When my brother, Tony, went to Trine University in 2011 to pursue a Business degree and play football, we were all very excited as a family. When football started up for him, we were at every single game and cheered him on; thus, support has never even been a question in the Miranda household. When I am on the football field or baseball field, I never have to worry about a family member not being there. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Many Rivers to Cross" The story I chose to write about for this essay is "Many Rivers to Cross" by June Jordan. I enjoyed reading this story. This story seemed like it was once a book, but they shortened it down. There was a lot of information in just five or six pages, so it was sort of tough ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Many Rivers to Cross" The story I chose to write about for this essay is "Many Rivers to Cross" by June Jordan. I enjoyed reading this story. This story seemed like it was once a book, but they shortened it down. There was a lot of information in just five or six pages, so it was sort of tough ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Surprisingly, the football team on Remember the Titans was exactly like that. ... His dreams of playing college football were not only shattered but destroyed completely as well. ... The white man ain't gonna let you get nowhere with that football noway." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Biff was always supposed to be great at whatever he did because he was a great football player in high school. ... He was all set on taking the class again in the summer so he could graduate and then play football at a university. ... He did not go to summer school to graduate and did not go on to play college football. ... Willy was making money and was well liked, while Biff the great football player that everyone liked and wanted to be like. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Micro sociology involves the study of people at a more interpersonal level. By looking at the micro perspectives you will be looking at the "smaller picture" so to speak. Discovering certain personal aspects of someones life, learning what makes the individual unique. " The microsystem is the layer ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Who am I? We have all asked this simple but perhaps difficult question at some point in our lives. If we are completely honest with ourselves can we actually answer such an introspective question? Will we choose to hold back because of fear? Are we afraid of what the answer to this question might br...

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• Grade Level: High School

I have gone to many different sports in person; I have been to every high school football game that my high school played my four years there. I also have attended pro football, basketball, and baseball. ... My grand father has been to high school football, basketball, boxing, minor league baseball, and almost everything else, because he is a media photographer. ...

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PARENTS AND KIDS RELATIONSHIPS "October Sky" by Joe Johnston and "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker's stories deal with parents and kids relationships. John Hickam and a middle-aged woman are parents who find themselves choosing between both of their kids. Dee and Jim are the strongest kids of the fami...

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• Grade Level: High School

From the late 1800's to the early 1900's, Prohibition was a part of everyone's life. Political candidates were won and lost by either promoting or demoting the right to consume alcohol. The Prohibition movement focused on completely removing alcohol from our society and bettering family life. Alc...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Death of a Salesman" The play death of a salesman can be easily explained as a literary way of detailing the psychological deterioration of the classic middle class working American man. Through the play we see Willie Loman's emotional and mental state deterioration at a startling rate. As is...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A Legacy Like John White The odor of incense is a smell that everyone has probably smelt before. As it spread through the large crowded church, I recalled the last funeral I had been to and realized it had been a long time. For my family, it was a much heavier scent since we were in the front pews ...

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Louis L"Amour was born on March 22, 1908, in Jamestown, North Dakota. His father, Louis Charles, was a veterinarian and farm machinery salesman and was also involved in local politics. Charles served as alderman of Jamestown's largest ward for many years as well as deputy sheriff, but he lost his ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There would be times I would have basketball games, choral concerts, and football games that he could not attend because of meetings, funerals, weddings, or hospital and home visits that came first. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Marriage and Family All of the marriages that I chose to observe are good and happy families. One of them is the marriage of my neighbors who have two children, both boys. I also observed the marriage of a friend of mine's parents who have two children, a boy and a girl. The last I chose to...

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Since Willy was never successful as a salesman, "he remains confident that his son Biff will be able to make it big in business because of his good looks and his past glory as a high school football star" what he didn't realize was, that his own mistake was going to take his son into a different path because since the day Biff caught his father cheating on his mom in Boston, everything changed in his life ("Death of a Salesman"). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Living in a Pakistani household and trying to fit in an American life style is not that easy. At home you have to fulfill your parents expectations and you are thought things very differently than any normal American. At school or outside you need to try to blend in with your American friends. At ho...

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• Grade Level: High School

Changes in Media Usage After doing the interviews I have come to find out that they are a lot of media differences between the three generations. I didn't expect there to be that much of a difference. Media is changing whether it is for the better of for the worst, but it is always changing. My g...

• Word Count: 1884
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School