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    nor greatness, as much as it was a determination and a hunger, it was a fuel in me that could feed my normal level of talent to abnormal levels. He approached me, and in words I couldn’t digest to ever be true told me that I would one day have a gold medal hanging around my neck at the Egyptian Nationals, something at this point of my life, I never even dreamt I could qualify for. For the next period of my career he gave me particular attention, and taught me everything I know today, and a year later

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    World Class Manufacturing

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    4th International Quality Conference May 19th 2010 Center for Quality, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kragujevac World Class Manufacturing in Automotive Industry Milan Djordjevic1) Milan Milovanovic1) Maja Djordjevic1) 1) Zastava automobili Kragujevac Abstract: Every major manufacturer today is evaluating its strategy as the industry faces challenges brought on by a financial meltdown. Models such as mass production, global manufacturing, very low cost, niche manufacturing,

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    Art Of The 1980s

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    in sports history in 1980 was the “Miracle on Ice” This is when the USA hockey team beat the gold medalist Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had won the gold medal in six of seven previous winter olympics, and were the favorite to win once more in Lake Placid. The final of the nerve racking game was 3 to 4. It was a very close game but the USA hockey team managed to hold the Soviets off. The game in the medal round, the United States and the Soviet Union finished the first period with a score of 2-2

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    to become professional, star athletes when they’re older, making a ton of money. Little do they know, this large salary dream will most likely only become true of one of them. Imagine athletes as medals. Society has placed women, much like this little girl, at a silver, and men, like the older boy, at gold. No matter how good the women get or how much progress they make, they are always held back from achieving the same level as the men, stuck once again at silver. The definition of sexism is prejudice

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    In 1911, Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad composed Under Western Eyes. Conrad is commonly regarded as one of the greatest novelist ever to write in the English language due in large part to his stylistic choices, philosophical insights, and general prose proficiency. Under Western Eyes is a voluminous text with many philosophical undertones, a complex plot, and complicated narrative structure. The protagonist of the story, Kirylo Sidorovich Razumov, experiences much turmoil due to his betrayal

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    ball get passed me, the other team knew that too. They did everything they could to score, but my job is simple ‘Don’t let anything or anyone get through you’ and that’s exactly what I did. Overtime came and I was ready to win, I could see the gold medal hanging around my neck now. All we needed was one goal, one good shot put on frame and it was all over. I was ready to put everything I had on the line for this game, but I don’t know if I could say that about some players on the team, yes some

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    Bannon's Gymnast

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    qualifying to the Junior Olympic Nationals in Dallas, Texas. At the JO Nationals, she won a bronze medal on vault and a gold medal on floor exercise. Simone concluded her 2010 season at the US Challenge where she won the all-around

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    Color Guard Passion

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    “People with great passion can make the impossible happen.” This quote refers to having a strong passion for doing a certain thing and when you give it your all, it will be greatly rewarded by making things that you thought weren't possible, happen. My strong passion for performing as a Color Guard member is what causes me to relate to this. Every time I perform I get uncontrollably nervous. Once I get on the show mat, I immediately forget about anything in life that might be causing me stress. As

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    Miracle review During the Lake Placid Olympics in 1980. USA, a team that consisted of college kids defeated the heavily favorite Soviet Union in hockey. Eventually, team USA won the gold medal against Finland. USA’s first gold medal since 1960 in hockey. The 1980 USA hockey gold medal victory is arguably the greatest moment in U.S. sports history. The 2003 film Miracle is about the events that led USA to victory. Also, the film exemplifies that an underdog can truly win. In my opinion, the film Miracle

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    in the Olympics, to founding the LPGA and breaking world records, Babe Didrikson is undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest athletes. In 1932 Babe went the Olympics (Wallace).She won a gold medal in the javelin throwing contest with a score of 143 feet ("Bio.com"). She also set a world record and got a gold medal in the 80-meter hurdles with a time of 11.7 seconds ("Bio.com"). Babe also set a world record time in the high

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