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ahead of your next match, but if no one’s in the pits, they can’t find you. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. If your team is missing something, go to Pit Admin and have them announce it. If your robot isn’t finished, someone will help you. Teams at FIRST competitions generally expect to help each other out. Alliance Selection Discuss with teams beforehand if you want them to pick you or you want to pick them. Argue your position for why you would be a good alliance partner, especially if you…

in a conversation with a child asking what grass is. The line of answer is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Whitman 2747). When we die, we are buried in the ground. We are returned, in a sense, from whence we came. God did form Adam, the first man, from the earth. William Cullen Bryant says in "Thanatopsis," "earth that nourishes thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved to earth again" (Bryant 2673). The earth has now become our home, our resting-place, our lap, "and here you are…

is important to note, Aboriginal Canadians are those who have been approved under the Treaty Indian status, been registered under the Indian Act of Canada, or those who have membership in a First Nation band (Stats Canada 2013.) These Aboriginal Canadians are part of separate groups known as Inuit, Métis or First Nations bands; each of these groups are vastly unique with separate cultures, customs, and languages. In Canada all remaining…

Indians (now refereed to as First Nations) being 57%, the Metis 33% and the Inuit about 10% of the total population of Aboriginal people. (National Aboriginal Health Organization 2003) According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), an estimated 18% of the Aboriginal population meet the criteria for clinical depression compared to non-aboriginals which are estimated at 8.2% (PHAC 2011) According to standard scales used on Statistics Canada surveys in 2001, 12% of First Nations and 3.1%…

When examining Idiocracy as a piece of dystopian fiction it is very important to define the term dystopian. According to google the definition for dystopia is a perfect world often imagined existing in the future. A world that is the by-product of the reaction between ominous social social trends. The impacts of such trends are so deep into the society that it changes the way we as humans evolve ourselves. We have come a long way and to survive in the world as we move forward we not only have to…

were to try and pinpoint a single event or date to mark the origins of the Crusades and the Crusading ideal, the most obvious solution would be to make it November 27, 1095, when Pope Urban II uttered the famous phrase “Deus Vult!” and preached the First Crusade. However, when more closely analyzed, it becomes evident that the origins of this great movement that led thousands of Christians to travel to the Holy Land to wage war cannot be singled down to any one person, event, or idea. There were…

Immigrants who do not speak English as their first language should be required to learn English. Not knowing English creates natural barriers in which information that is not properly interpret can potential cause death of a person. Asking our law enforcement personnel and medical personnel that are on the streets to learn every language that is spoken in this nation is unrealistic. People who come to this country should be given a timeline to learn this language. The system to help…

face. As I rushed towards her aid, she pleading with me saying, “Ms. Joan! Ms. Joan! Please do not let me die.” Although I was not certain about the magnitude of her injury, I was quick to assure her that everything was going to be fine. Using the first aid training we received at the beginning of the summer, my co-counselor and I were able to safely clean, sterilize, and bandage the camper’s contusion that was directly on her forehead. Although I was…

When discussing the successes of development in Third World countries, subjectivity plays a key role in its determination . What a person in a First World country considers development and that of a person who lives in a Third World country will vary greatly due to their individual ideas of what constitutes development. In its planning, “poverty,” “education,” “[gender] equality,” “environmental sustainability,” among others, are listed as goals to be met (United Nations MDG Report 2014). These…

King Lear is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare sometime in the early 1600s. The play was first performed in front of an audience on December 26, 1606 at Whitehall Palace as part of his company’s Christmas celebrations. According to the introduction of the book “King Lear is Shakespeare’s most perfect embodiment both of his own artistic vision as a “poet” and of the tragic genre he and other early modern dramatists inherited from classical authors” (Ioppolo viii). The story is about a…