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The Son Of Sam And Terror New York
1,296 words
The Son of Sam and Terror of New York "At one a.
m. on July twenty-ninth a man was cruising in the
Bronx when he spotted two young women sitting in a
parked blue Oldsmobile. He swung around a corner
and abandoned his car, pushing the bag-covered
pistol into the waistband of his trousers. With
his characteristics gait he shuffled back toward
the women, Donna Lauria, eighteen, a medical
technician, and Jody Valenti, nineteen, a student
nurse. They were parked in front on Lauria's home;
her parents...
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Ran As Fast Dark Hair
723 words
Number the Stars was about a family who lives in
Copenhagen, Denmark take in a Jewish girl to
protect her from the Nazis that are taking over
Denmark. Meanwhile, Ellen's parents go with one of
the Johansen's family friends named Peter Neilsen.
He was the fianc of their deceased daughter, Lise.
The first night of having Ellen, Mr. And Mrs.
Johansen had planned out what to do if the Nazis
were to come to their apartment that night. They
told Ellen that she was supposed to be, Lise
Johansen. Lise i...
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Court System Wrong Time
790 words
What is justice? Justice is defined as
administering a deserved reward and rightfulness
or lawyers, according to Funk & Wagnall's Standard
Dictionary. Although this definition proves to be
true in most cases, it is not always used
correctly. If justice is supposed to be fair, then
why are so many people found innocent-after
already serving a sentence for a crime they didn't
commit. Jon Benet Ramsey's killer is still on the
loose. However, twins received justice after their
molestation. On the ot...
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Juvenile Delinquent Police Officers
1,550 words
They Cage the Animals at Night is a
heart-wrenching autobiography in the form of a
novel. This book is written by Jennings Michael
Burch, who is the main character. His father is an
often drunk alcoholic and has left a family of six
boys to his wife. The oldest is George, who
follows the steps of his father and also gets
drunk. He is also a smoker. Contrary to his father
though, he tries to support the family, although
he takes a lot from it. Next is Walter, who spends
most of his life studying ...
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Car For Ten Minutes Car For Ten People
487 words
I did this experiment at South Coast Plaza. I sat
in my car for ten minutes in the parking in front
of Macy's. I just sat there; the first 3 - 4
minutes of the experiment I was bored out of my
mind. I started to notice my heart beating, my
palms were sweaty, my left eye was twitching, and
my stomach was making noises. All of these bodily
functions were making their presence known to me.
And then I noticed that I was just in a car; it is
like being in my house only a lot smaller. Cars
are machine...
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Why People Join Social Movements
847 words
Why do people join social movements? Why do people
join political, professional, or social movements,
of whatever size, and surrender so completely,
giving up, in the extreme, everything; their
fortunes, their critical thinking, their political
freedom, their friends, families, even their own
lives? What causes people to create a system or
perhaps follow a system that creates such things
as ethnic cleansing and the killing fields of
Cambodia? That anyone who opposes this system of
aesthetics is ...
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Barrio Boy And The Joy Luck Club
910 words
In both pieces of literature; "Barrio Boy, " by
Ernesto Galarza and "The Joy Luck Club, " by Amy
Tan; the authors portray five families and their
friends struggle with language barriers, even
within their own families, adapting to the customs
and routines of the North American society, and
how the younger family members succeeded in
school, work, and relationships. In Amy Tans book
"The Joy Luck Club, " the theme of the "American
Dream, " which is the belief that America is a
guaranteed land of ...
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Cross Dressing Sexual Arousal
1,342 words
Introduction Someone you know-any male close to
you-could be having a secret "affair" behind
closed doors and you may not even be aware of it.
Not to worry, it may not involve another woman.
This man may be having an affair with female
clothing. If so, it is safe to say that this man
is suffering from a transvestite fetish. What is a
transvestite fetish? Transvestic Fetishism is a
psychosexual disorder found mostly in men. To
better understand this disorder, we must first
look at the definition....
