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    Rabindranath Tagore said, “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,” he established that you can’t accomplish anything without having to do some type of movement and the experience you get from it. When you're at the bottom of Mount Everest and you're imagining yourself getting to the top, you physically have to do the steps to get the experience from it. You’ll never get anywhere in life if you only wait for the outcome instead of living your life. “You can’t…

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    get to class. While one may work well for one person it may not work for the other. The same thing occurs when discussing perspective. The mindsets of John Krakauer and Weihenmayer are extremely different. Weihenmayer knew he could not summit Mount Everest on his own. This of course being due to the fact that he is blind whereas Krakauer is not. Krakauer on the other hand decides to summit the Devil’s Thumb alone. This is the thing that Krakauer thought would change his life and is the most…

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    for new trade routes. Unfortunately, the man was stopped short when the weather took a turn for the worst and got so freezing he could not even start a fire and eventually froze to death. In Beck’s story he gets caught up in a huge blizzard on Mount Everest and against all odds ends up surviving somehow. London shows naturalism because he knew he had to start a fire in order to live but not knowing a lot about the outdoors failed to successfully make a fire resulting in his death. As for…

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    Ernest Shackleton grew up working on ships, beginning as a deckhand earning few dollars a month, and later becoming a highly respected full master allowing him to command a vessel. Shackleton’s first expedition to Antarctica, as third officer on Discovery, led him to a southern record of 82 degrees south. The second expedition landed him and three of his companions with a new record, coming within 97 geographical miles of the South Pole. His third and most notable trek was coined the Imperial…

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    Ghana Research Paper

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    the center of gulf of guinea coast ,burkina faso, ivory coast and togo. Mount afadjato is the most popular mountain in the world of africa. Mount everest is the most biggest and tallest mountain in the world. Ghana has the population of 28.21 million people living in ghana. The capital town in ghana is accra . Accra has the official government headquarters the name…

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    I was hurt. Thud, I feel to my knees, the pain was so intense, . It was as if I was stabbed by a knife. My heart tightened from the pain. It started to get blurry from the tears in my eyes. Getting back up was as hard to me as climbing Mount Everest. My legs started to wobble again and I knew they were going to give way. I hurried after the class to try to catch up but, I couldn’t. I need a pass to go to the nurse. I hurried to the teacher and tried to speak. The pain was too great…

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    In this essay I will be writing about my dominant and least dominant Winning Color, and about the advantages of my dominant Winning Color. My dominant Winning Color is the color red, meaning I am an adventurer. The traits of an adventurer I possess are the thoughts of being free. My actions of exploring new places, then moving on to the next, and just being high spirited about a lot of things. The reason I like being an adventurer is because I want to have great journeys. I don’t want to end up…

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    In the part of N.S.D.Q. in the book Black Hawk Down, the army rangers who were stranded in Mogadishu, Somalia, have made it back to a Pakistani base. The base was an abandoned soccer stadium and was being used to house all of the rangers who were stuck in Mogadishu for just less than 24 hours, being shot at and killed by Somali civilians. The men who were stranded were picked up by Malaysian men and were taken back to the soccer stadium. The men knew that they had been defeated, and they were…

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    Roller Coaster Biome

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    fastest and most ruthless ride that has ever been created, The coaster consists of four different biomes which are; jungle biome desert biome grassland biome and a snow biome. As you start your journey, climbing the steep ride is like climbing mount Everest, when you've reached the peak of the ride you will be greeted with the cold chill of the clouds embrace. your terror levels will rise as you reach the drop, you will feel like an eagle who is about to dive…

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    I felt as though I just summited Mount Everest. I stood there for a few minutes like a statue, reflecting on the hustle and how ecstatic I was because of overcoming this challenge. This one hour bike ride was definitely one of the most significant learning experiences in my life due to the…

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