9:47.9 and Lampeter-Strasburg’s twelve year old 4x800m record was shattered. My teammates and I were on cloud nine. I could not believe that we had done it‚ even though the countless hours we had put in on the track said otherwise. Through thick and thin‚ wins and losses‚ we were always after the same dream. My worn spikes had accumulated so many miles during the season that I had lost track‚ but it was all worth it when we received a baton engraved with our names and record time at the track banquet
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In WWYD the bike thief I learned that humanity can be very racist and sexist. "Then again she’s a girl" shows that the man was sexist. With the white man only two people tried to stop him in an hour. With the black man instantly everyone tried to stop him because of stereotypes. With the white girl not many asked if she was stealing it and even one man tried to help her and got the bike off while his wife called the cops on him and the girl. My prediction was that they would all try and stop to stop
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It was not until junior year‚ that I realized I could not coast through tests like I had previously done. Or should I say it was not until my first test in AP Biology‚ that I realized I actually had to go the extra mile and put forth maximum effort into studying and reviewing. I needed a biology mentor like Mrs.Ciasulli to bring out the best in me because she knew of my aspirations to work in the medical field. Although she attempted to make my life as difficult as possible‚ she made me fall in love
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I Never Sang For My Father by Robert Anderson In the play I Never Sang For My Father by Robert Anderson the main characters are Gene and his father‚ Tom. The play develops around the conflict between these two characters‚ Gene and his dad are not close and argue all the time because of Tom’s attitude; he is selfish and considers himself to be the center of the universe. For example‚ Tom fell in love with his favorite program‚ so he forgot to entertain or give an attention to his son Gene. When
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mind’ or ‘a splitting of the mind’. It comes from the Greek words skhízein (to split) and phren (mind)‚ but Schizophrenia does not mean that the sufferers will have a split personality. Schizophrenia is a psychosis‚ which is a type of mental illness when a person can’t tell what is real from what is imagined. They can also experience hearing negative voices or have false and sometimes strange beliefs. People with schizophrenia often avoid family and friends‚ lack motivation and are usually unable to
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First Accomplishment in My Life It is so difficult to live in the United States‚ the land of opportunity‚ without education and the English language. Without these two things‚ our lives seem like meaningless. My family is one of the victims of this problem. Two years ago‚ when I was a senior student in high school‚ I almost could not graduate from high school with diploma in hand because of failing the exit exam twice and my lack knowledge of English. At that time‚ I really wanted to
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First They Killed My Father Essay In the memoir‚ first they killed my father by Loung Ung‚ the author demonstrates how the Khmer Rouge use techniques of brain washing‚ food ration in order to be loyal to pol pot. Also In First They Killed My Father Loung and her family were invaded by the Khmer Rouge‚ who lied about the United States bombing Phonm Penh. Loung and her family had to leave to go to different villages and they stayed for a while but then they went to the
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intelligence component change this? To have a great deal of data but little information is only possible when there is a lot of data but none sorted or organized in correct order. If we distinguish between ‘data’ and ‘information’ then we’ll see how Data is undone and unorganized facts that need to be processed. Data can be something simple and seemingly random and useless until it is organized. Whereas when data is processed‚ organized‚ structured or presented in a given context and is made useful‚ it is
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When I came to McMaster University in 2007‚ I was a 17-year-old who was adamant to finish my four years with six-figure earning potential by age 23. Alas‚ coming to university knocked some sense into my system and I realized when it came to my career‚ I really needed to focus on what I could attain with my qualifications and what would benefit me the most. In my second year‚ I went for a job shadow at the Ontario Ministry of Finance in downtown Toronto because a career advisor at McMaster’s
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Mary Roach is a well known arthur in the New York Times for her popular science books and descriptive essays. One of her well known essays You Are Your Bike is one of her descriptive essays in captivating detail. For example in paragraph 2 when she explains the feeling of riding her Schwinn Sting-Ray bike. She says..."Savoring the velvet glide and leaning into the turns like the racers we’d seen on ABC’s Wide World Sports." She captures the details precicsely in such a way you almost feel like your
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