shooting. It is a first person narrative from the point of view of Valerie Leftman‚ whose boyfriend Nick Levil was the shooter. Interspersed through the novel are newspaper articles about the events. Valerie and Nick have compiled a Hate List‚ a list of people and things they hate; Valerie sees it as an inside joke between the two of them‚ but Nick is more serious. When he brings a gun to school and starts shooting people‚ Valerie puts herself in front of his next victim and is shot in the leg. After this
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Reinaldo Grimán C.I. 20154898 The walking shadow of imperialism Imperialism can be defined as a special type of dominance of one collectivity‚ usually a nation‚ over another‚ and it is characterized by the military occupation of a nation by other. Whether for economic‚ nationalist‚ or humanitarian reasons‚ more powerful nations have often interfered with the affairs of weaker nations. These more powerful nations‚ including the United States‚ Britain‚ and several European countries
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Shadow and Custodial Presidents Grant (1868) Cleveland (1892) Throughout the history of the world there have been many people remembered for their actions and a great deal more forgotten for no real reason. This does not exempt more recent history. After the American Civil War‚ six lesser-known Presidents‚ Grant‚ Hayes‚ Garfield‚ Arthur‚ Cleveland‚ and Harrison‚ have been given titles of either shadow or custodial presidents. A shadow‚ is a section of darkness‚ or a part that follows
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violation of the law‚ namely hate speech. By and large‚ it is a broad category that subsumes verbal attacks based on the target’s race‚ ethnicity‚ religion and sexual orientation (Mohr 2013:238). Due to the fact that hate speech is designed to demean‚ despise and ostracize people on the basis of the above-said factors‚ it can be easily seen as a term related both to the phenomenon of insulting and fighting words (Neu 2008). And yet‚ a detailed enquiry into the scope of hate speech reveals that –as opposed
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Essay on Flowers and Shadows As darkness cloaks the mists of the story line; So who‚ one of the many unprevailling & vengeful victim of Jonan’s Crumbling & destructive success‚ finally makes an appearance at the okwe’s residence; leading the fall of Jonan’s wealth and power. So who’s vengeful plot brought him out of the shadows‚ where his controlled madness might have fooled the likes of Jonan for a while‚ but the latter’s paranoia finally caught on and killed Sowho and itself; putting
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Australian Story’s documentary ‘Shadow of Doubt’ gives new insight into the controversial topic of murder while hinting at police corruption‚ tunnel vision and the real truth. This documentary follows Deb Drummond‚ the granddaughter of accused murder Reg Brown‚ in a somewhat biased way positioning the audience in a way to believe that Reg Brown is innocent. Reg Brown is accused of killing Bronia Armstrong at the Wallace Bishop Arcade in 1947. Bronia Armstrong’s family did not participate in the documentary
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The Hate List by Jennifer Brown is about the aftermath of a school shooting. Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend Nick was the shooter‚ she had no idea that he was going to shoot up the school but she was implicated in the crime because she made a hate list of everything her and Nick both hated. Nick had taken his victims off of the list. Valerie was wounded trying to stop him and then Nick took his own life. After the summer Valerie had to come back for her senior year and face the guilt and move on with
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Delores M Skattum Professor Jennifer Ambrose English 202 13 February 2013 The Message Behind a Certain Short Story Are you at peace with yourself and the wrong-doings in your life? In the story Crimson Shadow‚ by Walter Mosley‚ a hardened ex-inmate‚ Socrates‚ takes in a young boy‚ Darryl‚ running from his terrible actions and tries to teach him a lesson. The author uses this scenario to in-turn teach the reader that you have to admit when you are wrong and to right those wrongs. Admitting
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Mad Shadows: Good vs. Evil All conflict in literature is‚ in its simplest form‚ a struggle between good and evil. The clash between good and evil has been forever present in literary conflict. The sharp contrast and fierce battle between good and evil is particularly evident in the novella Mad Shadows. In the novella‚ the battle and contrast between good and evil is depicted through the two siblings‚ Isabelle-Marie and Patrice. These two characters contrast one another in almost every aspect
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The Shadow Throne: The final adventure War is coming to Carthya! This story opens in the country of Carthya‚ they are ruled by their young King Jaron. Hostile nations surround this peaceful country. One in particular‚ brodering from the south is Avenia. Their king is bent on overthrowing Jaron and taking all the land for himself. Jaron is surrounded with no way to escape‚ he will have to use every trick he knows to keep Carthya free. This story has enough action to satisfy any reader‚ and maybe the
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