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    cruel people to take over America in the way that they did. They tried to enforce their beliefs and religious background into everyone or else they would suffer the consequences. If it weren’t for Christopher Columbus “discovering” the Americans‚ the would would probably be a different place. “Columbus set forth commanding three small ships‚ and after a long drawn-out journey landed on the coast of a Caribbean island. Thus commenced the Spanish conquest of America” (donquijote.org). It’s crazy to

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    Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Essay I have been studying the play The Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare. The play genre is drama and it is set in the late 1590s. It is set in two cities Venice and Belmont. The play is about usury between a Christian and a Jew. The Christian is a man named Antonio‚ who is The Merchant of Venice. The Jew is a wealthy man called Shylock who is facing a lot of religious rivalry at the time. Antonio’s friend Bassanio comes to him to ask for money

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    BLACK CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA (MUU-LAN)‚ MEXICO (XI) Gigantic stone head of Negritic African The earliest people in the Americas were people of the Negritic African race‚ who entered the Americas perhaps as early as 100‚000 years ago‚ by way of the bering straight and about thirty thousand years ago in a worldwide maritime undertaking that included journeys from the then wet and lake filled Sahara towards the Indian Ocean and the Pacific‚ and from West Africa across the Atlantic

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    our presence in the Middle East was increasing. There was economic segregation‚ and racial tension surrounding cities like Brooklyn‚ New York‚ and Compton‚ which gave birth to some of the most talented rap artists to date. One of whom‚ was named Christopher Wallace‚ also known as the Notorious B.I.G‚ or Biggie. With over 17 million albums sold since 1992‚ Biggie’s legacy and music has reached almost every country in the world. Although Biggie has been criticized for meaningless and mainstream songs

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    Hero Deep in Southern California there once was a family‚ a single mother and her only son Kevin. They also had a dog which they loved very much as if it was another son for the mother. The life they were leading was like a fairytale because the whole family were very happy and delighted. However there was one day they lived and dreaded for there whole lives… One day Kevin was playing outside with his friends‚ the way he always did almost everyday of his wife. What he didn’t realise was that

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    easily said:” Superman or Power Rangers “. But in the real life‚ when I ask my younger sister: “Who is your heroism? “. She answered me firefighter and police. Because they used to help her friend’s parent from fire. In “Was every Ground Zero victim a hero? “‚ they express that every firefighters and police who used to attend the Twin Towers on 11 September have become heroes. Society always believes on firefighters and police that when they want to arrest or judge someone‚ they must always have evidence

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    Christopher Paolini wrote‚ “It was as if his point of view had‚ within seconds‚ gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle.” As I kept learning to love reading more and more‚ I would always stay away from the very long‚ novel like books. I never thought that they could keep the reader engaged. I was also very picky when it came to the fantasy genre. Most fantasy books seemed a bit too childish. Then I discovered The Inheritance Cycle series. It was four books and each was a novel. I really wanted

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    difficult task since everything that is appealing in a book is not necessarily going to work out great in the movie. This requires directors and writers to modify some of the story to fit nicer with the movie environment. The book Eragon‚ written by Christopher Paolini‚ is the first book of the series called inheritance cycle which consists of four books. Paolini wrote Eragon back in 2001 and a movie based on the book was made later in 2006. Although the movie is based on the book and shares a lot of similar

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    of the role of the man of the house which he was when his father was away. I know this because in the story Thomas states that “…sitting opposite of me‚ in the chair I’d sat in for the past four years.” b) I think that Thomas’s dad was Thomas’s hero because his dad taught him how the jobs are done. He also thought that because he had found the medals when he was cleaning his father’s bag. He was amazed by the number of medals his father had earned over the years he was at war. I know this because

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    A writer is no longer a writer when his ability to type and even speak is taken away from him. It all started when Christopher Hitchens‚ the author of the posthumously published book by his wife in 2012 “Mortality” and many other books and journals‚ was diagnosed with esophageal cancer while he was on his other book tour in 2010. This book contains all the struggles‚ emotional breakdowns and unfinished quotes by the great English author‚ columnist‚ essayist‚ religious and literary critic and journalist

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