A bad day A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle when it accidentally slipped into gear. The man‚ still holding onto the handlebars‚ was dragged through the glass patio doors and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house. The wife‚ hearing the crash‚ ran into the dining room and found her husband lying on the floor‚ cut and bleeding‚ the motorcycle lying next to him‚ and the shattered
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Knowledge. Happiness. Family. Freedom. These are just a few of the things people today take for granted. But what if that all changed? What if knowledge was shunned upon? If personal happiness and freedom were things of dreams and fantasy? If the idea of a family who communicates and cares for one another were as funny as time travel. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ the main character Guy Montag battles just these things. In a society where books were illegal and the tv was now everyone’s
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Martin Luther King once said “Only in the darkness you can see the stars.” Martin was unfairly treated his whole life. He couldn’t drink at the same fountains or swim in the same pools as people that were white. His whole life he was abused and unfairly treated‚ but he still learned kindness and peace‚ and eventually became famous and memorialized today. His situation is shown in some of the characters in the Book Thief. Even though there’s a lot of suffering and pain in the book‚ Markus Zusak shows
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How the Wall of Jericho Falls It Happened One Night set the place for the “screwball” comedy‚ the witty and romantic clash of temperaments between a man and a woman mismatched in both personality and social position. Through one of the greatest romantic comedies in film history‚ Frank Copra shows the outlandish nature of the rich and the nature of man being the controller in relationships as well as in society. It is the reversal of the Cinderella story‚ a modern tale with light hearted sex appeal
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Sometimes the snow melts just as quickly as it falls and other times it leaves you wondering if there will ever be an end in sight. On a scale of zero to ten in snow preparedness‚ Portland is probably at a two or three. Still‚ everyone loves a snow day and and its promise of a break. Do not be disillusioned though‚ as one’s love for snow can just as quickly turn into dismay. 2014 was such a year. With snow suddenly falling in February‚ everyone was caught off guard by the inclement weather. As
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With every inauguration we fortify the seedling of our country: the decrepit two century old constitution. All standing before me‚ we are American even though some were not born upon American soil‚ but rather united in the belief we chose to hold in an archive written centuries ago by the brilliant authors that came before us. Although these words may be documented‚ they alone are worthless. It is our job in government to execute these proposed duties- "by the people‚ for the people." Since 1789
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"Catcher in the Rye" written by J.D. Salinger‚ is a novel in which the author creates much irony in the way he presents the loss of innocence or the fall from innocence in his main character‚ Holden Caulfield. While Holden clearly believes in protecting the innocence of children in society‚ he himself cannot seem to hang onto his own innocence. Throughout the novel Holden shows his love and protection for childhood innocence‚ the irony that he in fact himself may be losing his own childhood innocence
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the Cold War over twenty million people died? It was a pretty devastating war. While the reason it is called the “Cold War” is because it never sparked into an actual war‚ there was still a lot of war going on. I’m here to tell you about the what happened during the Cold War. During the beginning of the Cold War (1947-1991)‚ America devised a strategy called “containment” (“Cold War History”). Containment meant that they would try to stop communism from spreading to other places in the world. While
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Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern culture‚ these days not only in the context of business and technology but also in environmental and climate changes. The changes in the environment impacts economies‚ populations‚ governments and cultures at a local level (Woerd 2002). Woerd (2002) also mentions that changes at a local level contribute to changes at a national and global level. All organisations worldwide are suffering with the environmental impacts that are places
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Numerous events forced the Catholic Reformation. These events were heavily embedded in the clergy exploitation of the Christian doctrine. In that era the text and the sermons were given in Latin unfortunately‚ majority of the congregation if not all of the congregation did not speak Latin. Consequently‚ they were unable to comprehend the sermon. Additionally‚ the clergy did not live in their own diocese‚ or speak the native language therefore‚ they could not sympathize to the needs of the population
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