Pat Tillman: A Cover-Up at the Highest Level Pat Tillman was a professional football player who left his career to serve his country and paid the ultimate price‚ only to be exploited by politics. “Pat had it all‚ intelligence‚ movie star good looks‚ a loving wife‚ athletic prowess‚ fame. A lucrative and promising career. Who among us could walk away from riches and a job we love?" said Maria Shriver‚ California’s first lady‚ about Pat Tillman. Instead of pursuing a multi-million dollar paycheck
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No one knows the real story of Pat Tillman. On April 23‚ 2004 news headlines filled the air waves with tragic news that Pat Tillman was killed in action yesterday‚ fighting in Afghanistan. While on a patrol with his detachment through eastern Afghanistan‚ the detachment was ambushed. When the ambush was quelled‚ sadly‚ Pat Tillman was dead. For the better part of the week following his death‚ his story was still being constantly reported about on every news channel including ESPN. The NFL dedicated
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Hoover Dam Bypass: The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge The bridge was built to be take the traffic away from the Hoover Dam which had just turned 75 years old and cannot hold the traffic anymore. The Hoover Dam was not able to hold the 14‚000 thousand cars that drive across the dam every day. To help preserve the dam Arizona and Nevada built The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. This was a huge project between both states that would end up cost them $240 million. The
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definition of the term; a hero to me is a person who is willing to sacrifice their wellbeing either physically or emotionally through great or brave acts to protect others. The 2015 Espy Awards‚ more specifically the Arthur Ashe Courage Award and the Pat Tillman Award for Service‚ were full of controversy in regards to this years nominees and winners. The outcome of The 2015 Espy Awards is just another domino in the domino effect of how today’s population idolizes celebrities and athletes over military personnel
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LALALALALALLALALALLALA Story-story” is a circle game for all ages. The group of performers sit and a moderator (us) stands in the middle and provides a setting for the story. Then we point to a person in the circle and they begin telling a story (says 2 sentences). After the first storyteller has described the beginning of the story‚ the moderator points to another person‚ the story continues on; the new person picks up from the last word and tries to continue the narrative. Every performer should
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Badheka‚Gijubhai ( 1885 -1939 ) Girijashanker Badheka‚ generally known as Gijubhai‚ the most outstanding personality in the field of pre-primary education‚ was born to Bhagwanji and Sm. Kashiba of Vala in Saurashtra at Chittal 9Saurashtra) in the house of his maternal grandfather on 15 November 1885. He had his early education at a primary school at Vala and later passed the Matriculation from Bhavnagar around 1905. He joined the Shamlals College‚ but had to leave his studies incomplete and
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The Storyteller (Saki) by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Word Count: 2109 It was a hot afternoon‚ and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry‚ and the next stop was at Templecombe‚ nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl‚ and a smaller girl‚ and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat‚ and the further corner seat on the opposite side was occupied by a bachelor who was a stranger to their party‚ but the small girls and the small
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HOW TO TELL A STORY (A) From an instant to eternity‚ from the intracranial to the intergalactic‚ the life story of each and every character offers encyclopedic possibilities. The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime. —Robert McKee1 Stories are all around us. Stories move us‚ make us feel alive‚ inspire us to be more than we would be otherwise. As famed screenwriting coach and author of the screenwriting bible‚ Story‚ McKee says: “Story is not only our
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In this very short story‚ Alice Walker tells of a young‚ African American girl who‚ while gathering flowers‚ stumbles quite literally upon the body of a dead man. The atmosphere‚ language and subject matter of the story suggest the southern United States as a setting-sometime in the mid- to late-20th century seems an appropriate time period‚ though this is far less clear. The contrast between the story’s beginning and end is striking. We begin with a light-hearted description of the life of Myop
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What is a Story? * a narrative‚ either true or fictitious‚ in prose or verse‚ designed to interest‚ amuse‚ or instruct the hearer or reader; a tale. * a fictitious tale‚ shorter and less elaborate than a novel. * a narration of an incident or a series of events or an example of these that is or may be narrated‚ as an anecdote‚ joke‚ etc. * Therefore‚ narrative or story in its broadest sense is anything told or recounted; more narrowly‚ and more usually‚ something told or recounted
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