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Rookie Of The Year Star Game
1,129 wordsOne sport Grant never played was football. Not because he didn't want to, but because his father forbade him to play untill he was in high school. " I didn't want him dealing with pressures of comparison, " said Calvin, his father. Even though he didn't play football, Grant still had to deal with comparison. He was a shy and quiet child who never liked the idea of being special. He wanted to fade in the background, just be one of the gang. But that really wasn't possible, everyone knew that Gran...
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Sigma Theta Tau International
701 wordsSigma Theta Tau International The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International was founded at the Indiana University training School for Nurses in 1922. According to the website, Sigma Theta Tau (Greek words Store, Tharsos and Time) are translated into English as love, courage and honor. The mission of the organization is to provide a leadership and scholarship in practice, education and research in order to enhance the health of all people. Sigma Theta Tau International supports the ...
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Men And Women Todays Society
1,771 wordsBy Bad Choosers Bad Choosers By K. L. Canada The tired clich? has rung throughout the halls of maternity wards and law firms for years. The Battle of the Sexes as it is called; the everlasting struggle for supremacy among men and women. However, in the wider scope of events, how easy ones life is would ideally be more important than how supreme one is. Just ask Colin Powell or maybe even a reincarnate Kurt Cobain. It does not matter much if youre the top dog if your a top dog with an uncomfortab...
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Hard Core Pornography Violence Against Women
1,133 wordsThe freedom to Censorship Censorship! ? ! The freedom to read is essential to the democratic way of life. But today, that freedom is under attack. Private groups and public authorities everywhere are working to remove both books and periodicals from sale, to exclude certain books from public schools, to censor and silence magazines and newspapers, and to limit controversial books and periodicals to the general public. The suppression of reading materials is suppression of creative thought. Books...
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Beer Cans Pulled Ended
231 wordsMy most embarrassing moment that I am willing to share would have to be the time when I went to the Junior/Senior prom. I was a junior and my date was a senior. I decided that it would be cool to bring a six pack of beer along so that we could drink it before the dance. So were driving along and next thing I know, there is blue and red flashing lights in my rear view mirror. I freaked out. I was like, how did they know that I had beer? So I started throwing the beer cans out the window. Then I p...
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Coming Of Age In Mississippi Anne Moody
1,023 wordsComing of Age in Mississippi Life in Mississippi in the 1950 s, especially being poor and black was extremely difficult. In the autobiography written by Anne Moody, Coming of age in Mississippi she talks about her difficult battles growing up being poor, black, and living in one of the raciest states in America. In the book she talks about way of living and how she grew up. Moody also explains how she got started in the Civil Rights movement and fought for Civil Rights towards blacks. Even so ra...
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Academy Of Science First Time
1,299 wordsCreative Writing: The Missed Fly Ball It was only a fly ball, but I missed it. I missed a fly ball in the final baseball game my 3 rd grade year. It was a beautiful day, a few clouds covering the extremely blue summer sky. It was very hot. I remember this because of the tremendous amount of sweat that would run down my face while I stood out in right field. When I heard that crack of the bat, all I could hope for was that the ball would not come my direction. I have never had good luck, so the b...
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Junior High School Young Teens
984 wordsDrugs have been affecting our society for many long years. Actions of preventing drugs being distributed to young teens have been a big issue to control. American authority wanted to control such horrible actions being witness in America. Drugs somehow got to our young teens in rural cities across America. A solution must be taken into action to stop the insanity. DARE a program that was developed by LAPD in conjunction with Los Angeles United School district is a program thought to enforce drug...
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U S History Sports Illustrated
770 wordsDan Gable is recognized many as the greatest amateur wrestler in U. S. history. He is known by many to be a good coach, wrestler, and friend. He was regarded as the nations most successful wrestling coach. Gable is a brilliant wrestler (Garlits 34 and Lippy 161). Dan Gable was born on October 25, 1948 in Waterloo, Iowa. He started his wrestling career in junior high school. He then attended West High School. While at West High School Gable went on to improve his wrestling skills by winning three...
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Police Officers Small Town
645 wordsFor roughly two hundred years, American schools have produced celebrated figures that, subsequent to graduation, lead the United States and the rest of the world. Some of these people include great political leaders like Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. They include men of distinguished valor such as Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Social leaders like Susan B. Anthony and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were educated within the American school system, as well. This school system has a lis...
