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    well. This Olympic Club led to the development of many other sports and activities all around California and helped create a boom in more athletic clubs. The biggest sports in California however were water-oriented sports such as swimming, boating/yachting, and surfing. These sports were catered to the individuals in California because of their location parallel to the coast. The athletes were also celebrated in popular culture “in fact, the California surfer, male and female alike, had become…

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    increase economic stability start from family level, communities to country level. Being equipped with the basic needed, overall happiness could be accomplished for Thai people. Hobbies Over the years, His Majesty enjoyed photography, painting, yachting, doing agricultural experiments, communicating with his ham radio, and perhaps most all music. sports, arts, science, music and agricultural experiments. He enjoyed discussing Broadway musicals and Buddhist philosophy. During his free…

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    In the United States 1848, Joseph C. Hart published a narrative called “The Romance Yachting”, the first written book, questioning Shakespeare’s authorship. On the contrary, James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar, spent 15 years writing a book to prove the opposite of Hart. People debating were either curious about the mysterious Shakespeare or loyal Shakespeare supporters and wanted to prove his innocence at all costs. This argument turned into a true conspiracy theory: Shakespeare couldn’t have…

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    “Tell me about them.” I asked, wanting to pry, but not wanting to push her. “So, how does a New York girl end up in Iowa?” I asked her nonchalantly. At first, Anna looked as if she were going to shut me down and stonewall about her past as she thought about what to say, but then she eased into it by trying to make light of her situation. “My story is just like everyone else’s, I guess,” she said jokingly. “A girl grows up in a loving home, but has big-city dreams, so she moves to Iowa…

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    Ryan O’Neill Kuglen-2 Honors English 11 25 November 2014 Romantics and Transcendentalists The new ideas from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries changed the way that people viewed nature and how people chose to express themselves. American Romanticism and/or Transcendentalism are often shown in many of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories and poems and in Herman Melville’s Typee. American Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth…

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    3 rich men so rich, they will never need to worry about provisions for themselves for the rest of his life, see the most beautiful girl, the first man presents to her a diamond necklace which costed him nothing nothing compared to his fortune, the second man presented her a rare albino tiger that was almost impossible to capture, but the third man is a carpenter and crafts the lady a pure wooden heart made from an oak tree he cut down himself, the woman leaves with the third man and the other…

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    A world of pure domination and immense stardom came violently crashing down before the eyes of the remarkable Frank Sinatra. While walking through Times Square one cold day in February of 1951 he spotted the name of a new male singer, Eddie Fisher, on the sign of the Paramount Theatre. Only seven years ago, Frank had drawn thousands of obsessed female fans to watch him perform; the same girls were obsessing over Fisher, which Frank could not handle. He rushed back to where he was staying, made…

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    It is very important to know how to swim. This knowledge can be very beneficial to you can those who are around you. Within your everyday life you around water of some type, and that is no reason to be afraid, because learning how to swim can take your mind off of this heavy burden and even help you lose a few pounds. There are numerous benefits to knowing how to swim. Swimming can make you stronger, slimmer, more active, and a great teammate. Maya Angelou stated “We write for the same reason…

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    Blinded: Why Gatsby could not envision the consequences Jay Gatsby is not a real person. Instead, he is a persona created by James Gatz, with the simple dream of recreating himself and becoming successful. Eventually, he becomes extremely wealthy, and although he has reached his goal, Gatsby remains focused on one person: Daisy Buchanan. Some critics argue that Jay Gatsby's devotion to Daisy Buchanan in Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is obsessive and dysfunctional; I believe that some of…

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    Initially operating in the SeattleRedmond area inoutside of Seattle, Washington, Northwind Traders is rapidly expanding to sell its services worldwide via the Internet. Travel service sales is the fastest growing category of business to consumer activity on the Internet, and by the year 2000, the value of this market is estimated at $4.500M billion (see Appendix 1, Internet Growth and the Sale of Travel Services). Our emphasis will be on providing a complete specialized service based on…

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