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    Pele is an extraordinary soccer player. The best that has ever lived, and the best that will ever live. He is the Michael Jordan of soccer, or the Vince Lombardi. He was born on October 23, 1940 in Santos. Brazil. Pele grew up playing soccer in his neighborhood with his friends and they called themselves “The Shoeless Ones.” At the age of 15 he began playing for the Brazil International Soccer Team, as their striker. It took a few months for him to get in some games but once he was on the field…

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    Pele Heroes are people who stand for what they believe in. A hero is someone who is selfless, thinks of others before himself, and has made a significant impact in history. These individuals perform extraordinary deeds, and make sacrifices for others. Most heroes believe that the world can always be changed for the better. An example of a great hero is “Pele” Edson Arantes do Nascimento, an inspirational and professional soccer player. Pele was born on October 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, Brazil.…

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    Point Pelee Assignment Point Pelee National Park is located in Southwestern Ontario and was founded in 1918, ever since then the park has been very popular with a visitor count of 300,000 in 2016. The park is approximately 7 kilometers long and 4.5 kilometers wide with a surface area of 15km2. Point Pelee National Park is full of beautiful wildlife and animals that you can’t just see anywhere, with rare and unique species known to that certain area plenty of people travel from all over the…

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    Pele grew up in poverty, but from an early age he was still able to find a love for playing soccer. In early life, “ he took up various odd jobs as a child to earn extra money. He received his early lessons in soccer from his father and played for various amateur teams in his youth.”(Who is pele?) Pele had to take up jobs from an early age to help his parents but after long days pele would get lessons from his father and would enjoy playing soccer and got into some good amateur clubs. Pele was…

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    range of things from the changing of seasons to great cataclysmic events. Of all the Hawaiian myths, the story of Pele and Hi'iaka is thought by many to be one of the most important. Historian N.B. Emerson says, "The story of Pele and her sister Hiiaka stands at the fountain-head of Hawaiian myth and is the matrix from which the unwritten literature of Hawaii drew its life-blood.” Pele and family arrived in Hawaii at the northeast end of the island chain and looked for a home, where the ground…

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    Edson Arantes do Nascimento, otherwise known as Pelé, is a retired professional Brazilian soccer player.He is known for his style of play and known as the greatest soccer player of all time. From winning three FIFA world cups to scoring 1281 goals in 1363 matches, his style of play had changed the game during his time. Pelé started playing at a very young age, starting at the age of 15, from 1956-1977. He wanted to change the game. With the World Cup of 1950 approaching, Brazil was the host…

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    Nascimento or as people know him as Pelé. Pelé has been the best soccer player in history and still is to this day. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, but also a hard place to live. See Brazil is how you think it is, its rough place to be in its like Mexico, Puerto Rico, Columbia, and many more. Here in America you go to the nearest faucet for water, but in Brazil you go to the nearest river to fetch water to bathe and to drink. Now how did Pelé afford to play soccer? Here in…

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    Corações, Brazil on October 23, 1940. He is generally known as the Brazilian Football Forward, Pelé. Broadly respected to be the best player ever. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). That same year, France Football asked their previous Ballon d'Or victors to pick the Football Player of the Century...Pelé was chosen. In 1999, Pelé was then chosen Athlete of the Century by the IOC, and Time named him in their…

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    do anything. But, risks the lives of his own people to defeat an opposition that he states he could defeat himself. This proves to my point that Panaʻewa is either scared, over confident of himself or underestimating his opponent. In the mo’olelo of Pele and Hi’iaka: A Tale of Two Sisters, on page 24 paragraph 1. The narrarator says “It was the home of the dreaded mo’o Pana’ewa, a reptilian beast that would surely attack them.”…

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    She is the older sister of Pele, who she has an intense rivalry with since her and her sister are of opposing elements. She can be depicted as a woman with long dark hair and long dark eyes. Namaka can be described as temperamental, quick-tempered, fierce, and passionate. According…

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