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    Jules Bianchi was a race car driver from a family of race car drivers. His grandfather, Mauro Bianchi, was a GT racer in the 1960s and his great uncle Lucien raced in Formula One and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1968. Jules was looking to follow in his family tradition until events from nine months ago would end his life at the age of 25. Gone too soon, Jules Bianchi died on July 17. Born in Nice, Bianchi went through the karting circuit before racing with SG Formula in French Formula Renault

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    Bobby Eberle seems to bristle when you use the term gentleman driver. It isn’t so much that he is not a gentleman, and he is definitely a driver. “That term goes right up my spine, because that is not what I consider myself,” Bobby says. He just wants to be a race car driver. This year, the 48 year old driver has four top 10 finishes in 6 starts for JDC Motorsports in the Pro Mazda Championship. An engineer and a former nationally-ranked tennis player, his competitiveness combined well with some

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    [Research Paper Title] My name is Fady Fanous. I was born in Egypt, but came to the United States in 2005 when I was 8 years old. I’ve been in Nashville for 10 years now. When I was younger I used to collect toy race cars because it was the most interesting thing to me. I also used to watch a lot of race car cartoons. My uncle worked on cars in Egypt, he was a mechanic. I always used to enjoy watching him do something to his car such as change a tire or change the engine oil. Even though these things

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    parents being punished for the decisions their child made, if nature is just taking its course? Le Sage continues to argue that, “It should be determined that the moral development of the youngster is deficient or stagnated. After all, if there is no reason to think that there is any developmental delay or shortcoming, then there is no reason to believe that this youngster lacked moral education.” (Le Sage) If a child does not lack moral education how can we possibly pass the blame onto someone

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    The Ebola Virus

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    Ebola virus. The center of the epidemic in Zaire involved a missionary hospital where they reused needles and syringes without sterilization. Most of the staff of the hospital got sick and died. This outbreak infected 318 with a death rate of 93% (Le Guenno et al. 1271). Another fatal case was reported one year later in Zaire but nothing major ever became of it. The most recent case recorded was the infamous breakout in Kikwit, Zaire. This breakout had the world in an uproar about the possibility

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    Despite multiple documentary conventions being incorporated throughout the film, 24 hour Party People retains little trace of sobriety as Winterbottom’s use of interviews, direct address, archival footage and narration aims to portray a predominantly fictional world as an actual real world, rather than depicting the world as it is. Although

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    Rousseau Contributions

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    Learning, 2008, pp. 21–21.) Then in 1741, Rousseau fled to Paris where he wrote, “Les Muses Galantes.” This work allowed for Rousseau to meet Voltaire and exchange Enlightenment ideas. Being exposed to the “popular crowd” abled Rousseau in 1750 to write, “A Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts” based off of a prison he visited holding Denis Diderot. Diderot was one of the people Rousseau was able to meet due to Les Muses galantes, it was there Rousseau got the inspiration to form an opinion on the

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    miserable child would lead to the suffering of an entire city, after all. This is what the narrator persuades us to think. She uses many methods to prove her point. For instance, she tells us that if the child were to be saved, “in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed.” (1552). She defends the people of Omelas, who are not heartless, cruel, mindless “simple utopians,” but instead as passionate, intelligent, gentle people capable

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    Omelas Analysis

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    miserable child would lead to the suffering of an entire city, after all. This is what the narrator persuades us to think. She uses many methods to prove her point. For instance, she tells us that if the child were to be saved, “in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed.” (1552). She defends the people of Omelas, who are not heartless, cruel, mindless “simple utopians,” but instead as passionate, intelligent, gentle people capable

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    inside the asylum, just the periodic routine I followed: Eat breakfast with the other patients, take my morning pills, be given an hour of electroconvulsive therapy, swig down more pills, then listen to music for an hour or two and finally be tested by the nurses there. A very basic routine, one that I very easily got in the habit of following. Being a young man, the age of 24 at the time, I tried to keep to myself most of the time and did not associate with the other patients for they were too decrepitated

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