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    Wishing everyone a very Happy Memorial Day! While you are out and about on this Memorial Day enjoying the cookouts, fireworks, parades or awesome mattress sales—take a moment to reflect on your many freedoms. The freedom to worship where you want. The freedom to choose where to live. The freedom to pursue your dreams. Even the freedom to discover your true livelihood and purpose and start living it out. This is the mission that we have here at Powerfully Purposed for Success. However, also…

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    Christmas Day and Three Kings Day have a variety of similarities and differences. Christmas is the celebration of Jesus’s birth in the United States of America, whereas Three Kings Day is not. Los Tres Reyes Magos is the celebration of the three kings coming to give baby jesus gifts. This is celebrated in Spanish Speaking countries, which can include Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica. The custom and traditions of the holidays can have multiple similar or different ideas. The similarities can…

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    Comparisons between Halloween and Dia de los Muertos By: Bryan Garcia Countries have different cultures and celebrations, but they all celebrate unique holidays. There are holidays that celebrate the dead, or celebrate the end of the harvest season. The holidays that represent these celebrations, Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, are similar and different in their own way. The origins of Halloween date back to 500 B.C in the Celtic tribe. The Celts believed that the god of death…

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    Places like Little Italy seemed to be like a small community within the big city. People seemed to know and care about their neighbors. While at the St. Patrick’s Day parade, we talked to the lady next to us, who asked us to help her save places for her family. She told us her husband was in the fire department and was in the parade playing the bag pipes. She even had him wave at us as he came by. With today’s technology, I believe people are more in tuned to their surroundings. For example,…

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    Plot/Sequence of Events The introduction of the book introduces Forrest Gump as an unintelligent, kind guy. Going in the second grade, he was put in a mental school. When he turned sixteen, he grew enormous to 6’6, 240 pounds. Then, Forrest was scouted by Coach Bryant, and he was asked to play football for the high school team. He dominated in high school, and was awarded to the All State Football Team. Forrest’s grades were bad, and he was told to report to the army. There, he failed to follow…

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    PART B. 1a.) The film illustrates the potential for people to overcome prejudges and foster solidarity. Explain, using specifics and considering both the mining community and the LGBT characters. Your answers should be about one page in length. /10 The film shows this as many of the heterosexual, homophobic mine workers had extreme prejudges about the LGBT community and their support group, but once they got to know the supporters and not judging the LGBT support…

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    Communism: Seeks a classless society. Seeks to eliminate religion. No private ownership of land or property. Seeks an international revolution. Has a socialist economy. Fascism: Condemns socialism and supports private property. Views women as inferior despite its public rhetoric. Defends private property. Each class in society has a place and function. The state must struggle to survive even if it means war. Does not follow a predefined ideology. Appeals to the middle-class and industrialists.…

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    your television specials, a mockery of his suffering; your holiday spirit, vanishing in an instant; your clamoring for generosity and kindness, painful to his ears; your pumpkins and autumn leaves, your peace and togetherness, with all the Macy’s Parades and cranberry sauce, are, to him mere frivolity, excess, wastefulness, greed, and close-fisted behavior- a tablecloth thrown over miserly deeds which would shock a room full of businessmen.…

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    Yaquina Bay Case Study

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    1. I note with pride and am pleased to commend you for your performance of duty while assigned to Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay, Newport, Oregon from December 2014 to June 2018. Through relentless pursuit of excellence, dedication, and outstanding responsibility, you quickly certified as a 47’ MLB Coxswain, Boarding Officer, and OOD. During your tenure, you accumulated over 760 underway hours during more than 450 missions, and prosecuted over 75 search and rescue cases. Your underway…

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    Costa Rica That is not matter where we are at which City, which Country, or which Continent we always have a place to call back-home. I was born in Costa Rica, Central America; consequently, limiting North with Nicaragua and South with Panama. Costa Rica have many of cultural influences like Indianians, European, afrocaribean, and Asian. The official language is Spanish, but local Indigenous spoken Maléku, Cabécar, Bribri, Guaymi, and Buglere; in addition, immigration to Costa Ricabrought…

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