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    I am applying to your Engineering Undergraduate Apprenticeship (Sponsored Degree). Currently I am in my last year of school, studying for my A levels at St.Anselms College. Choosing to study Mathematics and Physics was an easy choice for me, as they go hand in hand and provide a broad range of opportunities with a set of skills that I believe can be extremely useful in many lines of work. Especially in aeronautics and aircraft manufacturing where Physics is used throughout every process to ensure

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    George The Sixth

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    acts of the people living there. This medal was called the George Cross. Many people in the town were honored with this medal. During the same time as the disastrous blitz another tragedy added on to the king’s load. His younger brother George the duke of kent died in active duty during the blitz. During these tough time the king visited around checking in his people and his troops. He even went to Northern Africa in 1943 to check on people and troops. He did the same thing during the following year

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    King George the III of England His early life was not the hardest out of all children. He was born on June 4th, 1738. He was born to Fredrick and princess Agusta. The sickly prince was expected to die and was baptized on the same day. He was born into a family of wealth. His own personal private tutors educated King George, and at just the age of 8 years old he could speak English, German, and was practicing French. George was educated in a variety of different subjects. Now, with that said he

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    Relevant family or community context in early life: Kurt Hahn was born to a wealthy German industrialist and raised in the Jewish faith. At the age of eighteen or nineteen, Kurt got a severe sunstroke and it was during his recovery where he began to focus more of his studies on the educational system. Hahn completed schooling in both Germany and at Oxford, but as World War I started, he was told to go back to Germany. After World War I, he began to work on his educational theory due to all the

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    When I started volunteering with ballet classes at the age of twelve, I realised tha I wanted to work with children. Later, when I was I was in fourth year researching different careers, I learnt about occupational therapy. I met with someone who works as a child occupational therapist and she told me about what she does in a working dat, which made me even more intrigued. She told me that every dat is very varied in her career which I think would suit me. This career sounds interesting to me as

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    are still debated as to whether they are affected by nature or by nurture. The Genetic Influences on Psychological Well-Being: A Nationally Representative Twin Study was a study led by Prof Timothy Bates in 2012. It was held at the University of Edinburgh and was held because they wanted to solve whether nature or nurture influenced a person’s eudemonia and personality. The study focused on personality traits which contribute to our chances of success in life. For example, how determined we are to

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    Malcolm Fraser Malcolm Fraser was born of the 21st of May 1930 in Toorak, Victoria. He was educated in the Melbourne Grammar School from 1943 to 1948 and was educated in Oxford University, in London, England, from 1949, becoming an Oxford graduate in 1952. After being educated in Oxford he worked as a primary producer, a person who plants, vegetation or looks after animals. He was married to Tamie Fraser on the 9th of December 1956 in Willaura, Victoria and had four children. They were named Mark

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    Wilhelm attended the wedding in a Highland costume, complete with a small toy sword. During the ceremony the four-year-old got bored. His eighteen-year-old uncle Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, was charged with keeping an eye on him, told him to be quiet, but Wilhelm drew his sword and threatened Alfred. When Alfred attempted to shut him up by force, Wilhelm bit him on the leg. His grandmother, Queen Victoria, missed seeing the disturbance

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    A team of cardiac specialists successfully recovered the patient using techniques such as CPR which I had learnt during a First Aid course. Volunteering at a British Heart Foundation charity shop every week and completing the Silver Duke of Edinburgh award have taught me the essential skills required to work in a team such as that required in an emergency situation. Taking part in a Young Leaders in Cricket Course meant that I was able to coach different cricket activities where I gained

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    theology and enter the clergy, but his subsequent learning, especially from the skeptical writings of David Hume, persuaded him to take a different route.[11] [edit] Teaching and early writings Smith began delivering public lectures in 1748 at Edinburgh under

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