1. What did I do particularly well in this course‚ and why? Being in this course has stretched my thinking and my creative abilities past what I thought I knew or was capable of. Living in a world today that tells us that you can only be one thing and not the other makes us choose a side on something that we think we are good and stick to that even when we are capable of doing a broader array of other things. Having a heavily mathematical and scientific background‚ my creativity was not called
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A Break with Charity – Discussion Questions 1. “ Another world it was back then‚”……What kind of marks is she talking about? The world back then refers to “the witch madness of 1692” or “the recent tragedy” (pg. 3) When the author says‚ “..those marks might as well be a limping leg or a scarred face or lost fingers on one hand…” she means that if you lived during the Salem witch trial era‚ it was a life altering event for you…after having gone through that horrifying and stressful period in history
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paragraph was about how he broke the color barrier by setting many records so he could open the door for other African Americans. The third paragraph was about fighting for black rights. He was not in it for himself but he did it so other kids can have a great life no matter what color they are. Jackie Robinson faced death but he kept on fighting and he never gave
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The Museum of Tolerance is a place that not only is a home to a memoriam of the Holocaust but it also tries to break the barriers of racism‚ prejudices‚ and discrimination and tries to teach and incorporate in people that even though everyone is different‚ everyone shares a universal attribute‚ that each person around the world no matter their race‚ gender‚ country of origin‚ or choice of religion still bleeds red‚ feels pain and are human beings. As soon as people realize this fact and accept that
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Yeager is by the far the most enjoyable history lesson anyone could wish for. The autobiography tells the story of Chuck Yeager‚ the world’s greatest pilot and first man to break the sound barrier. The story‚ told by General Yeager himself‚ has the perfect balance of humor and action. Witty anecdotes and suspenseful flight sequences keep the reader engrossed. The book is a multi-million bestseller for a reason. Chuck Yeager was born in 1923 in West Virginia. He learned to always do his best
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which would be the heir to the thrown because Henry VIII would have wanted England to be by Tudors as long as it could be‚ for this to happen he would need a son which would forever bare the Tudor name. In this paragraph‚ I will be talking about Henry and the divorce. Henry wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon because Henry desperately wanted an heir to the throne (preferably a son)‚ but Catherine was getting old and would not be able to have children anymore. Henry desperately
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In an unnamed town‚ high school senior Julie James receives a sinister note from an elusive stalker telling her‚ "I Know What You Did Last Summer"‚ referring to the previous year when Julie‚ her boyfriend Ray Bronson‚ Ray’s best friend‚ Barry Cox‚ and Barry’s girlfriend‚ Helen Rivers‚ accidentally killed a young boy named David Gregg after driving home from a party in the mountains to celebrate Ray and Barry’s high school graduation. The four made a vow to never mention it to anyone‚ and drifted
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Spring brings many wonderful things when living in Utah. It brings new life to plants and animals‚ it brings rain showers that last for hours‚ and it brings my favorite of the four seasons. Once the snow melts‚ we are able to go outside in the sun that we haven’t seen for months and enjoy all of the activities we love. I have always been a baseball player and all baseball players know that spring is the start of a new season. My first year in high school I was extremely nervous to go to tryouts that
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to her shock‚ she didn’t hear the familiar rock echo she was expecting. With Schreiber now at her side‚ she tossed a bigger rock. Waiting for what seemed like an eternity‚ they finally heard a deafening echo from below‚ a full 7 seconds after the rock was thrown. Doing quick calculations‚ the duo realized this meant that the pit they had just discovered over a mile into the cave was at least 500 feet deep‚ a new United States record.
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Why Did Revolution Break Out In February 1917? One of the reasons for the 1917 February Revolution was military defeats. In 1914‚ when Germany was fighting France and Britain in the first world war‚ the Russians invaded Eastern Germany with two large armies. However the Germans defeated them at the battles of Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes. Also in 1915‚ Germany turned completely against Russia and launched a series of offensives against the Russian army. By the end of 1915‚ the Russian forces had
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