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that there was nothing the opposite team can do, we started to have an early celebrate for entering the finals. To my surprise, our opponents started a counter attack, charging to our ring at full speed! With only less than six seconds, one of them managed to breach into our territory and the only thing standing between him and the ring, was me. I was the last line of defense. I can feel the adrenaline pumping in my body as my heart pounds as hard as it could. I was very nervous as the fate of…

Among these were three Manichean texts written in Chinese. These are the Hymnscroll, the Compendium of the Doctrines of Mani, and the Traité Pelliot. These are significant because they are some of the only written documents we have of the Manicheans so they are important to historians in researching the Manichean people. They are also important because they were recovered by major explorers in the 1900s. Now they sit in important museums all over the world. The three Manichean texts from…

school and got on an airplane at the Idaho Falls airport. It was my first time on an airplane and it was my birthday so, the pilot let me sit in the cockpit. I videoed the take off on my Ipod and loved the whole ride. When we left Idaho falls it was cold, and when we landed in the Phoenix, Arizona it was really hot. We figured out our rental car was at the Mesa airport, not the Phoenix, so we got into a shuttle and drove there. When we got there it was HUGE. There were airplanes landing and…

died.) Those are the things I do know. There are a lot of facts I don’t about Sparta. I have three major questions. They are the following: what was the real training regiment for the boys of Sparta versus the myths and legends that are circulating in the world today, what were the roles…

Christianity was a religion brought to us to promote division,not unity. There are many examples of Christianity dividing people,and separating their values.These examples consist of, the persecutions,The Great Schism,and all the divisions of the whole Christian religion. A lot of people argue that Christianity was brought to us to provide unity,and others argue it was created for division,which makes no sense because why would any create something to promote division. The Great Schism was…

Han empires are similar politically and socially in that there was conflict between the statuses there were also differences. In both Imperial Rome and Han China there was a social unrest during the collapses of the empires. The society of the Han can be described as highly structured and clearly defined. It consisted of three social classes. Aristocrats were at the top, followed by the middle class which consisted of skilled workers and farmers, and the lowest class was unskilled workers and…

Holden struggles with seeing others losing their purity and gets angry at the sight of it. “Somebody'd written 'Fuck you' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them…and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days” (201).…

The split of the Roman Empire into two divisions– eastern and western empires, were the results of the quick growth of the Roman Empire. Because of this growth, successful rule of each area was becoming difficult. In hope to maintain order, Emperor Diocletian came to the conclusion around 285 CE that the best solution to this problem would be to split the Roman Empire . The eastern part of the Roman Empire, know as the Byzantine Empire, was founded by Constantine the Great in 330 AD and had a…

In Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tweaker", he discusses the brilliance of Steve Jobs, and how he was a man with more than good taste, who had a sweeping visionary that saw above and beyond. "Jobs sensibility was editorial, not inventive" (3). Even before bringing Apple to its tremendous glory and success, Jobs always had an eye for productivity. As seen with how he questioned the trade-offs with European washing machine and its efficiency. He would later bring…

1. DEFINE THE SUBJECT/EVALUATE THE SOURSES: a. Battle of the Kasserine Pass The Battle of the Kassserine Pass took place during the Tunisian Campaign of World War II in February of 1943. The Kasserine Pass is a wide gap located on the Atlas Mountains in west central Tunisia. The Allied forces involved in the battle were the U.S Army’s II Corps and the British 6th Armored Division. The Axis forces involved were Afrika Korps Assult Group and two Panzer divisions from the 5th Panzer Army. 2.…