Lizzie Janes Drugs and Behavior Within Hollywood’s movies depiction of drug addiction‚ many have failed to represent all true aspects that come along with such lifestyles. The movie‚ The Basketball Diaries‚ is based off a novel Jim Carroll wrote from his own diary entries. As a teenager growing up in the sixties‚ Carroll reveals his progression of drug abuse which eventually leads him addicted to heroin.Heroin is a white powder derived from morphine found in opium. It is commonly prescribed
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The History of DisneyLand Paris In the beginning... Following on from the success of the DisneyLand theme park in Anaheim‚ plans to build a European version first started around 1975‚ nine years after Walt Disney died. Initially Britain‚ Italy‚ Spain and France were all considered as possible locations‚ though Britain and Italy were quickly dropped from the list of potential sites because they both lacked a suitably large expanse of flat land. The most likely site was thought to be in the Alicante
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dictionary. If one compares the general number of meanings of a word in different dictionaries even those of the same type‚ one will easily see that their number varies considerably. Compare‚ for example‚ the number and choice of meanings in the entries for arrive taken from COD and WCD given below1. As we see‚ COD records only the meanings current at the present moment‚ whereas WCD also lists those that are now obsolete. The number of meanings a word is given and their choice in this or that
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Today was the feast of Lupercal (pg. 824). Caesar had returned to Rome. We talked about his victory over Pompey. Secretly‚ I wished Pompey had won the battle‚ but I was glad to see my friend Caesar. As we were walking‚ along with some others‚ through the public place‚ a soothsayer called out and said‚ “Caesar! Beware the ides of March (pg. 825-826).” If I were Caesar‚ I would have take heed of this warning‚ for this soothsayer does not appear to be a dreamer (pg. 826). While Caesar and the others
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Treaty of Paris Overview * Signed on September 3‚ 1783 * Ended Revolutionary War between the United States (and allies) and Great Britain * Other combatant nations such as France‚ Spain‚ and Dutch Republic had separate agreements The Agreement * Peace negotiations began in April of 1782 * American representatives: Benjamin Franklin‚ John Jay‚ Henry Laurens‚ John Adams * British representatives: David Hartley & Richard Oswald * Treaty document was signed at the
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The Treaty of Paris 1783 Short after the battle of Yorktown in 1781‚ talks of peace began to linger in the English Parliament and in the Continental Congress. Although‚ back in those days Parliament was infamous for being unstable‚ and most of the time it depended on the House of Commons and the good favor or the King. When the news of the defeat at Yorktown reached England‚ the parliamentary opposition succeeded in overthrowing the embattled government led by Lord North. Unfortunately the new
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A Voyage to Remember Dear Diary‚ April 10‚ 1912‚ 12:00 A.M. The Titanic is HUGE. I’m waiting in line to board it right now. Since it is a long line‚ I figured I could write a quick entry in my diary. I’m riding on the Titanic to New York to take care of my very ill cousin. She has been ill for a couple of weeks and I am the only family she has‚ so when I heard about the Titanic‚ I bought a first-class
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Some excerpts from my Wartime diaries in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars Wednesday 11th. April 1945 Woken at 4 am to go into Lugo area with Recce party. Stood at cross roads for a couple of hours. Area lousy with mines. Late breakfast when tanks arrived. On April ll th I went with Lt. Walmsley by jeep to Lugo‚ the fortified town that is surrounded by water and to which access is made by many small bridges. We stopped the jeep on the outside perimeter and looked across one of these bridges at the town
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The day before the party‚ Colonel Mustard and I were plotting on how we were going to kill Mr. Boddy. My specialty is poison. The Colonel is a hands on kind of man. We are going to kill Mr. Boddy‚ because he is blackmailing the Colonel. The Colonel and I are going to search for evidence of his party. He was going to leak my secret about my ability to switch identities. So I was going to kill him‚ before he got a chance to. We decided that tomorrow tonight‚ would be the night. He was hosting a party
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desires to visit it. One of the most famous place that have its own lusterthat dazzle the eyes is Paris. It is a place of heaven on the earth ‚ which everyone put it in the top of their listed of the tourism place. Paris ‚ a country with long history becomes the destination of every tourist in all over the world ‚ for what it differentiaties from other tourism place. First of all ‚ we all know Paris is the country of love ‚ many couple spend their honey moon beneath the sky of it that filled of stars
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