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    Gone With The Wind: The Evolution Of Sex And Race In The 1930’s Taylor Reed English 101 Professor Reynoso 7 June 2010 How the 1930’s could have turned out to be positive instead of a negative. The difficult decade for many Americans was the 1930s. Knol Beta stated that “the Great Depression plagued citizens throughout the country because of lost jobs and a poor economy.” Although there wasn’t very much money left to be spent on nice items‚ Americans still turned to entertainment to remind

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    Fantastic Four

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    thirty years earlier. For Fathers’ Day‚ I treated myself to a superhero movie called the “Fantastic Four”. Surprisingly‚ I found the movie to be entertaining‚ for it had an interesting plot‚ strong characterization and believable-looking special effects. The plot is the sequence of events in a story. A good movie needs a good plot if it hopes to make mountains and mountains of money. In the “Fantastic Four” the story was just long enough to cover all the important information that comic book readers

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    Four Freedoms

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    Address by John F. Kennedy and the ‘Four Freedoms’ speech Franklin D. Roosevelt both took place in significant times in American and the World’s history; both of these speeches took place in times where the United states needed hope‚ needed reassurance. The United States is the land of the free and the home of the brave both of these speeches worked to keep freedom throughout the world. Both wanted peace either by force or by friendship. Both Roosevelt’s “ Four Freedoms” speech and Kennedy’s inaugural

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    The Four Idols

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    Sir Francis Bacon’s‚ The Four Idols‚ and Steven Jay Gould’s‚ Nonmoral Nature‚ are quite compatible as comparisons. I would say more so than comparing Gould’s work with Charles Darwin’s Natural Selection‚ from a literary standpoint. I think Bacon and Gould would have shared some similar ideas and agreed with one another on several issues. When describing Bacon’s Idols of the Tribe‚ Bacon states‚"have their foundation in human nature itself‚ and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion

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    their song “The Sound of Silence.” This idea rings true in “The Sound of Silence” and “Candle in the Wind” as both songs portray an idea of loneliness and isolation. “The Sound of Silence” was written by Paul Simon‚ performed by Simon and Garfunkel‚ and covered by Disturbed. Released in 1966‚ the song exposes man’s inability to connect with other humans. Similarly‚ Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind‚” written in 1973‚ is a tribute to Marilyn Monroe’s overdose in 1962 and her lonely life as a star. Furthermore

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    The Four Gospels

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    The introduction of this Gospel shows many significant things. One of the main significant things that I noticed was that Jesus is introduced as the Son of God. The Son of God who was sent to rescue all of us from sin by serving and most importantly‚ He sacrifice his life for us. In the introduction‚ it told us every single thing that Jesus did when He was on Earth. In a way‚ it told us everything from his birth from Mary’s womb to the time He was crucified‚ dying for our sins to open the door from

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    Four Freedoms

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    The poster that I chose to do my analysis on is by Adam Lewin. His art is modern and is representative of current events. He is an illustrator and an art director. He has studied at the Pratt Institute‚ the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam‚ and New York University (http://www.thoughtsondemocracy.blogspot.com/ 2009). The poster is representational of what is currently happening in American culture today. Lewin’s poster persuades me not to want to live in the United States anymore

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    Week Four

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    UNETHICAL POLICE OPERATIONS PAPER 1 Unethical Police Operations Paper CJA/214 07/01/2013 UNETHICAL POLICE OPERATIONS PAPER 2 Describe the extent of police corruption‚ misconduct‚ and brutality in the United States. Police corruption‚ misconduct‚ and brutality in the United States are all around from

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    Memorist‚ Debra Marquart‚recalls what it was like growing up in North Dakota in her meir The Horizontal Winds. Marquart’s purpose is to characterize the Midwest as the opposite character that T.V has made North Dakota out to be. She use exaggerated diction to importune a humorous tone in her audience‚ the readers of the memoir and anyone who has had a false view on what North Dakota is really like. Marquart begins with introducing the idea of how television‚ more specifically television comedians

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    Wind is caused by differences in atmospheric pressure created‚ in large part‚ by the unequal heating of the earth’s surface by the sun. Air moves from a region of higher pressure to one of lower pressure and this movement is wind. Any difference in pressure will cause wind‚ but the greater the difference the stronger the wind. The direction that wind takes is influenced by the rotation of the earth. On a non-rotating earth wind would move in a straight path from a high- to a low-pressure area. It

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