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    On December 1 I returned to the beautiful Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Music Center to hear the renowned jazz singer Dianne Reeves Christmas Time is Here performance. My seat was far higher than the last time I went but luckily my height proved to be useful to see the stage. Running late‚ the announcer came out and told us his experience with Dianne and the wonderful performance we were about to see. After that the pianist Peter Martin‚ bassist Reginald Veal‚ guitarist Romero Lubambo‚ and drummer Terreon

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    Your Name Goes Here Your Grade etc goes here ex. Grade 10 date goes here ex. 18 October 18‚ 2005 Horowitz‚ Anthony. Point Blank. New York: Scholastic inc. 2002 This is a story of a young boy named Alex Rider who is headed for an exclusive private school in the French Alps because the isolated mountain academy is linked to the deaths of two prominent men. This case leads him to an undercover assignment as the son of one of the world’s richest supermarket businessmen. While there he finds

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    Although the stand your ground law is used to stop violence its use results in uneccessary deaths therefore O.C.G.A should be revised.the whole u.s was shocked when george zimmerman was founf innocent of killing 17 year old trayvon martin.it was thought of as a easy case for zimmerman since he had no strong opposing testimony.he also used the stand your ground law to prevent jail time.ever since this case there have been continous cases of the law where murderers get away therefore it needing to

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    Writing Center Should I Use “I”? Like Be the first of your friends to like this. What this handout is about This handout is about determining when to use first person pronouns (“I”‚ “we‚” “me‚” “us‚” “my‚” and “our”) and personal experience in academic writing. “First person” and “personal experience” might sound like two ways of saying the same thing‚ but first person and personal experience can work in very different ways in your writing. You might choose to use “I” but not make any reference

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    The Effects Of The Stand Your Ground Law ¨ Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege in other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in america ” ( wise) . This quote by Tim Wise explains what is happening today to our African American youth. They are dying everyday due to racism. The stand your ground law was created in 2005. This law is “so called” supposed to remove the duty to retreat before using force in self defense‚ but that’s not what

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    Book Review – There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz Summary There Are No Children Here is a story of the struggles two preteen boys live with while growing up in the projects. From the first pages the scene is set amongst the all too familiar gun fire blazing through the neighborhood. This story is of eleven year old Lafeyette and nine year old Pharoah dealing with the daily fight for survival in inner-city Chicago circa 1987. The boys are living in an apartment at the Henry Horner

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    “A house divided against itself cannot stand” The phrase‚ “A house divided against itself cannot stand” became famous as a quotation from Lincoln’s “A house divided” speech delivered at 17 June 1858‚ in what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield‚ upon accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination as that state’s senator of the United States .The speech became the launching point for his unsuccessful campaign. Abraham Lincoln was not the first one who used the “A house

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    Tisdale’s “We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story”‚ readers get an inside look on the actual procedure itself‚ giving

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    nothingness‚ one boy happily sighs: "This is a really good time." The dated specifics of this scene root it in its setting of Labor Day weekend in 1959‚ but the not-so-innocent innocence of these pint-size hooligans is eternal. Rob Reiner’s 1986 film Stand by Mecelebrates its 30th anniversary today‚ and though it took

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    Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Reality television has become one of the most common forms of entertainment in the American household since the early 2000’s. From “The Bachelor” to “Jersey Shore”‚ no plot seems too racy or inappropriate for audiences of all ages. Recently‚ however‚ TLC aired their newest reality TV show‚ “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” that is thought to be one of the most controversial reality TV series of all time. The show encompasses the lives of a small-town‚ southern Georgian family who

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