The Plunge Essays

  • A Paddle in the River - Original Writing

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    before loosening my collar. Suddenly my life jacket became a worthless chunk of yellow padding. A cheerful Mr Allen below, perching on a boulder, did little to boost my confidence. Hell's demons were playing cunning tricks on my mind: Is the plunge pool deeper enough? Are you certain you will not scrape your back on the side of the rock face? I was superman, as I teetered nervously off the edge and plunged down. All I could see was a blur of rich green leaves, jagged rocks, and finally Mr

  • My Cultural Plunge

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    For my Cultural Plunge, I participated with Project Excell (Extending College Education for Lifelong Learning). This is a group that meets on campus, in the union, every Saturday morning from 9:00-11:00 AM. Each participant has a developmental disability and they come from various places around Manhattan. Project Excell offers around 4 different classes for the participants to choose from, which range from dancing/theatre to the history of Nigeria. After completing a “session,” the participants go

  • Tybee Polar Plunge Research

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    Tybee Polar Plunge Year after year, locals and visitors descend on the south end of Tybee’s beach on New Year’s Day to jump into the Atlantic or to cheer others on as they do. It’s a wacky, offbeat, cool – now and again frigid—tradition with lots of laughter, and it is quintessential Tybee. But did you know… • This annual ritual routinely draws thousands. Total turnout including spectators is normally 3,000 plus. Somewhere between 1,000 and 1,200 folks are usually there to take the plunge. Many are

  • Example Of A Cultural Plunge

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    I went to a Catholic church for my cultural plunge project, and it was a new experience for me because it was my first time going to a church. The reason I picked Catholics as my focal group was because that I have heard that many people call themselves Christians, and a few identify themselves as Catholics. However, I thought these two focal groups are the same according to what I learned from my History textbook. I hoping I can use this cultural plunge activity to find out some more about Catholic

  • Cultural Plunge Experience

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    My Experience I am a Christian and I attend a church of Christ, so for my cultural plunge I decided to go to a different kind of church. I attended a service at Life Church, which is a non-denominational church. The atmosphere of the church building and the service were very different from what I normally experience at the church I attend. The first difference was that Life Church offered a number of services at different times, the one I attended was on a Saturday evening. The auditorium was dark

  • Cultural Plunge Assignment

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    For this cultural plunge assignment, I attended the Choma Food Festival hosted by the African Student Association here on campus under the Office of Multicultural Affairs. This event interested me because I have always been fascinated with the African culture, as in wanted to know more about it, but I was not able to fully discover what all it entailed. I feel as the African Culture is part of my heritage that I am most unfamiliar with. African culture is very different from the American culture

  • Cultural Plunge Research Paper

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    Cultural Plunge Ways to develop a cohesive academic environment. In the first step of making a student feel comfortable in my classroom no matter their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexuality, I would first make sure I get to know my students and their backgrounds. I will then create strong relationships and bonds which each of my students so that they feel welcomed, comfortable, and accepted in my classroom. It is important for teachers to encourage students that everyone is the same and

  • Analysis: The Fall Would Plunge Loreli

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    • Of course, written from a nightmare.  One of readers favorite quotes from this story is "The fall would plunge Loreli into her own grim reality, or into the other place, the place that spirals sharp and deep, where the dead dream and the worms crawl..." This story is about a woman walking on a tight rope, teetering on the edge of absolute reality or absolute madness...neither are pretty choices. As usual, it is up to the reader's own imagination to decide her fate.  • Strings  I awoke one night

  • Service learning

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    I heard about the Polar Bear Plunge through my peers. Every year many of my friends would take the plunge and I would call them crazy; going into the water being 30 degrees outside is insane. But that was before I did some research about the plunge and found out what the plunge was really about, helping raise funds for the Special Olympics. I was in school one day and heard that Broadneck had a team for the Polar plunge, this was my chance. Thousands of seemingly sane people across Maryland and

  • The Incredible Router

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    No matter if you are a tinkerer or a seasoned woodworker, it will make sure it meets all of your requirements. Best Wood Routers DeWalt Compact Router, Black & Decker Plunge Router and Bosch Colt Palm Router are three best wood routers available in the market today. DeWalt occupies the first place, Bosch second and Black & Decker third. Top two are more expensive than the third. As per wood router reviews, DeWalt scores

