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    James Dean was a famous actor in the 1950’s who also loved to race cars. Dean was an up and coming new actor when tragedy struck. James was traveling in California when he rammed into the back of another car‚ and he was pronounced dead at the scene. This changed the movie world and it made people realize that tragedy can strike whenever‚ wherever. James Dean was born on February 8‚ 1931‚ in Indiana‚ to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. Soon after James was born‚ his dad became a dentist

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    A bodybuilder‚ Dean Wharmby‚ from Rochdale who eat junk food and drank eight cans of energy drink to gain weight‚ died of liver cancer‚ on July 19 caused by years of steroid abuse. Wharmby had been battling cancer for five and a half years. Dean Wharmby had a physique that was admirable to many. He was big and he was bulging‚ and that was exactly what he was looking for. He was obsessed with getting bigger and ate a diet that consisted of 10‚000 calories a day‚ many of which came from unhealthy

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    English 223 12 November 2015 The Dean Dilemma The protagonist and antagonist‚ Dean Moriarity is the manifestation of the Beat counterculture generation‚ experimenting with drugs and immersing himself in music‚ he portrays the perfect example of divergence from the mainstream. Dean’s portrayal of the complete anti-conformist ideal questions the undisputed belief of conventionalism and depicts defiance to collective ideals to the most extreme in a positive light. Dean “responsible perhaps‚ for everything

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    Monster Monologue

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    enough to stand on‚ sensing no air still pure to breathe and not puke with the putrid smell of flesh‚ fat and bones… I can’t help but think about my achievements. What did I want from the beginning? If it was this kind of world‚ then I’m a monster indeed‚ the monster who shattered reality. - Have you… No… The woman finally dies‚ joining one of the many

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    Innocent until proven guilty; a phrase commonly used by the accused. But if the accused is guilty but never proven to be‚ does that mean he is innocent? An example of this is Steve Harmon in the novel‚ Monster. Steve is on trial for felony murder for a robbery. In the book‚ Monster by Walter Dean Myers‚ although Steve Harmon is pronounced innocent‚ he is actually guilty because he lied to the jury‚ is familiar with the crime‚ and is paranoid. Steve always changes his story‚ telling the jury one thing

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    Review of Bill by Vern Myers

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    Michael Hemmingson 9700 Gilman Drive PMB 241 La Jolla‚ CA 92093 michaelhemmingson@yahoo.com approx. 2‚300 words My Review of Bill by Vern Myers Michael Hemmingson Bill: A Novella. Vern Myers. NY: Pelican Publishing. 102 pp. Cloth‚ $17.95. Reviewed by Gerald Bass To start‚ I would like you to know that I am writing this book review on an old fashioned manual typewriter‚ an Olympia Model 9 in fact‚ that I purchased at a consignment antique store. I think this

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    Composition and Inverse Cindy Dean Intermediate Algebra: MAT 222 Instructor: February 14‚ 2014 Composition and Inverse In this week’s assignment‚ I will be solving functions with different values and variables. Many companies and businesses‚ use these methods to either make progress or to change something that will benefit their success. The first function is: (f – h)(4) f(4) – h(4) I multiplied 4 with each variable. f(4) = 2(4) + 5 The x is replaced with 4. f(4)

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    The Lottery Monster

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    Please read the case study entitled Lottery that you find in the reading assignment. Based on what you have learned in this unit‚ answer the following questions: How is the lottery an example of the utilitarian monster? Let’s look at the definition of “utilitarian monster” in the textbook‚ “an individual capable of feeling disproportionately high sensations of pleasure and happiness‚ one who consequently requires many others to sacrifice their happiness in the name of maximizing net happiness” (p

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    L. Baker Concorde Career College Personality Type For a class assignment I was asked to take the Carl Jung’s and Isabell Briggs Myers typological approach to personality quiz. “The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.” (Myers–Briggs Type Indicator‚ 2017) The results of my test results are as followed: extravert 19%‚ sensing 2%‚ feeling 22%‚ and judging

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    idealized for courage‚ outstanding achievements‚ or noble qualities. “People who go to work everyday‚ make sacrifices to raise families‚ and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros”‚ this quote by Dean Koontz‚ means to me that everyone can be a hero. Everyone can be a hero by standing up for something that they truly‚ deeply care about. Some people say that a hero is only someone extraordinary like superman or wonder woman‚ someone with powers.

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