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    Born on September 30, 1980, Jennie Finch is an American softball player whom many young girls idolize. She had much success in at the collegiate and professional level, earning her many championships and awards. Finch has become softball 's most dominant and infamous softball player and one of the most respected athletes in all of professional sports. She has since retired from playing the game of softball but continues to advocate her love for the sport and its influence it can have on women…

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    The Olympic games are an event that tops most all others. Modern day Olympic games consist of 16 days of sporting events, and as of the 2016 Rio Olympics, consisted of 28 sports (Topendsports). Among those who compete in these sports are the best in the entire world, from all countries. Because of the incredible level of talent that goes into competing for Olympic Gold, many athletes have succumbed to the pressure of using external drugs in order to assist their performance. For years athletes…

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    The Olympics began centuries ago.The Olympics has changed history in many ways.There have been many sports and rules that changed since the Olympics started.The Olympics benefited ancient civilizations religiously and politically.This essay will inform you about how the ancients civilizations benefited from the Olympics. To begin with,the Olympics had different sports than the modern day Olympics.The old Olympics also had less sports than the modern day Olympics.The old Olympics had chariot…

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    The Dreams of Success Everyone in America is given the chance to achieve success. The Olympic Games gave equal opportunity to Michael Phelps, Kerri Strug, and Serena Williams to achieve success in the personal live allowed them to leave their mark on history, with hard work, determination, and initiative. Michael Phelps had a rough childhood. At the age of seven he was diagnosed with ADHD. Phelps recalls this life event by saying, “ADHD was hard for me but I quickly overcame it. But it aided me…

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    Hematocrit is a test that essentially test the total RBC’s volume in the blood. A small blood sample is extracted from the subject and the sample is then centrifuge to separate heavy components from lighter components. Typical that means that the heavy RBC’s should be compact at the bottom, while the lighter and less dense plasma so be at the top. Once separate the individual components can be accurately measured and assessed for determining the percentage of the RBC’s in the sample. If one…

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    Misty may treanor biography Early life On,July 30,1997, Misty May Treanor was born in Angles, California U.S.A. She followed her dream playing beach volleyball with her dad on the Santa Monica Pier and had her first tournament was she was nine years old. Highschool Misty went to , Newport harbor high school ,as she helped her team win the state championship her sophomore year in volleyball in the year of 1992 and her junior year of 1994 In 1993 misty got selected of the best high…

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    My First Successful Hunting Season It was late October of 2014 when I went hunting with my closest cousin, Chase. I’ve know Chase & his little brother since I was 3 but when I moved to Michigan we became close. The way I would describe Chase is he’s very smart, he is tall, & he has brown hair & brown eyes. He is 16 & wore a denim levi’s jacket, & a bright orange hunting beanie. The week before we went up north, Chase texted me, “Tony, ask your dad if you could come up north this weekend with…

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    When putting a frog in a pot with boiling water in it, the frog will jump out of the pot immediately. However, when it was put in a pot of cold water and the pot was slowly heated, the frog would be boiled alive and die in the pot. However, this story is proved not true recently. According to Fast Company (2006), J. Debra Hofman did a new examination of the boiling frogs. “We placed Frog A into a pot of cold water and applied moderate heat. At 4.20 seconds, it safely exited the pot with a leap…

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    factor embedded within the novel which contributes to the memorability of the novel is its fascinating language. A fairytale should be happy however, Yolen uses it as an allegory for the Holocaust. According to tradition, a fairytale by nature is didactic or moralistic; 'Briar Rise' does so on both an internal and external level. It teaches children that good will triumph over evil. There is much use of the traditional and original fairytale terms throughout the novel for example “Once upon a…

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    This device is perhaps one of the most primitive forms of the guillotine seen in the revolution. The maiden, along with the Halifax gibbet, a similar invention, gradually gained popularity, being used in places such as Italy and Switzerland during the 15th century. However, it was not until the 1700's that these machines were altered and improved to become the modern guillotine. Named for Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French doctor and member of the Revolutionary National Assembly, he believed that…

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