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    Many people believe that police brutality in America is a problem. Others have a different thought on the matter. People believe that it is a problem because of what they see in the news and media. They only see one side of the story‚ not both sides. People only think that colored people get killed by police officers‚ but that’s not the case at all. People always bring race into the killings and say “The white officer shot the man because he was black”. They don’t look at both sides of the story

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    anniversary is vast approaching‚ for they are getting an elephant! Instead of rejoicing the director was thinking of his career and decided to write a letter to Warsaw refusing the governments offer. He said that he has a more economical plan and would save the government a lot of money. Upon hearing the ministries approval the zoo director directed his men to blow up a large elephant-shaped and elephant-sized balloon. Being lazy‚ these men filled the elephant with gas instead of air‚ this later proved to be

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    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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    Elephant by Polly Clark

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    Polly Clarks “Elephant” essay Polly Clarks ”Elephant” is about a author named William who deals with his problems every day. William is a writer. His work consists of young female pop-singers biographies. The story starts in media res‚ we just jump straight into the story without further information. The story takes place in William’s dark his house and it is set in a normal afternoon in William’s life. The curtains are closed‚ so William cannot watch his garden‚ which is overcrowded with weed

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    out kill will find a way around these restrictions. Daniels then proceeds to argue that a limit on obtaining guns is a violation to the second amendment (Daniels). The argument that Daniels argues which is that gun control will not abolish mass shootings is accurate to an extend. As Daniels argues individuals who want are set out to kill others will proceed to do so.

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    I think about how their day was going before they encounter the police;were they seeing their kids‚ going to work‚ hanging with friends? In each case the situation escalated quickly and unnecessarily. I think about how the officers felt after the shooting took place. Did they feel regret or remorse? Did they wish they did things differently? Those questions trouble me after watching the videos and seeing how the police carry on as if they didn’t take someone’s life. Seeing these news stories time

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    however‚ after careful consideration‚ the setting is actually quite significant. Additionally‚ the setting is rather unique because it is a contributing factor in the comprehension of this intriguing short story. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is a mysterious short story that initially has an unclear message‚ but once the setting

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    Narration is what allows us to grasp every action and detail in a story. Although authors are usually expected to guide readers through a book‚ Ernest Hemingway in Hills Like White Elephants decided to narrate his story in journalistic fashion. The story being told in an objective narrative format allowed for imagination and assumptions. The story being told in third person point of view which is objective‚ never allows us into the minds of the characters. We are only given minimal background and

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    since the people talking in the conversation might not tell the full story‚ the person listening might not get to know how the end of their conversation went‚ but if they are lucky‚ they might. The narrator in the short story “Hills Like White Elephants”‚ by Ernest Hemingway‚ was not so lucky and didn’t find out the ending‚ or many details of what the couple was disgusting. The story just ended with the woman saying “There’s nothing wrong with me. I’m fine”

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    In the novel Water for Elephants‚ the main character‚ Jacob Jankowski‚ narrates when he is a kind young man seeking a new life and fresh start after his parents die and he’s left with nothing to his name and when he’s an old man living in a retirement home‚ feeling nostalgic about the life he had on the circus. He has very strong values when it comes to himself or other’s situations and acts in sacrifice and honor. Jacob is the type of character that has little change of himself‚ but has his life

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