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I’ve never been to a college football game before, nor do I know the slightest bit about it. But I figured it would be just like going to a high school home coming game but with more people. I had been waiting for this day for weeks. Waking up from my deep sleep to my nerve-racking alarm telling me its time to wake up, I stretched my 5’1 body out of bed, wrapping my toes in the curls of my crème colored carpet. I could smell the morning dew as I woke. I had my clothes ready for weeks, so I…

1). The Block Five AP Stats class at Silver Creek High School conducted an experiment with the intent to answer the question, “Who is Better at Using Chopsticks: Boys or Girls?”. To begin the study, everyone in the class was asked to write their name on a piece of paper. The papers were then collected and separated by gender. Five boys and five girls were then randomly selected by drawing the papers with names from a hat. The names were stirred and mixed in the hat prior to selection. The ten…

Almost every book and poem written has different interpretations and can be read to many different audiences. According to Galt, “Poets and authors have produced numerous works that seem meant for children to read.” Galt gives the example of the famous book written by Lewis Carroll, Alice. “It might seem as though they are nothing more than fantastical accounts of the events of a little girls life, but different forms of criticism have allowed us to investigate the possibilities of…

Caviar 101 A crash course from two sisters living the caviar dream Caviar refers to unfertilized, salt-cured fish eggs from sturgeon. Five years ago, Petra Bergstein, Texas Tech, and Saskia Bergstein, TCU, had never tried the stuff. Petra’s work on a sturgeon farm in Sacramento, California, first hooked her on caviar in 2012, not only as a food but as a business idea. She enlisted her sister, Saskia—a consultant and CPA—to help build a new caviar brand from the ground up. Today, the sisters own…

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Congress established the Federal Reserve System, also known as “The Fed”, almost a century ago to serve as the U.S. central bank. President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law on December 23, 1913. Prior to the formation of the Fed, the U.S. economy was afflicted by numerous episodes of panic, bank failures, and credit scarcity. The history of the Federal Reserve is affiliated with the effort to build a more stable and secure financial system. This paper describes major…

Pirate Research Paper Catherine McDonnell SS 325 Professor McKeown 3-30-16  Francis Drake was born in roughly 1540 as the youngest of twelve sons. His parents, Mary Myllwaye and Edmund Drake, were farmers on Lord Francis Russell’s estate. At eighteen years old Drake served as an apprentice on a merchant ship that traded goods between France and England. Due to his high skill level on the seas, including navigation, his relatives enlisted him. These relatives, the Hawkins, were…

As I swished the paddle through the lake and back up, I felt the warm sunshine against my face, and cold little sprinkles of water on my hand, it felt as if someone sprinkling a salt shaker on my hand. I looked up from the water to see the air filled with beautiful green trees staring back at me. I could just smell the aroma of bushy pines. I could hear the voices of other kids and parents talking. I looked back down at Glendale lake and saw a bundle of small gray fish swimming through the…

Cadoc was visiting the new Lady’s School, and the young woman named Aphrodite at that very moment. He had not had much time to spend with her since their first meeting, but all he could do was think about her, day and especially during the night. They were sitting in the common room, and he was helping her with her sums. What he was thinking was that she smelled good, and that she had the most unusual set of eyes he had ever seen. What she was thinking was that he was very good with his sums,…

Shooting the Canon By Nina Gardiner The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go” (Dr. Seuss, 1978). Canonical texts have been deemed by literary historians and English professionals alike as texts which have influenced a large group of people and have helped to shape our society. Even though a large majority of the texts, which are deemed as canonical, were written over 100 years ago, their significance is still felt today` . The…