...Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. This phrase reminds me of the veterans who bravely risk their own lives for America’s freedom. A veteran’s willingness to fight for freedom is an example of how much he or she cares for America. These veterans can’t know everyone in America, yet they risk their lives to protect us. I think about this often. I wonder why some people give so much, often dying for their country, and why others give so little. Some try so hard to make things right in America, when others care so little. The veterans of America are not thanked and honored enough. They often come unnoticed to some, and have no meaning to others. When they are out of uniform, they are almost unnoticeable in their surroundings. The many veterans...
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...America--- Home of the Brave, Land of the Free Have you ever taken the time to think about what the army men and women do for us. They leave their families behind for days, months, and even years at a time. Do you know how much you LOVE Christmas, the army might even miss their Christmas fighting for our freedom. Love your birthday? Think about the army men and women who miss their families over their birthday and a family birthday. The usual day for us is wake up, go to school and come home to do whatever we want. The usual day for someone fighting for us wake up guard places sometimes fight and go to sleep. Not only that but you have to think about how hard it is to leave your family for days, months, and years at a time. You...
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...Character Analysis By:Mya M Fire Fire! It's building pressure! Over here Matt! I'm open! Brrrr! In all of these stories they all show similar character traits. Some of the character traits are strong,willing, bravery and leadership. All of these characters show that they are strong. In one of the stories ´Onward´ Matthew Henson and his team showed that they´re strong because they risked their lives. They had tried many times to explore the pole and they had never given up. They also show the character trait of bravery. They could have just called it quits or never even tried , but they kept trying even though they could have lost their lives. They show many character traits that show they have persevered. Any Small Goodness faces some problems with their basketball coach. They needed a leader. That is a very big character trait. Arturo stepped up and helped when the coach was distracted. Arturo also used the character trait suspicion. He had known that Mr. Tree was using them for money. I think Arturo is a great leader because he stepped up when no one else would....
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...Braves SunTrust Park in Marietta The Atlanta Braves recently signed a deal to move its stadium to Cobb County (Marietta). “Reports claim the new stadium will cost $672 million, with $300 million coming Cobb County” (Connolly), which is under construction and will be open to its fans in 2017. The Ballpark will be built near highway I-75 and I-285 which is close to the center of the Braves’ fans. “Braves officials anticipate a capacity of about 41,500; its parking space will number about 6000 and they unveiled plans to build a $400 million entertainment district that will surround the ballpark. The Braves plan to utilize thousands of additional parking spaces surrounding the stadium including the Cobb Galleria area” (Johnson). The Braves Ballpark...
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...future described by Huxley in “Brave New World,” and not the world described in Orwell’s “1984.” He does an excellent job proving facts and disturbing anecdotes, but he lacks showing the audience an opposing viewpoint. Despite this he is able to clearly show is agreement, by proving emotion supported by fact. Postman is able to connect with his audience through his credentials. The student feels that Postman shows a dangerous path that American Culture may be on, and is able to provide a warning to those who listen to his speech. Analysis of Neal Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” “What is dangerous about television is not it’s junk. Every culture can absorb a fair amount of junk, and, in any case, we do not judge a culture by its junk but by how it conducts its serious public business. What is happening in America is that television is transforming all serious public business into junk.” (Postman, 1984, p. 2) In his speech, "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Neil Postman, Columbia University graduate, and one time chair of the Department of Culture and Communication, made the point that American culture is headed for a culture like that described in Adlus Huxley's "Brave New World," and not the culture described in George Orwell's, "1984." He described the world imagined in 1984 as a place where there were no books, and where the people are prisoners to the government that controls them. In contrast, Mr. Postman describes the culture in "Brave New World," by saying that...
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...This semester’s research topic revolved around the Menominee Native American Chief Oshkosh the Brave, who was appointed leader of the Menominees in 1827. It expanded to include his son Chief Neopit Oshkosh, appointed in 1871, and to his grandson Reginald who was unofficially named as chief in 1913 because I needed to understand the differences in how white Americans remember and revere these individuals compared to how Menominee historians remember them but ended up finding more differences in how different white scholars remember them. Consequently, my historiographical paper is on Reginald Oshkosh (which I believe I will focus on for my Fellowship research), but I foresee my Capstone project needing to be narrowed to only include Chief...
