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    New Jack City The film I chose to watch was New Jack City. This was the tale of Nino Brown‚ a New York City drug dealer who rose to prominence during the crack epidemic. Scotty Appleton is the detective who is tasked with stopping Nino Brown by going undercover to work in Nino’s drug cartel. During the movie Nino Brown starts off as a small time drug dealer and eventually becomes the kingpin of the city. Scotty Appleton eventually brings the entire drug operation down and Nino Brown is killed

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    could just go back to those days when you were a child who only worried about a few things in life‚ when your imagination seems to have no limit‚ and your household and school rules are the only ones you mind and obey? While watching the movie “Transit”‚ that was what came up to me. As all the scenes roll‚ Joshua’s (the 4 year old son of Moises) childish ways never slipped from my attention. Yes‚ it is true that the possibility of him getting deported is a serious matter‚ but I wondered what is

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    Loran Ubriaco Professor Samuel Nicolosi English 110 December 4th‚ 2012 The New Orleans Saints: Taking Their City Back February 7th‚ 2010. Super Bowl XLIV. Four years post Hurricane Katrina. As smoke cleared from “The Who” halftime concert‚ Thomas Morstead‚ the kicker for the New Orleans Saints‚ set to kick the ball off to the Indianapolis Colts to start the third quarter. With the Saints down 10 to 6‚ and Indianapolis’s Chad Simpson standing in his own end zone ready to return the kick

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    Synopsis and Summary In this article from The New York Times‚ Gretchen Reynolds talks about the relationship between exercise and dancing‚ relating to the white matter in our brains. The University of Illinois gathered 147 volunteers‚ both men and women and gave them tests for their cognitive abilities and reaction time‚ along with taking an in-depth MRI. Over a six-month span‚ the people were broken up into three different groups‚ each group doing different activities‚ but doing them for an hour

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    Olivia Jendrzejewski Professor Clark English 111 Section 04 18 October 2013 Out of The Shadows Tragic events always come to us by surprise. Tragedy is something no one wants to encounter‚ yet we all do at one point in our lives. Some experience this in much more diverse ways than others. The young woman sitting in front of the café faced unspeakable horror by being sexually abused by a family member between the ages of eight and twelve. The other woman sits on the curbstone with her canine

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    New York influences a person’s vocational choice in various ways. Goldberg writes‚ “it’s where I learned about that I could pursue whatever I loved but that I couldn’t be a slacker‚ because everybody was hustling” (66). New York has an energy that influences people to push themselves more and more to become successful. It’s not only that New York is full of culture‚ diversity but it is a center of financial growth and opportunity. If you take a walk down the Avenue of Americas‚ you will see hundreds

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    Alvin York was arguably one of America’s most decorated World War I soldiers. Sergeant York is a movie about his life and heroic acts. He struggles between his religious beliefs and patriotic duty. Originally from a small town in Tennessee‚ the movie starts by depicting York as a young farmer supporting his mother and siblings. He works very hard on the farm‚ so when he was denied a very good piece of land he almost takes out revenge. When he gets struck by lightning during a rainstorm‚ he goes

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    By the turn of the 20th century mass transit had coalesced around electric power for street railways‚ subways‚ elevated railways and for interurban railways of around one-hundred miles or less. Animal and cable traction systems had already undergone mass conversions to electricity or been abandoned altogether where the financial investment was proving unworthy. Steam powered locomotives drove long distance railroads; by 1890 there was in excess of 130‚000 miles of mainline track in service. In the

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    Responsive Paper Three Cups of Tea Mortenson’s New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea challenged me in many different areas and gave me a different outlook on the way other countries deal with poverty. To me the most challenging thing to understand about the book is how someone like Mortenson can go from a mountaineer to being such a great humanitarian. God’s plan for Mortenson wasn’t to be a mountaineer at all; his plan for him was to do great things in impoverished countries. The way that

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    3.3. The Museum of the Moving Image‚ New York‚ US Information for this section is taken from http://www.movingimage.us/ 3.3.1. Online Collections – Description and Analysis The collections database is found directly via the ‘collections’ button on the homepage of the museum’s website. The visitor is redirected to the online collections portal‚ which has the options ‘browse’ and ‘for researchers’ (see Image 16). This indicates that the potential user that the museum envisions may either come from

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