Fortunate Son My song is "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. "Fortunate Son" was created in 1969. "Fortunate Son" was created as a Anti-War song that was written about the Vietnam war during the time. The song reached #3 on the charts for Billboard. "Fortunate Son" received a gold disk award in December 1970. The song was also added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress because of it being Culturally‚ aesthetically and historically significant. Although
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As I woke up the first rays of light and warmth were rising out of the darkness and lighting up the countryside. A thick fog hung in the air; it was so thick I could barely see twenty metres in front of my eyes. It was almost like the fog was choking the sky. The birds were still chirping and chattering as the wind blew through the leaves on the tree. The ground was extremely barren and rugged except for one lonely tree. There were corpses scattered and spread all over the ground‚ it looked like
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THE NIGHT THE POWER WENT OUT! It was a dark rainy night; the rain came down hard‚ sheet upon sheet‚ of bone chilling rain. I lay relaxed on the couch watching a horror movie when suddenly there was a loud crack of thunder and then there I lay all alone in complete darkness. I felt a little nervous but hazardously made my way to the kitchen by the guidance of the moons light. I went in search of a torch and found one on the kitchen table. I flicked it on and at that precise moment I heard a crash
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The medieval and early modern periods were eras with distinctive issues and ideals. Some of their key themes were very similar‚ such as the importance of religion and the role it played in everyday life‚ while other matters were unique to their time‚ such as the medieval selling of indulgences‚ or the early modern Reformation of the Church. These examples illustrate clearly the mixture of change and stasis in the two ages‚ as a subject shared by both periods yielded so great a diversity of issues
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On Being a Real Westerner 1. What is the plot of the essay? Wolff‚ a 13 year old is desperate to get hold of his stepfather Roy’s gun. Wolff’s mother doesn’t approve of him getting the gun‚ but Roy talks her into giving it to Wolff. Even though Wolff is told not to use the gun alone‚ he goes against his mother’s warning and aims at a squirrel. Being an animal lover‚ he feels guilty. 2. What effect did the gun have on Roy? Is there a hidden meaning to acquiring this object? Roy carried
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Give A Boy A Gun BY: Todd Strasser Give A Boy A Gun is about two high school students‚ Brendan Lawlor and Gary Searle. These two kids are the kids that are always in the back‚ don’t say much‚ and get picked on by the “popular kids”. They take this kind of bullying and punishment for about three years‚ and then they finally snap. Every day that they get picked on they get darker and darker. The story is told by the students of Middletown high‚ their high school‚ and is written as a bunch of interviews
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Argumentative Essay against Gun Control Since 1980‚ forty-four states have passed laws allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons outside their homes for personal protection. (Five additional states had these laws before 1980. Illinois is the sole holdout.) A federal ban on the possession‚ transfer‚ or manufacture of semiautomatic assault weapons‚ passed in 1994‚ was allowed to expire in 2004. In 2005‚ Florida passed the Stand Your Ground law‚ an extension of the so-called castle doctrine
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Seneca T. Ortiz In the next three paragraphs I will be giving a brief summery on an article in the New York Times on the topic of‚ “A Missouri School Trains Its Teachers to Carry Guns‚ and Most Parents Approve” written by John Eligon. The writer goes on by expressing the feelings of the parents of students attending the school in broad detail ranging from the many supporters to those few that disagree on the topic in question. The writer brings forth a wide array of opinions like that of
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EN1420 Analysis 1.1 The history of the right to bear arms‚ this has been an American tradition since colonist set foot on North American soil. Mass murders have been cause by guns does this mean we should only allow our military to have guns? I believe in the constitution we have the right to bear arms. It was written in the constitution for a reason. Without guns it makes our country weak. I’m not talking about just our military having them I’m talking about citizens not being able to have guns
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Review Questions 1. What is the NIBIN? The NIBIN is a database of digital images showing the classifying features of bullets and casings. 2. What is rifling? What two types of markings does this produce? Rifling is the spiral grooves cut into the barrel of a gun in order to make the bullets spin when fired. The two types of markings that are produced are grooves and lands. 3. What is a distance determination? How is this done? Distance determination is the process of estimating the distance between
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