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    Google and Apple Know Where You Are‚ Maybe Bethella Sam Phillips Grantham University BA515 Abstract Location-based tracking is becoming more and more common due to the ever changing technological advances in the world today. Gone are the days where no one knew your location unless they were physically with you. Today‚ location-based tracking seems like the new trend in society with companies such as Foursquare and EchoEcho. Some wonder what makes a person use services like this to

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    The Devils Arithmetic

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    The Devils Arithmetic is a young adult fiction novel that has many fascinating elements. The story could be a great tool introducing young readers to the Holocaust. The book both differs yet shares some similarities to other holocaust novels. The story has a strange change of setting early in the story. There are many characters and they all have traits that reflect those who actually experience the Holocaust and the Nazi’s acts against humanity. The story begins with a young Jewish girl‚ Hannah

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    comes at a high cost even being left with nothing. Once your soul is lost‚ everything is lost. In the short story ’The devil and Tom Walker” and the movie ‘’Snow White and the Huntsman’ the devil takes hold of individuals that leads to permanent effects. Foremost‚ In Washington Irving’s story ‘’The devil and Tom Walker”‚ Tom Walker is led by greed to make a deal with the devil. For example‚ Tom felt something like gratitude toward the black woodsman who he considered had done him a kindness. This

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    The Number Devil

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    The Number Devil The Number Devil - A Mathematical Adventure‚ by Hans Magnus Enzensberger‚ begins with a young boy named Robert who suffers from reoccurring nightmares. Whether he’s getting slurped up by a giant fish‚ sliding down an endless slide into a black hole‚ or falling into a raging river‚ his incredibly detailed dreams always seem to have a negative effect on him. Robert’s nightmares either frighten him‚ make him angry‚ or disappoint him. His one wish is to never dream again; however‚

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    Devil in the Grove

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    The Fear of a Nation and the Bravery Within: Devil in the Grove It was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who famously said‚ “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”. There was a deep-seated irrational fear in Lake County‚ Florida in 1949 four black boys accused of raping a 17-year-old girl. White supremacists obsessed over controlling the black race‚ and protecting the “flower of southern womanhood”. While blacks feared for their lives. And with the influential but extremely courageous help

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    The Devils Highway

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    The Devils Highway Valdivia 1 Have you ever wonder why they built borders? Or who built them? Or who prevents and controls illegals from crossing‚ and what they do to accomplish them from crossing? In the book‚ The Devils Highway‚ by Luis Alberto Urrea defines the effects the desert has to offer for the immigrant’s entrance. The Devils High Way is a measureless desert past Mexico and Sonora

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    A dance with the devil

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    is because‚ of course‚ my grandmother didn’t want anything to happen to her little kids. One of her stories was: when she was a young girl her mother didn’t let her go out‚ but she still went out. As she was heading to the party the devil stood in her way‚ and who knows what extra details my grandmother added. There was one story though that she swore was true and very close to home. The year was 1975… there was a young woman who lived in San Antonio‚ Texas. She was a shy kind of girl‚ a homebody

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    Why Reading Makes You a Better Writer When a football player reviews video tape of practice or a game he is not only looking for what he did that was good‚ but also what he did badly. He is looking for mistakes that can be avoided or corrected‚ thus making him a better player. This same concept proves true when a writer reads material whether it be good or bad. In Stephen King’s memoir On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft he explains the importance and relevancy of reading all types of material to

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    Snowflakes are Cooler Than You! As the glistening snowflakes fall from the sky‚ you might be thinking that the delegate snowflakes are just white specks that fall occasionally. However‚ they are so much more. Have you ever wondered how snowflakes are formed‚ the temperature it has to be for it to snow‚ or a snowflakes appearance/ It is so fascinating‚ lets go learn about snowflakes. To begin with‚ snowflakes have the most astonishing way of forming. According to the article‚ "Snow Day’’‚ it

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    The Longer You Wait…The Better It Gets In today’s media advertisement has become a necessary part of the business. Not only are advertisements on TV‚ radio and the internet‚ but ads are filling the pages of newspapers‚ magazines‚ and even comic books. They can even be seen on billboards by the roadside. It is nearly impossible to escape them. Advertisements allow media to be sold at a cheaper price‚ and sometimes even free‚ to the consumer. Advertisers pay media companies to place their ads into

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