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    discovery‚ is now a place of caution with danger lurking around every corner. Lori Andrews writes about the privacy issues of the web in her essay‚ “George Orwell…Meet Mark Zuckerburg.” Already‚ in her title she emphasizes Orwell’s rational fear of “Big Brother” is happening now on Zuckerburg’s social media site‚ Facebook. It is not just Facebook that has fallen to data aggregators invading the privacy of anyone online. Andrews describes data aggregators as people or companies

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    Short Story and Pride

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    happy. The more pride someone has the more they accept themselves. Excessive pride can leave people to poor choices that cannot be reversed. In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ Fortunato is a prideful man with a great life; however‚ he lets his pride blind him to his inevitable faith. Fortunato “prided himself” a little too much “on his connoisseurship” of wine believing himself the best.(209) Montresor having much pride in himself as well sought revenge on Fortunato

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    The Battle of Little Big Horn: The Prelude to Disaster It is hard to say how many years ago the Dakota Indians of the Northern Mississippi River began to spill over the Missouri in search of game‚ and became hostile toward the other tribes claiming the western country. Dakota was their traditional tribal name‚ but as they crossed this Northwestern Rubicon they became known by the name the Chippewas had given them years ago: "Sioux". It was by that moniker they became known as the most numerous

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    Short Story Of Antigone

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    Here’s a story of woe within the royal family of our beloved Thebes. Our story begins when a battle breaks out or more like a war between brothers‚ who fought to be the king of Thebes. The war consisted of bloodshed in which sent many people to Hades‚ the god of the dead and the king of the underworld. Among the battling men was the god who bends and breaks the battle-line‚ Ares the god of war. But the war ended and Oedipus’ children’s uncle Creon became king. Later on when the sisters‚ Antigone

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    Stimulus: A Short Story

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    table after he had finished threatening whoever was on the other side of the line. "You’re not a people person are you‚ Niklaus?" Elijah‚ Niklaus’ brother sarcastically asked as he made his way through the door of the home they shared. "Elijah! What an entirely unwelcome surprise‚" Niklaus smirked‚ leaning back into his seat‚ staring at his older brother who had now returned home after a month long business trip. "And what an entirely unsurprising welcome‚" Elijah replied. "Who

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    Big Brother” Invades our Classrooms Do you like being watched? Do you enjoy your every move being monitored as if someone is watching a movie‚ and you are the main character? That’s what it is like for students at some schools that have invested in the use of surveillance cameras in their hallways and classrooms. Many people are all for this. Saying to put the cameras in classrooms won’t do any harm. But there are also many who think otherwise. There are many reasons either way‚ but the greater

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    Big Brother isn’t watching you Russell Brand wrote a commentary on the 2011 UK riots. But what does he have to say? Not a lot‚ you would think‚ since he does not reside there anymore. Surprisingly‚ Brand wrote the commentary with‚ of course‚ a humoristic tone‚ but still maintaining the seriousness of this matter. Let me start by saying that the 2011 UK riots were allegedly caused by the death of Mark Duggan in police custody. Surely‚ this ought to stir the tension in some minorities‚ if not‚ larger

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    The Big Short is an amazing movie that not only teaches viewers lessons on economics‚ but shows how smart and affluent people‚ in terms of economics‚ make a fortune by exploiting the housing market. Michael Burry is a hedge fund manager who discovers that the housing market is extremely unstable. The instability is due to the high risk subprime loans that banks are giving out to people that want homes. However‚ because of the tremendous amount of loans given out‚ big banks mix in really bad loans

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    rather quickly standing up from her chair‚ she walked peacefully to the door and pulled it open. Her sister Josephine was standing outside‚ a different look of panic flashed in her eye. Josephine told her sister to take a seat‚ because she had something very important to say. Telling Mrs. Mallard the news about Brently Mallard’s death was not very easy for Josephine because she was afraid her sister would die from heart break‚ after all Mrs. Mallard did have a severe heart condition. The news came

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    Jessica Gonzales ENGL 1301 Short Story Analysis First Confession In the story of “First Confession” Frank O’Connor has us look at the story from the boy‚ Jackie’s‚ point of view. Jackie is a seven year-old boy who must go to make his first confession before he can take his first communion. The story takes places in various settings that include Jackie’s house‚ Jackie’s school where Mrs. Ryan would come and give her warnings against hell to the children‚ the Chapel where Jackie and Nora have

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