... laugh and play as the surf washed up around my chubby legs. In our elementary school days, my friends and I would spend our summers at the beach, taking turns burying each other in the sand up to our chins. We collected many different types of seashells--pointed, spiral ones that we used to call ... and walked the shores all day. Now I never entered the water, I looked horrible with wet hair! Instead, my friends and I laid on huge, oversized beach towels, smelling of suntan oils, and baking in the sun. We made a point to turn over about every fifteen minutes so that we wouldn't burn, we...

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... came in and started giving the men their mission briefing. "There will be three squads to a unit, and three different specialization's to a unit. "Each beach boat will also consist of three squads." "Listen carefully because I am only going to call out the three squads that will be combining once." "Unit number one ... their whole entire time in the army. They found out after the meeting that they would be getting on a regular sized boat that will contain their beach boats one-day. When they saw the boat, all three of them got excited; they just couldn't wait to get to Normandy. Well the...

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... that is fun to watch on TV, but to me it is more than all of that, it is a lifestyle. When I was younger I would always go to the beach with my dad and surf, not bodyboard, because he was a surfer and I wanted to be like him, but that would all change. The summer before eighth grade I was ... I was out there I pulled my first roll. Pulling that roll was the best thing that I could have ever done, had I not pulled that one roll at Linda Lane beach my life would be very different. I would not have been able to witness to as many people as I did in high school, I would not be here at Point ...

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... birthday my life changed forever when I was told that, come November, my family and I were going to be moving to Virginia Beach. At first this change might not seem as a bad thing, the term beach speaks for itself, but being a 12 year old from South Jersey I was afraid of what the south held in store for me ... past five plus years. The people I have met here and the experiences I've had have sculpted me as an individual. Without the move from South Jersey to Virginia Beach, I would not be the individual who is writing this essay now. When I was told about the news of moving in late Jul...

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... backed up to a beautiful large pond and we wanted to do something to take advantage of the view. Just under seven years ago we were wed on Bradenton Beach due to our fondness of the sand and ocean. I wanted a piece of that in my back yard. With that thought in mind he began work clearing a ... ten by ten area of grass and dirt, framing it with wood in the shape of an octagon, and had a truck load of beach sand delivered and dumped into it. He added a fire pit by laying some lava rock under the sand and surrounding it with river rock. We added two ... adirondack chairs and a few tiki to...

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... uniforms will put the students" emphasis on schoolwork instead of dressing Hooper 2 "cool", and they will help to lower school violence. Almost six years ago, the Long Beach School District made headlines when it became the first school district in the country to make uniforms mandatory for its elementary and middle school students. According to school officials in ... Long Beach, California, attendance and test scores improved, incidents of students fighting decreased by 50%, student crimes decreased by 36% and student suspensions decreased by 32% after they enacted a ... , Florida, Ge...

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... uniforms help the school meet five goals: foster greater school pride, enhance self-esteem, improve school attendance, reduce suspensions and improve school climate (Washington 1). The number of suspensions in Long Beach, California, which now requires uniforms for students, dropped 32 percent. Every category of infraction - from assaults to drug use to sex offenses- has fallen. Teachers and administrators in the Long ... Beach also believe most students perform better academically because of the uniforms, making school more of an academic atmosphere (Pertman 2). Officials in Long Beach...

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... feel uniforms will put the students" emphasis on schoolwork instead of dressing "cool", and they will help to lower school violence. Almost five years ago, the Long Beach School District made headlines when it became the first school district in the country to make uniforms mandatory for its elementary and middle school students. According to Phoenix school ... officials in Long Beach, California, attendance and test scores improved, incidents of students fighting decreased by 50%, student crimes decreased by 36% and student suspensions decreased by 32% after they enacted a ... , Florid...

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... the beaches. The resort we stayed at was beautifully decorated with exotic flowers, trees, and animals. The path to the beach was through a little jungle. When you walked through it, you could see animals such as, monkeys and flamingos. The beach had white sand, and the water was clear blue. The workers at the resort catered to your every need. If you ... top of the big pyramid, it was a long way up, but I made it. This was something I had always wanted to do. We also got to ride four wheelers on the beach, and through the jungle. While we were there we rented speed boats. I had my own,...

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... is why so many parents want the schools to go to a mandatory uniform policy. Many parents believe that if children wear uniforms, the violence in schools would drop significantly. Long Beach Unified School District was the first large school district in the United States to implement a mandatory uniform policy. "In 1994, the Long ... Beach Unified School District in California became the nation's first, large urban district to require all it's elementary and middle school students to wear uniforms. School crime has plunged 76 percent ... , but they also have to supply their children wi...

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... own experience, of knowing how harsh life can be without an education. The words had always slipped through my mind though, and after high school, I had moved down to Virginia Beach where I had worked as a telemarketer for almost a year. In November of 2001, my mother, who still remained in New Jersey, had decided to take me to India. I had spent almost ... own experience, of knowing how harsh life can be without an education. The words had always slipped through my mind though, and after high school, I had moved down to Virginia Beach where I had worked as a telemarketer for almost a y...

