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    boys, twenty-four hours a day isn’t a walk in the park. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love what you are doing or learning to do” One of my favorite quotes by the soccer player Pele. I purposely bolded the words sacrifice and love because my mother had to sacrifice so much to keep my brother and I afloat. I didn’t realize the hardships my mom was going through until I got a bit older. She was struggling in what seemed like every

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    In the United States alone, there are approximately one million head injuries reported every year; eighty five percent of these injuries are classified as mild traumatic brain injuries. Traumatic brain injuries, also known as concussions, are the leading cause of death and disability for neurological disorders before the age of fifty. Mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) are one of the most prevalent, and have become a major public health issue. A few of the main reasons there are so many problems

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    Steven George Gerrard, MBE (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy as a central midfielder. He spent the majority of his career playing for Premier League club Liverpool, with most of that time as their captain. Gerrard spent 17 seasons at Anfield, making his Liverpool debut in 1998, cementing his place in the first team in 2000, and succeeding Sami Hyypiä as team captain in 2003. His honours include two FA Cups, three League Cups

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    My Favorite Beach

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    One vacation in a beach can be a lifelong memory. Basking in the sun and waking along the shore while the waves gently touch your feet can be an amazing exit from the chaos and stress of your work life. Most beaches are beautiful in general, housing sceneries that can be worth gazing all day, but each one is unique and exquisite in their own right. A visit to Hawaii might energize you but Malibu is only a 30 minute drive from Los Angeles, the easiest way to escape the city. Planning your next trip

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    The Hawaiian Island Chain

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    father of living creatures, Ku, the god of war, Kanaloa was the god of the underworld, teacher of magic, and ruler of the ocean, and lastly Lono was the god of agriculture (To-Hawaii.com Staff, 2017). Some of the less prominent gods, or kapua, were Pele, the goddess of volcanoes, fire, lightning, and wind, Laka, goddess of the hula, and Kuula, who was the god of fishermen (To-Hawaii.com Staff,

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    “ Success is no accident. It's hard work perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, a love of what you are doing or learning how to do.” ~ Pele. An ISTJ the meaning of everything that describes the person I am today and the person I strive to be. These learning styles describe myself as student showing how I want to be an organized and more confident with myself as a student. This affects

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    strict land divisions that respected the natural landscape. Communities were created around rivers and water sources. The Hawaiians had a strict law system called the kapu. They lived with great respect to the land and believed in demi-gods such as Pele, the goddess of the volcano, or Mau’i, who was believed to have pulled the islands out of the ocean in order for people to live on the land. Peace and prosperity thrived throughout the islands because people understood that each individual had an important

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    Magna Carta Dbq

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    The people were courageous and spoke up and created the Magna Carta and without their courage and strength, our government now would not be the same. This created the start of democracy and I do not think this time period gets enough credit for it. Pele overlook all the great accomplishments during this period and look right to the terrible things. I think overall, the successes outweigh the failures

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    Organ Donor Card” a Quantitative Research Study NUR 430 Excelsior College Abstract This paper is a critical analysis of the article “Spirituality as a Predictive Factor for Signing an Organ Donor Card”. The research was preformed by Anat Peles Bortz, RN, PhD, Tamar Ashkenazi, RN,PhD, and Semyon Melnikov, RN, PhD. The research was accepted for publication in 2014. The research was presented at the 25th International Nursing Research Congress Symposium in 2014 in Hong Kong. The research appears

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    Sport and Homosexuality

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    Some weeks ago, an article appeared in the press from Germany, which stated that Manuel Neuer, goalkeeper of the German national team was confessed himself as gay. As soon as Neuer admitted that he was relieved, the news spread quickly throughout the European continent trying to make disease about the footballer news. All this made me think, how can it be that in the XXI century exists such a rejection or homophobia against this group? This has motivated me to make an analysis about the gay

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