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350 word limits Essay Question - Other than your Eagle Scout leadership service project, what service have you provided to your community during your high school years? During my high school years, I have primarily provided service through my participation in the Christiana Care VolunTeen program and through the various clubs that I lead. The Christiana Care VolunTeen program allows young adults to help serve at the hospital in various areas, often exposing teenagers to how a hospital…

The Hidden Deceit in Darkness In Shakespeare's Macbeth, ambition and greed highlight a person's drive to corruption and downfall. In the play, three scheming witches tell the main character, Macbeth, his prophecies of becoming thane of Cawdor, and, later king of Scotland. The witches’ ambiguous prophecies give Macbeth the confidence and motives to eliminate anybody who stands in the way of the fulfillment of the prophecies. Throughout the play, Macbeth loses all the qualities that had gained…

Shakespeare wrote the poem Macbeth which is about a great warrior who learns about a prophecy in which he will become king so kill the king and others who pose a threat of taking his crown. Throughout the story of Macbeth there are many actions and causes that lead to Macbeth’s downfall. While other may say that lady Macbeth is to blame for Macbeth's downfall in the story, Macbeth is the sole person to blame for his downfall. Macbeth was a brutal killer and very ruthless in his fighting, it was…

Roy Emerson Imagine constantly training non-stop every day, soaked with sweat, this is what the greatest tennis players must do to succeed. Ladies and gentlemen, Roy Emerson deserves to have a statue constructed at Frew Park in Milton as he is a worthy tennis role model of Queensland. As the best tennis player, he has made major contributions to Australian tennis and setting amazing records. Known as a legend in tennis, he is a great Australian role model and is known world-wide. Roy Emerson…

A Brief History of Golf Golf has been a great sport ever since the reign of Julius Caesar’s time. And until now this sport has been an important one that is known around the globe. The sport golf was not the same as what it is now but most likely similar with how it was played. The players are striking a ball that is feather-stuffed with the club-shaped branches of tree. But then the golf game was then traced back as well to Song Dynasty during 960 to the year 1279. It was not exactly the same…

“Yes Sir!” the announcer proclaimed as “Jack Nicklaus [threatened] to make the 46th year of his life the most memorable to date - a year when this once young, strong, heroic golfer [made] middle age a time of even bigger heroics.” (The New York Times, May 24, 1986) Jack Nicklaus had just sunk a putt in the 1986 masters for eagle on the fifteenth hole, positioning only two back of the lead. It would be one of the greatest wins in golf’s history if he could pull it out, but there were only three…

Arnold Palmer is the King, and he has earned that name too, because he is the one of the greatest golfers of all time. He even has a tournament named after him, named the Arnold Palmer Invitational. From basically making the Senior PGA Golf, to when he started playing golf professionally, to how he made golf internationally more famous, this is how he has changed the golfing world. When the Senior PGA Golf Tour started in 1930 and from 1930 to 1979 it wasn’t very popular, the prize purse(prize…

The story In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien can be regarded as a novel of events that occurred in the Vietnam War but beneath the surface of its the complexities; it is a story about love. The majority of the book unfolds with the human soul of John Wade unyielding desire to be loved. This story navigates through his troubled childhood, his experiences in Vietnam, his attempt to jumpstart his political career and his strive for the succession of his marriage. O’Brien uses John’s past…

A Day In the Woods I am usually not very excited about doing homework, but today, at least most of it would not be that bad. As soon as we got off the bus at Ally's stop we got the dog, whose name was Izzy and started walking to Garnsey Road Arboretum. We sprinted down to the trail as Izzy was pulling us. As I stepped on the trail, I wondered how long this was going to take. It was a beautiful fall afternoon with a bright blue sky and lots of sunshine. I breathed in the fresh smell of the…

had followed me through the forest and down the hillsides. But, as I crossed the bridge (which was only a few feet wide) I looked back to see if my feline friend was still with me but she was now nowhere in sight, having disappeared back into the woods again. I wanted to call out to her to see where she might have gone, but then I realized that I didn’t have a…