...With a unique blend of good acting skills, toughness and beauty, Mayte Michelle Rodriguez has really established a solid career in Hollywood as one of the promising young stars that people laud of. Inherited Hispanic ethnicity of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent from her parents, Rafael Rodriguez and Carmen Milady, Michelle was born on July 12, 1978 in Bexar County, Texas as the only daughter in her family. Following her parents' divorice when she turned eight, she by her mother to the Dominican Republic, then Puerto Rico before finally settled in Jersey City, New Jersey by the age of eleven. Michelle quit high school but leter received her GED wheh she decided to venture into the entertainment business. She competed with 350 other girls where she surprisingly became the one who obtained the leading role in "Girlfight". After multiple positive reviews of her performance in the movie, Michelle was asked to act in the movie "The Fast and the Furious". Michelle acted with Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, her status grew larger when the flm turned out to be a success worldwide. Afterwards she made more success through "Resident Evil", "Blue Crush" and "S.W.A.T". she enhanced her career with appearances in ABC's popular series "Lost" and later in the film "Avatar". In 2013, she will appear again as Leticia "Letty" Ortiz in Fast Six. In her life beyond acting, Michelle, however, has encountered troubles for several times dealing with her behavior, beginning with a charge that she allegedly...
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...Rodolfo Rua-Rodriguez is the name that I am most commonly referred to when an adult wants to address attention towards me in class. It is also the name you can see displayed in my birth certificate if I were to show you it. But I have multiple identities that I hide. At the point of night, I am disguised in a cowl with sharp-pointy ears and a suit of armor which imitates the darkness of the night. On the daylight, I am implied to be a critter but they aren’t talking about my characteristics but my abilities to walk horizontally, vertically and diagonally. I am known in Greek Mythology, to once single handedly taken out all of the Greek Gods, and defeated Zeus with just my bare hands. My life’s achievements are that I had saved humanity before...
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...Honors English 10 Rodriguez Essay Richard Rodriguez wrote an untitled passage that poignantly portrays some of the family-related Christmas events that have occurred during his life. This particular selection addresses how his mother’s prediction about her children’s future wealth foreshadowed the scarcity of satisfaction, earnest values, and close interpersonal relationships they developed as adults. In this specific piece of work, Rodriguez effectively utilizes powerful writing elements such as selection of detail, narrative structure, manipulation of language, and tone to convey his feelings of insignificance, futility, hollowness, desolation, and lack of fulfillment regarding both himself and his entire family to the reader. Rodriguez first employs selection of detail to convey his own lack of significance by exempting himself from the specifics he presents when he discusses the success of his mother’s children: “Her two daughters are business executives. Her oldest son is a lawyer.” Rodriguez, then, uses selection of detail to emphasize the importance of his mother’s prediction that her children would “all be very rich” and “have lots of money to buy [her] presents”, but that she will be “a little old lady” without “any teeth or hair” and although they will buy her “a big fur coat”, they will “only be able to see [her] eyes.” The powerful element of narrative structure is also evident in the above referenced, lengthy, verbatim quote from the author’s mother that...
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...have made probably grossed half a billion dollars by the time Friday night rolls around. These films make copious, outrageous amounts of money, and director F. Gary Gray is having a ball directing this thing. Think about being a little kid, with the biggest sandbox imaginable, and an endless supply of toys to play with. That's what Gray has been given and he smashes stuff, kicks up a lot of sand, and his movie creates storylines with the depth of a child, making things up as they go along. The hook this time around is that a cyberterrorist known as Cipher (Charlize Theron) has convinced Dominic (Vin Diesel) to go rogue and betray his "family" of race-car enthusiasts, hacktivists, and crime- fighters, including new wife Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). We open in Havana, Cuba, where Dom and Letty are on their honeymoon and Dom stumbles on to Cipher's path. Shown something on a cell phone, Dom suddenly agrees to turn on Johnson's Luke Hobbs, take possession of an EMP generator and complete step one in Cipher's nefarious plot to secure a nuclear football from the Russians and force the world to acquiesce to her demands as she possesses the launch codes to nukes on a Siberian submarine. Hobbs, as you undoubtedly recall, is a double agent and sprung from jail by a man known as Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) who, along with his bumbling rookie colleague (Scott Eastwood), recruits Hobbs to defeat Cipher, bring down Dom, and save all mankind. Somehow he convinces Dom's team to work for him (sure...
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...Sue Rodriguez was a 42 year old woman living in B.C. who was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a terminal illness that caused her a lot of pain and suffering (Smith, 1993.) She wanted to end her life with the assistance of a qualified physician. However, Section 241(b) of the Criminal Code made assisted suicide an indictable offence (Smith, 1993.) She said “if I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?” and was inspired to work to change the law (Smith, 1993.) Sue Rodriguez put in a lot of time and effort to try to change the law. She applied to the Supreme Court of British Columbia for an order declaring s. 241(b) invalid under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Smith, 1993.) The B.C. court dismissed her application so she then appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada (Smith, 1993.) In the Supreme Court of Canada, Sue Rodriguez argued that s. 241(b) violates sections 7, 12, and 15 of the Charter (Smith, 1993.) Section 7 of the Charter granted her right to life, liberty, and security of person (Smith, 1993.) She argued that s. 241(b) prohibited a person from aiding her to end her life when she could not do so without assistance, thus depriving her of liberty (Smith, 1993.) She was also deprived of her security of the person because s. 241(b) deprived her of her ability to control decisions about her body which caused her physical pain and psychological stress (Smith, 1993.) Sue Rodriguez also argued that s. 12 of the...
