“The Fighter” Crack Addiction: The Affected Life Dicky Eklund Richard “Dicky” Eklund is a former Welterweight Champion professional boxer who’s career and lifestyle was unfortunately greatly affected by the consequences of crack-cocaine addiction. Known as “The Pride of Lowell”‚ Eklund is also the half-brother of former WBU World Champion Micky Ward. Facing troubles on the street and problems with his home life‚ Dicky confronts his demons with crack addiction as a result of an HBO documentary
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the Instruction of the NIOSH Lower Back Model Alaina Ostroff Hofstra University Introduction This project was designed as an instruction teaching capsule for the NIOSH Lifting Equation which models forces in the lower back. This is a technical topic and was designed to teach a broad group of people‚ such as engineering students‚ as a tool to instruct the NIOSH back model. There are five elements that make up the “NIOSH Lower Back Model” which include: a narrated
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patriotism. Today‚ they are known as freedom fighters because they sacrificed their lives for their motherland. Indian freedom fighters with their true spirit and undaunted courage had faced various tortures‚ exploitations and hardships to earn us freedom. The pioneers of the freedom movement were Mangal Pandey‚Tantia Tope‚ Rani of Jhansi and the great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi who introduced non-violent ways of fighting the enemy. Other notable freedom fighters of India are Annie Besant‚ Lala Lajpat
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Shubash Chandra Bose Netaji as he was called was a very prominent figure in the Indian freedom struggle. His sole aim was the freedom of his country and he termed it as a necessity and didn’t agree with Gandhiji on the terms that it can be negotiated. He was well educated and believed that there should be complete intolerance for caste-differentiation‚ racism or religious separation. His was so active in the Indian National Congress that he was arrested several times by the British Government. Soon
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Freedom Fighters of India Vallabhbhai Patel His brave deeds earned Vallabhbhai Patel the title of the iron man of India. For his role in the Bardoli Satyagraha‚ Patel came to be called the Sardar. Sardar Patel was a famous lawyer but gave up his practice in order to fight for the freedom of the country. After independence he became the deputy PM of India and played an important role the integration of India by merging numerous princely states with the Indian Union. Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar
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Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? The word terrorism carries a very negative connotation in the western world. The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City‚ the Unabomber‚ and countless atrocities the modern news is plagued with frequently skews what terrorism is and what terrorists are. During the American Revolution‚ the colonist rebels used terrorist tactics to win the war and secure their freedom. They were considered freedom fighters‚ not terrorists. However‚ when opinions are taken
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and freedom fighters that faced exploitations‚ hardships and immense torture to earn freedom that was dutifully ours. It demanded immense courage and sacrifice to devote one’s life to the cause of freedom of the mother nation. Every Indian who lived under the British rule dreamt of an independent India. Different freedom fighters adopted different ways of fighting the British Empire but the common objective was same‚ to earn the freedom. Credit must go to the spirit of those great fighters who aimed
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“Fire Fighter Arson” The reason I decided to choose this topic‚ and not something about a particular part of the fire service‚ is because I was watching a TV show CSI where they solve crimes and such. Well this topic of fire fighter arson was on the show where a fire fighter set a fire on purpose. So I decided that it looked interesting considering it is what I want to do. Fire fighter arson is basically when a fire fighter sets a fire and I will break it down on why some fire fighters do it
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Essay EL&C Cause and Effect Emma van der Maas ICV1A Terrorist or freedom fighter Terrorists are evil and want only to destroy and terrorise the western society. They all have beards and see the Quran as their holy mean to convey this awful jihad (holy war). They have their ways and beliefs to justify their terrorist actions and they do not care about the people they hurt or kill. Or do they? Is the ‘western world’ not forgetting that we for centuries have excluded these
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Intro: Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back is the movie that brought people of all ages to have a passion for Star Wars. It inspired people and even me to think beyond our universe to a universe with intergalactic travel‚ lasers and even lightsabers. The Empire Strikes Back movie brought new heart and depth into the characters of the series. It gave people something that they had never seen and experienced before‚ something that would leave them with questions that wouldn’t be answered until the
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