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    Annotation of "Who’s for the Game?" by Jessie Pope Saturday‚ 14 August 2010 10:49 a.m. Rhetorical question offers a challenge to the reader. Makes the reader feel guilty if their answer isn’t good enough. Who’s for the Game? Allusion to colour of British army uniforms Repetition/parallel construction develops Pope’s idea of courage Colloquial language sounds friendly‚ Light-hearted‚ conversational. Personal pronouns appeal directly to the reader. Who’s for the game‚ the biggest that’s played

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    SHC represent three-quarters of all the reported incidents. The most common of these cases is the famous "bedroom burnings" in which a victim is found as a pile of ashes with only limbs remaining.

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    Book Burning In a reaction to the Nazi book burning‚ Helen Keller once wrote in a letter to the students of Germany saying‚ “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before‚ and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.” Right before World War II students from universities across Germany gathered to burn books. Book burning is lighting of fire to books or other written material‚ in a public area. It is usually done

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    talk show or in the newspaper; or publicly protest against the government tax policy. However‚ Free Speech protection becomes debatable when some American citizens burn the nation’s flag to express their disagreement to the government. The act of burning the American Flag should be constitutionally protected under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause because the act is a symbolic expression that communicates an individual’s idea or opinion about his nation; and that the First Amendment’s Free

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    Paris is Burning 1. I would argue that the group of poor gay minorities‚ like the people in the ball‚ is a subculture in itself. This group is a subculture of the gay culture. The distinguishing aspects of the group are that they are poor‚ gay‚ and minorities. Another distinguishing aspect is that members of this subculture are typically outcasts. They have been rejected by family members‚ friends‚ and American society as a whole. “It’s hard to imagine a more outcast group in American society

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    the 1960’s‚ burning the flag has been protected under the First Amendment. Many attempts throughout the years have been made to overrule that decision.(Garbus Martin) In 1968‚ the Federal Flag Desecration Law was enacted. It prohibited any action of “contempt” against the flag. (Flag Burning and Desecration) Many Americans sacrifice their lives to keep our American Flag flying. Although many believe burning the American Flag is okay‚ it should be illegal. Some people believe that burning the flag

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    Bridget Cleary or more popularly described as "the last witch burned in Ireland"‚ though not actually accused of witchcraft‚ was murdered and burned by her husband in 1895‚ whose motive was his belief that she had been abducted by fairies and in her place the fairies had left only a changeling; he claimed to have killed the changeling and not his actual wife. Bridget was burned - immolated which either caused her death or was done post mortum which prompted extensive press coverage during a time

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    national pride comes occasional radicalism. While this anti-American activity may take on many forms‚ flag burning infuriates other citizens unlike no other. These acts of pure hatred toward this country are controversial in terms of free speech and first amendment rights‚ which is why many Americans see fit to punish these offenders even though they are protected by the constitution. The burning of the American flag is not attributed to a certain group of citizens but to those who strongly disagree

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    Burning Man: A Ticket to Free Expression August 27‚ 2012‚ you and your friends pile into the care and you drive until you finally reach nowhere‚ also known as Black Rock Desert. Burning Man‚ a week long experience of art‚ exploration‚ freedom‚ and expression. When attending Burning Man there are not many rules‚ only a select few that are enforced. One of the enforced rules of Burning Man is that you leave the land the way you found it. If you bring it you take it. Volunteers stay weeks after Burning

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    What was your reaction to the events associated with Freedom Summer 1964‚ as depicted in the film Mississippi Burning? My reaction in regards to the events associated with Freedom Summer 1964 where it was depicted in the film Mississippi Burning was horrific. There is no reason to simply murder three people. Nonetheless‚ absolutely no reason at all to murder three people based on their beliefs and intentions. The methods that the Ku Klux Klan members had used to torture their targets are sickening

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