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    because of the insufficient outpatient healthcare model for the severely mentally ill. Outpatient care’s purpose is to decrease confinement in a healthcare setting by giving patients more independence (Stein, Leith, Osborn, Greenberg, Petrowski, Jesse, & May, 2015). Today, outpatient’s care for severely mentally ill individuals lack knowledge and communication necessary for adequate healthcare. In particular, caregivers are limited in knowledge and skills…

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    A : SPORT AS A UNIFIER 1. I believe that sporting events contribute significantly to unifying a nation. Sporting events are a great form of entertainment and attract huge audiences around the world. Spectators either gather at stadiums to watch live events or watch socially on their TV’s. Sports brings out admirable qualities in people such as mutual respect, team play, discipline and fair play. Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black President, used sport as a method to unify the…

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    hand, blacks were shunted to the Negro Leagues.They were called Semipros (all black baseball teams). The sports didn't believe it necessary to force white athletes to work with, black players in sports. However, racial boundaries were broken, when Jesse Owens won the gold medal for the USA in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Gender boundaries were also broken, as many more women became deeply involved in sports during the 30s. High schools and colleges had organized sports teams, to keep students…

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    He says he has to be fast because there are two schools down the block, Jesse Owens School P.S. 26 and Wreid Junior High school. He has to make sure breakfast is ready and made quickly so the children are not late for school. “The mornings on the weekdays are always the busiest because kids are always in a rush, they really test…

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    She slid her foot across the uneven stone road where she had once played soccer with the neighborhood kids. Running around the tracks of the playing field, she imagined the lemon haired boy sprinting alongside her, Jesse Owens. She passed the corner where Rudy and she had once stolen the goods from poor Otto Strum. She ran her fingers along the fence of the apple farm where they would rely to end a day with full stomachs. A slow current streamed down Amper River, and…

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    Olympics in track and field, at the age of 19 setting a world record. Louis Zamperini went to the 1936 Berlin Olympic where he met Adolf Hitler. He said to Louis “ Ah, You’re the boy with the fast finish” “ (History.com) He was even roommates with Jesse Owens. (Bring back the mile) After the Olympics Louis Zamperini started training for the 1940 Tokyo Olympics but got called out for war.…

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    Olympics are always such fun events to watch. There is an event for everybody to watch. Each Olympics there is always something that is remembered. Whether it is a record being broken or a controversy. We are going to look at Controversies at six different Olympic games. The 1936 Summer Olympics was held in Berlin. In Berlin, the main reason there was controversy was because of Hitler. He started something where he wanted to purify Germany so jews had to be taken out of the country. This led to…

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    losses, her lack in reading, her lack in money and food, and her being bullied. The Jews are paraded around and the people who do not believe in Hitler’s rules but follow anyways feel empathy for the Jews. Liesel feels a sensitivity to Rudy’s Jesse Owens incident, as funny it is she feels a pain for how the people treated him afterwards. Throughout the entirety of the novel compassion is repeated, and necessary for the novel to proceed during its time…

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    eighth in the Olympics, after a 56 second last lap. When finished with the race, German leader, Adolf Hitler, shook Louis’s hand and said, “Ah, you’re the boy with the fast finish.” Louis’s medal collection didn't quite match up with roommate, Jesse Owens. Louis enlisted in the US Air Force and was assigned to a bomb unit in 1942. He flew, pushing the limits for a year,…

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    When Jesse Owens won his 4 Olympic gold medals around 1936, ethnocentric individuals such as Dean Cromwell aimed to tarnish Owens’ achievements by stating that he was “closer to the primitive…it was not so long ago that his ability to sprint and jump was a life and death matter to him in the jungle." If by being in the…

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