7/9/2012 TOPIC: American Olympian Gymnast- Shawn Johnson SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To inform the audience about Shawn Johnson’s life before, during, and after her career as an Olympic gymnast. THESIS: Shawn Johnson was a young Gold medalist of the 2008 Summer Olympics who has endured a journey as an elite-gymnast into retirement at age 20. Introduction I. The Olympic flag contains five rings that represent the five major regions of the world- a. Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceana
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handspring on the vault, a back walkover on the beam, and a double back handspring on the floor. I spent entire summer training in the gym to gain these skills. Each day I would enter the gym wide-eyed, eager to learn new skills. Upon entering fifth grade I was moved up to level five and competed in my first meet. This patterned continued for the next four years of my life; each summer I would train a higher level and then compete the level the following year. By eighth grade I was thriving as a
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History Of Forest Hill Community Prepared by George Cottle, Sr. Location Forest Hill Community is situated on the waters of Bradshaw and Spruce Run. Starting at A. L. Campbell's, on Greenbrier River, three miles from Forest Hill and running to J. T. Campbell's, on a line from there including P. M. Garrison's; thence South West to and including W. L. Redmond's; thence North to and including C. G. Ramsey's; and thence Northeast by J. S. Canterberry's and including him to the starting point; it
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Brian Aldiss - Supertoys Last All Summer Long Supertoys Last All Summer Long is a short story about an imaginary world in the near future. The genre is science fiction, because it is characterized by a fictive environment in science or technology, which has made a big impact on the society and the individuals. In the story we meet the family Swinton. The Swinton’s live a very idyllic life; they have a big house, a garden and live in a good neighborhood, compared to the rest of the world who are
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Supertoys last all summer long Where do we draw the line? Is it okay to medicate feelings away? Who is responsible for the actions undertaken by autonomous systems? With the increasing development on genetic modification, autonomous machines and the knowledge about our brain and nervous system’s chemistry, things we see in science fiction movies are beginning to seem possible and this poses questions to ethicists and scientists. In the short story “Super toys last all summer long”, Brian Aldiss
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Australian crop report Prepared by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences February 2014 No. 169 © Commonwealth of Australia 2014 Ownership of intellectual property rights Unless otherwise noted, copyright (and any other intellectual property rights, if any) in this publication is owned by the Commonwealth of Australia (referred to as the Commonwealth). Creative Commons licence All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
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Forestry and Fisheries. Vol. 3, No. 4, 2014, pp. 313-319. doi: 10.11648/j.aff.20140304.24 Abstract: Lalmai hillock area is emerging as one of the prominent vegetable growing areas of Bangladesh. The study was undertaken to evaluate the existing cropping patterns, economic analysis, identify general problems and develop future options for improving hillock crop production systems in the Lalmai hillock areas of Comilla region in Bangladesh. The study was concentrated in three villages of Lalmai hillock
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across India. It is a part of nearly every meal, and it is grown on a majority of the rural farms. Rice is essential to life in India. India is the world's second largest producer of white rice. Here rice is cultivated in both seasons-winter and summer. It contributes about 43% of total food grain production and 46% of total cereal production in the country. It continues to play vital role in the national exports. The percentage share of rice in total national export was 4.5% during 1998-99
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Technological Transformations in Farming Midterm Exam Paper UMUC HIST 125 Technological Transformations in Farming Technological advances and discoveries in the field of agriculture and farming were and continue to be such a vital factor in providing for food and produce for the ever so growing population worldwide. One advertisement in 1921 best sum of the result of progress in farming which claimed “that buying a tractor allows a farmer to keep his son in school, instead of taking him
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highlands. (wikipedia.org) Kenya is found at the equator however; there are slight seasonal variations in temperature, of 4 °C or 7.2 °F cooler in the winter months. Kenya shares the seasons of the southern hemisphere: December–March are the warmest summer months and June–August are the coolest winter months, differences in temperature depends with different locations within the country. (wikipedia.org) On the high mountains, such as Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon and Kilimanjaro, the weather can become bitterly
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