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Adventure Waits “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” 
Eleanor Roosevelt, American Politician and First Lady of the United States ***
In the 1993 comedy Wayne's World 2, Wayne (Mike Meyers) dreams he meets Jim Morrison of The Doors. In the course of their conversation, Morrison informs Wayne it is his destiny to put on a big concert in Aurora, Illinois. Wayne asks how to put together the…

(Vincent, year?, p.146). This type of social interaction reveals the divided communities of Toronto, which reveal the dual-identity issues that created some confusion for Vincent and her family. This aspect of the Portuguese immigrant experience illustrates how some Portuguese chose to assimilate into Anglophone culture; while some Portuguese preferred to retain their Portuguese identity in the neighborhoods of Toronto. This is part of the “mosaic” of Canadian life…

XYZ Rehab., is a small sized rehabilitation company, with approximately 500 employees, that provides talent, information and support to rehabilitation departments in various hospitals and convalescent home. XYZ Rehab Inc. manages rehabilitation aspect of patient care, marketing, strategic planning, output measurements and related reimbursements. These services allows hospitals to optimize their resources on various other aspects such as nursing and infrastructure. Also, on a holistic…

Our great nation has an abundance of popular, historic spectator events in which innumerable people attend such as the Super Bowl, World Series, and the US Open. Explicitly, on the first weekend in May, Louisville, Kentucky hosts one of the most traditional events in history. Dating back to 1875, the Kentucky Derby brings in about 170,000 people a year. This past year, I had the privilege of being one of those 170,000 people at Churchill Downs attending the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby…

the winter. We can compare this to another southern city that is a bit farther north, Toronto, Ontario, Where the average temperature is 20 degrees celsius in the summer and below 4 degrees celsius in the winter. Extrapolating this data we can make the assumption that the farther north the city the lower the average temperature will be. We can assume this because even with small move north from Windsor to Toronto the average temperature decreased.…

Jacob Riis was born on May 03, 1849, in Ribe, Denmark. Riis migrated to this country in 1870 on a steamship. . He arrived in New York City. Riis took on demanding jobs as an ironworker, farmer, and bricklayer. These jobs gave him a glimpse of the less fortunate side of America's economic system. However, it was not until he became a police reporter for the NYPD that he discovered the true suffering. Citizens living in extremely poor conditions. He felt compelled to find a way to expose this to…

New York City is considered to be one of the busiest cities with some of the rudest people. Everyone has heard of the New York minute, everything happens so fast around us that we don’t notice what’s really going on. But there's something else happening in that split second, there is a whole community working together, all at once to create a single day. Some may think that since everyone is always in such a rush they are naturally rude and would push people out of their way. While that may…

makes the reader feel guilt or remorse for littering. No one wants to be called lazy, so those who actually have littered may remember this in the future. Ethos is shown by providing the company coupled with city that founded the ad. The city of Toronto and Livegreen are pretty credible sources when littering is the topic at play. The city must have funded the ad after being sick of the trash around the city. Logos is applied because, logical thinking states that throwing on the trash on the…

Introduction In this essay I will be exploring a topic most deeply embedded in New York’s history, which happens to be a theme widely pertinent and of extensive influence on the characters and the plot of “A Summer’s Reading”, by Bernard Malamud. New York has, since the days it was known as New Amsterdam, been the most prominent port of entry into North America. From the crown of the Statue of Liberty, one could easily make out scores of ship entering her harbor daily, and onboard, millions of…

Toronto is the commercial, cultural and financial center of Canada and is recognized as a prominent and influential global city. Therefore, Toronto is constantly changing to best adapt to both domestic and international trends. In recent years, there has been a boom in condominium development in the city of Toronto with, “sales increasing by 21.2% in the first quarter of 2015 compared to the first quarter of the previous year” (Vital signs, 2016). With the increasing number of condominium…