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    select group of musicians, while coordinating all rehearsal and performance details for our intimate chamber group. Additionally, in order to push the boundaries of my musical expertise, I will be composing a unique arrangement of our high school’s alma mater, as a new music repertoire for our group. While seeking to extend my capabilities musically and to translate lessons learned to my broader character, I am vividly reminded of the impact and presence of my now scuffed and well-used trumpet in

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    My interest in research, and the overall “mental health/integrative health movement” for me began at an early age. Really before, I ever knew it due to the prophetic call upon my life. However, the moment of “self-realization” emerged for me in 1996, when I was a non-traditional student at Tennessee State University majoring in social work. While attending TSU, I began “dreaming” about starting a non-profit organization that would bring interfaith organizations and the communities together to address

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    newlywed I decided that being the sole member of my immediate family and my maternal extended family without a university degree was a personal dereliction. I decided to take up the challenge and enter formal tertiary education at RMIT, my father’s alma mater where he had earned his MBA. Public Relations was the discipline that appealed to me most for a number of reasons. Firstly because of the experience I gained working for the CBA in relation to customer, or

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    The brain is a marvelous instrument that controls the psychological and ethical reasoning of the human mind that Immanuel Kant so laboriously educated himself in. It is written that Immanuel Kent suffered from memory loss in his later years and he suffered greatly from losing his instrument as a pianist suffers losing their instrument due to arthritis. So, it began on April 22, 1724 in Konigsberg, Prussia, now known as Kaliningrad, Russia, that Immanuel Kant was introduced to the world by his parents

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    faculty who can teach dental professionals to meet the unique needs of our patients. In terms of my professional goals beyond graduation, I want to serve my community and country by becoming a faculty member in the Prosthetic Dental Department at my alma mater, King Saud University, where I am already a teaching assistant. I will use my position at the University to take a leading role on the Saudi Board of Prosthodontics, as well as contributing to ongoing research. Earning board certification in

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    The book Handmaid’s tale clearly demonstrates how women are constantly oppressed throughout history. “We learned to lip-read, our heads flat on the beds, turned sideways watching each others mouths. In this way we exchanged names from bed to bed; Alma. Janine. Dolores. Moira. June.” Along with the theme of oppression being demonstrated throughout the book, the women are also stripped of their identities, one of them being how the Handmaids were not to use their real names. Another way that loss

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    to stunt or tumble is almost like a panic attack; remembering that every eye will be watching you, every ear will be listening to the cheers you say, and every camera will be ready for when the show starts. Once the show is over, it’s time for the Alma Mater, and this is when my team feels like my second family. Coming together in the middle of the field all squads and even the football team swaying back and forth like pendulum a singing the song of our school’s

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    1) Briefly describe Leo’s life story up to his present (in the narrative). What are the main events of his life that explain his behaviors? Leo is afraid of dying where nobody will know he die. Therefore, he forces himself to go out every day. For example, he will purchase juice even when he is not thirsty, he would drop his “change all over the floor, the nickels and dimes skidding in every direction” (Krauss, 01). He also signed up as naked model for an art class. Leo purposely goes out just

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    Welcome to today’s fight! In the blue corner we have the State universities and in the red corner we have Ivy league universities. Our referees are graduating high school seniors looking for their perfect fit for the next four years. Our spectators and commentators are their parents. The fight starts off with the way students analyze schools and compare different educations. Comparison between state and ivy show up in references like the “Ivies of the South” and “Harvard of West Coast Schools”.

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    For our week four reflection assignment, we were provided a video to watch. It is titled "Gunsmithing Troubleshoot Firearms". It was uploaded to youtube.com by Sonoran Desert Institute, my alma mater, and features Kip Carpenter of American Gunsmmithing in Columbia, Tennessee. The video begins with Mr. Carpenter examining a Remington 870 shotgun with a firing pin that isn't striking the primer. He begins by removing the pins on the weapon, also using a bench block. From there he pulls the trigger

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