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    Until now, putting leadership skills into practice has never truly caused me to question myself. In the past I had just approached leadership, and never thoroughly thought about what I needed to actually be doing or thinking. Starting a project and thinking more about my actions has allowed me to see what type of leader I am and what type of leader I want to be. The Leadership and Management course for engineers has begun to give me the tools I need to succeed not only in my future career, but in

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    emphasise the importance of the past. In truth, however, so much of history is unrecorded, so many lines of it unrecorded. Without archaeology, all information on proto-historic civilisations would only be from written accounts, and there would be no information whatsoever on prehistoric civilisations. Archaeology can even serve to explain modern trends. The present day has been influenced so much by the past that the two are inextricably linked, and learning about the past can tell so much about the

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    “No matter how much you revisit the past, there's nothing new to see,” ~ author unknown (“Deep Quotes”). People think they could change what happened during WWII and the Holocaust by revisiting it. In reality they can’t, they have to live with what happened in the past. For example, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto made a choice to start an uprising. However many times they look back it can’t change. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a deadly part of WWII that has many secrets that people don’t know with

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    a tale which takes place between the 2050’s and the 2060’s. In this futuristic setting, they have a business that goes hunting into the past using a time machine. This business is called Time Safari, Inc. The story introduces the main character, Mr. Eckels, and another important character, Travis. Travis leads three hunters, including Mr. Eckels, to the past when dinosaurs roamed the earth. They encounter the massive Tyrannosaurus rex, which scares Mr. Eckels enough to make him fall off of the

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    "Why are veterans important to our Nation's history and future?" Many people believe that veterans are very important to our past, present, and future because of all they have done. There are many reasons that veterans are important, but the main thing to remember is that they made the sacrifice to make sure we stayed free. I've noticed that many veterans from major wars have been passing at an extremely high rate, and to add onto that they haven't been getting the recognition they deserve. They

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    history to today’s generations of high school students of American history. They are being given a false perspective on how past history truly happened, which is giving them a warped understanding of the past, present, and future. Leaving history to repeat itself by unknowing, uncaring, and uninterested individuals. By choosing to omit or forget the true obstacles of the past the present and future are a placed at risk of being an echo. Loewen’s book truly brings out all the false pretenses that we

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    reason or put up for any crime possible. They are just portrayed as something to be made a profit. This quote shows the importance of the plot as the way slaves were portrayed and treated. 4.) “I could recall walking along the narrow dirt road that ran past the Weylin house and seeing the house, shadowy in twilight, boxy and familiar . . . I could recall feeling relief at seeing the house, feeling that I had come home. And having to stop and correct myself, remind myself that I was in an alien, dangerous

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    In the story “A Sound Of Thunder,” Ray Bradbury creates an internal conflict in the main character and a lesson to be learned by him. Eckels is a hunter, he has hunted some of the most dangerous animals,legally and illegally, he wanted a challenge so he wanted to go for something bigger and he takes the risk of losing his life through this process, the Eckles asks,””Does this safari guarantee I come back alive? “”We guarantee nothing,” said the official,”except the dinosaurs.”” There are rules

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    What do you think the future will be like and what do you see? Your ideas might match up with other people; other people have wondered what will change, and how different it will be in the future. Neighborhoods of the future will be new, safer, improved, and a better place for all of humanity. A lot of things in the future will be improved, such as: Agricultural buildings, like barns and chicken coops; commercial buildings, like gas stations, banks, warehouses; residential buildings, like apartments

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    “At some point you have to recognize what world it is you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring. That there is a limit to the time assigned to you and if you do not use it to free yourself -- it will be gone and never return.” -- Marcus Aurelius. On May 1st, 2015, my time almost left and never returned, and my identity was fundamentally altered. I was admitted to Children’s Mercy South hospital for low heart rate (32 bpm), BMI (12.8), and a liver and kidneys inching towards

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