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...In the essay Rodriguez Richard “The Achievement of Desire”, can be labeled as a dissertation of his past, which Richard Rodriguez makes analyses on the spectrum of his life. In the text Rodriguez refers to himself as the scholarship boy, a male who -“tends to over-stress the importance of examinations, of the piling-up knowledge and revived opinion” [ He gains the skill of learning, of hoarding new facts, but he can’t apply is own opinion when needed]. In other words, the author is searching for pity in the audience by describing his persona as a male who is in dire need of attention and is conflicted with a disease causing him to have an endless thirst for knowledge. His ideology for making himself seem like a mentally ill can be seen an urgent...
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...Unfortunately, the MLB pays millions of dollars to players every year. The amount of money players earn each year is more than most people get in a lifetime. The players that get paid that large amount of money and get caught using steroids from the drug tests only get suspended and fined for a certain amount of money for a certain amount of days. The fines are pocket money for the players and the suspension is a break for them. Most sports fans know Alex Rodriguez, or more commonly known as “A Rod”, has had a very bad past with being associated with steroids. Alex has been caught multiple times for taking performance enhancing drugs. Performance enhancing drugs makes the user stronger and overall it will improve the statistics of the player and the chances of winning for the team they play for. So the MLB has increased some suspensions and fines for repeat offenders but it has no effect on them. That means Alex Rodriguez is cheating and making millions of dollars a year and getting away with it. Drug testers that get negative results should instantly put the players name on a list and call the Commissioner. After the Commissioner gets the list he should call the Organization of the teams of which the players play for, and the performance enhancing drug abusers will be banned from the game. The MLB needs to permanently ban players who are caught cheating if not, players who abuse steroids get to live their lives with millions of dollars by just...
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...Richard Rodriguez Richard Rodriguez is an essayist, writer and journalist. He was born on July 31, 1944 in Sacramento, California, United States. He went to a Catholic school named Christian Brothers High School at age six, where he graduated from. He studied in a lot of universities. Rodriguez got a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. from Columbia University. A noted prose stylist, Rodriguez has worked as a teacher, international journalist, and educational consultant and has appeared regularly on the PBS show, NewsHour. He is known for opposition to bilingual education and affirmative action. He wrote a lot of books like: Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father, Brown: The Last Discovery of America and Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez which made him popular. Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, and Time published his works. Rodriguez is a Roman Catholic and homosexual. He came out in his book of essays Days of Obligation. This caused some readers and critics, especially Latinos, to be less critical of his ideas. He is married and his wife’s name is Jim. He has received several awards like Fulbright Fellowship, 1972-73, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1976-77, and Frankel Medal, Commonwealth Club gold medal, 1982 and etc. At present, Rodriguez is writing a book on Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and the desert. Rodriguez reports that he is "interested in the fact that three great monotheistic religions were experienced...
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...The Children of God (COG) was started in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, USA. Many early converts were drawn from the hippie era and Jesus Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The group later changed its name to the Family of Love, The Family and recently The Family International. It has also used a significant number pseudonyms and front organizations for its activities. After a number of image makeovers, The Family International now refers to itself as a church, and prefers to be known as a wholesome, family-values New Religious Movement (NRM), albeit with alternative views and counter culture. It is however, still widely referred to as a cult in the media, often as the free-love sex cult or The Family Cult. The Children of God created controversy with its ideas of apocalypticism and revolution against the outside world that they call "the System," along with its central tenet that true disciples must drop out and "forsake all." Forsaking all literally entails abandoning all responsibilities and cutting ties with any and all—job, school, family, friends, and selling all that they have, handing over the entire proceeds to the group. Disciples assume a new biblical name and identity—true legal names are often kept a secret even from each other. Like deep cover role play without any possibility of debriefing, some members who joined as teenagers in the late 60s are still incognito today. In 1974 the group launched a new form of so-called evangelism called Flirty...
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...with excess money have to earn every penny with hard work. In certain cases, people are born with certain talents and abilities that supply vast opportunities of which others may not have. A prime example of this would be Alex Rodriguez, who is considered one of the most talented and highly paid baseball players in the Major Leagues. Due to his talents on the baseball field, Alex Rodriguez is currently making 27.5 million dollars a year to play the sport he was born to play. The public views Alex Rodriguez as an idol for everyone who strives to be the best at what they do. As a college baseball player at Umass Boston I have seen some of the hardest working athletes imaginable, but for most of them being as successful as Alex Rodriguez is completely unreachable. Each and every one of us is born different with different talents and abilities, and the best we can do is maximize our potential. The only way to accomplish this is with hard work. Every person is created different and will have more potential at certain things, which is why I feel that money should solely be earned on the hard work they put into their career. This also includes the hard work endured in order to achieve this career and maximizing your potential. While we put Alex Rodriguez on a pedestal that resembles God, we forget the people who work each and every day to keep our society functioning correctly. Without the men and women who are teachers, we would have nobody to learn from. At this poi nt in the...
