My Thoughts and View on the Colorado Theater Shooting The Colorado Theater shooting was a very tragic event. There were about fifty-eight people wounded and twelve people killed. The victims that were killed range in age from six years old to fifty-one years old. None of the victims or their families could have ever imagined that going to see this movie in Colorado would change their life forever. Natural News the gunman was identified as 24 year old James Holmes‚ a former neuroscience student
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suitcase‚ sitting near the black colored T.V‚ and grabbed my bright orange swim trunks. I ran like a cheetah catching it’s prey‚ into the tiny cramped bathroom to change. I sprinted out of my beachfront hotel and onto the golden brown sand of the beach. The sand wasn’t too hot since it was still morning. I love the feeling of the rough‚ grainy sand sliding through my small toes and I smell the gentle breeze of the clear‚ blue ocean. In my mind I know the ocean has to be freezing cold‚ but I can’t
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particular that truly sticks out like a sore thumb‚ the nerds. Nerds have their own way of doing things‚ and the majority of them are very intelligent. They can also be seen as the dweebs in society because they never want to have fun. They can be looked at as dorks because they are socially awkward towards other crowds and do not fit in. Nerds can be classified into many different types: smartly innovative‚ stuck up‚ as well as quietly evil. The nerds are described as the ones who always make the best
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Dover Beach Mathew Arnold Time and Place Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) wrote "Dover Beach" during or shortly after a visit he and his wife made to the Dover region of southeastern England‚ the setting of the poem‚ in 1851. They had married in June of that year. A draft of the first two stanzas of the poem appears on a sheet of paper he used to write notes for another work‚ "Empedocles on Etna‚" published in 1852. The town of Dover is closer to France than any other port city in England. The body
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When mentioning southern expansion in the years prior to the American Civil War‚ what places come to mind? While most people think of the west as the closest and quickest place the southern states could have expanded the institution of slavery‚ one does not typically consider Cuba as a likely location. The island of Cuba served as a valid choice for many southern expansionists in the name of slavery‚ not only because its land was well suited and had been exposed to slavery‚ but also it was believed
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The Colorado River The Colorado River is one of the biggest rivers in the U.S. that isn’t connected to the Mississippi River. The Colorado river runs through the Grand Canyon. It helped form the Grand Canyon. The Colorado River is 1‚450 miles long and runs through seven states. Wyoming Colorado‚ Utah‚ New Mexico‚ Nevada‚ Arizona‚ and California. For 17 miles the Colorado river forms the boundary between Mexico and Arizona. The Colorado River starts at La Poudre Pass Lake. The Colorado river ends
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Importance of the Colorado River. The Colorado River is one of the greatest water sources of America‚ providing water for seven states and Mexico. Water is the most important resource we need for survival‚ and I feel like most people do not appreciate this resource. We do not realize that water is an essential part of life; we keep wasting water like if there is no tomorrow and I think this will lead us to misery someday soon. If this situation doesn’t change‚ in the future‚ wars will be fought
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was deprived of my personal liberties. The situation happened when I went to a Cowboys vs Bears monday night football just four years ago. Even though the game was in Chicago‚ I was a big Dallas Cowboys fan and I decided to wear my Dallas Cowboys jersey. Upon arriving to the game‚ we walked across the parking lot and got in line for the security check points. As expected‚ there were many more Bears fans that Cowboys ones. It was a very cold and windy
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Southern Stereotypes Roaming Grotesque roams in the South whereby grace transformed into violence it becomes realization. In 1955‚ Flannery O’Connor wrote Good Country People‚ where she uses the distorted side of humans to aware the reader of the powerful reality of spirituality. Mostly the characters are used to represent grotesque. A female character in particular that O’Connor uses is Joy Hulga‚ a rather fanatical character who denies Southern stereotypes and is a “virgin ogre” who is
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A day at the beach As a child‚ I would often relish those fun-filled‚ joyous family outings. Along with my irritating little sister and adoring parents‚ we would speed off in the car ready to create a new adventure and take a plenty of pictures to add to the collection in the family album. An experience that stands out most to me now as a young adult was a time when we went to the beach when I was about eight years old. Ecstatic‚ and jumping around like a frog in early spring‚ I was excited. Today
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