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    arguments to try and pass the act. One of the arguments was that in the west the Indians would have more resources and a better way of living. The southerners did not seem to care that the lands in the west were already occupied (Hood‚ Kelleher‚ and Larkin). Some of the Indians were bribed from their lands. Other were threatened to be removed (Brill 38). To get the Indians to leave‚ the Americans made cruel laws. They wanted the Indians to become so miserable they would leave (Aaseng 7). One of

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    Kaylon Dobson Mrs. Larkins Language Arts 5/28/2013 ARE ZOOS CRUEL OR EDUCATIONAL Zoos are cruel because of recent incidents that have happened creating the deaths and injuries of some animals. In the 2005 DreamWorks move‚ Madagascar‚ a group of zoo animals wanted to leave the zoo for a day to explore New York little did they know there one day escape turned into an adventure greater than they could have every imagine. While exploring New York they were accidentally shipped to the island

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    public health policies‚ to develop new programs and to demonstrate need when applying for grant funding‚ state health officials said Thursday. teen smoking vices “The problem area continues to be nutritional choices‚ obesity‚” said Dr. Gregory Larkin‚ state health commissioner. “We have seen some improvement in tobacco choices.”Twenty-three percent of Indiana teens said they had smoked a cigarette during the past month‚ which is up from 22 percent from the 2007 survey. The national average is

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    aftermath. As concurred by Evan Bernick and Paul J. Larkin‚ Jr. (2014)‚ “they argue that mandatory minimum sentences reflect a societal judgment that certain offenses demand a specified minimum sanction and thereby ensure that anyone who commits such a crime cannot avoid a just punishment”. Secondly elimination of mandatory sentencing rejects the idea of sentencing disparity‚ as agreed by Evan Bernick and Paul J. Larkin‚ Jr. (2014)‚ “mandatory minimum

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    In both of these poems Anthem For Doomed Youth and MCMXIV talking about war‚ Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin try in different ways to engrave in their readers minds the atrocious actions that war provoked with different language‚ voice but also form. First of all‚ the poems are written in a different way. Anthem For Doomed Youth with his ABAB CDCD ABBACC rhyme scheme is in fact a sonnet. However‚ a sonnet is usually used to glorify love and romance whereas Anthem For Doomed Youth focuses on the

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    I was born to William A. Atkinson and Diane Larkins. The Larkins’ are wealthy land owners and the Atkinson’s are creative artists. After much debate about the newborn beautiful baby girl‚ two names were thought of. The Atkinson’s prefer OctaEvia Octavious ‚ but the Larkins’ want Christal Lorraine Larkins as my name. End result I am named Christal Lorraine OctaEvia Octavious Larkins. Ridiculous right‚ both my parents settle on a

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    metaphor for how he feels he is getting older‚ “being in a hurry gone” suggests that Larkin is slowly drifting through life with no purpose‚ all the time getting older. The first stanza is open to different perspectives‚ there is a lexical field of happy images or unhappy images depending on how different people feel about it. Being in a “three-quarters-empty train” would be nice for some people yet not so for others‚ Larkin was probably happy with it due to his shyness and detachment from the world. The

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    have many times before to be astonished by its beauty and functionality of what it has become today. The day was perfect for a museum visit and to look upon various artworks that would entertain my creative side for the duration of that Saturday afternoon. It is not every day that someone in their city can drive ten minutes to see priceless works of art and that’s what makes weekends like these special. Every time I have visited the Philbrook‚ it reminds me of how lucky are city is to have such

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    much faster manner. “Burlington parents had instant access to information and a place to have questions answered swiftly. This saved school administrators hours that in the past we would’ve spent answering phone calls from parents and news media.” (Larkin‚ 72). During crisis situations the schools would have to call each and every parent in order to get news around and that could take hours‚ and in those hours parents are worried and freaking out about their children. Because of a social media site

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    realization that schadenfrude will not heal a person. The story begins with an implication that the Larkin family of Crosby‚ Maine had experienced some sort of tragedy or embarrassment by the fact that Strout states‚ “People thought the Larkin couple would move after what happened.” (140) We learn later that the event was a particularly violent murder committed by Doyle‚ the son of Rodger and Louise Larkin. Rodger and Louise had become recluse since the event‚ which naturally intrigued the inhabitants

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