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Vietnam War Air Strikes
1,235 wordsMost people in our society think of the Vietnam War as a tragedy, or a negative time in our history that was later viewed as a misstep. These comments are true and most-certainly conventional. However, does the average person realize how large of an impact it had on the men who fought? When questioned on the Vietnam War, it can be rightly assumed that many Americans would know that it lasted over a decade. Maybe even a few would know that over 14, 000 U. S. troops were killed in 1968, alone, (Ap...
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Crime Scene Four Men
867 wordsThe novel Conspiracy of Silence, written by Lisa Priest takes place in November 1971 in the Pas, Manitoba. The main character in this book is Helen Betty Osborne. She was the nineteen-year-old victim who was murdered on the night of November 12, 1971. She was an intelligent Cree high school student from the Norway house. Four secondary characteristics in this novel are Lee Colgan, Jim Houghton, Dwayne Johnstone and Norm Manger. All four of these people played a part in the Osborne murder. The co...
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One Of His Teammates Cow Manure Friend
431 wordsI once knew a man who told me one of the funniest stories I had ever heard. He was a boy scout, and the troupe was on a camping trip when the incident happened. See, he was one of those guys who lacked common sense and this played a major role in this story. The episode all began when night fell on the camp. The guys were setting up to play a game called manhunt. This game was similar to hide and seek but was different in that there was a jail, and in order to capture someone, he or she had to b...
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Wanted People Pain Finally
1,039 wordsFinally, 5: 00 out of work! I start towards my car and I think about finally getting home. I cant wait to get in the cool air conditioning and away from all my annoying co-workers. I open my car door, jump in, turn on my music full blast, and start driving away. I decided take a different way then usual because it was rush hour. My favorite song comes on the radio and I begin to sing. All of a sudden I stop, a car keeps whizzing in and out of all the cars in front of me. Out loud to myself, I sa...
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Acts Per Hour Violence On Television
1,335 wordsAmerican children and adolescents are being exposed to increasing amounts of media violence, especially in television, movies, video games, and youth-oriented music. By age 18, the average young person will have viewed an estimated 200 000 acts of violence on television alone. [ 1 ] Video game violence, children's cartoons, and music lyrics have become increasingly graphic. In movies, action films depict anatomically precise murders, rapes, and assaults; with each sequel, the number of deaths in...
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Thinks She Plain Catherine Father Man
883 wordsI'm depressed. Well, how could I not be? I just finished reading Washington Square. I'm happy it's over, but I'm not happy I finished it. No, that doesn't make sense does it? Lets just say, I had a feeling how it was going to end up; I just hoped that I would be wrong. Unfortunately the one time I didn't want to be right I was. Isn't that the way it always works? I guess so. Catherine, dear plain old, Catherine. Poor girl, father thinks she's plain, she thinks she's plain, her aunt thinks she's ...
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Low Avg Nw High Avg Nw Attacks
348 wordsAlliance warfare comes in may forms. There is no "set" war strategy. It depends on a mad of variables, such as Total NW, Avg NW, participation (moral), allies, etc. I'll try and show # 1) - An alliance with a lot of members, and a low avg NW. This is the easiest form of war, the GS kill. You stock up on troops, and merely kill off their countries with lost's of Geurrilla attacks. Make sure you have it so that it's not big guys doing attacks at the end to finish him off. What's best is when you h...
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River Falls Police River Falls Police Department Jeff
624 wordsSaturday nights usually involve some sort of stress relief for most college students. One Saturday, like many others involved some drinking to cope with college life. But, unlike other Saturdays this one ended with my roommate, Jeff, in the hospital and me with a two hundred and nine-dollar ticket and a new outlook on the River Falls Police Department. The clock said 9: 00 pm and Jeff and I decided we should head to a party. Freezing rain drizzled throughout the afternoon leaving a slippery walk...
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Hundred Dollars One Hundred
611 wordsRacing, to me, is just the outward display of whose car is faster than the other guys. It is not a sport. It is not game. It is just immaturity on wheels. Now of course, many people will put a lot of work, money, and time into making their car faster than the next guys, but why? There is no product to show for all of your hard work but a glove-box full of speeding tickets, an engine that will need to be replaced soon, and tires that have already been replaced ten times. Hopefully, you will soon ...
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Time Of Year Big Brothers
1,146 wordsMost people only know what farms are like by what they see on television or as they watch from the highway, passing by to visit a grandparent. I know farm life first-hand by that irritating dust on the back of my neck and barley beards in my hair. I know it by that crunch on my feet, those wheat stubs trying desperately to poke through the soles in my tennis shoes. I have been there to climb inside those bins to make an attempt to sweep up every kernel of corn from the cracks and crevasses made ...
