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    beginning of her eternal life. Not just today‚ but many days I’m reminded of her faith‚ wisdom‚ and love. Like‚ when I heard Jimmy Carter’s press conference telling the world how he felt regarding his health issues‚ I was once again reminded of my mom. Both seem to have held the same deep sense of faith for the God they worshipped. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes.” Jimmy Carter “Whenever the good Lord wants to take me I’m ready . . . I’ve led a long

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    laws ( Plato ). In the story A Retrieved Reformation Jimmy Valentine is a crook living around the 1890s with a quick-tongue and a great set of safe cracking “tools” . After the governor pardons him from jail‚ he goes back to his old game of cracking safes; with the threat of detective Ben price on his tail. Once Jimmy finds a new life in the city of Elmore‚he marries a young woman named Annabel Adams‚ and he changes into a moral character. Jimmy Valentine was dedicated to a moral life because he demonstrated

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    James Earl Carter Jr. had become the 39th president of the United States in 1976. The Democrat and once Georgia senator had promised to bring a fresh‚ new approach to the White House in hopes to break people’s doubts about the presidency that were left from the Nixon/Ford era. In the election of 1976 Carter squeaked by the republican‚ Gerald Ford by a 49.9% vote to a 46.9% vote. Carter had differed greatly from all of the previous presidents in several ways. He brought a more informal‚ "homey"

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    In the book There There‚ author Tommy Orange tells the stories of various Native Americans‚ connected by their indigenous culture. Orange shares the narratives of these Native Americans‚ allowing the reader to compare and contrast their stories. There are differences among the numerous characters‚ however‚ their Native heritage brings them together. The stories are told by Tommy Orange‚ who is an indigenous person himself. This is notable as it enables these stories to be shared in an accurate manner

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    Jimmy John’s My personal reason to investigate Jimmy John’s is that I have had the experience of being a delivery driver for the franchise for the last two years. In this time I have learned some information about the business that is not commonly known and what happens outside of the customers’ views. In 1983‚ Jimmy John Liautaud perfected his award-winning bread and opened up his first Jimmy John’s restaurant. Jimmy John did not have a lot of money to start out his company and he was even unable

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    Jimmy Carter and the Energy Crisis of the 1970’s In the speech that President Jimmy Carter preached he regarded plenty of important things‚ but one of the main ones was the issue with the energy. 0n his speech he says that one thing he has been asking himself is “why hasn’t the nation been able to resolve the serious energy problem?” (109) The whole nation is responsible for this issue and just like the President addressed saying that” it wasn’t only the gasoline lines or energy shortages‚ deeper

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    Jimmy to Ralph O. Henry was the nom de plume of William Sydney Porter‚ who began writing through contribution to magazines and newspapers. He started creating his characters as he worked as a draftsman for the Texas General Land Office. His writing is well known for their wit‚ wordplay‚ warm characterization‚ and clever twist endings. In 1909‚ he wrote “A Retrieved Reformation‚” whose title is an example of the literary device‚ alliteration. The short story is about a cunning safe-cracker‚ Jimmy

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    “On the day they were going to kill him‚ Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on” (Márquez‚ 2). In the event that Márquez wrote the book in a random order‚ it was based on retelling Santiago’s Nasar’s murder. Additionally‚ the weakness of the brain’s memory being depicted throughout the novel‚ by the commoners that lived in a small town inside of Colombia. If the order of the book was told in a different way‚ then it would’ve lost its cliffhanger

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    pain‚ too.” Jack was a person who did not get into a lot of trouble. Then‚ he started hanging out with his new neighbors‚ he kept getting in lots of trouble‚ such as riding a bike down the roof and having an electric chair and almost sitting in it. Jimmy Valentine the main character in “Retrieved information” was walking down the street of Elmore when meeting the love of his

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    young shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago ventured out on a quest to find his dream‚ the treasure. Along the way Coelho placed certain people in Santiago’s path to give him wisdom and life lessons to help him find the foreseeable treasure that occurred in his dream. Throughout Santiago voyage he gathered at least five valuable lessons to help him succeed in perusing his dream of finding the treasure that was near the pyramids‚ located in Egypt. The first lesson Santiago learned was to find his

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