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    training, is considered the art of Equestrian sport and is used as the groundwork for all other disciplines. When Equestrian rider Charlotte Dujardin rode into the atmospheric arena in front of a rapturous home crowed at the 2012 London Olympic Games aboard, her team mate and horse, Valegro she made up one half of not only the most successful dressage duo Britain had ever seen but inarguably the best pair the sport, of Dressage, had ever had the pleasure of watching. It was the early hours of

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    Gender Role Reversal and The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is one of the few young adult novels out there that takes every gender role in American society, dumps them out of their trashcan, and sets them on fire. Typically, with a book like The Hunger Games, with characters like the ones in this novel, the plot would tend towards a love triangle, a stereotypical static, Mary Sue female protagonist, and a modicum of other terrible and problematic tropes. However, Katniss Everdeen, our first person

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    Unit 10 Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth - 19 years. 1.1 Physical Development, Communication and Intellectual development. Social, emotional and behavioural development. All babies, children and young people follow the same pattern when it comes to development but each person is unique. Every day they will grow, develop and learn at there own pace but following a similar basic pattern in their sequence of development. A child’s development

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    He is the son of my friendly family and his hobbies are playing video games and exploring U.S.. Cultural information & language development: About his culture information, Jonah is a White child who has an elder sister in 9th grade and a younger brother who is 3-year-old. Although his family has low socioeconomic status, his parents try their best to let Jonah participate in activities as much as possible, like basketball game and choir because Jonah’s mom is a teacher who emphasizes her children’s

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    threw the World Series and had a huge negative impact on the fans and the game, they should not be banned for life because, they were only in it for the money, not all of the players that were banned were involved, and they tried to call off the fix. The Black Sox Scandal was the fixing of the 1919 World Series played between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. The White Sox team were one of the best to ever play the game. They were a heavy favorite to win the series. Arnold Gandil, the first

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    The Hunger Games are a series of events in which a male and a female, which are also called tributes, from twelve districts compete to stay alive. The tributes must use their smarts, talents, and outsmarting personalities to fight for their survival. Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen year old woman from District Twelve, faces life threatening challenges in order to stay alive, her decisions could cause her own demise, leave her family with everlasting disbelief, sorrow, and misery. If Katniss does not

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    characterized by human misery, the idea of perfection, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. The dystopian government of fiction find basis in reality with the use of corporate and bureaucratic control in the novels The Giver, The Maze Runner, and The Hunger Games. One notable example of dystopian society is the well written and intriguing novel The Giver by Lois Lowery. The Giver is an example of a bureaucratic control, which is being controlled by

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    Super Bowl the Patriots had attended. The pressure was on for the Flacons. The first quarter of the game neither team scored. As the second quarter began the Falcons drove several touchdowns, leaving the Patriots behind. Throughout the third quarter, Falcons continued scoring. It wasn’t long before the Patriots caught up quickly and both teams were tied at the very last straw of the game. As the game went into overtime with a cut-throat shocking ending, with yet another Patriots win. Theory The ideology

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    think that that is one of the saddest things we do as humans, but I’m guilty of it too. It was Friday April 29th, 2016. The day was just as normal as any other, until it wasn’t. I remember being in my 8th period gym class, only 10 minutes into a game of volleyball. My teacher called me over confused and said “Hey are you okay?” I shot her a confused look. It was such a random question. “I’m fine,” I said almost as a question, “Why?” “No reason, you’re dad’s here to pick you up,” he said nonchalantly

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    projection, and for someone her age she should be responding differently. Do you mind if I try something with her? VICTOR: Anything if it helps. THERAPIST: Gloria, my name is _________, you look kind of lonely over here all by yourself do you want to play a game? (THERAPIST pulls out toys from her desk and sits by YOUNG GLORIA trying to get a response although it is in vain.) VICTOR: I’ve tried all these tricks, it’s like she doesn’t even know we are here. (After a long pause the THERAPIST studies YOUNG GLORIA

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