Sophomore year and Senior Night nonetheless. There I was, in the middle of my high school’s gymnasium. My feet resting on the blue, thick, and hardened foam wrestling mat; it gave off a rubber-musky scent. All the lights within the spacious room were off, all but the one resting just ten feet above my opponent and I, casting ominous shadows alongside the walls and bleachers. I positioned my feet at the designated starting points and waited anxiously for the referee’s signal. I eyed my opponent, a varsity
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Second Draft Two-hundred fifty feet below the sea, I stomp. I stomp wearing a dim green tank strapped horizontally across my chest with a regulator in my mouth As I am readjusting my full face mask, I see a flurry of movement ahead of me in the thick kelp forest. This forest, unlike other forests, is completely submerged beneath the sea. Because of the depth, the lack of sunlight allows me only twenty feet of vision in any direction. I slowly marched into the green forest, unstrapping my black harpoon
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Brooklyn, New YorkDecember 18th, 1888I peered around the graffitied wall into an abandoned warehouse. He said they would be in here, and heis always right. I caught sight of my target: the Beater. He stood lanky, with dark robes. His face appearedsuddenly as sunlight shifted in through the window. I almost fell off the three barrels I was standing on. He hadhair as black as night, and piercing green eyes that seemed to stare through the wall and pick my feelings apart,piece by piece. Gods, was he
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This Story of Mine It all started when I was in eighth grade weighing 120 pounds and four feet nine inches tall. During my eighth grade year, I dated a guy who was skinny to the bones. He had no fat nor did he have muscles; he was pretty much a stick. On the other hand, I had a chubby round face with wide fat hips; and let’s just say, a bunch of fat hanging in between. I always thought to myself that I wanted to be skinny so I’ll look good standing next to him. He always told me that I was fat and
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chronologically describe the eras and events that formed Connecticut’s geologic history. The oldest rocks provide a window through time telling a story of continental collisions so powerful that they raised mountains thousands of feet high. Others reveal evidence of a slow but constant attack from the elements that wore down those same majestic peaks (Mchone 2004). Giant monoliths stand testament to a time when the earths crust was cracked and lava flowed over the state. Beaches
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Business Model and Strategic Plan Part 1 Dusty Meins BUS/475 April 27, 2015 Joseph Ellington Business Model and Strategic Plan Part 1 Strategic planning helps an organization set the path it wants to take, as well as, defining their place in the business world. The vision and mission statements help an organization to define who they are, what they do, and where the want to go in business (Pearce & Robinson, 2013). The values of a company are also very important when developing a strategic
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man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures (openings) have all been stopped up, and it be twelve braccia (about 23 feet) across and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any great height without suffering any injury." He showed a wooden frame that is in a figure of a pyramid, attaching a bar in the middle. The whole installation was about 23 feet wide and high, like an umbrella upside down with a triangular form. Like many of da Vinci’s ideas, the invention was never
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expecting to only do the poses and participate in yoga through the class and not have the opportunity to bring what I’ve learned to my everyday life. 2. How was what you experienced different from what you expected? - As I said before, I expected to just learn the basic poses. However, I didn’t expect to learn the actual names of the poses or what the purpose of each pose was; I never realized there was a reason to each pose or any actual benefit. I didn’t expect to be using so many different muscles
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gardening friends (and drop off a few in the Wimer Seed Library) with just a few minutes work. There is also the huge satisfaction of completing the circle from seed to harvest and back to seed again – SUSTAINABILITY! If providing an entire meal at this time of year with vegetables grown less than 100 feet from your back door, then how much more local it is to use vegetables where the seed never came from more than 100 feet away! There is nearly a mystique about sustainability and propagating
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this world to see nothing, just absolute and dominating darkness. Aside from the lack of light, my other senses were overwhelmed by a flurry of new smells and sensations. My eyes suddenly adjusted to the dark and what I saw wasn’t the most welcoming of sights; a dark cave with water dripping from stalagmites at the roof. All of the sudden, I saw a face, green in color and covered with bumps and scars. As I saw more and more, the face turns into a creature of about four feet in height, with knobby joints
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