl". The book "No Turning Back” is an autobiography of her and how it was like living in Old Oraibi. The book "The Sun Girl" is an old folk tale about a young girl wanting to know what is outside of her village. Polingaysi was told this story when she was a little girl

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    recent history‚ so why is it creeping its way back in? As the diversity of foreign players increases‚ fans are generally more inclined to treat them differently because they feel their culture being challenged. Example of Racism is being to be taken notice such as when a group of English fans attended a game in France a group of Chelsea fans push a black man off a Metro train and chant a racist song has highlighted the issue of racism is football once again. This issue hasn’t been resolved because

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    what is happening when lower back pain strikes‚ the patient needs to understand the structure of the spine at lower back level. Each of the parts of the spine represents important facets when trying to combat pain and an explanation will make that understanding easier. This area is called the lumbar spine. Image source: Lumberspine.net As can be seen from the image‚ the lower back area is complex and made of many different components. Thus the complication of lower back pain is increased. The bones

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