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...the 2003 season when he was playing for the Texas Rangers. During the season, he was awarded the American League Most Valuable Player Award and broke 300 career home runs. At the time, testing positive for the use of performance-enhancers had no punishment. Rodriguez admitted to the press he was injecting a drug into his body, but he did not know what it was. He told the press he brought it over from the Dominican Republic and used it for six months. Rodriguez is now a spokesman who travels around the country to talk to the youth about the dangers of using anabolic steroids (Biography.com 1). Human growth hormone increases the amount of red blood cells in the user’s bloodstream, making a higher amount of oxygen move more quickly into...
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...Olympic champion such as Michael Phelps really share similarities with an offensive lineman in the National Football League? Throughout this essay I will be commenting on the variation of athletes in modern society, the steroid controversy, and how the United States in particular has a skewed perception of what an athlete should be. A recent major example of one of the most popular sports figures going down the abyss of the steroid scandal, among other gossip, is New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Since A-Rod’s first season playing for Seattle he has been glorified as having the potential to be the greatest to ever play the game of baseball. He played precociously at such a young age in Seattle, hitting for power and average and playing the infield well. Rodriguez immediately became a public darling, drawing comparisons to all the greats in the game, and many anticipated him to break the all time home run record currently held my proven steroid user Barry Bonds. Rodriguez played so...
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...Does Steroids Provide An Unfair Advantage In Baseball or Does It Even The Playing Field? Baseball has been an American pastime for centuries and will be for centuries to come. Adults have been taking their children to baseball games since the Major Leagues first came about in the late 1800s. From the Philadelphia Phillies' great Astrodome to their current Citizens Bank Park or the Atlanta Braves' Fulton County Stadium to their more modern Turner Field baseball has been loved in America. Although the game is as old as it is, baseball has not changed even though the players continue to get better and better. Many fans first take is the use of steroids in baseball. But did steroids really help Barry Bonds become home run king? Because Hank Aaron had the record generations before and he reportedly never injected steroids. Every year it seems like a new player gets brought into the league that is going to be faster, stronger, and an overall better player; except the ones that have the records broken that is. Although steroids are supposed to make athletes bigger, faster, and stronger,; are steroids really making athlete's statistics better or simply bridging the gap between decent athletes and great ones? There are many aspects in hitting a baseball that coaches teach athletes at a young age. Seeing the ball well, swinging with your hips and not just your arms, being disciplined and not swinging at a ball out of the strike zone, these are all examples of what it takes to be a good...
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...The Mackintosh Probe development was based on the principles stated by Hvorslev (1948) for drive rods for sounding and sampling and recommended methods for static and dynamic sounding by European Group Subcommittee (1968). The probe consists of a cased screwed onto the lower end of the rod. The rods are of 16mm diameter HY steel each of length 120 cm. The rods are connected to each other by 25 mm outer diameter couplings. These couplings provide the lateral support to the rods so as to prevent buckling during driving. Driving is performed with a small hammer of 5 kg in weight and falling vertically through a fixed height of 30 cm along a guide rod. The total number of blows required for the pointer to penetrate a distance of 30 cm is recorded and used as a measure of the consistency of cohesive soil and the packing of granular soil. The relationship between Mackintosh Probe and Safe Pressure is as follows: - P = (2860 + 550 (R - 40)1/2) x 0.04788 kN/m2 for blows > 40 P = Refer Chart for blows < 40 Where, P = safe pressure (kN/m2) R = Mackintosh Probe Penetration resistance in blows/0.3m For more information or site appointment, please call us or drop us a message here. The site investigation is the one thing that must be done before starting the construction of the building. This is because the soil condition at the site need to be identifies to determine...
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...Sports Medias Negative Approach Ernest Culler COM 150 10 November 2012 Janice Prince Betian Sports Medias Negative Approach In the late 1980s and early 1990s many professional athletes were viewed as positive role models. During this time sports media found it hard to report about the negative accounts of the professional athlete. It was not until the early 1990s when Mike Tyson became the first prominent athlete to gain negative reports aired on national television. Before the 1990s Mike was known as the greatest boxer in the world after he was convicted of rape he was known as a criminal. While Sports media believes they report about the positive athletes as much if not more than they do the negative athletes, the bias approach taken towards role models is unequal. Sports media has chosen to take a radical approach in reporting about the favorite role models of children in today’s society. Over the past three years sports reporters have driven Lance Armstrong from atop the cycling world, they have taken an approach that has tarnished both his career and personal life. Michael Pearson reports that Lance Armstrong has stepped down as Chair of the Live Strong Cancer charity. In a CNN report Pearson (2012) writes that “Nike, which initially stood by Armstrong, dropped him October 17, 2012 with a terse statement citing what it called seemingly insurmountable evidence that he participated in doping.” Pearson has chosen only to give partial information...
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