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    My Dream Essay

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    APPENDIX Optional readings, poems and songs for preference rounds WISHES Add other wishes that are appropriate to your campus and chapter. We would like to make some special wishes for you as you continue your life here on campus and beyond. We wish you only the very best. e wish you humor and a twinkle in your eye. We wish you both glory and the strength to bear the burdens that life brings. We wish you peace in the world in which you live and in the smallest corner of your heart where truth is

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    The G-Dog: A Short Story

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    Wass-up duudes, what's poppin in the crib tonight homie slice G-Dog. I don’t like that lingo i was just trying it out and I realized I sound odd, and like I should be doing bizarre movements while talking. Anyhow any of y’all nice gents or gals like dem things those city folks call Pringles. How was that one, I personally don’t like it much better than the other one, what about you? Well that's enough about time to get to the story. A while ago I was lost and didn’t know what lingo, I should employ

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    Sight What do you see when you look at me? Do you see my face? My hair? My shoulders? Do you look at acne, my mole, the gap in my hair? What do you see when you look at me? Do you look at me and see my story, Memories of long ago or just yesterday? Hopes and dreams of times gone by? My intellectual accomplishments or my amazing soccer skills? What do you see when you look at me? Do you perhaps see my mind, Neurons firing, Working my arms around in the air, Working my mouth and jaw, churning

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    where a bear and a dragon fight together. There the bear is slain, but here he is victorious against the supernatural beast he fights against.   Dreams have been important in much of Arthurian literature, from the Historia of Geoffrey of Monmouth to Wace's Brut and the alliterative and stanzaic Morte Arthures. In those works, a vivid dream came to Arthur at some crucial point or points, whether on the way to Gaul, in his camp at Rome, or in England before his battle with Mordred. In That

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    in Carmarthen, Wales. He was given the name Myrddin Emrys, or Ambrosius, by his mother, the princess of Dyfed, whose father was a sub-king (King’s second in command). Merlin isn’t just a character from the Arthurian Legends, “Writer Geoffrey of Monmouth is credited with creating Merlin in his 1136 A.D. work, Historia Regum Britanniae - The History of Kings of Britain. While a large portion of Historia Regum Britanniae is a historical account of former kings of Britain, Merlin was included as a fictional

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    Marquis de Layafette

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    intelligent leader whilst helping to draw more French resources to the colonial side. In May 1778, he outsmarted the British soldiers sent to capture him at Bunker Hill- which was later renamed Lafayette Hill- and rallied a Continental attack at Monmouth Courthouse to force a stalemate. Lafayette repeatedly traveled back and forth to France to press Louis XVI for more aid, and in return he assumed increased military responsibility upon his return to battle. As commander of the

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    Marquis de Lafayette Essay

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    Marquis de Lafayette The Marquis de Lafayette is best remembered for the part he played in the American War of Independence. He contributed in helping the Americans gain free control over the colonies by breaking away from British home rule. For sixty years he fought with consistency and insight for political ideals and social reforms that have dominated the history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hence, Lafayette can be attributed to the spreading of liberty and freedom

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    The old scholar practically beamed as he unrolled the next scroll. "Let it be known, the great ancestry of the crown of Camelot." Geoffrey began to read off lineage that most nobles in Camelot knew by heart, until he came to the one that Merlin both anticipated and feared. The warlock was trembling, as he awaited the signal from the dais. His hand gripped the dragon bone hilt of Carnwenhau, drawing deep on the strength within himself. He silently asked that his grandfather, who once wore the dagger

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    to the colonies as a volunteer to aid in the American war effort. Because of his French nobility and social rank, he was immediately promoted to Major General. He commanded his army in various battles against the British including the Battle of Monmouth and

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    The Women Present at Valley Forge As Abigail Adams will write to her husband John to “remember the ladies” during the Continental Congress, so too must we must not forget the many women who played a vital role here during the winter encampment at Valley Forge from 1777-1778. Officers’ Wives Martha Washington- (1732-1802)- During the Revolutionary War, Martha joined her husband for part of each winter encampment, he attended, including the 1777-1778 encampment at Valley Forge. Martha arrived

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