After reading the book, I came to a conclusion that the main theme of the story is to keep following your dreams no matter how hard the journey will be. Santiago, the young boy, had a very hard journey to achieve his personal legend. Although he lost everything once, he never gave up on his dream on reaching his treasure at the pyramids of Egypt. The conflict of the story was the boy’s journey because he went through the ups and downs of it without stopping. Enhancing the theme by never giving
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Information about the Book: Guns, Germs, and Steel was written by author, anthropologist, ecologist, geographer, and physiologist Jared Diamond and published in 1997 by W. W. Norton & Company. It has 480 pages, and has won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in 1997 for Science and the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for General Nonfiction. Later in 2005, a documentary based off the book was produced by the National Geographic Society and was broadcast on PBS. What is the book about? Guns, Germs, and Steel starts
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Despite the conflicting views held by some scholars about the origin of this beautiful game call soccer, more so on its influence that cults might have had on its evolution, there is one fact that is undeniable: football has grown for over a thousand years in various elementary forms, in the very region which we portray as its home, England and the British Isles. Regardless of the negative thought and thinking demonstrated by the authorities and the how the game was censured, some even prohibited
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Bill Gates is one of the most wealthiest people in the United States today, and also one of the most powerful. He has done some amazing things in his life and he continues to do so by trying to accomplish these goals for Africa. The four main goals Gates is working hard to accomplish are mobile banking, better software for education, increasing agriculture so Africa can feed itself, and eradicating child deaths and diseases. Bill Gates is doing an amazing thing for these people in need, especially
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the more pretty contestants can be eliminated in this round if their answer is unsatisfactory. These judges are not hazed by the display of beauty they are looking at; they instead see which participant is well versed in all the aspects. In today’s world, where everyone is involved in the mad rush of things, ‘optimism’ has become a rare trait to find. Many a time, people get disheartened by the smallest of setbacks. For them, all they can look at are closed doors and fading opportunities. A person
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When you go about through your daily life, you just kind of “do things”. What I mean by that is you usually don’t think about what you’re doing and how you’re spending your time -- you just do whatever comes along in your day. So to keep an hour-by-hour activity log was an interesting assignment as it made me be more conscious of how I’m spending my time and what activities I tend to repeat. With that, after analyzing how I broke down my activities for the weekend into categories, as well as if they
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My proposed topic for my research paper is Poaching in Africa and how technology is helping stop and track the animals. Poaching has been around for as long as anyone can remember and has only grown worse. My argument for this paper is that if technology is used better and more efficiently, poaching can be to more of a minimum thus, minimizing the number of endangered animals. I decided to propose this topic because I feel that I can accurately research this topic and help myself and others learn
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touch/grab the ball. The World Cup is the biggest soccer tournament in the world. It is held every four years in a Different country. Billions of people watch the televised games as the national teams from Countries around the globe battle it out for soccer supremacy.The 2002 World Cup was held in two places—Seoul, South Korea and Tokyo, Japan. Brazil Won the 2002 World Cup and also has won the most World Cups (five) since the tournament Began in 1930. The Women's World Cup was played in the United
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A hero doesn't have to be a character on the cover of a comic book with a cape and a symbol on their chest. A hero doesn't have to be someone on the headline of a news article. A hero can be anyone and everyone. A hero can be someone who does a good deed or were there at the right moment and helped. A hero can be defined by being humble, selfless, and courageous. One way a hero can be defined is how humble they are, how they own up to the deeds they have done and not presenting them to people. Being
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What does a hero mean to me? A hero to me is someone having a great achievement and someone I can look up too. This hero has great influence to me. My hero inspires other students to be someone when they get out of school. My hero is very dependable and extroverted. My hero is a great role model as a teacher and as a friend. My Vision of a hero is Ms. Tommie Leigh Johnson. She taught and lived in Corinth Mississippi. She chose to teach at Adamsville High School and moved to Selmer TN, in 2014
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