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    as its 1997 Mathematician of the year. She was also awarded the silver snoopy that goes to a individual who best symbolizes the intent and spirit of Space Flight Awareness. In 1967 she won the NASA Lunar Orbit Spacecraft and operating team award. As her highest achievement was receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama for her work at NASA. Katherine Johnson also achieved many things that didn’t come with a medal or a shiny trophy. She was one of the first African American…

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    giving her "medically necessary treatment that he had been performing on patients for over 30 years." Doctor Nassar took advantage of Maroney whenever and wherever he had the opportunity to “treat” her. He molested her when she won her gold medal and her silver medal. Moreover, when she had flown to Tokyo he had gave her a sleeping pill for the flight and when she woke up he was giving her “treatment” in the hotel. Not only Nassar was molesting his athletic children, he obtained child…

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    themselves apart by being awarded two Presidential Unit Citations for outstanding tactical air support and aerial combat, as well as multiple silver stars, fourteen bronze stars, and seven hundred and forty-four air medals amongst other awards. The Tuskegee Airmen would even go on to be awarded in 2007 with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian medal given by Congress. The Tuskegee Airmen are remembered today and will be remembered for years to come as courageous and resilient men…

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    Jennifer Baer Grade 9 Mrs. Villanova American Literature 1 On Courage, Cowardice, and Masculinity One of the first sights that are thought of on the subject of war is death. More specifically, death caused by other men. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the thoughts of individual American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War are reflected upon, explicitly on what they did and did not execute during the Vietnam War. One of the main themes O’Brien includes is that, “Men killed, and died,…

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    talkers were treated as just vessels that carried and communicated the code, which meant that if it came down to it, code talkers were killed if they risked being captured. Along with all of the risk, even when a code talker did something worth of a medal they were not rewarded. The author conveys crafts this theme, along with a subtle theme of discrimination against Native Americans, through the actions of Ben Yahzee and Charlie Whitehorse. It is pointed out many times how Whitehorse and Yahzee…

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    on 10th St avenue A and at the pro’s gym on 14th st. Both of them have kept a scrapbook filled with torn tickets from every boxing match, they’ve been to and some from their own boxing matches. Antonio and Felix have both won two gold plated medals and a silver and…

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    of Canada. It is responsible for the production of all coin based legal tender in Canada as well as the production of coins for other nations due to its sheer size and capacity. Moreover, they also mint precious metal (gold, silver, platinum and palladium) bullion coins, medals, and bars; the quality of their products is recognized worldwide by numismatics and investors…

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    Tiffany tea service:Teapot,Sugar Bowl,Milk Pot was designed by Edward C.Moore and made by Tiffany & Company during 1866-67.These three tea sets are made in silver with gilt decoration; ivory.At the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle,Tiffany’s display received the first-ever medal awarded to an Anmerican silver manufacturer.The design was inspired by the non-western art.The figure of the teapot looks like mosque style architecture, visible minarets that closely identified with mosques and the tea…

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    possible; this is what every prisoner had to do in order to survive the anguish of Auschwitz and the other concentration camps. After being starved and tortured in the concentration camp, Nakache went on to receive a silver medal in the 1946 Olympics. Because earning a silver medal in the Olympics is such a great accomplishment, one can clearly see how mentally and physically strong Nakache truly…

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    During his service in Vietnam he earned seven medals, but one medal haunted him. Bowker comes close to earning the Silver Star for valor. He found Kiowa in the muck field during the mortar fire on the banks of the Song Tra Bong. Bowker tried to save Kiowas life but had to give up because the struggle of saving his own life was to strong. He blames himself for Kiowa’s death and wishes he could tell how he almost earned the Silver Star. Bowker drives around the lake in his town constantly…

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