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    God-Mother and The Black Widow” was a female drug trafficker that committed numerous murders while she was trafficking cocaine from Colombia to the USA. Griselda was born on February 15‚ 1943 in Cartagena‚ Colombia and since a young age used to traffic drugs to Southern California‚ Miami and New York from Columbia. Griselda was raised in an abusive household that leader her into a life of crime and prostitution at a very young age. She was eventually associated with one of the most infamous cartels

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    are attempting to display is that the rich will continuously be triumphing due to their money‚ but India is not truly progressing onward and the unjust society needs reforming. Subsequently‚ Balram had acquired wealth he had explained how‚ “theres no one else in this 150- square foot office of mine‚ Just me and a chandelier above me…” (5). This presents Balrams materialistic

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    The story Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving demonstrates how Rip gains his personal freedom from his wife just as the colonies obtain freedom from the King. Rip wants to be free and independent ‚ so he finds activities to do in his community to stay away from his wife. Irving uses Rip to connect history and how important being independent‚ and free not only for Rip ‚but also for the colonist of that time. After‚ Rip wakes up from his deep sleep he is no longer deprived by his wife just as the colonist

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    One for One American Transcendentalist writer‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ “to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” In today’s society many entrepreneurs and businessmen do not see this as the definition of success. However‚ thirty-five year old entrepreneur and adventurist‚ Blake Mycoskie‚ agrees with Emerson’s definition of success. In 2006‚ Mycoskie started the for profit company‚ TOMS. The company sells shoes here in the United States

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    Irving Kenneth Zola wrote an article titled Self‚ Identity‚ and the Naming Question. Within this article Zola “explores the importance of language in the naming of people with disabilities (Zola 500). He also draws similarities and differences with other oppressed groups within the United States. “Negative language inflicts the subconscious of most...people from the time they first learn to speak” (Zola 501). What a powerful quote Zola makes in the very first few lines of his article. Young minds

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    One Game‚ One Love By John Victor Marcelino After almost 4 months of waiting‚ the world’s most popular basketball league‚ the National Basketball Association (NBA) returns in front of its tens of millions of fans around the world. With the last season ending on a high note via an epic 7-game Finals series between the elite teams of Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs‚ NBA fans will expect more surprises this new period of basketball battle. By the bird’s eye view‚ let’s look on some teams

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    A110  Fall  2014  -­‐  Museum  Paper   Nichole  Smith   This  paper  is  an  analysis  of  an  American  artist  named  Irving  Norman.    His  oil  on   canvas  composition  is  called  “Cross…road”.    This  paper  will  analyze  the  visual‚  stylistic‚  and   historical  elements  to  the  painting.   Norman  made  all  of  his  pieces  great  sizes‚  particularly  to  increase  the  meaning

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    Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is closely linked to myth. Marquez chooses magic realism over the literal‚ thereby placing the novel’s emphasis on the surreal. To complement this style‚ time in One Hundred Years of Solitude is also mythical‚ simultaneously incorporating circular and linear structure (McMurray 76). Most novels are structured linearly. Events occur chronologically‚ and one can map the novel’s exposition‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action‚ and denouement. One Hundred Years of

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    The technology has one of the biggest development for the last years. A recent survey says that 95% of people will use gadgets in 2020. Evolution of technology has really changed the world: from the industry to the modern people’s lifestyle.R The first cellphone was created by Martin cooper in 1983 and cost almost $4000.This cellphone weighed in at 2.5 pounds and had a battery life of 20 minutes. So don’t complain about your smartphone battery life now. 7 hours is much better than 20 minutes‚ especially

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