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    Your answer would probably be no because it’s obvious that all of this stuff is toxic and would result in sudden death. This is all of the stuff that cigarette smoke contains‚ so just wonder how harmful would cigarettes actually be. I’ll be telling you about the harmful effectsof tobacco & the great harm caused by the second-hand smoke that is emitted from smoking it. I know you all must have seen it in the movies and would’ve at least thought once that smoking makes you look so cool‚ but believe

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    Rangers Apprentice

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    in the story. The Rangers Apprentice is about a boy named Will‚ a princess named Evanlyn‚ Wills teacher Halt‚ and Horace‚ Will’s friend‚ a great knight. Will‚ the main character used to dream about being a knight‚ but found his calling as a ranger. Rangers serve their king and vow to protect the kingdom from thieves‚ and other criminals. A couple of the many rangers’ skills are using the bow and arrow and throwing knives. The people in town whisper how the rangers are ghosts because of their

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    Fixing the Broken “El Tonto del Barrio” tells the story of Romero‚ a man who has an exclusive arrangement in the Golden Heights Centro. Romero sweeps the sidewalks and the barrio gives him handouts‚ which helps balance the community in a systematic way. Could a nonessential improvement be enough to upset the balance of this community? In the short story “El Tonto Del Barrio‚” author Jose Armas intertwines conflict and irony to show readers that one should not fix something that is not broken (896-901)

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    transportation. In the book‚ "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie‚ Arnold has a very difficult time getting to school because he lives on the reservation and his school is 22 miles away. In one situation‚ Arnold said "My dad was supposed to pick me up. But he wasn’t sure if he’d have enough gas money...If they didn’t come‚ I’d start walking...Twenty-two miles. I got blisters each time" (Alexie 87-88). Arnold’s biggest struggle everyday is trying to get to school. There

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    Kingdom of Heaven: History vs. Hollywood The Crusades were a series of military campaigns encouraged by the church and pope to capture the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from Muslim hold. They were carried out during the 11th through the 13th centuries. There were a series of at least 6 crusades‚ some of which were directed at other European countries rather than Muslim countries. Kingdom of Heaven is a movie that deals with the 12th century crusaders. The movie takes place between the 2nd and 3rd Crusades

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    Lone Parents

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    article (1200 words) A new deal for Lone Parents? Training lone parents for work in West London The article‚ written by the Royal Geographical Society (With the institute of British Geographers‚ 2008) discusses about the impacts of the new training programmes in which the government have decided to offer to lone parents with young children. Some may have argued that this has been beneficial for both lone parents and children to encourage lone parents (particularly mothers) to take up employment

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    Richele Tucker   Stacie Sather English 305          15 November 2013 The novel‚ The Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexi is about a young American Indian boy who decides to leave the reservation to better his life. He starts out finding himself through this change in his life and continues to grow and change into the young man he wants to become. At the beginning of the novel he seems frustrated because he is told he must do as the others on the reservation and he seems to feel mistreated

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    Sherman Alexi

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    reservation that view him as a traitor to his culture. We’re also going to take a look at the stereotypes that are placed upon the Native Americans by those of the white culture‚ though Sherman Alexi doesn’t go too deep in his book about this stereotyping there are little snippets of it that bear mentioning. Sherman Alexi was born October 7‚ 1966‚ on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington. Alexi was born with hydrocephalus‚ a condition that occurs when an abnormally large amount of

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    Caleb Hunt ROTC MS II CPT. McNeil October 15‚ 2014 Lone Survivor Lone Survivor is a book based on a true story. The story begins in the year 2005‚ just a few years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City. In this book‚ Marcus Luttrell‚ the co-author and main character of Lone Survivor‚ tells us of his horrific experience on his deployment to Afghanistan. I chose Lone Survivor because that was one of the army-related books I had yet to read and heard there was an amazing new movie to back

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    Alexie 101

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    relating it to my life and common experiences. She Had Some Horses: The Education of a Poet was a very powerful story. It was a great example of wanting to stand out and trying to figure out why that was not a common thing in Sherman Alexies’ culture. I believe Sherman Alexie wrote this story to show us all how literature changed his life and his was of thinking. He always did have‚ from the beginning‚ curiosities. He was always curious as to why there were no Indian writers in the books he read.

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