  • Right Wood Router Essay

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    same job. Having a dedicated router for your router is essential as you will not be required to attach and detach your router every time you switch between handheld and table routing. Plunge routers allows vertical movement while cutting so that you can shove you bit into the wood and make desired grooves. Plunge router gives precision in cutting and helps you make intricate patterns and profiles on wooden board. On the contrary, Fixed Base router is best for shaping edges. It usually has a compact

  • Leap of Courage: Cliff Diving in Italy

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    that guy going to dive off the side of the pathway?” I exclaimed to my parents as we were hiking down the 100 steps to the beach. “That dive is insane,” uttered my mom. “Hell no,” my dad said as we watched the guy plunge into the crystal clear water. There were various spots to plunge off the ledge of the pathway into

  • Arrastre Wash Case Study

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    The five folds identified in the Arrastre Wash have trend either to the Northwest or Southeast. For example, Fold 1 has a trend of 318, but the Fold 2 has a trend of 135. The folds in the Arrastre Wash have plunges in the range of 1 to approximately 20, which in the classification of the plunge

  • Common Stereotypes About Catholics

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    portable on campus at UCI. I have grown up in a house that is not religious and have not attended a church before. My family’s race is Caucasian and I am independent when it comes to religion. I decided to attend a Catholic Church for my cultural plunge to get the experience and to see what it is like to attend church. I have always listened to my friends tell me they are going to church and that they are this religion. But I have never been able to experience what going to church is like. Common

  • Classification of Water Gardens

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    There are several types of water garden designs. Water gardens are also called as garden ponds, backyard ponds or aquatic gardens which are the combination of water features with aquatic plants and sometimes ornamental fishes. Water gardens have been designed and constructed since the times of Chinese and Persian gardens. There are various types of water gardens you can try out as your water garden layout. Some of them are as follows: • Container water garden: This garden is very much suitable for

  • Imagery and Allegory in the Seamus Heaney's Poem, The Skunk

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    speaker. The image clothing is visited three times. The first is at the beginning of the poem “‘like the chasuble” and then in the later stanzas of the poem where the speaker is focusing on his wife undressing: “sootfall of your things” and “the plunge-line nightdress.” The “sootfall” or light sound of the clothes dropping to the floor is reminiscen...

  • Magical Realism

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    Louise Erdrich’s stories combine wildly dynamic characters with metaphoric language and elements of the supernatural to create tales that challenge the demarcations of cultural reality. In her stories “Plunge of the Brave,” “Scales,” and “Fleur,” Erdrich utilizes magical realism to help mystic elements seem more relatable to readers. The short stories, while otherwise straight-forward, are infused with touches of colorful language and mystic descriptions that, many critics claim, classifies Erdrich

  • Rainer Maria Rilke The Panther

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    Rainer Maria Rilke described the torment of a captured panther that she observed in a zoo through the poem "The Panther." The poem was written on November 6th, 1902, during her visit to the Jardin des Plantes, which is the main botanical garden of France's National Museum of Natural History. Through the usage of metaphors, imagery, and multiple specific representations of repetitive behaviors, the poet vividly expressed the struggle of mental illness patients. There are multiple significant metaphors

  • Why Do We Fall in Love?

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    precisely about looks, then you can fall in love at first sight. It’s unpredictable if you will last, especially not knowing what type of personality that person has. Love is an intense feeling of deep attraction. The gist of all this is that we plunge in love depending on how our brain operates in that second, if the person meets our needs, if you have sex with them it’s possible to fall in love, and if they came into your life and brightened it while you were going through a state of depression

  • Description Of Taj Exotica Spa

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    luxurious with fine art, 64 villas is furnished in natural tones and textures and offers ocean view:- 1) Lagoons villa. 2) Deluxe lagoon villa with plunge pool. 3) Deluxe beach villas with oversized plunge pool. 4) Premium beach villas with oversized plunge pool. 5) Ocean suit with oversized plunge pool. 6) One & two bedroom beach villa suits with oversized plunge pool. 7) The Rehendi presidential suits. Accommodation-  Relax and unwind- Most of the resort’s luxurious villas are at the edge over the