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was on her own for this once-in-a-lifetime travel to Japan, where the Visual and Media Arts Expo was about to begin and excitement for this almost sudden decision, the thrill of being so far away in a country so different from her northern-italian flatland sprinkled by tiny cities and its rather slow pacing trough time... she almost daydreamt about the legendary japanese night-districts filled by lights, the bullet trains, the perfectly timed transportations... Giulia sighed and fully leaned against

SOULCYCLE COVERLETTER Why I love Fitness? Fitness is a adventure with highs and lows just like mountains and peaks and valleys. There are setbacks, aches, pains, bruising and darkness. The one thing that outshines these real things and the most rewarding of all is the spiritual journey. I love fitness because it gives back so much and it seems the more effort you put in the greater the rewards. There is also a camaraderie between those who partake in the fitness journey that is quietly peaceful

Bibliography Charles Gingras The making of a skateboard Essay Introduction As an extreme sports lover and artist, I decided to make something that represents me as the person that I am, so I thought, making a skateboard would be a good idea. I had to think a lot about what shape I was going to do, because most of the shapes I thought of were already made or just boring. One of my first thoughts was making a longboard but the process would have been complicated or too complex to make. So after a long

“Wshhhhh.,” the wind roars on the snowy Alaskan tundra. The Iditarod tends to spark some controversy over many things, one being the dogs. The sled dogs, generally Alaskan Huskies or Malamutes, are trained from birth for the the annual Iditarod race. The Iditarod, an approximately one-thousand and fifty-mile race, starts in Anchorage, Alaska, where mushers compete to get to Nome, Alaska with their 16 sled dogs. In this article we’ll go over the pros and cons of sled dog racing and my opinion on the

military officials the power to limit the civil rights of Japanese Americans (Danzer 802). The order also authorized the forced relocation of all Japanese Americans to concentration camps (Divine 898). These camps were located in desolate deserts and flatlands in the interior of the United States (Sato 67). Two thirds of the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forced to relocate were “Nisei”, or native born American citizens (Divine 898). Among this group of “Nisei” was the Uchida family from Berkeley

Throughout the semester our class has explored a chronological look at just some of the philosophers whose works have been published over time. Throughout the readings reoccurring themes, such as religion, wisdom, knowledge, reality and life occur and each philosopher offering their own opinions. Given these works, a timeline of viewpoints can be developed and can give a decent view of the shape of philosophy over time, as well as offering insight to how the time period and location may have shaped

Place and Identity Essay Throughout human history people have searched for individual identity whether it is by expanding west, or by living off the land, and there are countless other examples of how the place we live has shaped us and vice versa. However, a critical question that must be examined is whether we, as humans, shape the landscape to fit societal norms or is it the other way around; Is it the case that through the values that it imposes on us? With this question in mind, place has an

Aztec because of their geography, farming, religion, social, classes, and achievements. The first reason they are better than the other empires because of their farming methods. The Incas invented terrace farming. This is the process of creating flatlands by building steps into the land down the mountainside (considering the fact they lived on a mountain). This helped the Incas a lot. It helped with their irrigation and aqueducts. “This was great for irrigation” (Inca Empire for Kids-Terrace Farming)

In Mississippi history it first talked about the prairies. Prairies are regions with large areas of rolling grasslands and few forests. There are two prairie regions in Mississippi. One of the region is called black prairie and the other region is called central prairie. The black prairie region is referred to Tombigbee prairie because it follows the west bank of the Tombigbee River from alcorn country in north Mississippi to Noxubee country in east Mississippi on the Alabama border. In the past

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler exemplifies the absence of community in sprawl when singing about The Woodlands, the infamously master-planned community he grew up in. In the song “Sprawl I (Flatlands),” he recalls trying to find “the house where [he] used to stay” amidst “towns they built to change,” evidently showing a lack of deeper connection to a childhood home. Because of sprawl’s absence of true community to associate with, both the house and the town are only transient—after all, our deepest connections