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    Guns

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    drastically increase with millions of gun related deaths annually‚ yet given the right training‚ skills‚ and a sound minded person a gun is often one of the greatest assets to have for protection. In the U.S. Constitution the right to bare arms is a liberty given to those citizens who qualified to do so under their first amendment rights. Many people are torn about the right to bare arms and some lobby more increasingly by the days to have more laws to further restrict gun laws. On the other side of the

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    Anxious moment

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    My brother being born prematurely was a very anxious moment in my life. He was born just below two pounds and needed to be in an incubator at the hospital for two months‚ the doctor had told my family and I. Those two months were the longest two months of my life. I feared for the worst and my mind was very unease. My family and I would visit him as much as possible‚ hoping he was okay and even still alive. My anxiousness had gotten worse when the doctors had told my family that my brother needed

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    Precious Moments

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    Melisa Rollins English Composition Mrs. Doran Narrative Essay Precious Moments I had always wanted to experience the natural birth of a baby. Although I have five boys‚ they were all Cesarean births. I never really felt complete because I never got a chance to experience or see what it was like to deliver a baby naturally; that is‚ until October 1‚ 2009‚ when I was finally able to witness the birth of my little nephew‚ which made me feel connected as I experienced the tears‚ emotions

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    A Memorable Moment

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    A Memorable Moment What does envy mean? Arresting Opening Scene During the month of October in Santa Fe‚ New Mexico‚ all the schools were preparing for another season of basketball. It’s a year that everyone looks forward to; all the athletes‚ coaches‚ spectators‚ and supporters. The girls’ basketball team at my school was very good and over the years I’ve heard growing up that it’s a lot of hard work and also how the coaches set very high standards for their players. In addition‚ the girls’

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    Moment of Inertia

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    ­­­Moment of Inertia 1. Abstract The goal of this study is to understand the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy of rotation and kinetic energy of translation. The moment of inertia of the cross arm my group measured with the conservation of energy equation is: 0.01044 kg/m2 (with the mass of 15g)‚ 0.01055 kg/m2 (with the mass of 30g)‚ which is kind of similar to the standard magnitude of the moment of inertia of the cross arm: 0.0095 kg/m2 (Gotten by measuring the radius and the mass

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    Moments In Canada

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    Canada’s most defining moments Canada is a one of the wealthiest countries in the world but Canada didn’t just become wealthy overnight. Canada has many accomplishments and failures but the most defining moments in Canadian history were both the failures and accomplishments in the economy or economy related. The three most defining moments in Canadian history were; the stock market crash‚ which led to the “Great Depression”‚ the baby boom on the other hand led to increases in jobs during the 1960’s

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    moment of inertia

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    Moment of Inertia Academic Resource Center What is a Moment of Inertia? • It is a measure of an object’s resistance to changes to its rotation. • Also defined as the capacity of a cross-section to resist bending. • It must be specified with respect to a chosen axis of rotation. • It is usually quantified in m4 or kgm2 Quick Note about Centroids…. • The centroid‚ or center of gravity‚ of any object is the point within that object from which the force of gravity appears to act. •

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    A Teachable Moment

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    DEAR FRIEND: One week ago‚ I’ve faced the most difficult task in my life‚ because‚ as you know I am a very shy person. For just one single day I’ve become a teacher‚ I must admit at the beginning‚ this task was very simple‚ at the end I found myself with a lot of job ahead of me ‚because; I haven’t any single idea that how to be a teacher in front of a class. So‚ I was doomed. I made a lot of research that how to prepare a class‚ how to stand in a classroom‚ how to

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    A Moment of Grace

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    “A Moment Of Grace” In the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"‚ Flannery O’Connor utilizes the theme as a literary element to create multiple features of her characters in the story such as those of Bailey’s mother known as the Grandmother and The Misfit. The Grandmother considers herself as a proper southern lady that is upright and wise but not until the story takes a tragic turn does she begin to realize that she is not who she thinks she is. As the story begins‚ The Grandmother is complaining

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    Zick Reflection on: Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension) Jenna Wortham/New York Times/Aug. 25‚ 2012 The article‚ “Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension)” by Jenna Wortham‚ from the New York Times‚ can be related to most people in our generation. Our generation is filled with new technology and doing things faster and more efficient. I would say the majority of teenagers have smart phones with texting and/or internet. I feel that most people have forgotten to live in the moment and just to enjoy what

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