The Ransom of Red Chief is one of my favorite O. Henry stories. Always the master of comic irony‚ Henry is at the top of his form in this story of two incompetent would-be kidnappers‚ Sam Howard and Bill Driscoll. The story is told in the first person by protagonist Sam‚ whose grand vocabulary and self important attitude helps set the stage for the major fall he and his partner Bill take when they capture a malevolent red-headed hellion‚ Johnny Dorset (a worthy antagonist)‚ and attempt to hold
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are from descended from‚ We had no family‚ no dad‚ or mum. We are assigned a caretaker from birth‚ Not of Troll descent‚ for what it’s worth. They’re assigned an animal‚ called a lusus‚ I‚ was a special case. One that caused a fuss. I had candy red blood. I was a mutant. And most trolls‚ considered me a pollutant. I was left for dead as a baby grub‚ It was quite an intentional snub. I would have died that first night‚ cold and lonesome‚ If it weren’t for one troll‚ who was wholesome.
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It can’t be beat” Line Strategies • Release Ruby Red Squirt to all areas of the US. It is currently only released in certain parts of the country. Ruby Red has a one of a kind taste with berry AND grapefruit flavors. It is a soft drink that most individuals would become loyal to. • Push Squirt Citrus Power into the energy drink market. It is an
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Some of the reasons for the Red Cross ethical dilemmas come from their executive turnover rate. The frequent turnover rate of CEOs has greatly weakened the organization’s ability to put controls into place. The President and CEO during the 9/11 attack‚ Bernadine Hartley was forced to resign due to mismanagement of response time. President and CEO Mark Evans was fired after the handling of Hurricane Katrina. During a brief time in 2007 when Mark Everson was President and CEO‚ he resigned due to
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The Red Convertible The story is about a young boy by the name of Lyman and his older brother Henry. The relationship between the two boys seems to very close‚ they do everything together. At the beginning of the story Lyman states how he has always been lucky‚ especially when it came to making money. He was a dish washer who worked his way up to being part owner of a restaurant until a tornado knocked it down‚ however Lyman gives the image as he still is lucky. Lyman and Henry notice a red
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Lenin‚ a Red Tsar? It is widely accepted that Lenin was to be the next Tsar of the time‚ The Red Tsar in fact. With his views gradually growing more radical‚ this can be seen to be true in a lot of instances. Lenin was a key figure in European history. Lenin led the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Russian Tsar‚ and to bring socialism to Russia. Lenin introduced Communism to Russia. This changed the history for Russia as well as the rest of Europe‚ and to this day has had a huge effect on the Russian
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Federico Alcocer January 18‚ 2013 Mrs. Rivera 3B The Red Cross It was during 1919 in Paris after World War 1 had just finished‚ when the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies was founded (IFRC). The idea of having such a symbol as a Red Cross came from Henry Dunant in 1859. It all started when Dunant witnessed a bloody battle scene in Solferino‚ Italy. Over 40‚000 men laid dead or wounded in the battlefield without any medical help. It was from there and
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A red velvet cake is a cake with a dark red‚ bright red or red-brown color. It is traditionally prepared as a layer cake topped with cream cheese or cooked roux icing. The reddish color is achieved by adding red food coloring. Common ingredients include buttermilk‚ butter‚ flour‚ cookie dough for the filling‚ cocoa‚ and beetroot or red food coloring. The amount of cocoa used varies in different recipes. Cream cheese frosting and buttercream frosting are commonly used. History: James Beard’s
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With the red glowing menacing eyes‚ the black dragon stares into my eyes with hatred and rage. From a distance‚ a human would saw that the dragon is actually pierced with a golden sword around it’s chest. Haah….Why is this happening again… “You…for a human to be able to injure the great me….” Yes‚ yes. I already heard this similar sentence for countless times. Why did all dragons think human can’t injure them? And what’s up with the “great me”? You’re not even that great‚ you’re just a third-rate
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the Derg political party‚ started the Red Terror‚ which was a genocide of Ethiopian citizens who opposed the Derg. As a result of Mengistu’s Red Terror Movement‚ Ethiopia had suffered irreversible damage to its economy‚ experienced a country wide famine‚ and thousands of its citizens had been slaughtered. Mengistu’s terror was primarily shaped by Communism; Mengistu’s socialist ideas‚ alliances with the Soviet Union‚ and radical principles gave the Ethiopian Red Terror a Soviet character that made
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