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I was now playing on a select team and also on a premier club team. I was feeling great. During my eighth grade school soccer season, I was the top scorer for my team and I had high hopes of making Varsity soccer as an entering freshman. Two weeks prior to the start of soccer season, I broke my ankle playing indoor soccer. I was overcome with more disappointment than imaginable. I felt like the one thing I had worked so hard to accomplish was once again taken away. Similar with The Pact when Sam…

Speaker Analysis of Human Trafficking Rhonda Hendrickson, the director of the YWCA in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania visited Shippensburg University November 16th and gave a presentation about human trafficking. Ms. Hendrickson stated that although it is not seem to be a large problem in the United States, human tracking is now considered to be one of the fasted growing criminal industries. This is not only true in the United States, but for the entire world. The only illegal practice that has a…

Laura Ingalls Wilder, an author renowned for her stories of pioneer life, wrote about her childhood memories of traveling aboard wagons in what would come to be known as The Little House on the Prairie series. Millions of people have read Laura’s books and they still hold relevance to this day. However, perhaps one of the most overlooked factors of her books was the significance of the wagon used by the Ingalls’ family during their travels. For the Ingalls and many others, the wagon represented…

I had the experience of interview Laura Munro, my cooperating teacher at Nova Blanche Forman Elementary School and Sarahis Vega, the disability service advisor for Broward College Central Campus. When I went to interview, I felt a little nervous because usually I am the one answering the questions, but it was the other way around this time. When I asked them questions, they both took time to think and give a detail answer. In the end, they both taught me different things about the learning…

I am in my first module of the dental hygiene program at Fortis Institute. I came to this school from Harrisburg Area Community College already knowing that I wanted to be a dental hygienist; I have taken numerous dental courses and assumed I knew exactly what I was headed for and how clinic would be, was I ever wrong! This essay will look at my experience in the dental clinic with what I have learned from the observation, how the experience has changed my view of the program, if the experience…

controlled by General Robert E. Lee, while the Union was ran by George G. Meade. Confederates had momentum after defeating the Union at the Battle of Chancellorsville. They marched on, and the Union wanted to stop the Confederates from reaching Harrisburg. Then it was about to start. The battle had begun. When the two met, the Confederates were thriving and forcing the Union to take a more defensive position. The Union held…

the second thing I will be sharing with you is my hobby which is wood working.( add more to it ) My first talking point is my part time job at Canton Home and Farm Supply, which is located in Canton, South Dakota. Canton is about 15 miles from Harrisburg. During the summer I work pro 30 hours a week. I usually work 3-4 days during the week and work every other weekend. During the winter because of hockey and school I don't have anytime to work, and take off from November thru March. When I…

It took two and a half days to move all of the ships through the Canal Zone and no one was sure the Hornet would make it through, but she did. The original plan was to send two transport ships escorted by the USS Iowa. Admiral Meyer had a change of heart when he was told the USS Midway was back on line and ready for duty. The Midway could take over patrolling the West Coast and if there were any bugs to be worked out of her she was still close to home. It was full speed ahead once…

Introduction: Nuclear power plants have been used for many years to produce electricity. It is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactors and this generates heat. From the nuclear reactor. The start of these power plants was from a discovery of uranium. Today the nuclear power plant is increasing as time goes to get more electricity. However, some may argue that even though nuclear power plants are being built for good use it may not be good for the environment and…

In Search of My Family’s and My Garden In her piece “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” Alice Walker discusses how black women in America during the period of slavery were miraculously able to get lost in their own forms of art. These women did not have a room of their own or money, as Virginia Wolfe deems necessary for the creation of art. Black women at the time did not even own themselves. Through stories of Walker’s mother, Walker comes to realize that her mother who worked on the fields…