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Birth Control Pills Show The Reader
1,345 wordsDespite surface differences in Jeanette's Winterson's Disappearance, and Welcome To The Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, both authors have created stories with pointed commentary at the worlds progression into the future... Both stories are set in a futuristic society that has abandoned human needs (sex and sleep) in order to benefit what the mass thinks of as the greater good. Through the plot sequences and characters used both authors have established a common theme with a simple, but multi-face...
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Field Hockey Open Campus
1,187 words... "I'll see you later, " she calls In the next few weeks, I'm lucky to spend any time at all with Dana. Mostly I spend my free time working on the English assignment we were supposed to do together. It seems like she's always ducking plans with me for field hockey. We still talk every night and eat lunch together every day. Somehow, Like yesterday, I was waiting for her at our lunch table when I saw her sit down at a different table with Stacey and some of her friends. Dana motioned for me to ...
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Three Years 17 Years
707 wordsMy friend once told me, life is like a book, each page has a new content. This quote pertains to my adventurous 17 years of life. Throughout these adventurous 17 years, there were many times when I had to make my own decisions. Some of those decisions were morally correct, while others were followed by negative consequences. Yet, there was a time when it took me three years to conceive if my decision was right or wrong. After I analyzed my decision, I learned something very important. Things wil...
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Opened The Door Urban Legends
1,079 wordsWhat is an Urban Legend? They are usually stories that have a wide audience, have circulated spontaneously, and have been told in several different forms. Many have chosen to believe these stories despite the lack of actual evidence to substantiate the story (Urban). What makes an Urban Legend is how it is told. This depends on whether the story is being told in first, second, or third person. Most of the time the real event happened to someone entirely unknown to the person telling the story (U...
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Judge A Person Color Of Their Skin
673 wordsWalking Home I was raised in a good a neighborhood. A neighborhood were people watched other peoples kids to make sure they did not get into trouble or hurt themselves. I didnt even hear of people getting beat up or get hurt because of the color of their skin. My parents taught me not to judge a book by its cover or in other words not to judge a person by the color of their skin but to judge a person by who they are in the inside. When I got to middle school someone told me about Cracker Day. He...
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Mice And Men Curley Wife
487 wordsOf Mice and Men was written bye John Steinbeck and is a fictional book. Of Mice and Men is a book about two life long friends named George and Lennie. They go to a farm to do some farm work after having to run away from their old town Weed. In their new farm, they meet many people including Curley, a little boxer guy who hates big guys like Lennie, and Curley's wife, who is a tart. Lennie and George have many grand adventures on the farm, but one day while George is out playing horseshoes, Lenni...
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Gladiatorial Games Won T
2,148 wordsPads? We Don t Need No Stinkin Pads. Men give them their souls, women their bodies too On one and the same account, they glorify and degrade and diminish them-indeed, they openly condemn them to ignominy and the loss of civil rights, excluding them from the senate house and rostrum, the senatorial and equestrian orders, and all other honors or distinctions of any type. The perversity of it! Yet, they love whom they punish; they belittle whom they esteem; the are they glorify, the artist they deb...
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Todays Society Teenage Girls
568 wordsAn Issue of Self-Respect Being a Christian has changed my perspective on the value of my body. Since becoming a Christian I have had a hard time understanding why or how a girl could belittle herself by so freely giving her body to someone else. Growing up in Philadelphia, I witness this in many different ways. Whether it is a prostitute standing on the corner, or a good friend that sleeps around, the lack of respect these women have for themselves is very visible, and very sad. I am a social wo...
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Native American Tribes Male Or Female
1,108 wordsIn all aspects of every society, gender identity must be established. It is at birth when an infant (person) is given either a male or female identity. Once the parents have been told, it is then that society will set the example and attitudes for that given gender. Gender includes a broad spectrum of attitudes, behaviors, and social expectations that we acquire during our lifetimes, through interactions with one another and experiences in various environments (Renzetti, p. 41). We will ultimate...
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Poem Quot Poems Quot
1,357 wordsLeslie Martin Silko is a Laguna Pueblo Indian who has written many novels and poems in her lifetime. One of these poems, " Storytelling, " is very interesting to me. This poem excites me because it tells of the impact that storytelling has on people in Laguna culture. I will analyze and explore many parts of this poem. One of these subjects is theme. The theme of " Storytelling" is actually the art of storytelling. Another aspect of the poem I will look at is tension. There i...
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