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    Homeschooling Debates

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    backgrounds (Public‚ 6) 8) Parental dependence is a negative effect of many home schooled students (Cheever‚ 3). 9) Public schools offer many extra curricular activities. Home schooled students and their parents have to search for extra activities (Public‚ 6) 10) Lack of public school technology. Parents that home school must find and buy their own supplies (What‚ 10). Works Cited Cheever‚ Jenney. “Are There Negative Effects of Homeschooling?” Life 123.com 2010. 24 May 2010. http://www

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    hard makes swimmers competitive‚ but they must have a mental strength to achieve greatness. According to local swim coach Robbie Fristcher‚ swimmers have a mental wall. This wall is a

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    around. There is another way Abigail falls into the category vengeance. She pierces herself in the stomach with the needle that was in Mary Warrens poppet. Abigail then says Goody Proctor’s spirt pierced her. Cheever and Hale go to the Home of the Proctors to see if Elizabeth did such a thing. Cheever finds the poppet and says‚ “Herrick‚ Herrick‚ it is a needle” (Miller 176). Once they found the needle they let her kiss the kids goodbye and took Elizabeth away. Proctor basically forces Mary Warren to testify

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    Miller has created a version of Salem in which the people are dependent on easily fabricated and unreliable evidence in order to prove or disprove a person guilty of witchcraft. Attempting to show that Elizabeth Proctor is guilty of witchcraft‚ Mr. Cheever explains that the poppet he found could be evidence that Elizabeth stabbed Abigail Williams. He says of Reverend Parris‚ “Stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly‚ he draw a needle out. And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed‚ she testify

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    Swimming

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    techniques. A swimming stroke is a way that swimmers move their arms and legs to go against the water and move themselves forward. The strokes create the least water resistance and there should be a minimum of splashing so that moving forward is smooth and not jerky. There are several specific kinds of stroke methods‚ but there are eight common ones. There is the butterfly‚ breast stroke‚ crawl‚ side stroke‚ trudgen‚ freestyle‚ backstroke‚ and dog paddle. Many swimmers start out very basic but there are many

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    Swimming Term Paper

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    references date from 2000 BCE. Some of the earliest references to swimming include the Gilgamesh‚ the Iliad‚ the Odyssey‚ the Bible‚ Beowulf‚ and other sagas. In 1578‚ Nikolaus Wynmann‚ a German professor of languages‚ wrote the first swimming book‚ The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming (Der Schwimmer oder ein Zwiegespräch über die Schwimmkunst). Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800‚ mostly using breaststroke. In 1873‚ John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming

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    Training". How do they help us to enhance her description of the swimmer and the river?We have all seen a swimmer racing at all sports competition before‚ "In Training"‚ by Helen Lawson brings back the thoughts in our memory but moves the background setting to a calm‚ smooth river in the morning. The poem uses a series of sound and picture devices to help us imagine the swimmer powering through the water. Lawson explains the swimmer ’s movements and uses extensive comparisons to help produce detailed

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    Physics in Swimming

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    drag resistance and propulsion. We swimmers are at a constant battle to stay afloat‚ while fighting through the water and propelling ourselves forward‚ and we do so using technique. Buoyancy is the power to float or rise in a fluid. This relates to swimming because when you’re in the water‚ you have to be able stay afloat. Buoyancy is the net upward force acting on the swimmer‚ as the depth of the water increases‚ so does the pressure. The pressure bellow the swimmer is greater than the pressure above

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    The challenges of swimming

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    and Butterfly. Swimming is one of the hardest sports in the world because of the mental and physical attributions. On the mental side of swimming‚ there are many factors that can make or break a swimmer. One factor is how focused you have to be to swim not only well‚ but outstanding. A swimmer has to clear their mind completely before entering the water. Mental toughness is defined as “having the natural or developed psychological edge that enables you to: generally cope better than your

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    Pain reported by a patient is known as subjective data. Based on the person’s location of pain and type of pain can greatly affect the patients performance of daily activities‚ sleep patterns‚ and engaging in social activities (Treas‚ Wilkinson‚ 2014). In this scenario the 60-year-old African-American female with metastatic ovarian cancer is experiencing chronic pain. This pain would be defined as the patient experiencing visceral pain. Visceral pain activates deep internal pain receptors that are

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