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    The Olympic Park was the site of the largest dam removal in United States History. The Olympic Park is a park on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State and has quite a history but is not a stranger to invasive species and logging. 12,000 years ago, natives inhabited the olympic park site. The natives chose this site as a prime spot for hunting because a huge elephant-like creature was found near a lake in the area. In 1890, a lieutenant by the name of Joseph P. O’Neil deemed the interior of the

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    wrestling and an iron to his mural " Going to the Olympics" 1984. Each symbol represents Los Angeles, for example the automobiles represents how essential automobiles are to the citizens of LA. To strengthen this depiction Romero includes hearts above the automobile to represent the love LA has towards cars. The post stamp represents the communication within LA. The blimp represents a known object within LA. The horse and the two men wrestling represent Olympic games at that time period. Romero also includes

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    Coaching Special Olympics has provided an opportunity to be a leader and mentor. Over the years, I’ve had great role models, many of them coaches. I like to think that I have been one of those great role models for my athletes. The ways I have been a good example are by eating healthy around them, exercising good manners, and educate the athletes on why continuous exercise is important. This experience shows my commitment to educating others through my own actions. My research internship was an

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    This argument concludes, without sufficient evidence, that Olympic Foods will be able to reduce costs and maximize profits due to its 25 years of business. Unfortunately, this argument uses vague language to describe these successes, assumes that the food processing industry will behave like other industries, and concludes causation from what could simply be a coincidence. The author’s lack of evidence for these assumptions substantially weaken his conclusion. The author uses vague language throughout

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    Summary The Olympic Pizzeria is a Seaside restaurant Forest competition. There is only one of the restaurants Seaside with low lease terms already secured which is great all owners have business management backgrounds as I see it they need a way to Market their brand with a Pacific strategy to attract Taurus while a separate marketing plan is Catered to the knees of the locals Company The pizzeria will become seaside's First Chain of delivery services with a family dining atmosphere they're currently

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    Gymnastics to be a very interesting traditional sport, and it is included in the Special Olympics. The key parts are very similar; they both consist of different levels and the same sections which are vault, bars, beam, and floor for women’s and floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar. But then they begin to differ, USAG only consists of men’s and women’s gymnastics while the Special Olympics gymnastics also includes a mixed gender category. Another difference is the scoring,

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    1936 Berlin Olympics was just a foreshadow of the war itself. The fact that America was going to boycott the olympics, Jesse Owens being black and winning gold medals, and Nazi propaganda. This olympics had a big effect on the war even though it’s not very renowned. In the 1936 olympics, things were getting complicated, months before the U.S thought about backing out and boycotting the olympics. Adolph Hitler was not allowing Jewish athletes compete for the host nation, so the U.S was concerned

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    frisbee fun for you to play? Ultimate Frisbee is a very good sport to be added to the Olympics. Ultimate frisbee is a very active sport, you run from one end of the field to the other. Ultimate Frisbee is good because it is a combination of other popular sports. In the document below there will be further information related to scoring, venue, schedule and the history of ultimate frisbee to add it to the Olympics. Ultimate Frisbee is a sport that is very fun. Ultimate frisbee is a game of two teams

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    The Olympic games today are a mix of various games like running, swimming , and more. They're intense and entertaining even though Nowadays we have technology , there are still many benefits of the games with ancient civilizations, here are a few. In ancient Greek civilizations olive oil was the main product, they used it for lots of things especially for participants. Olive oil was helpful to keep the skin nice and smooth and also to have a nice appearance which helped participants . Not

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    George Grigsby Historical Foundation March 12, 2016 Rio 2016 In September 7, 2007 the International Olympic committee (IOC) when over the application for the host city for the 2016 summer games. Amount those cities was Rio scoring a high of 6.3 on the rating. Rio is rich in activities, religion, culture but Rio face many problems, some of those problems are crime rate is high, pollution and poverty that excite in that area. Looking back on the history of Brazil will show that it is a country

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