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There is an old Latin saying that reads, “Dimidum facti qui coepit habet sapere aude” (He who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise.). For proof of this, you need look no further than to our thirty-ninth president James Earl Carter Jr., more fondly known as Jimmy Carter. During his presidency,…

Endurance plays a major role in many athletic activities. Without endurance training, many athletes would not be able to compete in their respective sports. Endurance training involves low resistance and high repetitions, but what exactly does this do to your body and how does it do it? For starters, endurance training increases the level of…

Vitamin A is one of the groups consisting of nutritional organic compounds which are unsaturated including retinal, retinol, and retinoic acid. It plays various roles in the body. Majorly, it helps in the formation and maintenance of soft and skeletal tissue, mucus membrane, skin and the teeth. Minorly, it is termed as retinol due to…

On September 6, 1620, 102 men, women and children from England boarded a small cargo boat called the Mayflower and set sail for the New World. The passengers left their homes in England in search of religious freedom from the King of England. Today they are known as pilgrims. After braving two months at sea,…

My Antonia At the age of ten, Jim Burden travels by cross-country train to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska frontier. He has just recently lost both his parents, and he is accompanied by a farmhand named Jake. On the same train is a Bohemian family that barely speaks English and that is going…

For over 2,000 years, Christianity has been making waves by causing drastic changes in culture around the world. As the Gospel message spread, the Christian Church began to form. It has changed shape many times throughout its existence and its influence over vast groups of people has led to the world we see today. It…