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“A swing and a drive. It’s back, way back there, going, going, I don’t believe it! That ball is outta here!” Mickey Mantle is known as the father of baseball’s “Tape measure Home Run,” meaning the ball was hit so far, they needed a tape measure to figure out how far the ball actually went. Ending his career with 536 homers, many of them flew out of the ballparks helped him earn his many respects as one of the best players baseball has ever seen. Growing up, Mantle was born in an extremely poor…

Social Media has been an integral part of everyday life for almost 10 years. Many people have grown accustom to it and have forgotten what life was like before it existed. Social media has such a large impact that one simple post can change a person’s perspective. “Social media…shows clearly that the ‘meaning’ or ‘effect’ of digital technologies is formed through the practices in which they are used and the social relations and institutions that develop around them” (Lövheim, Jansson, Paasonen…

top areas to focus on: Alcohol & Drug use, Mental Health, and Nutrition and Healthy Foods. Working together with not only the Health Department on these issues, they have partnered also the UW Extension, local high schools and middle schools, Taylor County Drug Opposition Partners, school boards, and Sherriff’s Departments in the area to implement policies, programs, and education to help reduce alcohol and drug use among our vulnerable group of young people in the community. Through the…

As part of the course I went on placement into settings such as a Special need school and a children’s centre. From theory lessons at college I gained knowledge of transferable skills and were able to put these into practice when on placement. The course spent a lot of time looking at importance of communication and how to communicate…

-6- On Monday, I go to my first day of summer school. When I arrive, there is my old teacher, Mr. James. I say, “Hello, Mr. James! Lucky day! Guess what? It’s me! Francisco!” Mr. James says, “Yes, I see that. Please sit down. It’s time for our very first test. You did do the pre-reading, right?” I say, “I did not do the pre-reading. Or the reading. Or the post reading. I did not do any reading at all because it is summer and that is just wrong.” He says, “Well. Here’s your test. It is…

smiled back. Then we held hands walked all the way home. The next few days, I looked for Zaire to come out van but I didn’t see him. Then my phone rang and I answered “Hello?” “Hey! You missed me?” it was Zaire. “Yeah, I did” I was smiling ear to ear. My co-workers were looking at me and they began laughing at me. I felt like a teenager talking to her high school crush. “Well I’m done community service and I got a job working at the nursery home now. Anyways, I was wondering if I can take out…

GirlChild is a fiction novel written by Tupelo Hassman. The setting takes place in the dirty roads of the Calle de la Flores, a bunch of trailer homes making it a trailer park, uniting all people that live there the same, outside the small town of Reno, Nevada in the 1980s. This well known novel is about a young girl that shares her life story that comes with many struggles and obstacles. One of the main Character is Rory Dawn Hendrix. She is the young girl that this novel is mainly about.…

good an athlete as there was, mostly because of the help of steroids. Canseco’s secret of using PEDs, was known by almost all of the MLB, and came to no surprise when he was caught. Jose Canseco changed the game of baseball forever by his monstrous home-runs, insane athleticism, and brute strength, that was all aided by the illegal use of…

3 months later… After the incident with the bully Rider’s father went back to their home world and bought the suppression bracelet and gave it to Rider to use. And also, Hino has been training his son none stop since the incident to help him control his magic. That’s not the only thing that happened Rider found out what he did to Shiho in the library and he immediately apologized to her. Speaking of Shiho Rider has developed a crush on said girl and has been thinking about her since. Rider…

death (Vankin, 2010). The fourteen chapters in the graphic memoir discussed topics that most people fear and deny, the aging process. Farmers’ father Lars and stepmother Rachel experience dementia, hoarding, depression, lack of medical care, nursing home issues, and death. I am a little perplexed why Farmer created the avatar Laura representing herself as the daughter in the graphic memoir when the story is about parents. Is Farmer reflecting on her experience as a caretaker or distancing…