October 4th‚ 1996. It is a raining day in New York. The secret agent Joe Rojo is undercover to catch the biggest drug smugglers of the world. These mobsters are the target of eight different countries and for the first time the CIA has the opportunity to put them behind bars. The gang is conformed by Alfonzo ‘el loco’ Ramirez‚ and Mario ‘the Italian’ Benetti. They attempt to unload the largest drug shipment that New York has seen. Agent Rojo after two weeks of spying‚ he found out about this enormous
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The documentary Fire in the Blood is a 2013 narrative by Dylan Mohan Gray (an Indian-Canadian dual citizen). FIRE IN THE BLOOD recounts the story of how Western pharmaceutical organizations and governments forcefully blocked access to minimal effort AIDS drugs for the nations of Africa and the worldwide south in the years after 1996 - bringing about ten million or more unnecessary passing - and the unrealistic gathering of individuals who chose to battle back. The documentary demonstrates one of
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Galley wrote this‚ when he was in prison and the story of the movie is related to his own life. The main character of the movie is Miles Montego played by Jeff "Ja Rule" Atkins‚ he is a gangster and a drug dealer‚ and the other one is Vanessa Leon played by Adrienne Bailon as the girlfriend of Miles and lately she became his wife. Vanessa is a very religious girl and has a strong devotion to God. Miles first saw Vanessa when he is driving but he does not has a chance to talk to her. Fortunately‚
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding starts off with a group of schoolboys that have crash landed on an uninhabited island. The protagonist‚ Ralph‚ is the first one who blows into the conch shell bringing all the boys to the beach. The antagonist of the story‚ Jack‚ proposes there should be a leader and Ralph is elected. Ralph decides there should be a signal fire to alert passing ships‚ but jacks wants to hunt for the wild pigs on the island so Ralph lets them hunt if the maintain the fire. Ralph
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Bernard Marx- Bernard Marx could be seen as the outcast of the social group. He isn’t exactly as tall or as involved in “social gatherings” (sexual gatherings) as the other Alpha group members‚ the “rich‚ wealthy” class of the dystopian society. Bernard views the other members of his social class as disgusting human beings with no morals. Bernard is kind of like the “Winston Smith” from George Orwell’s 1984. He questions society and goes against a lot‚ if not all‚ of their ideas. John the “Savage”-
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“When considering the subject matter of many of Pushkin’s writings one is struck by the fact that certain intellectual demands are made on the reader‚ “ and they become apart of a character’s flaws and struggles (Fennell 386). In the “The Queen Of Spades”‚ Hermann finds trouble managing to keep his sanity while searching for a the magic three words‚ and through him we witness the deterioration of man that was once stable. Caryl Emerson‚ a Slavic language and literature professor at Princeton University
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Hard work pays off "When the going gets tough‚ the tough get going" Joseph P. Kennedy. Mawi Asgedom‚ in his book Of Beetles and Angels‚ shares the story of his life filled with many difficult circumstances‚ but as Joseph Kennedy said‚ it is during the toughest times‚ that Mawi shows his courage and toughness. In his remarkable journey from surviving a war in Africa to a refugee camp in Sudan‚ a hard childhood living outside of Chicago and eventually receiving a full scholarship to Harvard‚ Mawi
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In his novel‚ Perfume‚ Suskind‚ a German author mocking French culture‚ places Grenouille in the care of Madame Gaillard‚ a widow who runs an orphanage outside of Paris‚ for the majority of his childhood. Suskind satirizes French culture through Grenouille’s lack of positive experience at the orphanage‚ emphasizing the ignorance and greed that plagued their society. To start‚ Susskind introduces Madame Gaillard‚ one of the greediest people Grenouille encounters throughout his entire life. “Even
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The book The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera reminds me of a telenovela (a spanish soap opera). It has a bunch of twist and turns and is an entertaining read. It talks about family‚ school‚ having a confusing love life‚ and being blind to the world around you. The themes of this book are being yourself no matter what and look deeper than just the surface are the main reasons why I read this book. I was interested to see how the main character Margot Sanchez handled her situation as
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In this chapter‚ Barbara Arrowsmith is a young girl whose brain was asymmetry and her body was not normal since her right side was larger than her left. Due to her learning disabilities‚ she lacked the spatial reasoning. She also had kinesthetic problem as well as visual disability. She had trouble understanding math concepts‚ grammar. Due to her dyslexic‚ she couldn’t tell the different between b‚ d‚ q‚ and p‚ read “saw” as “was” which almost cost her life since she sniffles sulfuric acids. She
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