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    dies in a road rage shooting during a shopping trip with his grandmother. The boy and his grandmother were at the stop sign in Southwest Little Rock. The shooter fired after Acen king grandma took too long at a stop sign. Acen King Grandmother was devastated and emotional shock‚ after a short time later she realized her grandson had been shot. He was slumped over in the back seat of the car. Oh my God” the anguished grandmother screamed to the 911 dispatcher. This is very frustrating to our police agency

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    First Red Flag

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    governmental building was set ablaze in the middle of the night on February 27 ("First Steps Leading to the "Final Solution"). Hitler was quick to deem this action as caused by Dutch Communists currently in Germany. However‚ this seemingly random act of arson was all Hitler needed to get Germany’s president to hand over his reins and suspend the civil liberties of his people to Hitler’s mercy. Hitler commenced his first phase of conditioning the German people; he used the supposed arson attack as an

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    Skiing Adventure Allison Fickey ENG 101 Instructor Everett Reed 1 February 2014 The memory of Allison’s first Ski Trip to Snowshoe with her boyfriend‚ Dillon and his family still remained some of her best memories. Preparing their ski equipment seemed just like trying to get a very hyper ADD child to focus. The weather had already picked up‚ and it was hard to pull through the already freezing mess. But the time they spent skiing on the cold mountain slopes

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    My First Artifacts

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    One of the first artifacts in my life was a stuffed animal named Good Boy. He is a brown and black dog that my family got for me for a birthday or Christmas when I was three or four. He came with me to most places‚ especially for comfort when I would get shots. He would sleep with me like an animal‚ which was something that I loved. Good Boy was a silent friend to me that I will never forget. Another important artifact to me was a picture frame with about nine pictures of me and Conrad growing up

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    After the First Death

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    After the First Death In Robert Cormier’s After the First Death‚ the accounts of a terrorist hijacking are presented within a well developed plot. The fictional tale begins as a group of foreign "freedom fighters" takeover a camp school bus filled with young children. These hijackers had usually worked in quick bombing demonstrations‚ but in this operation the plans are switched around. The four terrorists used doped candy to keep the children quiet and forced Kate‚ the driver‚ onto a bridge to

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    My First Flight

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    As exhilarated as I was‚ I was not mentally prepared for everything that was about to happen. My heart thumped wildly against my chest. I was in a nervous wreck as I dragged my bag along the carpet floor‚ heading towards the corridor. The hall was filled with people from different walks of life. I glanced up and noticed a sign telling me that I could get on. Butterflies were all over in my tummy‚ but the anticipation of the monumental event that was about to take place was even greater. “Today’s

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    Sharpeville massacre on March 21‚ 1960‚ a peaceful crowd demonstrated against the pass laws and sixty-nine people were mowed down when the police panicked and opened fired” (17). The Sharpeville massacre shows how the previous ruling regime of South Africa would end the lives of peaceful protesters just to keep the lower class and anyone who opposed them in check. An act of violence such as this was unfortunately a very common method used by the previous ruling regime to deal with uprisings by the lower

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    of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World’s Fair‚ Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind‚ and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders‚ of which nine were confirmed‚ his actual body count could be as high as 200. May 16‚ 1861‚ to Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodate Page Price‚ both of whom were descended from the first European

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    Reflections on the First Amendment On December 15th‚ 1971‚ the first X amendments to the Constitution went into affect. The first X amendments to the constitution were known as the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment was written by James Madison because the American people were demanding a guarantee of their freedom. The First Amendment was put into place to protect American’s freedom of speech‚ freedom of religion‚ freedom of assembly and freedom of petition. The First Amendment was written as

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    Street capitalism at its center. Much like the lawyer’s other employees‚ Bartleby is described as having eccentric tendencies. Bartleby is a middle-class man‚ who must work to make ends meet through monotonous tasks and following orders of his employer (the Lawyer/narrator). Eventually‚ Bartleby ceases to follow these orders. Rather than be fired or removed from the building‚ the Lawyer attempts to connect with “the poor fellow”. In fact‚ the Lawyer see’s his attempt at connection as a form of good-hearted

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