CBS NEWS By STEPHANIE CONDON / CBS NEWS/ August 30‚ 2013‚ 5:52 AM Can Obama strike Syria without Congress’ consent? President Obama has yet to say what course of action he’ll take to respond to the alleged use of chemical weapons by President Bashar al Assad’s regime in Syria‚ but his administration has previewed the justification it will use if Mr. Obama decides to take military action. Mr. Obama on Wednesday said he has "no interest in any open-ended conflict in Syria." However‚ he added
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Well take a lesson or two from Freak the Mighty. Our main characters‚ Max and Kevin‚ are a dynamic duo. We have Max‚ the Mighty‚ who is considered to be the stupid and strong youth that is going to turn out to be...eek‚ eek...his father‚ Killer Kenny Kane. We also have Kevin‚ Freak‚ the uber smart‚ crippled kids that moves in next door to Max at the beginning of their eighth grade year of school. Due to Max’s curiosity about the strange boy next door a friendship is forged. Max is intrigued
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a secret they are concealing from the others. Tub hides food and blames his obesity on overactive glands. Frank conceals the fact that he is in love with his 15 year old babysitter. And Kenny‚ the comedian‚ doesn’t tell the others that a farmer asked him to shoot his dog. In the beginning of the story Kenny and Frank are buddies. They exclude Tub from their conversations and make fun of him to his face and behind his back. The friendships
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The central focus on this story is whether or not Kenny is going to catch one hundred softballs. Throughout the process‚ the community starts to circulate around the softball field. The inconspicuous game the boys were playing started off with just a few people. “And then I walked over to first base with
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around the United States. Back around 1979‚ a worker named Kenny was working at the Monfort slaughterhouse in Grand Island‚ Nebraska. In the shipping department‚ where Kenny was positioned in‚ there were boxes that weighed over 100 pounds and one day a box fell from above where Kenny caught it with one arm. This incident ended up having him get severely herniated disks but the worst part about this was that the company doctor told Kenny that all he had was a pulled muscle‚ after months of
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“white middle class female” is capable to commit a crime just as the “black lower class female.” Even though society mostly sees African American women as more ‘criminal’ than other races it should not be the case but it is like that. According to Chesney-lind‚ M. & Eliason‚ M. (2006)‚ “The construction of some women as ‘bad’‚ particularly African American girls and women‚ supports racist notions that are arguably at the core of US culture” (37). Society has manipulated the face of the criminal woman
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Wolff’s Hunters in the Snow‚ Tub’s fears explicate underlying character traits. From his fear of confronting Kenny and Frank decisively to his fear of death‚ Wolff indirectly elucidates the fundamentals of Tub’s deceptive streak‚ anti-combativeness‚ and child-like sensitivity. Tub’s Deception in Hunters in the Snow: In an act of desperation‚ Tub lies about being on a diet. When Kenny inquires about his supposed diet (noticing Tub has not lost any weight but is eating diet type foods) Tub shoots
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Irony in Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” and Alice Munro’s “How I Met My Husband” Irony expresses and often underlines the contrast between two opposite concepts creating an indirect‚ more sophisticated method of communication. Irony is as efficient in a literary work‚ as the reader can perceive it. Therefore‚ often times the reader must carefully analyze the material‚ reading it repeatedly if necessary‚ in order to fully understand the author’s message and intent. Tobias Wolff and Alice
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CASE 3-2 QUESTION SUMMARY This case is about two friends which are Willie Carson and Waylon Boone who grew up in Dallas‚ Texas. Both of them went to University of Texas. Carson graduated with Accounting degree while Boone in Computer Science degree. Then‚ Carson went to work for accounting and assurance services at one of larges accounting firm in world‚ Randy Burnham & Co. While‚ Boone went to work at one of the largest manufactures of high-tech product in world‚ Alorotom Inc. After seven years
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Blair‚ C. (2013‚ March 29). Hawaii Prison Population Drops 5 Percent. Honolulu Civil Beat. Retrieved from http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2013/03/29/18708-hawaii-prison- population-drops-5-percent/ Brady‚ K.‚ & Chesney-Lind‚ M. (2010‚ October 4). The Value of Hawaii: Prisons by Meda Chesney-Lind and Kat Brady. Honolulu Civil Beat‚ p. . Eagle‚ N. (2013‚ April 17). Hawaii Lawmakers Clear Way to Reopen Big Island Prison in Budget Talks. Honolulu Civil Beat. Retrieved from http://www.civilbeat.com/
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