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Social Hierarchy Junior Year
861 words2. ) With which literary character do you most readily identify? Why? The literary character that I most readily identify with would be Dostoevsky? s Alexei, The Gambler. I can relate to him because like me, he is a man of many passions. He is also all but helpless against his addiction to gambling. I have also felt helpless to certain circumstances in my life, as have we all. He is capable of much more than what his society allows him to be. That is to say he may be a lowly tutor, but he care? ...
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Drug Testing Student Athletes
551 wordsUNLV DRUG TESTING: POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE Drug testing at UNLV is not as effective as originally thought, and have many students-athletes very upset. At the beginning of each academic year student-athletes must sign a drug testing consent form prescribed by the NCAA Committee. Student-athletes are not forced to drug test for the NCAA or intercollegiate athletic drug-testing program. However, those who decline will not be eligible for an athletic scholarship or be permitted to participate in interc...
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Winter Olympics Role Model
1,069 wordsTommy Moe, the legendary downhill skier, had rough road to walk in the beginning ohio life and career but he found his way with no obstacle too big to stop him. He has been through a great deal to find his way up to the top and that is why he is great candidate for appositive role model for todays youth or anyone for that matter. He has had many tough decisions to make during his life and even though he may have chose a few wrong ones he was able take better of his life and impress the world. He...
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Elijah Muhammad Marcus Garvey
968 wordsNot all African-American leaders in the 1950 s and 1960 s agreed with Dr. Martin Luther Kings ideas of nonviolence. Some blacks did not want to be brothers with whites. They did not think integration would work either. They wanted a separate black nation. Malcolm X was the most outspoken of Kings opponents. As a minister in the Black Muslim movement, Malcolm X called for militant action in the fight against racism. He was tired of waiting for progress in the racial struggle. Malcolm X thought bl...
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Junior High First Year
385 wordsMy first impression of Miss Vicki was a highly authoritative figure towering over me. Her voice boomed and the earth shook whenever she marched. She seemed like such an unapproachable and distant person. That was in the first year of High School. She was my Literature teacher then. During my first year in school, she struck terror in my heart. And everyone elses of course. The mere mention of her name made the most unruly classes silent. The birds stopped screeching. Even the earth felt still. T...
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Suicide Attempts Suicidal Thoughts
549 wordsCommunity and School Support for Gay Youth Many gay and lesbian youths are fortunate to have families that are supportive. Some are fortunate to go to high schools that have gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups that met on the premises. Some schools make outstanding efforts to be safe places, both physically and emotionally. But this is some, not all? and certainly not most. Most efforts to organize for teen gays are met with disdain in communities and schools. Efforts are often rallied...
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Ability To Make Plato
1,267 wordsIn education and in other fields of life, people are separated and grouped into? nice? sections. It has been going on for a long time, even before Plato defined his ideal society. The separating of the good and bad, intelligent and stupid, and high and low class will continue to be a part of who we are as a culture, because our educational structure requires students to learn the? basic skills. ? A problem arises because many people do not fit nicely into a box. I didn? t want to be in a box. I ...
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Junior High School Track And Field
208 wordsJesse Owens, one of americans greatest track and field athletes, was born on a small farm in Danville, Alabama. His parents were sharecroppers who migrated to Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland was where Jesse first started his running career in Junior High School. In Fairmount Junior high School a man named Charles Riley taught there. Putting together a boy? s track team, Riley met Jesse, and timed him in a sprint down East 167 th street. He was amazed by Jesse? s speed. He worked Jesse till he got to ...
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Saturday Morning O Clock
1,262 wordsThe Hard Lesson It was a grey, foggy night that no one from our town would ever forget. This was the night our town would learn about the deadly results of drunk driving. It had all started about a week before the incident when talk began about a party that would take place at Tom Goodrich's house. Toms parents were going out of town for business and he was going to have the house all to himself for the weekend. Word spread quickly throughout our school about the upcoming Saturday night party. T...
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Began Working First Book
902 wordsHello, Rachel Carson Rachel Carson Hello, my name is Rachel Louis Carson. I was born on a farm in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907. My mother, Maria McLean Carson was a dedicated teacher and throughout my childhood she encouraged my interests in nature and in writing. She also encouraged me to publish my first story A Battle in the Clouds in the St. Nicholas magazine while I was in fourth grade. After graduating from Parnassus High School, I enrolled into the Pennsylvania College for Wom...
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