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...Analysis of "A Nation's Strength" By Ralph Waldo Emerson "A nation's strength" is a poem written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1847. I can see that it is a poem from a line of similarities that this text has to/with a poem. A poem is characterized by the composition, the use of strong verbs and precise nouns, the use of rhythm, repetitions, alliteration, line breaks and the use of metaphors, similes or personification. Poems will often rhyme but they will not sacrifice meaning for rhyme. A poem has a focused purpose (paints a picture, recreates a feeling, tells a story, captures a moment, etc). In this poem the author uses vivid imagery and metaphors to convince the reader that the strength of a nation, is not in its wealth or military powers, but in its people. I would like to start off by explaining the structural composition of this poem. The form of this poem is a bit of a mix. It has both enjambments and full stops. The enjambment (stanza 1, verse 1, 2) is when one sentence is divided into two verses. A full stop (stanza 2, vers 1) is when there is a definite break/period. It has 6 stanzas and 4 verses in each stanza. The poem has an ab ab rhyme and an 8-6-8-6 rhythm. The ab ab rhyme tells us that the last words in the sentences will rhyme in pairs, every second line. For example the first stanza rhymes; high-defy and strong-throng. The 8-6-8-6 rhythm explains the number of syllables in each verse. For example stanza 1, vers 1, 2; what makes a nation's pillars high=...
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...3 Statistical Analysis 4 Conclusion 4 Dataset for the 2004 season 5 Regression Analysis taking LOG (Y) 6 Regression Analysis 8 Executive Summary This report is to determine whether total team payroll for major league baseball teams directly varies with each team’s home attendance. This is an important statistical analysis because if we can prove that there is a relationship between salary and attendance then we can see that more fans in the stands will give a team more buying power when it comes to signing players. Dataset The independent variable is team payroll and the dependent variable is team home attendance. Each team plays 81 home games. The dataset consists of 30 Major League Baseball teams from the 2004 season. Data Observations For the independent variable: The arithmetic mean for home attendance is: 30,453.67 The median for total home attendance is: 31,499.50 The standard deviation for total home attendance is: 8,132.28139 The minimum for total home attendance is: 14,052 The maximum for total home attendance is: 50,499 For the dependent variable: The arithmetic mean for total payroll is: $73,052,363.27 The median for total payroll is: $66,191,416.50 The standard deviation for total payroll is: $33,672,116.60 The minimum for total payroll is: $29,363,067 The maximum for total payroll is: $208,306,817 Statistical Analysis Team A has chosen...
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...University of Phoenix Material Multicultural Matrix and Analysis Worksheet Instructions: Part I: Select and identify six groups in the left-hand column. Complete the matrix. Part II: Write a summary. Part III: Format references consistent with APA guidelines. |Part I: Matrix |What is the group’s history in the United |What is the group’s population in the |What are some attitudes and customs people|What is something you admire about | | |States? |United States? |of this group may practice? |this group’s people, lifestyle, or | | | | | |society? | | |African-American history starts in the 17th |2005 U.S. Census figures, some 39.9 |Grandmother is usually in charge of the |Being a strong, determined people. | | |century with indentured servitude in British |million African Americans live in the |family. Many African Americans are Baptist|Strong family ties even without a | | |America and progresses onto the election of |United States, comprising 13.8% of the |Christians. The African American church is|father in evidence. Artistic talent | | ...
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...University of Phoenix Material Multicultural Matrix and Analysis Worksheet Instructions: Part I: Select and identify six groups in the left-hand column. Complete the matrix. Part II: Write a summary. Part III: Format references consistent with APA guidelines. |Part I: Matrix |What is the group’s history in the United |What is the group’s population in the |What are some attitudes and customs people|What is something you admire about | | |States? |United States? |of this group may practice? |this group’s people, lifestyle, or | | | | | |society? | | |Native Americans, as the name suggests, they |1500- 10 million |Dance plays a very important role in |Their patience and spirituality are to| | |were the first people who lived in North |1800- 600,000 |Native American tribes. American Indians |be admired. One of the traits shared | | |America, Alaska, and Hawaii. After the |1900- 250,000 |dance for different occasions and |by many tribes is their society being | | ...
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...English I Short Answer Single Selection Scoring Guide March 2015 Copyright © 2015, Texas Education Agency. All rights reserved. Reproduction of all or portions of this work is prohibited without express written permission from Texas Education Agency. Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question. Then fill in the answer on your answer document. In Emory’s Gift, Charlie is a 13-year-old boy just out of seventh grade. His mother’s death and his father’s grief leave Charlie feeling isolated at school, at home, and even at the junior-lifesaving training class he attends, where he practices his lifesaving skills on seventh-graders, otherwise known as sevies. In the excerpt below, Charlie has returned home after class and has walked to the creek to go fishing. from Emory’s Gift by W. Bruce Cameron 1 During the spring the waters of the creek were dark and cold, a sharp contrast from the milky pool water from which I’d been saving sevies all morning. From bank to bank the stream was more than thirty feet. In the summer, though, with the runoff down to a trickle, the creek bed was mainly dry, littered with rocks and mud and tree branches. The creek itself shrank back until it was only six feet wide, hugging the far bank and deep enough to swim in. That’s where the fish liked to lurk, up under the tree root overhang. From the base of our hill the creek had only another couple hundred yards of independence before it joined the river, adding...
