A former Church of Scientology member has filed a case alleging the church had forced her to work long hours when she was younger and have abortion at 17. On Wednesday‚ Superior Court Judge John Doyle ruled that former Scientologist Laura Ann DeCrescenzo’s lawsuit can proceed to trial. The lawyers of the Church of Scientology International and its Religious Technology Center had earlier filed a motion to have the case dismissed‚ My News LA reports. DeCrescenzo filed the lawsuit against the Church
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Citizenfour is a documentary‚ directed by Laura Poitras‚ that revolves around Edward Snowden‚ a computer professional that revealed classified information from the NSA (US National Security Agency) and the GCHQ (UK Government Communications Headquarters) concerning illegal surveillance programs run by this organizations along with the help of telecommunication companies and other governments. These programs consisted on illegally listening to phone conversations‚ reading e-mails and basically having
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In this narrative “Grace is a Gift‚” the author‚ “Laura Durham” talked about grace. It is about Laura saying grace is a gift not a reward. The author said giving grace can teach a lots things and from the teacher‚ the author learned how much grace can lift someone’s spirit. The author is literally saying grace is how grace is a gift not a reward. You do not deserve it because you did something good. There is nothing that you can do to earn grace. In other words‚ you don’t have to worry about you
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are only three basic needs of life‚ food‚ water and shelter. What most people might not realize is that humans have a very important psychological basic need - dignity. When you have nothing your dignity keeps you going. The author of “Unbroken”‚ Laura Hillenbrand explores the concept of dignity as a basic need. In “Unbroken” Louis Zamperini’s dignity fueled his battle to survive. When his dignity was compromised his will to live started to diminish. During his imprisonment‚ Louis begins to realized
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Survival‚ Cruelty‚ Danger‚ Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand’s World War II biography‚ Unbroken‚ follows the life of a Prisoner of War‚ Louis Zamperini. From childhood to adulthood‚ Louis’ life contains a story of survival and the struggle to fit in. This novel portrays the cruel and jealous Mutsuhiro Watanbe‚ the always present danger of sharks and Louis’ survival and resilience filled life. “He was the most sadistic man I ever met!” said Jack Brady on Mutsuhiro Watanbe (Hillenbrand 243). Known for his
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In Lyle H. Kendall’s writing of “The Vampire Motif in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher‚’” he relates vampirism to Poe’s story through the Roderick Usher’s letter‚ the Usher family itself‚ and the ending of the story. Roderick Usher‚ main character and the brother of Madeline Usher‚ writes a letter to the narrator where he tells of “bodily as well as mental disorder” within the family and urges him to visit soon. His interpretation of that is the family’s bodily disorder being the vampirism that affects
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“Though he did the least‚ as the days passed‚ it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil’s optimism‚ and Mac’s hopelessness‚ were becoming self-fulfilling” (Hillenbrand 155). These two sentences came from a passage in a biography called Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand whose book revolves around the life of one man: Louie Zamperini. A boy who grew up despised by his town‚ who later grew to love him because of his passion for running‚ which would later get him to the Olympics in Germany where he would
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For Laura Ingalls Wilder‚ her childhood meant growing up on the prairie and moving west with her pioneer family on covered wagon. When she was older‚ Laura remembered her days in covered wagon‚ and wrote a series about her childhood life. In it‚ she tells all that happened to her when she was moving west into new land. Did you know that when you come to a river when traveling on covered wagon‚ you have to move it through the water like a boat? There were many challenges in to traveling in that way
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novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel‚ while riding the Second Wave of feminism in the Latin American country‚ voices her dissatisfaction with the effects of tradition. Her 1989 novel Like Water for Chocolate narrates the story of Tita De la Garza‚ the youngest of three daughters in a family living in Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century‚ in addition to her continuing struggle to pursue true love and claim her independence. Within this critically- acclaimed novel‚ Laura Esquivel over deliciously
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The longest serving first lady of the United states Eleanor Roosevelt had once said‚ “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” In Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction book Unbroken‚ the exceedingly clever Louis Zamperini embodied Roosevelt’s words when he survived World War II employing his own idea’s of his to stay alive and help his remaining crew return home. At the starting point of Louie’s life‚ he found ways to steal from
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