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    If I were to be any person for a day, I would be Malala Yousafzai. If I were to switch places with Malala Yousafzai, I think I would be with a mind that is bigger than I can imagine. I also think I would be in a bigger body with experiences and memories only a soul could hold on to, not only emotionally, but physically and emotionally and I think I would be faced with many responsibilities If we switched places. I would want to be Malala Yousafzai for a day because she has accomplished many extraordinary things at a young age. Malala Yousafzai was born on july 12th, 1997 in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. When Malala Yousafzai was 11-12, she wrote a blog for the BBC about her life living under the Taliban occupation. The summer after she wrote her blog, the journalist named Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life, while the Pakistani military tried to prevent her from getting interviewed. Malala Yousafzai was nominated for a Children’s Peace Prize by a South African activist named Desmond Tutu after she was shown on the giving interviews on television and newspapers for her blog. On October 9th of 2012, Malala got on her school bus to go to school in the northwest Pakistani district, when a Taliban gunman asked for Malala, out of her many school friends. Soon after Malala’s location was given away, the gunman shot Malala on the left side of her head, then the remaining bullet went inside her neck. Two other girls were injured in the attack also.…

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    D. Company Analysis Background & Context Initially founded as Everett City Lines in 1893, Everett Transit is the public transit authority for Everett, Washington. This organization was created in order to help fill the transportation void of near the turn of the century. People needed a reliable way to travel from one location to another, and thus Everett Lines was born. Dissimilar from the rest of Snohomish County, who operate under Community Transit, Everett Transit operates its own city wide…

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    did not have to deal with it because he did not want his vote/decision to affect him politically. Another senator, Senator Richard Russell, a democrat from Georgia, reminded the other senators what their duties were. In his speech he quotes, “I am seeking only to remind the Senate of its responsibilities and of the desirability of not throwing its rules out the window…” Russell wanted to remind the other senators about the rules that they need to follow before they make a choice about to pass…

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    As Everett notes, “the most striking thing I remember about seeing the Pirahas for the first time was how happy everybody seemed” (Everett 6). The Piraha eternal happiness and warmth speak to their laidback culture and lifestyle. The Piraha take life lightly, and are able to brush off adversity. Everett notices this on seeing them in their day to day life, Everett states, “Pirahas laugh at their own misfortune: when someone’s hut blows over in a rainstorm…they laugh when they catch a lot of…

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    Navy Rotation Scenarios

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    The CSC supports active duty, family members, and retired service members by answering questions on a wide range of topics including career information, selection boards, distribution, and Navy records maintenance. To use the function click on the "Live Chat" link on the NPC homepage, fill out your contact information, your question, and click the "Start Chat" button at the bottom of the page. 3. EXPANSION OF INTEGRATED LODGING PROGRAM. Department of Defense (DoD) continues its…

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    “Ophelia” by John Everett Millais, was created around 1851, over a five month period. This painting conveys great attention to naturalistic detail. The scene that is depicted in the painting is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which the girl that is portrayed in the painting named Ophelia drowns herself in a stream because of the grief of losing her father, who was murdered by the love of her life, Hamlet. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas, it is a method of painting using pigments…

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    reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.” (16) But ironically Mark Twain chooses such a character to be the narrator and main character of his novel. As seen at the end of the book, Tom and Huck reunite and Tom hatches a plan to help Jim escape from the shed. Tom says that their plan needs to be like the ones in the books. “Why, hain’t you ever read any books at all?—Baron Trenck, nor Casanova, nor Benvenuto Chelleeny,…

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    Huckleberry Finn, he wrote in 1884 (Samuel). Mark was born in Florida on November 30, 1835 to John Marshall and Jane Clemens. Twain grew up in Hannibal along the Mississippi River, which held “some of the happiest moments of his childhood” he stated (Samuel). Mark Twain was said to be an “American humorist and novelist, captured a world audience with short stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man’s shortcomings that is humorous even while it probes, often bitterly, the roots of…

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    Run Lola Run Analysis

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    Discussion Questions for “Run, Lola, Run” 1. Why do you think Tom Tykwer’s film was so extraordinarily popular, not only in Germany but throughout the world? I think the film was popular because it was a fusion of the fast-paced nature of American films with the artistic elements of German film. That makes it appreciable to several markets, worldwide. 2. The film tells the same story three times. Which elements are exactly the same each time? Which elements change? Are there any elements which…

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    important role as one of the themes throughout the entire novel titled, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by one of America’s greatest writers in all of its history, Mark Twain. As the novel acts as an extension of Mark Twain’s other publication, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it goes on in the point-of -view of Huckleberry Finn and his adventures after trying to leave his “incarcerating” establishment and his drunk and abusive father, who in fact…

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