Don´t Do Drugs The drug empire is growing is an article that New York Time pubished in may 11th 2012 and it says. People use drugs in societies around the world more than ever before. Why is it this way? Is it cheper to buy drugs today than 40 years ago? Or is it just easier to reach drugdealers who are selling drugs? I belive it is the last mentioned cause. That is why I also belive we must have stricter laws cocerning druguseing as well as drugdealing to make people stop use drugs. If you ask
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What do you know of Booker T. Washington? Well‚ I’d say he is probably one of the most forgiving men I’ve ever read about. The book takes us through one of the most dynamic periods in this country’s history‚ especially African American history. As I read the biography of Washington’s life‚ the only thing that came to mind is how unbelievable patient‚ hopeful and humble of a man he was. Born a slave‚ and told he could do nothing‚ accomplish nothing; now an example to all men‚ white and colored alike
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Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid shot and directed by Carl Reiner was very well shot and edited. There was a lot of shots that stood out‚ like the montage sequence of Juliet sucking the bullet out of Rigby’s arm. Then there was a lot of other neat spliced shots from other movies‚ the best one was when Rigby was trying to give that one girl’s father a dog. The scene just flowed smoothly. But one thing I do think they could have tried to do a bit better is to take the static lines
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Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring creates a vision of a twenty-first century Toronto suffering political and economical crises‚ which has been barricaded by the suburbs. The main character of the novel is Ti-Jeanne‚ a young girl who loses everything in the story. Her story starts as a young troubled girl‚ fearful‚ surrounded by bad luck and scared of her grandmother‚ Mami. Throughout the story she interacts only to few people with whom her relationships are well established and interesting
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is part one of a three part trilogy called the Millennium Trilogy. The novel was written in Sweden in 2005‚ by Stieg Larsson. The book sold millions across the world and has been translated into several different languages‚ including English in 2008. It also has two films‚ one filmed in 2009‚ and the most recent one in 2011. I believe the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is one of the best crime novels on the shelves because of the twisting plot
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Each American president has had to deal with controversial issues and sometimes scandals during their administration terms in office. How they address‚ or avert the issue impacts the perception to their leadership capability for our republic. Their policies are sculpted often by public opinion and historical context. President William Clinton is no exception and his handling of the “Don’t ask‚ Don’t tell” controversy indicates that his policies‚ openly excluded gay and bisexual people from military
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Name: Maria Cerdio Title: Girl With a Pearl Earring Author: Tracy Chevalier Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance This engaging book tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting “Girl With a Pearl Earring” by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Chevalier presents a fictional account of the artist‚ the model‚ and the story behind the painting. It follows the experiences of young Griet over the two years she serves in the Vermeer household and slowly grows apart
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Red Scarf Girl Red Scarf Girl is a memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang. It is a book in which Ji-Li tells her own very personal narrative of the experiences that happened to her within this unstable period of Chinese culture. Seventh grade students will be glued to the pages of this book as they learn about one girl’s personal journey during a destructive period of Chinese history. Ji-Li is a positive role model for seventh grade students because she is concerned about
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Southern California School of Cinematic Arts to study film and become a better communicator. In his book Don’t Be Such a Scientist he goes into great detail about his experiences and the lessons he learned. Randy Olsen’s books is not an information guide on how scientist should communicate‚ it is a book of suggestions on how scientist should rethink
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The Best Book on the Planet The Outsiders was a great book that includes suspense and fights. This book is in the point of view of Ponyboy Curtis. He talks about how it was living back in 1967. Him and his friends are in a “gang” called the greasers. This “gang” is really a group of good friends that always have eachothers back. The main character is Ponyboy. He is 14 years old he has light brown hair‚ he is the youngest in the gang. Then the other characters are: Soda‚ he is 16 years old and is
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