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    Crime Scene Write-up CRJS 210 Professor Rinehart August 27‚ 2012 Upon entering the crime scene to my right (North wall)‚ I noticed a white male‚ wearing a gray sweat suit‚ hanging from the ceiling with a small rope around his neck and his hands bound behind his back with plastic zip-ties. In addition‚ there is blood splatter on the wall (North wall) to the right of the victim. The second victim‚ a white male wearing a black ball cap‚ black tee shirt and plaid pants were found semi lying on

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    When citizens of Eatonville ask Janie to deliver a speech‚ Joe denies her the opportunity‚ causing Janie’s passive aggressiveness to appear. Hurston explains‚ “It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things”(43). Janie is not angry that she is not giving a speech to an audience; however‚ she feels troubled

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    Why Gambling Is Bad

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    Gambling might lead to trouble! Gambling is getting more and more common in todays society. There are several shows on TV about poker each night and even more gambling related sites on the internet. These TV-shows and sites influenc young people and they might get stuck with gambling related issues for their entire life. That’s why I’m going to argue against gambling and why gambling is a bad thing. People have been gambling for hundreds of years‚ so it’s not a brand new thing. What is new though

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    Looking For Zora

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    DIANA NYAKUNDI FRESHMAN COMPOSITION 09/29/10 LOOKING FOR ZORA In her essay Looking for Zora‚ Alice walker ventures out to Eatonville Florida to find out more about Zora Hurston. Walker masquerades as Zora’s niece and goes around inquiring on what was the cause of Zora’s death‚ where her grave is currently‚ and what was she like‚ alive. Walker argues that the writer’s undignified and unfamiliar resting place is far less important than the memories and influence she has left behind. The main appeal

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    The relationship between Stella and Stanley was indifferent. As evening began to approach‚ Stanley and his friends were having a poker night at the Kowalski resident. Stanley and his friends were beginning to get a little more foolish and outrageous because alcohol was involved. Stella said to Stanley “Couldn’t you call it quits after one more hand.” Then Stanley stands up and smacks his wife in her thigh. As hours and hours pass by‚ Stella says to Stanley and his friends “Drunk‚ Drunk‚ animal

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    town payed close attention to Janie. He went as far as giving her orders of how she was to wear her hair after another man admired it‚ “Her hair was NOT going to show in the store...That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store” (Hurston 55). Janie also enjoyed listening to the men talk on the porch and watching them play games‚ but anytime that she tried to participate she would be chastised by Joe and even beaten. This conflict benefitted Janie in the end because it caused her to

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    wider culture‚ they also attracted commercial publishers and a large white readership. Writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance include Arna Bontemps ‚ Langston Hughes ‚ Claude McKay ‚ Countee Cullen ‚ James Weldon Johnson ‚ Zora Neale Hurston ‚ and Jean Toomer . Visual artists connected with the movement are less generally known. Among the painters are Aaron Douglas‚ Palmer Hayden‚ Malvin G. Johnson‚ and William H. Johnson. The best-known sculptor is probably Augusta Savage. Photographers

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    individuals who support it. Many people feel that it is their own choice to spend their own money‚ and the few who lack the discipline to control their gambling should not stop others who can. With the relatively recent boom of internet gambling‚ especially poker‚ gambling is becoming more and more of a hot topic with governments and groups throughout the world. Casinos should take advantage of this surge of interest in gambling in order to make a profit and keep it available to customers; however‚ they should

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    Falk. Vol. 61. Author Claire Crabtree objectively created her article off of the custom that Zora Neale Hurston used in the book “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. This was her way of letting the reader/audience inside life as an African American and the role that the women play. Using Janie as an image to analyze the topics of self-determinism of blacks‚ independence of women‚ and feminism. Hurston glimpses at the life of African Americans by showing Janie’s exploration of self-determination and spiritual

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    the best stories in the Anthology that had examples of human nature are How it Feels to be Colored Me‚ by Zora Hurston‚ The Necklace‚ by Guy de Maupassant‚ and The Rose that Grew from Concrete‚ by Tupac Shakur. These stories show how humans have different characteristics. These characteristics are determination‚ intolerance‚ and the need to have more than what they have. Zora Hurston‚ in How it Feels to be Colored Me shows how humans can be extremely intolerant. “Someone is always at

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