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    College Ripoff Ed O’Bannon‚ who played basketball at UCLA from 1991-1995‚ recently won a major victory for thousands of college athletes throughout America. He sued the NCAA and EA sports for using his likeness in video games. He went unpaid‚ although he helped make companies like EA sports and the NCAA lots of money‚ because he was a college athlete‚ and it is against NCAA policy to receive any money for your likeness or your popularity. The supreme court ruled that any player in an EA sport video

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    Russell Williams

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    Freud’s theory of human behavior. Freud believed that “human behaviour is driven by desires and the suppression of the same desires”. Concerning the case of Col. Russell Williams‚ he was a paraphilic; he stole lingerie and then took photographs of the women he sexually assaulted. According to Freud’s theory of human behavior‚ Williams did not possess the ability to control his desires. He started off as a “voyeur”‚ but somehow transformed into a perverted sex offender with a dark fixation for violence

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    William Forrester

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    Kim J Marilag English 100 Mrs. Guererro William Forrester The main character of the movie Finding Forrester is William Forrester‚ an old‚ white male‚ recluse novelist‚ makes an unlikely friendship with‚ and mentors‚ a black 16-year old who is gifted at basketball‚ and both literature‚ and writing Jamal Wallace. William‚ from Bronx‚ New York‚ wrote only one famous novel The Avalon fifty years earlier that won the Pulitzer Prize. Because he was offended

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    in the south‚ society centered around a kind of unwritten social code‚ and to break it is to be shunned from said society. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ many of the characters are affected by these social pressures in different ways. Mayella Ewell gives in to societal pressure by covering up her “mistake” with Tom Robinson‚ while Dolphus Raymond goes against it and has a happy relationship with an African American wife and mixed children. Mayella Ewell was an incredibly lonely woman‚ she

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    William Wallace

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    William Wallace Analyse the different ways in which the life‚ career and death of William Wallace has been presented over time. Support your response with source that you have studied in class. William Wallace is portrayed in many different ways‚ as both a good and bad man. There isn’t much historical evidence about William Wallace‚ so people just make up most of the information about him as you could tell such a great story. Some people believed that William Wallace was a heroic man‚ so wrote

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    Samurai William

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    Giles Milton’s novel‚ Samurai William‚ the reader is taken to the other side of the globe to experience the history of old world Japan. Though out the book‚ Milton provides reason for complex historical events and actions‚ while still communicating the subtleties and mysterious customs of the Japanese. The novel also closely examines the wide range of relationships between different groups of Europeans and Asians‚ predominantly revolving around the protagonist‚ William Adams. The book documents the

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    William Harvey

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    Dear‚ holy father William Harvey was an English doctor and teacher. he was the first to correctly describe and prove that blood circulates through the body and that the heart is responsible for pumping blood. William Harvey should be set free because he done no harm to any people and was just trying to figure out how blood circulated in the human body. Harvey discovered that blood circulates through the body and the heart is responsible for pumping blood. in 1599 at the age of 21

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    William Forsythe was trained in Florida and went on to dance with the Joffrey Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet where‚ in 1976‚ he was appointed resident choreographer. “His work is acknowledged for reorienting the practice of ballet from its identification with classical repertoire to a dynamic 21st-century art form.”(Theforsythecompany‚ 2009) In 2004 he founded The Forsythe Company. (Theforsythecompany‚ 2009) William Forsythe’s Solo is the first piece in the short dance film‚ Evidentia‚ made by

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    “Hank Williams is the father of contemporary country music (CMT).” Hank was an American singer and song writer who is regarded as the most important musician to country music of all time. Hank’s career was cut short by a sudden death at the early age of 29. Hank was born September 17‚ 1923 in Mount Olive‚ Butler County‚ Alabama. His birth name was Hiram Williams which was later changed to Hank when he began his career. This is where he met Rufus Payne‚ who they called Tee Tot. This black street

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    William Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare is an unforgettable literary figure and it is not exaggeration if we say that literature is nothing without him. All the writing of Shakespeare deal with love‚ life and death and these universal themes get beautiful touch by him. His tragedies reflect that he had extraordinary knowledge of human psychology. Therefore‚ his characters have become memorable in the field of literature. Shakespeare has explored poetry and tragedy but it is tragedy that brought fame for him. Even his

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