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State-Wide at Special Olympics Texas Summer Games The 47th annual Special Olympics Texas Summer Games offered more than 2,800 athletes with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to compete on a state-wide scale at the University of Texas at Arlington and surrounding venues May 26-29. “This is the most amount of sports we put on in one weekend, at one area,” said Steve Helm, Special Olympics Texas public relations coordinator. “It’s a really great turnout year after year and we’re very…

Dr. Patricia Borstoff is an associate professor of Management at Jacksonville State University. She completed her graduate international business studies in Japan, the Czech Republic and Hungary and other various countries. She holds a B.A. summa cum lade from Stanford University, M.A. in history from the University of Albama, MBA from Jacksonville State University and a Ph.D. from Auburn University. Religion plays such a vital role in the principles that people embrace. Over the last few years…

I believe that one of the significant deficiencies from the 9/11 Commission Report was the deficiency of shared intelligence information between, local, state and federal agencies related to homeland security. Before 9/11, law enforcement intelligence was compartmentalized and disjointed. The FBI mainly dealt with domestic threats and the CIA mostly focused on foreign threats. I believe that the most significant function developed was “receiving and analyzing law enforcement information,…

As a depression counselor in Arlington, TX, I have treated many patients whose depression symptoms ranged from mild to severe and debilitating. For those patients, and for those who love them, dealing with the symptoms of depression is an ongoing struggle; and, because the human brain is still one of the great unknowns of biology and psychology, part of the struggle of living with depression is not being able to get the answers they need about their condition. If you are living with some type…

symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character (“Symbolism”). Different types of symbols include the color pink representing love, a crow could represent death. “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford, and “The Lottery by Shirley Jackson” all show a symbol of loss in different ways. To begin with, “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar is a story about people who hide…

Texas, and to have vacations too. We went shopping, had barbecues, met people, went to church, and visited some cities such as Dallas, Arlington, El Paso, Ruidoso, and Alamogordo. We also visited some places like the Cowboys Stadium, Wet N' Wild Waterworld, the Museum of Space History, and White Sands National Monument. I went t to the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX to watch the game New York Giants vs Dallas Cowboys. It was a great…

In the poem Luke Havergal, by Edwin Arlington Robinson there are many examples of imagery that relate to the theme. The theme, or topic, of the poem is the belief that one can only achieve true love once they are dead. Some examples of imagery include when the author speaks of crimson leaves and the grave that greatly relate to the theme of not achieving love until after death. First, Robinson shows imagery by saying, “here are the crimson leaves upon the wall. /Go, for the winds are tearing…

In the two poems presented, “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson and “Glass Ceiling” by T.R. Hummer, both of these poems talk about masking their feelings and pretending to be someone who they really are not. In Robinson’s poem, the main character seems to be the happiest guy there could possibly be and then later that night he kills himself. In Hummer’s poem the main character says his grandma is much different from other grandmothers because she does things no other grandmothers would do…

their works. Irony was an important technique for realist to use, as it made their stories more interesting to read and made it capable for them to compete against the romanticism authors. Some of the realist authors include Ambrose Bierce, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Kate Chopin. All of these authors wanted to use irony in order to enhance their stories, and that’s just what they did. Being that Ambrose Bierce wanted to better his work with irony, that’s exactly what he did with his two…

On March 4th, 1921, the burial of an unknown soldier from World War One was approved by Congress. The soldier was exhumed from an American cemetery in France, and brought to the U.S. The World War One unknown is now buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The soldier rests under a magnificent tomb. The tomb is made of white marble and sits atop a hill, overlooking Washington D.C. “The east panel has three greek figures who represent peace, victory, and valor.”On either side of the tomb are three…