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In The Great Trophy Debate: Do We Need Participation Awards? by John O'Sullivan it says, "The $2000-$3000 we spent every year on awards could have put dozens of kids on the field, and/or dozens of coaches through some quality coaching education." The few thousand dollars that is spent on making the awards could be spent on better and more useful things. Youth athletes might need better uniforms or more sports equipment…

launched DelegateTracker 1.0 to the rest of our delegation, and were met with looks of amazement and wonder. We had programmed it line-by-line, and learned on the fly. Every single button, page, image, or feature on the website was the work of dozens upon dozens of hours of experimentation, curiosity, and most of all,…

Robin Williams once said, “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” (Dead Poet Society). Robin William was a very famous comedian who starred in over a dozen movies, won over a dozen awards, and made millions of people laugh. Another person I would appreciate having at my dinner party would be Liviu Librescu a college professor who gave his life to save his students. I chose Robin Williams because he was someone I have always admired. I chose Liviu Librescu,…

quiet Sunday morning. The 16th ST. Baptist church was a place where multiple civil rights leaders met, along with a predominantly black congregation. That morning at 10:22 am, a bomb went off in the church. Four young girls were killed and over two dozen injured. Outrage occurred after the incident with the protesters and the police. But it did bring a great deal of attention to the hard-fought struggle for civil rights for African Americans. KKK members had routinely called in bomb threats…

based his play on the Salem witch trials, which took place in the late 1600’s in the deeply religious town of Salem. These trials were caused by the accusation of women doing the ‘work of the devil’ or in simpler terms, witchcraft. The deaths of dozens of women were recorded, but it remains unknown how many more died off the record because of such accusations. In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, he writes his take on what could have happened during the trials. According to Miller’s…

الزجاجة او مرقاقة العجين، فلا بد أن يتعلم ليكون صادقا ومخلصا لك........ أجل صرخته الاولى يجب أن تكون أيها الرفيق نابليون ! (مزرعة الحيوانات، الفصل الثامن، ص 152). Considering example 8, Napoleon has now taken the title of “Leader” and has dozens of other complimentary titles as well. Minimus has written a poem in praise of the Napoleon and inscribed it on the barn wall. The poem describes that everyone in Animal Farm should be faithful to…

answered; as Opposition. In the articles, “Understanding Genetic (diseases)”, Dr. Maggie Pearce, a Geneticist, stated, “[Broken Genes] Too hard to fix someone’s broken genes”. Likewise, to believers, human genetic modification comes as a blessing to few dozen people, but the thoughts itself concludes that human genetic modification is entirely different from what people thought it out to be. It said to be that this procedure could be the destruction of humanity. To figure out why some…

just an ordinary rainbow either, it is an “absolutely ordinary rainbow” which is an undisputable statement about this natural phenomenon. This reference alludes that maybe, this scene of the man publicly weeping isn’t an event that requires dozens upon dozens of people’s attention – attention that a rainbow receives – and that this is perhaps an absolutely ordinary occurrence and should be treated as…

“beautiful” game of soccer for as long as I could remember, starting in an organized league at the age of three to be exact. An invitation to play as a team member in a highly regarded college soccer program was the culmination of hundreds of league games, dozens of travel tournaments, and too many practices to count. The idea of attending such a prestigious college and having the opportunity to continue to play soccer is a personal accomplishment was very exciting to me. Soccer may have opened…

Every year, she would bake for hours and make dozens upon dozens of cookies from scratch, and each individually frosted. Determined to keep the tradition alive, I was on a mission to find the recipe and make them with her. After hours of searching, I found her old blue cookbook, taped together to keep it…