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    Interest and Motivation: I chose the topic of how tennis affects people. When I first heard about this I-Search project, I immediately knew that I wanted to choose a topic that was related to tennis. Since tennis is one of my favorite sports, and I’m very passionate about it, I want to learn everything about this topic. I know that having tennis as a topic is too broad, so, I have decided to narrow it down. In sixth grade, I did a persuasive speech on the benefits of exercise. From that day on,…

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    The poem “Song of Myself” is to deliver the idea of the self and its individuality. Both are conveyed through Whitman’s words and even questions the reader about their own individuality. Whitman’s poetry is supposed to convey that the reader is not alone, it is important to find one’s self, and their challenges of working on one’s mind. In the poem, “Song of Myself” there is significant amount of detail. Whitman’s writing in this poem is creative because he is talking about himself directly at…

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    In his magnum opus, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman attempts to fulfill the duties of the American Bard and tell the story of the American people. The American Bard is, according to Whitman, “the equalizer of his age and land” (1012), who speaks for all without bias or exclusions. In the preface to Leaves of Grass, he says, “The American bards… shall be kosmos… hungry for equals night and day” (1016). The Bard will not express bias towards a certain class, topic, or region. Whitman declares, “What…

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    In Whitman's “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” he paints a verbal picture of appreciating learning from experience. In lines one and two, he inundates you with heavy words like proofs, figures, charts, and diagrams that are all very strong and authoritively describing his learning experience in a lecture room. He grows "tired" and "sick" of this sense of confinement. Feeling captive and stagnant in this conventional learning environment, he longs to, instead of just reading the facts and…

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    sixth poem in his “Leaves of Grass,” talks about death. He uses different ways to describe how grass relates to death and uses metaphors to relate grass to different objects. There are many examples of him showing how grass relates to death. First, a child asks Walt Whitman “What is grass,” but he does not know any more than the child does about grass. In response to the child’s question, he starts to question his self about grass. He uses metaphors to compare the grass to different objects.…

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    Finding Society In the novel of “The Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman, he finds himself in the place of society by in his beliefs. “I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass”. He believes that he is still apart of the world and nature because once the dead people are burry the person body decays into the ground. In the novel of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, Huckleberry finds his place in society by not following the society rules…

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    Women in the Bible are respected, cherished, and honored. Within the American culture, however, women are most predominantly not shown dignified treatment. The undignified treatment shown to women is seen most clearly through the lens of popular media (i.e. magazines, television, social media, etc.). In America “too often, the media practices symbolic annihilation” (Stillman 52) where both the behavioral aspects and outward perception of Biblical womanhood are condemned by the media. Magazines…

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    A vision as well as mission is standard and basic components of an organization 's hierarchical methodology or strategy to accomplish the organizational success to achieve a target objective which is based on the foundation of vision of an organization. Most established organizations produce authoritative vision and mission operation articulations, which assist as introductory help in the basis of association targets. The business then builds dynamic as well as considered measures for objectives…

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    preached and how much I "thought" I knew all about its meaning. When I look back over my experiences I realize that many of our awesome preachers have all been focused on the returning son and never really given the older brother much thought. Author Timothy Keller has a very unusual and distinctive theological approach to presenting both sons as failures in the eyes of the Lord, which turns into a great lesson for the rulers of the day. I was very intrigued after getting through the first three…

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    SITUATION ANALYSIS - STRENGTHS According to a report conducted by comScore, 24 million Canadians are wireless subscribers while 81% are owners of a smartphone (Mcnutt, 2015). Within that 81%, Apple is in the top at 38.3% while Samsung is just behind with 32.4%. Additionally, BrandZ ranks Apple the most valuable global brand in 2015 with a brand value of $247 billion, surpassing Google (Apple overtakes Google, 2015). Evidently, Apple is revered as a powerful and influential brand throughout many…

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