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person, however, when I enjoy something it’s hard to get me to shut up. Every job fair comes people with potential that I can see, that I want to use. It might take time for them to learn, but I can tell they want that job and will do anything. As an avid Fiction reader, I’m good at reading between the lines, seeing just the type of person they are from how they hold themselves.…

importance of promoting within helps us continue our mission to relentlessly improve everything we do. What I love most about Dick’s Sporting Goods is that this company has allowed me to follow my passions, both personally and professionally. I am an avid golfer and have been playing since I was four years old. I played competitively from age 10 to 22, receiving…

NASCAR is a favorite activity sport for many people. Most races are ran on Saturday nights or Sunday mornings. At those particular times, you cannot pry an avid fan from the TV. These fans are mostly loyal to their one favorite driver and will not cross that driver. Fans support their driver by encouragement in their driving ability but they also support their favorite driver by purchasing the products that sponsor that favorite driver. An article written in 2004, references the ease of…

moved to Maui at age two. She attended Seabury for middle school. At school she has been on student council every year she has been at Seabury. With being the middle school president and member of the upper school student council. Hoekstra is also an avid tennis player, who started playing at age five. She has travelled all over the state and country playing in tennis tournaments through the years. Hoekstra has the number one ranking at seabury and also in her age category in USTA tennis.…

deal with a lot of struggles in life such as being bullied, lack of family and friends acceptance of her condition, depression associated with her gender dysphoria, yet she was able to succeed in life as someone who not only is a great actress but an avid activist for the rights…

rights. Resultantly, she concludes that her life-long doctor dream will be set aside. This new young activist is no longer a submissive girl with a dream, but now she develops into an assertive young woman and can make a difference because of her avid determination. “How can I leave this fight/ flit off to college/ when so many still suffer/ when I can still feel tension/ like mercury rising/ a wisp of hope/ beginning to drift/ skyward?” (160) Instead of getting out of these petrifying…

Anacortes is a small town, on Fidalgo Island, in the northwest corner of Washington. This town is where I have lived my entire life. Anacortes consists of approximately 16,000 residents and Anacortes High School currently has 790 students enrolled. Growing up, events put on by the high school such as plays concerts athletics and parades were my favorite thing. Today I am a three sport athlete, with varsity letters in tennis, basketball and football. I have participated in high school…

daughter becomes the latest in the long line of victims, the mayor starts demanding justice; as a result, the police assigns Elise and her partner David Gould to the case. Their task is far from a walk in the park, however, as the killer seems to be an avid reader of the profiling books and knows how to avoid the stereotypes. As they try their hardest to stop the next homicide, the detectives slowly start realizing their own role in the killer's grand scheme.…

“Feeling excluded is not being excluded.” The phrase above is a direct quote from John Gibson’s The War on Christmas. Among the several claims he make, I considered that quote the most contradictory and interesting one of all. Gibson uses it to explain how he, a Christian, does not feel excluded while differing religious observe their own practices, but the idea of Christmas not having the “prowess” as before is threatening. Although the erasure of specific titles to Christmas artifacts (ex.…

In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr purpose is demonstrate to the reader how Internet dependence and innovative technology has negatively affected us through his use of Ethos, Logos, Pathos, and other rhetorical strategies. The Article starts with a scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey ending with “I can feel it, I can feel it”, Mr.Carr then transition into the next paragraph using parallism “I can feel it too.” This parallism serves to provide a smooth transition into the article.…