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    Should Students be Punished for Pictures Posted on the Internet? As a teen‚ I do post my fair share of public photos on the internet and social networking sites‚ though my school was never contacted to pursue any action on the photos regardless of what things were in them‚ being illegal or against the school’s academic contracts/requirements. The students at Eden Prairie High School have had a different experience with their school’s administration. Thirteen students who signed an athletic contract

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    industrialization‚ and modernization—have all significantly changed the way we live our lives. By the nineteenth century‚ the Industrial Revolution was in full swing; with rapid industrialization‚ rapid urbanization also began to occur. By 1854‚ Victorian London‚ riding on the winds of the Industrial Revolution‚ grew into the biggest city the world had ever seen. Cities‚ essentially‚ are large congregations of people in a certain area. In rural areas‚ the sparse population density allows for the

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    sitting in a theater”‚ said Roman Polanski. This quote is saying that when a person goes to the movies he should not only feel like he is watching it but that he is experiencing it. The short story “Moving Pictures” is the perfect example for putting into words what this quote means. “Moving Pictures” is about this writer that just got his big break and a producer asked him to rewrite his book for a movie. The timeline of the story goes back and forth from past to the present. When the speaker is in

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    My Favorite Picture The picture that I am writing about probably the only picture that is my favorite with all my close cousins together‚ has more meaning than it seems. At first‚ it appears to be nothing more than a happy get-together party of all young adults‚ from the ages of eighteen to twenty four. In the background one can see a swimming pool. My cousins who are kneeling on the bottom row are Priyanka (who is affectionately known as Giraffe because she is the tallest girl in our family)

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    photographs share many similarities‚ but they are also different. I’m sure that Anne Geddes‚ the famous photographer of babies‚ may have a completely different view of her subjects than Leonardo da Vinci had of Mona Lisa. Still‚ both ways of producing pictures can have incredible results. Photographs and paintings are alike in many ways. First of all‚ both amateurs and professionals can make them. Professional photographers often create breathtaking images‚ and collectors will pay a high price to

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    on. These are all things to picture what prison was like in the victorian era. Prisoners and crime in the victorian era were not someplace you would want to be. The conditions were sometimes very unnecessary and cruel‚ it got to the point where the prisoners wanted to hang themselves and if they did something so bad‚ that’s exactly what happened.Crime and punishment was a lot more painful back in the victorian era‚ also the punishment would last for a while. In victorian britain punishments were very

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    green in the leaves of the tree‚ which is what is in focus in the picture‚ my attention moves into the vibrant contrast of blues‚ purples‚ reds‚ pinks‚ oranges‚ and yellows as the image in the picture moves towards the horizon. A tree farther off in the distance and the ground are portrayed into a blackness‚ which makes the eyes of the viewer focus more on the intensity of the color change during the sunset portrayed in the picture. However‚ in the midst of the dark ground‚ I can see what could be

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    Victorian Influences on Literature In 1904 J.M. Barrie published the book Peter Pan. The novel first started as a play‚ and since then been reproduced into many different version. It published a few short years after Queen Elizabeth passed away and the Victorian Era had come to an end. The characters have specific characteristics that represent the time period. The Darlings represent the way Barrie saw the Victorian Era. We see this through the characterization of Mr. Darling‚ Nana‚ and Mrs. Darling

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    Book Review Understanding the Victorians Politics‚ Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain Author Background: “Understanding the Victorians” was written by Susie L. Steinbach. Susie was born in 1966 to Jewish Eastern European family in NYC. Her father was a Holocaust survivor and immigrant. She was born and raised in a lower middle-class family. She had public school education; she was able to attend gifted and talented magnet school grades 7-12‚ which provided support

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    The history of motion pictures The purpose of this lecture: 1. to provide a brief overview of the development of motion pictures 2. with an emphasis on the economic culture that developed historically. 3. This has meant an emphasis on profits and 4. an avoidance of controversy.     I. Early moving pictures Note the term used in the early days of the industry: Moving pictures. Pictures that movied. From the 1850s on‚ there had been experimentation by photographers and others in reproducing human

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