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... it comes to the implementation of uniforms. A middle school in Norfolk Virginia, reported a thirty-eight percent reduction in fighting after just six months of enacting a uniform policy. Also in a Long Beach California school district, they reported a seventy-six percent decrease in school crime, just three years after enacting their Uniforms in the uniform policy (Journal of Law & Education). If more schools ... be part of a larger picture. Many officials chose uniform policy because it is a simple and efficient way to start making changes. According to Jean Hartman a spokesman of the L...

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... arguments for uniforms is the main topic, which is whether they reduce school violence or not. In some startling statistics, it was shown that a year after uniform implementation in Long Beach schools, school crime decreased by 36 percent, fights by 51%, sex offenses by 74%, weapon offenses by 50%, assault and battery by 34%, and vandalism by 18% (Noll). Dick Van ... Der Laan of the Long Beach Unified School District, when asked his opinion on the statistics, stated: "We can't attribute the improvement exclusively to school uniforms, but we think it's more than coincidental. There's les...

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... no matter where on the coast I am is the ocean. Predominantly growing up in the Midwest, a huge dream of mine is to live near a beach of a big ocean. Through media and vacations, and being born on a California beach, I have always had a fetish with beaches and oceans. Everything from the water, to the fish, to the sun and sand, to the surfing intrigues ... most places in between have been major influences on who I am today. Each place on the east coast brings out a different side of me. For instance, Miami brings out my beach bum, Latino, fun side; New York City brings out my urban, pos...

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... for who he was. Then once he was about to graduate UC San Diego, he went on a cruise to Mexico with his girlfriend. They both arrive to a beach which was an extremely dangerous beach and was not warned about the dangerous waves. And from that day, my friend, Bovey never came back. They searched and searched, but the body was never recovered ... ...

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... implemented uniforms into their school structure, have shown a decrease in negative activities, including fights, sexual assaults, thefts, drugs, and weapons. For instance, the Long Beach California school district put school uniforms into practice in 1994. Long Beach School systems have had a major decrease in fights by fifty-one percent; sex offenses fell by seventy-four percent; weapons dropped by fifty percent, and ... ...

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... to be true to himself for fear of not being accepted. Before he starts his expedition on finding himself, he's a very agreeable person. "Let's go to the beach- Finny tells Gene. Although the beach was hours away and forbidden to go to, Gene responds with a simple "All Right.""(37) After playing head games with himself, putting himself to the test and an ... ...

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... he wasn't so diligent about keeping in touch while over seas, I don't know if we would still be as close. He was the first person I met when moved to Satellite Beach and the last person I saw before I moved to Jacksonville. June 16, 1993, I still remember it like it was yesterday. It was the day I moved to Satellite ... Beach and the day I met Brad Faulkner. From my kitchen window, I could see out to the golf course and I could see a little boy fishing in the lake. I didn't know any kids, ... ...

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... well, just hoping that soon all of this would click. I knew something was not right. I could barley concentrate on the simplest of task. I found myself daydreaming about going to the beach, warm fall Tennessee nights with the frogs croaking, and being that free spirited teenager desperate to cruise the strip one last time before going home. My grades started reflecting a downward ... ...

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... outside of Newark. When some students raised their hand, he asked where and to compare the weather in the other location to Newark's weather. Some students remember going to the beach and even the countries their parents are from and were able to properly answer the question. By asking this question, Mr. Gonzalez is getting the student to think about what ... ...

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... , she thought I'd be a great teacher on how to surf. I can barely do it myself, but she insisted. So we got up early before work to go out to Kailua-Kona beach and I'd try to teach her. Never have I ever met anyone, besides myself, so uncoordinated. Watching her fall off as fast as she got up was very entertaining. Now it's your ... ...

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... . The fact that you can get sick from the tap water opened my eyes. After returning from China, I joined the Make a Difference Club and participated as much as I can, I did beach clean ups, walks and anything I could to help out the environment. Pollution and poverty is getting really bad and I believe everybody should participate in order to flip the situation around ... ...

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... school. Before the installation of the metal detectors they hardly ever caught anyone with guns. Generally, schools need to bring in more security than ever needed before. Twice in Long Beach, California teens from outside the school threw bottles and rocks at the schoolyard. Twice, students were fired on and a bullet hurt a boy playing basketball. As a result of these incidents the ... ...

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... man or women can be a monumental step in their life. In my case it was. It was the first time that I had been away from my home in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. I was not necessarily scared to be away, but I was a little worried about the transition from the skate free ways of high school that I was very used to. The schoolwork ... ...

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... estimated at $100 million. One company dominates the market: Speedo, a division of Authentic Fitness (publicly owned, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA), with 60% of the market. TYR, headquartered in Huntington Beach, CA and privately owned, in part by former swimmer Steve Furniss, is A distant second with 20% market share Other companies include Arena, which is rumored to be going out of ... ...

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