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    Katya Bell Ms. Nazareth 7 ELA 10.12.17 “Flipping” My Fears! I wouldn’t be in this place if it weren’t for gymnastics, I highly love gymnastics and It really makes me work hard for the things I want to happen! So I had been working on my round off back handspring for quite a long time. About possibly three years. Though I had gone to several clinics and still I didn’t get my back handspring. Well a lot of people I knew had

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    Explain how to do a somersault with a demonstration. At the high end of the wedged mat, squat down with hands up above the head, palms facing up. Tuck the head in with body in a tight ball - tighten the abdominal muscle so that the body does not unfold in mid-roll. By transferring

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    The most popular monkey in China is Sun Wu-kong from Wu Cheng-en’s novel Journey to the West. Sun Wu-kong is one of the most beloved fictional character of all time in China, and his story has been told by generations of people. There is also an equivalent popular monkey in India, Hanuman from the epic poem Ramayana. Looking at Hanuman and Sun Wu-kong side by side, a large number of similarities can be found between them, for instance, their physical appearance, magical power, and stories. Victor

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    Commonly overlooked in its significance, the garden in “The Yellow Wallpaper” successfully represents all elements of the main character’s rebellious intentions. Generally, a garden features well-trimmed vegetation, which is guarded by a fence or wall to keep away outside forces, whether it be humans or animals with intentions to harm the plants. In contrast, nature operates in a free-flowing manner, with its greenery tangled in abundance and lacking any type of structure. On the surface, it may

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    shifts focus from the lovestruck and the waitress and onto the population as a whole. While on a bus, an old man is singing to a child. His voice is personified as a “small boy / turning somersaults” (20-21). This leads the readers to believe he is reminiscing about his childhood, particularly doing somersaults in his native land, the “green / country of his blood” (22). He is awakened from his dreamy inner world and is transported into a “puzzle / of brick and tiny hedges” (24-25), which symbolizes

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    James Holmes didn’t start out as a psycho killer, as James went through trial his family members described James as an appealing, jovial little boy from an adoring family. Holmes, a twenty-seven-year-old previous graduate understudy, got one life term for every individual he slaughtered, in addition to 3,318 years for the endeavored homicides of those he injured and for gear his loft with explosives. He is not qualified for parole. The trial included realistic depictions of the grim wrongdoing

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    Book report- “The Secret Language of Sisters” By: Luanne Rice Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut. Roo is on her way to pick up her younger sister Tilly at the river museum. It's four o'clock on a February Saturday afternoon. The Connecticut River that she has passes by is almost frozen over and Roo wants to get a few pictures of the beautiful scene for her portfolio for a scholarship contest. She desperately wants to attend Yale

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    Ideas For Tantrums

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    11 Ideas for Bringing Temper Tantrums to a Halt Picture this scenario. How often while in a store has someone’s child began throwing a tantrum and you recognize that look of dread on the parent’s face? That’s because the parent has no earthly clue of how to cope with the situation? In most cases, the reason for the tantrum is because the child is not getting their way. The only alternatives are to ignore the child, which will drive the parent and everyone else in the store insane, take the child

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    Childbirth Paper There are several physical traumas that a baby and expecting mother may endure during childbirth as well as the expecting mother may undergo psychological traumas during and after her pregnancy. In this paper, there will be explanations of the more severe cases the mother may exhibit during and/or after her pregnancy. Information on treatments and recovery of such traumas will be discussed as well as causes and some of the more common birth injuries to the baby will be explored

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    Biomechanics of Gymnastics

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    Biomechanics of Gymnastics Biomechanics is the application of mechanical analysis to study body movements, this allows for research and developments into everyday activities. Often time biomechanics is used to study different sports and the movements that an athlete would complete in relation to that sport. One sport that there was a desire to do biomechanical research was Gymnastics. Gymnastics is a sport that incorporates full body movements, to better understand the body movements’ biomechanical

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