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    Defining moments in Canadian History During the 20th Century of Canada there have been numerous actions, decisions, and events that we consider defining moments. Canada has been through many obstacles, battles, decisions and changes that have changed the way we Canadians live today. The three most significant moments in the 20th century of Canada are the invention of insulin for diabetes, Terry fox running across Canada to raise money and awareness for cancer research, and the free trade agreement

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    American history has had many defining moments over the last five decades which has helped America to develop to the way it is today. Each decade holding many life changing events and discoveries in them it would take a long time to cover each and every one of these so I have chosen a major event that I find to be of great worth to Americans today. We can all learn from the past events and work together to make American a safer and better place to live, and one way to do so is by learning from the

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    Assingment: Defining Moments in My History In this assingment I will be answering the questions given to us as a guide one by one as to cover every part of the given assingment. Where is my family originally from? My family can actually trace back to the desendents of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The people of the past from my mother's side actually migrated from Arab to Iran to settle there and then they migrated then to India where they settled down until the Pak-Indo movememnt started where few of

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    Graduation is an exciting time in a person’s life, especially a high school graduation. When I think of family and friends gathering together to celebrate a joyous occasion, I feel I accomplished my strongest goal. It never occurred to me that graduation would be the end of my youth and the start of adulthood. Graduating from high school was an influential event that gave me an altered outlook on my existence. Life before graduation, preparing for graduation day, and commencement day overwhelmed

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    In life, one may face many defining moments that can shape them in a variety of shapes and forms. Whether they are good or bad, they result in a significant change for a person. In my life, two defining moments that I have faced include being labelled gifted and placed in a gifted education program, and moving towards high school. As with many other students in my class, being placed into a gifted education program meant having to move to a new school, make new friends, and start a fresh routine;

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    General Byng and Arthur Currie, two high-ranking Canadians. They created an all new strategy called involving a creeping barrage of artillery which was so effective, it was even adopted by the British army in 1918. In my opinion, Vimy Ridge is a defining moment in Canadian history because it gave our whole country a sense of nationalism for one of the first times ever. This part of our history was all about World

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    It was a sunny April afternoon. I was at the small, but beautiful green park that looked like one you would see in movies. I was with my friend and my brother. I was just being my 7 year old second grade self when life decided to throw a curveball at me. We were playing tag, and my friend was it. I was sitting at the top of the slide that I had been told many times to be careful on. My brother was hiding in the little dirt hole at the end of the grey metal slide that was rusting underneath. Thinking

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    The Great Depression was a climactic defining moment in the 20 century that crushed the lives of numerous americans in the United States. Its kickoff was "Black Thursday," October 24, 1929. That is when merchants sold 12.9 million of dollars of stock in one day. It was triple the standard sum. Throughout the following four days, stock costs fell 23 percent. That is known as money markets crash of 1929. For all the more, optically observe When Did the Depression Begin? In spite of the fact that

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    as accepting. Time passed and our baby was born. That was the day I will ever forget, it was crazy. I could remember just constantly waking up that night because Loera kept having pain in her abdomen and I constantly kept falling asleep. She finally woke me and my mother up after a while and we were all afraid when she had mentioned it and decided to head to the closest hospital. My mother and I waited for a couple hours while Loera was being checked. We thought we were just going to be sent back

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    The first defining moment would be when I decided to play college softball as a pitcher. When I was eight, Monica Abbott and two other olympians had come to the sportsplex in Gulfport, Mississippi to do a one-day clinic. It was an amazing experience, especially knowing that I was getting the opportunity to be around three olympians. As the day came to a close, Monica agreed to pitch for us, so everyone gathered around, keeping a safe enough distance, and got ready to watch and learn. At some point

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