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    Everyone here has heard something about the biggest figure skating scandal there was in the world. Whether you saw the new movie starring Margot Robbie or heard in recent months on the news about this event that took place twenty years ago. I am talking about Tonya Harding. She was a curvy, blonde, woman who was rather poor. Over the many years of her skating career many people in The United States Figure Skating Association have tried to ostracize Tonya from the skating community because she chose

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    Insecurities Narrative

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    Throughout elementary and middle school I was known for being the girl who didn't say much. I always felt out of place in the classroom and uncomfortable around my own classmates but all of my insecurities began to disappear when I took a risk. It was something that forced me outside of my comfort zone and I found a passion that I never would have known existed. This life altering experience was the decision to join the speech and debate team. Through this I gained the foundation to become who I

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    After viewing the circus acts that were called the 1st presidential debate and the vice-presidential debate that aired earlier in the month, my expectations for the 2nd debate were not too high. Unfortunately my even my low expectations were not met and I felt as though there was not a large enough improvement during this debate to have made any difference from the first one. While we saw some improvement in terms of candidate behavior, the rest of the debate was severely lacking in substance. Questions

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    I look the first debate judge in the eyes and he nods. Then my gaze drifts to the second one and she smiles. Finally I look to my right at my final judge, he simply winks at me. I close my eyes and count to three. It’s finally time to begin; this is my time. These next three minutes everyone has to listen to me and my opinion. I open my mouth, but the only thought going through my head is, why? Why am I doing this? Why am I here? Why did I make this mistake? It was the first day of English class

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    Starting my freshman year, I wasn’t sure where I’d fit in, but I knew what I wanted to accomplish. I wanted to increase my confidence when it came to public speaking, what better way to do that then to join the debate team, I thought.. It was the first day of school and I wasn’t quite sure how to approach my debate class, I was afraid everyone would be much more qualified to be on the team then me. Afraid of the judgement and if I’d be of any use to the team throughout the year. But it was too late

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    This year, the University of Pennsylvania Mock Trial Team will be hosting the14th annual Quaker Classic Invitational Tournament in Philadelphia, Pa. The Tournament will consist of competitive teams from all around the world. Fairleigh Dickinson University ‘s Mock trial Team is happy to Nov. 19, 2016. Every Fall and Spring, invitational tournaments are held all around the country. These tournaments allow students to practice and prepare for the American Mock Trial Association sanctioned tournament

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    What If Tonya Was Black

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    A lot of people have already made up their mind about Tonya Harding. Therefore, before the biopic movie I, Tonya even hits the big screen, the audience including Liberal critics already formulated their own conclusion of her. This movie is about a disgraced former Olympic figure skater who started out as a poor girl who was physically abused by her mother then by her husband. Nevertheless, the movie is a comedy sketch and was nominated at the Golden Globes for best Musical or Comedy. It was reported

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    to Queen’s University, Canada, and the world? Queen’s University is located in a university town, Kingston. It has a distinct culture that allows everyone to feel connected to one other. There is also a wide variation of the places students come from, even within Canada – Vancouver to New Brunswick. Most of the students live far from home, often adjusting oneself to the new environment. By this, Queen’s students are already taking a step in becoming a world citizen, making their AIESEC journey less

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    What Is Greed In Macbeth

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    The novel Macbeth and the article ‘Uncontrolled Ambition Today: Figure Skaters’ both had characters using greed that changed them over the course of their life. To start off, a common character trait about Macbeth that exemplify how greed changes him over the course of his life is his strong ambition. Since the witches told him at the beginning of the novel that he will be granted with power and authority, he took that to his advantage. As Macbeth states in Act 1, scene 3, page 6, “By Sinel’s death

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    Kristi Yamaguchi

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    can make triple jumps and twirls look like a breeze. Her feet, the ones that have skated her from award to award, were not always as efficient as they are now. Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi suffered as a young child from what is known as clubfoot (Disabled World). Congenital talipes equinovarus, or clubfoot is an idiopathic deformity of newborn feet present at birth. A rare deformity with less than 200,000 babies, per year, are diagnosed with it in the U.S.A. (Blue Sky). The affected foot or feet usually

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