Brown‚ Aalia 4B Eng/Lang arts 12 Mrs. Landrum-May February 26‚ 2013 The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to kill King James I. the plot was to blow up the house of the lords during the State Opening of England’s Parliament. The plan also included the king’s 9 year old daughter whom was supposed to be awarded as the Catholic head of state. This may have occurred after the hopes of greater religious tolerance was defeated‚ which left many English Catholics disappointed. They had few but strong
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BOJINKA PLOT Date: starting in early 1994 through Sept 11‚ 2001 Players: Khalid Shaik Mohammed‚ Mohamed Atta‚ Marwan Alshehhi‚ Ramzi Yousef‚ Mohammed Jamal Khalifa‚ Wali Khan Amin Shah‚ Abdul hakim Murad‚ Zahed Sheikh Mohammed‚ Jamal al-Fadl these were the main players named along with the Bin Laden name mentioned but never brought up as a main character him or his family members. Mission: First was to assassinate the Pope on his visit to the Philippines as well as plant bombs on around
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I. EXTRACTS BASED QUESTIONS Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow : 1. “I am going back to my grandmother. My lawyer will communicate with you later ?” (a) Who speaks the above lines ? (b) Why is she going back to her grandmother ? (c) What effect does the above extract have on the listener ? 2. “Well‚ I was not in a position to contradict Jenkins.” (a) Why was the narrator not in a position to contradict Jenkins ? (b) Who was Jenkins ? (c) What had Jenkins
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movie because of the plot suffered and production of the movie was poor. The plot was a very apparent problem; with the bad pacing and easily avoidable plot it made for a less interesting movie. For the first thirty minutes of the movie the characters are introduced and the story of how Scotty Smalls became friends with the kids at the sandlot was shown. The rest of the movie‚ until the last thirty minutes‚ consisted only of random fillers that provided little for the plot that made the movie much
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Many stories‚ especially in the fantasy genre‚ feature an object or objects with some great power. Often what drives the plot is the hero’s need to find the object before the villain and use it for good rather than evil‚ or if the object has been broken by the villains‚ to retrieve each piece that must be gathered from each antagonist to restore it‚ or‚ if the object itself is evil‚ to destroy it. In some cases destroying the object will lead to the destruction of the villain.[according to whom?]
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Plot in The Alchemist The four obstacles are presented to us in the early pages of the introduction. The first obstacle: we are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. The second obstacle: love. The third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. Finally the fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream of which we fought for all our lives. We find the first obstacle Santiago faces in page 9‚ where Santiago mentions to his father at a early age that
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Why Discriminate Against People with AIDS? AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. In the early 1980’s people began to think that only gay males could carried the deadly virus. The New York City Health and Mental Hygiene Department released a controversial HIV/AIDS public service announcement ad targeting gay men about having HIV/AIDS. Why just target gay men‚ they are not the only people that can catch the disease. Studies show that many people around the world including
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medieval prejudice against the Jewish people and the modern prejudice against the Jewish people‚ by use of The Devil and The Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism by Joshua Trachtenberg and class discussion topics. The basis of
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for the Internet economy. That means that they do have some areas for improvement. Prioritizing the Internet People who have argued for prioritizing the Internet or talking against net neutrality have argued that this does not ensure that top priority services‚ such as healthcare have a higher priority over sharing bandwidth pool with the public. While that is a great argument against it‚ the problem is that it can also be badly misused‚ and there is little promise that it would not be used for
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During a time where black men‚ women‚ and children are getting shot down in the streets simply for being black‚ it is important to remember that white people have fallen victim to the damaging effects of systematic oppression as well. Throughout history‚ the oppression of white people is clear as day. Originally‚ the Europeans were forced out of their homes to travel across the seas while looting and destroying the resources and lives of the natives inhabiting Americas and pretty much the rest
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