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    Cancun Research Paper

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    Cancun has almost 14 miles of beaches, and there are two types of beaches. If you go the north side the beaches have more tranquil water, but if you go the east side there will be more exciting waves over there. Cancun's beaches are also known for their white powdery sand. The white sand is made from crushed coral. Also the further east you go in the Hotel Zone the more turquoise the color of the water is. (The Hotel Zone is a piece of land that is shaped like the number “7”.) The good t.ing is most of the hotels in the Hotel Zone are located on the beaches, so that is easy access. In 2005, Hurricane Wilma caused major damage to the beaches, but a $71 million effort restored them. The hotels in the Hotel Zone have beachfront facing the Caribbean Sea on one side, and the Nichupte Lagoon on the other (“10 Amazing Facts” 1). Cancun also hosts some fabulous nightclubs and…

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    great retirement. The teacher retirement is ranked number three in the nation. Knowing after my completion of teaching that my future and my children 's future will be secure means a lot to me. My goal is to complete as much as I can before my newborn arrives. I am setting a 6 month goal and at least one test a week. My motivation right now is the expectation of my first child. I really want to make a difference in my family, I want to better their future in any way I can and I want my…

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    Wilma Rudolph Thesis

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    Olympic sprinter by the name of Wilma Glodean Rudolph. When Wilma was an infant when she contracted polio, which led to paralysis in her legs. Even though the odds were never in her favor, Rudolph put herself to the test and went on to win three gold medals in various track events at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Wilma Rudolph inspires me for her perseverance through hard times, doing what was once perceived as impossible, and for pushing herself to do her very best, no matter what. To begin with,…

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    Environment Means Everything Former Olympic Sprinter, Wilma Rudolph, once said “It doesn’t matter what you’re trying to accomplish. It’s all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.” This quote by Rudolph is a prime example of how hard the inner-city life can be to overcome. In “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” it portrays the struggle of the inner-city life between the two main characters as one has the discipline to…

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    plan. We were all supposed to meet in the yearbook room at seven that morning. I was tasked with getting the breakfast foods and picking up Sarah. With the food, I was apparently supposed to pick up a check from our school’s bookkeeper so I could pay for it, but I had not done so the previous day. So as I left my house, running late as usual, I picked up Sarah, and I then got coffee at Starbucks. I previously had told Sydney that if she mobile ordered her coffee I would pick it up for her. So, I…

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    The Hurricane Carter Essay

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    Norman Jewison’s story of Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter gives us his take on the corrupt society during the time of The Black Civil Rights Movement. The overarching theme of this film is imprisonment, this can be broken down into the two main ideas willpower and internal conflict. Throughout the film the many pieces of dialogue, camera shots, and repeated shots or sequences are used to reinforce the overarching theme, imprisonment. These are shown in the “Hole Scene” where Rubin Carter is locked…

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    Hurricane Matthew has been a very severe weather event. Hurricane Matthew started on September 28th, 2016 through October 10th, 2016. Lasting a total of thirteen days. The reason that Hurricane Matthew became such a major event is because it traveled a really long path, and how many people lost their lives because of this hurricane. There were a total of 1,384 deaths caused by Hurricane Matthew. This hurricane occurred from the Caribbean to Cape Hatteras. It went through many places. Such as,…

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    “The weatherman explained that we will have a blizzard on wednesday, and then we’ll have a hurricane next thursday” the lady said to her friend as she rushed to the grocery store. She realized that she will have to buy a lot of food because they will be stuck inside for both of the storms. Both blizzards and hurricanes are a type of storm but they have some things that are different from each other. There are some differences in these two storms, but there are also some similarities. Both…

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    devastating and costly. One named hurricane Opal hit Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee in 1995. It’s damage cost $5.1 billion. In 2003 hurricane Isabel hit North Carolina and impacted other banks. It costed $5.3 billion. Another was hurricane Floyd which was especially catastrophic because of the rain causing extreme flooding. It hit North Carolina and up the east coast as a Cat. 2 and travelled North. It’s damage was $6.9 billion. Hurricane Hugo was a Cat. 4 storm in South Carolina causing 21…

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    According to NASA, hurricanes are the most violent storms on Earth. Most of them, as reported by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, hit during the peak of hurricane season, which is between August and October on both the Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific coasts. The two most memorable hurricanes—Katrina and Harvey—made their landfall in the United States in August. In addition to this, the two hurricanes share many other similarities and differences. These similarities and…

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