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    Common Ground

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    for secondary screening after probable cause is identified. Although these two authors’ positions on the debate appear to be wholly opposed‚ common ground exists‚ because they share the idea that full-body scans using backscatter technology should be permitted‚ but only in a way that uses suspicion as a motive to screen a person. Both authors share a common concern as to whether the new backscatter scanning technology protects the nation without breaking the citizens’ constitutional right to privacy

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    it means that teen-agers will stop killing each other over designer jackets‚ then our public schools should be able to require their students to require school uniforms.” President Clinton also said‚ “If it means that the schoolrooms will be more orderly‚ more disciplined‚ and that our young people will learn to evaluate themselves by what they are on the inside instead of what they’re wearing on the outside‚ then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear school uniforms."

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    Boston Common

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    1/2/11 Boston Common Ever since my first day at Sutter Middle School I have always looked forward to going on the trip to Boston with Mrs. Cooperman’s class. This is a huge opportunity for an 8th grader like myself to be pushed above their limits and fly across the country with their close friends and with their teacher. Since this trip is coming up I have taken the liberty into researching where I am about to go and what I am about to see. One historical landmark that caught my eye would

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    Fiction Essay

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    Gregory L. Baize‚ Sr. In Partial Completion for ENG 102 D04 201130 Professor Robinson July 10‚ 2011 Thesis Statement Comparative study of Graham Greenes ’ "The Destructors" and Shirley Jackson ’s "The Lottery." Both stories are great work of paralleled irony for different reasons. In "The Destructors‚" life ’s decisions are convoluted in a much different way‚ one may say they are the same as in The Lottery‚ but they are not. In "The Lottery‚" life ’s decisions appear

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    Fiction and Point

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    Discussion_1_week_2 Chapter Five discusses the importance of point of view in literature and‚ more specifically‚ in the short story. Choose one short story from the course text about which you have not yet written‚ and analyze it in terms of point of view. When writing your post‚ consider the following questions * How would you categorize the point of view [e.g.‚ first-person‚ second-person (i.e.‚ “you”)‚ third-person limited‚ third-person omniscient]? * Is the point of view consistent

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    Moment of Truth

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    Moment of truth The crowd was deafening. A few drunken chants‚ a boo here and there was all I could make out over my asthma-like pants. I didn’t blame them though. For two rounds I’ve been dodging‚ shifting‚ and shoving myself around the ring. I didn’t stand still‚ I couldn’t stand still. I wasn’t going to win this one. He was too big‚ too bulky‚ too mean looking. “There’s no way he’s 76 kg‚ there must have been some sort of mistake” I kept telling myself. I was a half expecting the referee to

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    Pulp Fiction Narrative

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    Pulp Fiction is a controversial film‚ written and directed by Quentin Tarantino‚ in 1994. It has almost everything you could wish for in a movie; drama‚ hilarity‚ intensity‚ action‚ thrills‚ fun‚ intelligence‚ romance‚ intimacy‚ over-the-top bravado‚ vulgarity‚ sweetness‚ humor‚ and soul-searching. The film is very raw and brutal‚ but has a unique sense of style that keeps the viewers entertained. It will build its way up gradually to an incredibly intense scene‚ before dropping down to a relatively

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    Legal Fiction Examples

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    Legal fiction is a factious fact that is deemed as true under the law for purposes of legal‚ administrative or other expenditures (Black’s 2002). One example of a legal fiction in the U.S legal system is when a corporation is considered a person so pre-written laws will still apply to them and not have to be altered. Legal fiction ensures that the corporation is subjected to the same rights and rules that are drafted only to apply to people. There are two sides to this fiction they are that if the

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    Southern Gothic Fiction

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    Sean Tinsley Eng 151C-33 3/08/2013 Southern Gothic Fiction is a genre of literature unique to the American south. Major influences of the genre itself were the culture‚ religion‚ and economic standing of the south at the beginning of the 20th century. Many who read southern gothic are transported into a grotesque fantasy world where ideas of death‚ good versus bad‚ and god are all prevalent. Many American authors were greatly influenced by the ideas of southern gothic literature such as “Harper

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    While popular and widely watched the movie Pocahontas is an innaccurate portrail of a signifigant historical event. The Disney Corporation is not known for it’s accurate portrails of historical events and when producing the animated film Pocahontas‚ Disney did not fail in it’s nonchalant attitude concerning historic fact. Cartoonists at disney must have been watching adult films when they first penciled out the figures of Pocahontas and John Smith. The young Indian princess was only twelve

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