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    Due to a prompt in our literature book, I have pondered this for a short minute or two; should the narrator of “The Seventh Man” forgive himself for his failure to save K.? Of course he should. Sometimes, holding grudges isn’t healthy, this occurrence being one of those instances. Besides, the narrator was going with his gut, even though the narrator seemed to think differently from this gut feeling. Let me expand on these claims. Holding grudges is kind of a sub-controversial topic. Some people

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    Everyone got quiet for the referee to start his words. All I heard was, “ Take your mark , beeeeeeeeeeep”. The race started. She was going to do the 100 IM. The 100 IM is 4 laps. The first lap is butterfly, then backstroke, second to last is breaststroke( my favorite), and last is freestyle. She was doing really, really good until freestyle because she got too tired. Her time was 1:48:36. She made it to finals. We heard it over the announcement along with everyone who made finals. It was so fascinating

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    People are the sum of their different traits, but too often, we tend to define each other by one specific quality. Dai Sijie’s 2001 publication Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress demonstrates this in the form of two young men and how they consider their female companion. The Narrator and his friend Luo are being reeducated in a village in Communist China. Along the way, they both become captivated by the tailor’s daughter, the Seamstress. However, they only see her for her physical beauty,

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    While Centenary certainly had a successful year on the playing fields and on the court, the Ladies and Gents also made sure they emphasized the student part of student-athlete. First and foremost, besides being one of the most feared hitters in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball, Michael Schimpf achieved many academic accomplishments for the College as well. In May, the recent Centenary graduate became the First College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic First

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    People all over the world have preconceived notions about things: how people should dress, the occupation someone should have, the way a certain age group acts. For the most part these ideas don’t do any harm; however, sometimes, a person won’t try something new because of those notions. Except, if they try, they might just find something new that they love. One day, my mom decided to have me take swimming lessons at the public pool. I had the idea, as many preteens do, swim lessons were just for

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    On the date of December 30th, 2015 an African American male, sixteen years of age, was admitted to Sinai-Grace Hospital. This young man had been brought in by his mother, due to him complaining of PolyUria (Frequent or Excessive Urination) and PolyDipsia (Excessive Thirst). Before being admitted to Sinai-Grace hospital this young man sat in Botsford Hospital waiting room for over 7 hours due to his illness not being priority even though he was teetering on the cusp of appendage amputation. Once finally

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    Imagery In Swimming

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    Questionnaire-Revised before the imagery training began (Post et al., 2012). During testing periods, the participants swam 1000 yards of their preferred stroke, 3 did freestyle while the 4th did five 200 individual medleys (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle) while the coach collected the times for each swimmer. Once the swimmer was able to establish a baseline time, indicating consistency in time, the imagery intervention was introduced. The investigator established individualized scripts

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    3. Does your kid fall ill too often? Enrol him for swimming lessons in a reputed Missouri city swim school now. He will thank you later for having introduced him to a healthy life. 4. #FunFact #DidYouKnow? The slowest Olympic swim stroke is the breaststroke. 5. #FunFact #DidYouKnow? An hour of vigorous swimming burns up to 650 calories, which is much more than calories burnt during walking or

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    splashed the water as hard as I could, but my arms seemed to be doing the only work. My arms were already tired enough from swimming butterfly, I didn’t know how long I could actually keep this up. Hitting the wall, I pushed off the wall and swam breaststroke. Here, my legs gave in and began power my stroke. I seemed to be shooting forward, heading towards the wall. My body was beginning to feel like an oven, and my limbs grew numb, but I kept pushing forward. It was time for me to finish this

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    water levels will rise. The density of a person or object determines if its floatation. If an object is more dense than the water, it will sink. On the contrary, an object lighter than water will float. There are various styles or strokes including breaststroke, freestyle, and more. Freestyle swimming consists of many components that combine to efficiently swim. Physics is a subtle yet

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