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    Born on September 30, 1980, Jennie Finch is an American softball player whom many young girls idolize. She had much success in at the collegiate and professional level, earning her many championships and awards. Finch has become softball 's most dominant and infamous softball player and one of the most respected athletes in all of professional sports. She has since retired from playing the game of softball but continues to advocate her love for the sport and its influence it can have on women around the world. Jennie Finch grew up in California with a family that deeply loved baseball. Her mother was a huge Dodger 's fan, she watched her brother 's grow up playing baseball, and she could not have been more excited when her father signed her up for t-ball around her fifth birthday. From the start, Jennie showed signs of being a successful athlete. She had a strong arm and was bigger than the rest of her teammates, but it wasn 't until age eight that she began pitching. Once…

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    Jennie Finch is known as an all American softball player. She was born in La Mirada, California on September 3, 1980. Since she had two older brothers that both played baseball, when she turned 5 years old she joined her first little league team just like her brothers had done. The whole household loved baseball. Since they were close to Los Angeles they were all Dodger fans. As Jennie grew older she switched over to girls softball. This is where she started pitching at 8 years old and…

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    Jennie Finch is the Team USA softball pitcher, and is one of the best. Jennie is a two time Olympic champion, winning a gold in 2004 at Athens, and a silver in Beijing (Wilson). She went to college at University of Arizona, and obviously was the pitcher. She has never stopped pitching and began at the age of 8. Jennie Finch is an influential advocate of empowering women through her actions/influences/etc... including role model to girls, supporting charities, and never giving up.…

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    miles per hour, Jennie Finch pitches all strikes for every game. But that is what you may have seen if you had been lucky enough to witness one of the games that Finch was the pitcher in: She stunned the softball world with her amazing performance. At age five Jennie Finch started playing softball, and became a pitcher at eight years old(Team). She played for the Arizona Wildcats, and the Chicago Bandits, and she has won two Olympic medals and seven world championships with the U.S. She was…

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    softball world is a woman named Jennie Finch. To me, she is the best softball player of the last couple of decades, but others do not agree. There was a lot of controversy that happened a few year ago, because people were saying she did not earn…

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    Jennie Finch was born on September 3, 1980. She grew up with her mom, dad, and her two brothers. They lived in La Mirada California. She is now married to Caisey Daigle. She got married on January 15, 2005. She has three kids, two sons and one daughter. She is a Christian and loves God. Her favorite food is Cajun, seafood (grilled shrimp), and desert. Her dream vacation is to go to Australia. Her nicknames are Jen and Finchey. Her favorite thing to do is to be outside with her family. Jennie…

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    Primary source textual evidence # 2:“Don’t be silly, Jean Louise, ‘’ said Aunt Alexandra. ‘’The thing is, you can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines, you can put him in shoes and a new suit, but he’ll never be like Jem. Besides, there’s a drinking streak in that family a mile wide. Finch women aren’t interested in that sort of people.”(Lee, 248). I think that this quote ties very well into the 4 groups of people because Aunt alexandra explains the Cunninghams as who they are. In conclusion…

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    This chapter of the story begins with Scout and Jem making their way to town to buy a baton for Scout among other things. They pass Mrs. Dubose’s house. She is sitting on the porch and begins to make snarky comments about the Finch family. On their way back from town Jem is unable to act responsibly and this results in him destroying Mrs. Dubose’s camellia bushes. Prior to this Atticus had warned the kids to act nicely to Mrs. Dubose because she is an ill elderly lady. When Atticus returns home…

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    1a. Figure C 1b. The reason Figure C is the best histogram for birds that survived is because Bumpus had suggested that birds that were unusually large or small were unable to survive the winter due to a natural selection he called, stabilizing selection. According to Bumpus, stabilizing selection "winnows out of the extremes and favors those in the middle..", supporting that the there is a relationship between the size of the birds' traits and their survival. Figure C shows the best…

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    had thoughts like these before Aunt Alexandra came (Lee 178). For this reason, it is clear that she has been trying to mold Jem, Scout, and Atticus into this perfect family that is nothing like they used to be before she came. Mothers want the best for their family, but they accept who they are; they will not try to change their family as Alexandra has so desperately been trying to do. Calpurnia has never tried to change the ways of the Finch family. Rather, she accepts them for who they are and…

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