Fitness Trial Sixteen

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1. Although Mickey Mouse's personality and charisma were already formed in the
   thirties and forties through Floyd Gottfredson's daily comic strips, it is the
   opinion of most people that Paul Murry was the primary person to continue this
   legacy in the comic book form. The comic book industry is often overlooked in
   the dynastic legacy of the Disney Empire. Although, it has drawn some attention
   recently.

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2. Writing can really draw you in, if it is done properly. In fact, even the
   most irrational plot can be made relevant to the reader. If, that is, the
   story is presented in such a way that it draws the reader's mind through his
   eyeballs. I would like to read such a story.

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3. Most extragalactic objects show a red shift, indicating that they are
   moving away from the observer on Earth. In 1978, however, an object designated
   SS433 was observed that exhibited alternately a red shift and a blue shift. A
   shift of light toward the blue end of the spectrum, indicating movement of the
   light source toward the observer. The phenomenon was found to originate from
   beams of particles ejected in two different directions from a central star.

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4. This memo introduces to you our new personnel manager, Evelyn Cameron. An
   experienced executive who has efficiently reorganized the workload of
   personnel departments in a number of companies and who is now bringing her
   expertise to GetTech Systems, Inc. We encourage you to communicate fully with
   Ms. Cameron and to assist her in the task of making the personnel operation
   more effective and more manageable for all of our personnel employees.

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5. It is disturbing to consider the possibility that funding for public
   broadcasting may be seriously curtailed. Under the regulations in the proposed
   budget. Many current public broadcasters would no longer qualify for federal
   funding.

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6. Even though a person may be logged on from his or her home, most of cyberspace
   is public domain. We hope that it will remain so. However, it is possible
   that commercial industries will try to buy up this public domain. Then,
   they'll turn around and sell it back to us.

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7. From knowing and seeing some of their friends and the environment only
   through writing, they get a conceptual sophistication about language. This
   is something that most English teachers have to struggle to cultivate through
   less intriguing means.

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8. You need to eat healthfully in order to live a long life. True. Yet you can
   still eat a nice, loaded hot dog every once in awhile. I think so, anyway.

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9. Oh my! It is my responsibility to prepare for the meeting. I need some
   help, if you don't mind. Get me a box of paper clips. Make copies of the
   last meeting's minutes. Thanks.

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10. A small red wagon. The smell of cut grass combined with the dew in
    the morning. Memory is subjective as it pulls together fragments of experience
    to create stories.

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