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...n.d.). The Cold War was “conflict between the Communist nations led by the Soviet Union and the democratic nations led by the United States (Poon, 1979).” According to the historical analysis, The Cold War was one of the most important events of the twentieth century which shaped America in different ways like: • Foreign policy • Political ideology • Domestic economy • The presidency • Affected the personal lives of Americans (Naranjo, 2003). Some of the threats to Americans was the sense of fear and insecurity during the years between 1945 through 1962 (Kelly, 2007), but also threat of a nuclear crisis. Another threat to the citizens of America was an inconsistent lifestyle that would keep them at edge. If I had to protect my family and prepare them from an attack or a nuclear war, I would build a bomb shelter to keep extra supplies like: clothes, food, water, toiletries and other things like batteries and a radio for the news, but also to have somewhere to go and take my loved ones in case of an immediate threat. I would also brief them of the consequences, the dangers, and what to do if we would get separated. In case of that separation I would also designate a meeting place where we can all get together again, but also teach them, especially my children, about being brave, not being scared and not panic. The Cold War was a very long battle which lasted nearly 40 years, according to some historians, so it is only natural for some people to have questions...
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...Anthony Poindexter 3/12/13 Mr.Kuntz Social Problems 110 Media Analysis Project. As we sit down and watch the television we see that the most popular shows and cartoons that we mainly watch consist of different types of stereotypes. Not knowing what the media's subliminal message is at this moment, it plays a key role into what our children are taking in with everything they watch and how what they view as a child effects how they see other people. Heiner discusses this in his book that social problems and critical construction-ism affect the way we live today and in the future. There are three TV shows that i have watched and carefully analyzed that show how the media today, has twisted the way we see Television. Not even really knowing that what we are watching is a Guinea-pig instrument that the government uses to make us see how they want everyday life to be. For example these are some of the shows that use stereotypes in every episode to trick us and to make us desire to be like them just because of their gender, race or class. The Cartoon "Hey Arnold" was created by Craig Bartlett and was diversely a stereotypical show that was basically showing people how middle class/poor kids in the ghetto lived and told the adventures they had together. The main Character in this cartoon was a little scrawny low class white kid named Arnold. Arnold is well respected around the city that he lives in just because of his humble and well-mannered nature. He is a quiet kid that has...
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...Pixar Animations MBA 615 Mickey Langford/Kimberly Horne Spring 2013 Mickey Langford Pixar Animations is our company of choice for this case study analysis. In 2006, Walt Disney acquired Pixar, but before we get to all of that, let us start at the beginning. Before Pixar, there was Lucas Films. George Lucas, of Lucas Films, decided in 1979 to upgrade their computer division (Animations, 2012). Lucas had a desire to see how far they could take computer graphics within the film industry. Lucas Films succeeded by creating Andre & Wally B., in 1984 (Animations, 2012). Andre & Wally B. - First Ever Pixar Short Movie - The Adventures of André and Wally B. [1984 HD] - YouTube, was the first ever computer-generated imagery short movie (Movies, 2009). This was the foundational establishment in the film industry that Steve Jobs was seeking. In 1986, Jobs purchased the Computer Division from Lucas Films and named it Pixar Animations Studios. Walt Disney and Pixar Animation agreed to do a number of films together, the first being Toy Story which was a huge success. The movie debut on November 22, 1995 grossed $192 million domestically and $362 million worldwide (Animations, 2012). Listed below is a table of the gross amounts that Disney/Pixar movies have made: Released | Movie Name | 1st Weekend | US Gross | Worldwide Gross | Budget | 11/22/1995 | Toy Story | $29,140,617 | $191,796,233 | $361,948,825 | $30,000,000 | 11/20/1998 | A Bug's Life | $291,121...
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...specific role in the community, have arranged roles in the family, and are limited by the extended family. Although women are “Mother Supreme”, they were looked upon differently by the Igbo because of their feminist views. The opening sentence in Things Fall Apart begins with the description of an alpha male. It is hard not to have a feminist view when a role of masculinity is observed as early as the first sentence. Okonkwo is a self-made, well-respected member of the clan. He has become a wealthy farmer through his own hard work. Behaviors and attitudes that he considers masculine are to have a patriarch mindset, not show love and affection, have a great sense of personal pride, work hard, provide for your family, and being brave. Okonkwo believes that any slight show of weakness is feminine. For example, Unoka, his father, was in debt and did not own anything to Okonkwo that is being feminine. Contrasting to Okonkwo’s beliefs of feminism, the role women play in the community is simple and limited, but can also showcase the power women withhold. One of the most powerful roles a woman plays in the Igbo community is that of a priestess. This reveals a degree of reverence. As strong as...
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