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When a young girl celebrates her Bat Mitzvah, the ceremony is often seen to be one which celebrates her becoming an adult, and while this may be true, this is only the surface of what it means to be a Bat Mitzvah. Literally meaning “daughter of the commandment”, a Bat Mitzvah is when a young girl makes the free choice to accept and abide by Jewish laws, and take responsibility for her Jewish faith. This is why the passage she reads from the Tanakh at the ceremony should be about a person whom…

Located across the street from a cross fit warehouse is a parking lot and many warehouses that many small businesses use as their offices or headquarters. This is a place where you would least expect the cage, a place that brings back many memories for me, to be. Once you drive into the parking lot and make a right into a more secluded parking structure that seems to be in the middle of nowhere, you can find the main entrance of the cage with the number 107 in bold letters written across the…

A Bat Mitzvah is the celebration of a Jewish girl’s coming of age. When a girl reaches the age of 12, it is expected that they become a ‘daughter of the commandment’. This means that they become responsible for observing the commandments and to know right from wrong. As a Jewish Girl, it is important to reflect on the most influential women in the Tanak and seek guidance from their actions and decisions. The focus of this article is one woman from the Tanak who displays virtues that are…

Matt is a junior in the Engineering school at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and he recently made the decision to join the club baseball team. I received his consent for an interview and asked him questions that gave me more information about the decision and the problem that he wanted to solve. Matt’s problem derived from his change in the amount of pleasure he received from his usual routine. He mentioned, specifically, that he is currently in a RST class that influenced him to think…

Blood sucker, dead, predator: These are all words that can describe a vampire. There have been several vampire stories throughout the years. Each author takes and gives them different characteristics but they usually are universally described as a creature that was once human that somehow has returned from the dead and preys on living humans by drinking their blood to stay alive. Dr. John William Polidori, an English writer and physician, is said to have created the first written vampire story…

Bats Bats, the blind and bloodthirsty monsters that live o ff of the blood of its prey are a very essential part in today's ecological system. Bats are found all around the world and although Hollywood and human folklore have portrayed these furry mammals as bloodthirsty monsters, of the 1200 di ff erent species only three are bloodsucking. Most bats on the other hand focus their diets on insects, fruits, and small animals i.e. frogs and lizards. Insectivores bats, who as the name…

success of BAT and to achieve its vision are based on growth, productivity, responsibility and building winning organisation. The policies for the growth of BAT is to enter new emerging international markets through mergers and acquisitions. Similarly, BAT focuses on the organic growth of tobaccos which will establish it as a premium brand in the long run. It wants to enter the ‘Global Drive Brand’ category where it can expand in the field of ‘value for money’ and ‘low price segments’. BAT…

Ashley Ramirez Forensic Science Mr. Kirby November 1st 2014 Baseball Bat On April 19th, 2014 Ricky Betancur life was taken from him by Eric Noyola who willfully and unlawfully killed Betancur, hitting him in the skull with a baseball bat. Noyola was also charged with being drunk in public as well as first degree murder. This case began late Saturday night when the two were watching friends at Boomer Sports Complex in Oklahoma City located off I-240 and Sunnylane Rd. The two had played…

intensive motor therapy, upper limb constraint induced therapy (CIT) and bilateral arm training (BAT) can be derived respectively and has gained the attention of PTs.2 Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the research and answer the following hypothetical…

40 minutes everyday!”. “Practice at LEAST 4 times” proclaimed my Bat Mitzvah tutor. These are just a few examples of what I had to go through when I was becoming Bat Mitzvahed. A Bar or Bat Mitzvah is a life achievement for Jewish children to become young adults. As to many who have gone through this lengthy process, looking at what I have to do every week seriously overwhelmed me. Even though I’m making it seem that becoming a Bat Mitzvah is a tiring, uninteresting process, it’s actually the…