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Point Of The Play Tells The Audience
1,192 words
The opening scene of Act Two marks the dramatic
turning point of the play. In this scene,
Catherine confronts Rodolfo over Eddies allegation
that Rodolfo only wants to marry Catherine to be
an American. However it is soon revealed that
Rodolfo truly loves her. The two characters sleep
together for the first time, a fact that Eddie
finds out when he returns home drunk, which
results in a devastating confrontation between the
central characters. The seriousness and the
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Flowers For Algernon Mentally Retarded
415 words
Flowers for Algernon is a science-fiction novel
written by Daniel Keyes. Keyes was born August 9,
1927 in Brooklyn, New York. The book was first
published in 1966. Flowers for Algernon is about
Charlie Gordon, a mentally retarded adult who has
his intelligence increased by experimental
surgery. Through the progress reports he is
assigned to write, the scientists could monitor
the surgery's outcome. His IQ is taken from a mere
68 to a brilliant 185. He understands that being
smart does not make h...
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Dirks Blue Velvet White Picket Fence Frank
1,604 words
David Lynch's Blue Velvet is an exploration of
things above and below the surface. This surface
is really a borderline between not only idyllic
suburban America and the dark, perverted
corruption that lies underneath but also between
good and evil, conscious and subconscious, dream
and reality. Although this division seems quite
rigid and clean-cut some of the most important
implications of the film stem from the
transgressions of these borderlines. In the
initial scenes of the film Lynch introd...
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Blanche Stanley
2,152 words
Exam Question: ? How does Williams suggest that
Blanche Dubois represents the faded grandeur of
the American past? ? Explore the ways in which
Williams presents conflict between the worlds of
Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski. There are a
number of ways that Blanche seems to represent the
faded grandeur of the American past. Perhaps the
most obvious one is her difficulty fitting in with
life in New Orleans. From the beginning we see
Blanche does not fit in with the people of her new
community,...
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Put In Jail Hit And Run
1,092 words
I Know What You Did LAST SUMMER In I Know What You
Did Lat Summer, written by Lois Duncan, there are
five major characters. Their names are Julie,
Helen, Barry, Ray, and the killer (we will find
out his name at the end of the book). Last summer
all four of them (Julie, Helen, Barry, Ray) went
to a party, on the fourth of July, and hit a boy
with their car on the way home from the party.
They had been drinking and had used some drugs so
if they had stayed at the accident, they would be
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Gentleman Caller Glass Menagerie
617 words
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a
touching play about the lost dreams of a southern
family and their struggle to escape reality. The
play is a memory play and therefore very poetic in
mood, setting, and dialogue. Tom Wingfield serves
as the narrator as well as a character in the
play. Tom lives with his Southern belle mother,
Amanda, and his painfully shy sister, Laura. The
action of the play revolves around Amanda's search
to find Laura a gentleman caller. The Glass
Menageries plot...
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Brownstone Apartment Building Overton And Sinclair Kadijah
389 words
Often credited as being the original? Friends? ,
Living Single premiered on the Fox television
network in 1993. The insanely funny sit-com is
guaranteed to keep you in stitches. Each cast
member has their own unique style, but when
combined create a dynamic combination of explosive
humor. Living Single is all about the
ups-and-downs of four single African American
women, and two men. The old saying that, ?
laughter is the best medicine? , is indeed true.
The setting is a brownstone apartment bui...
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Fell In Love Nobel Prize
876 words
Madam Curie Manya Sklodowska, as she was called
before marriage, was born in Warsaw, Poland, in
1867. Her father taught mathematics and physics.
Her mother, a musician who played the piano and
sang, was never able to hug or kiss her children
because of Tuberculosis, a very contagious
disease, which later took her life on May 7, 1878.
Manya had 2 sisters Bronya and Zosia. They both
caught Typhus at a young age which took Zosia s
life and made Bronya s life stronger. Years later
Bronya wanted to b...
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Room Watch Didnt
300 words
I was in a different apartment, but it seemed to
be the same room. My roommate (Nick) was moving
things around the room and didnt realize it was
not the same room. i was trying to open the
windows but couldnt budge them. We had a new fried
and a new radio, the antenna on top of the T. V.
was shaped like the NBC logo of the peacock. I
threw my other roommate (Eman) in to the pool that
was nearby. When I looked up there were chairs and
tables on the roofs of all the apartments. At that
point I can...
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Affordable Housing Welfare Recipients
1,212 words
It is in the news everyday that poverty is getting
worse in this country. Many Americans live below
the poverty level and along with poverty,
homelessness is soon to follow. People in this
country due to limited resources are making the
hard choice everyday. They are frequently unable
to pay for housing, food, child care, health care,
and education. In most families it is housing,
which absorbs a high proportion of income. So when
there is little money it is the housing that has
to be abandoned....
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Pulp Fiction Death Experience
955 words
Mandy Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction Mandy Carter Pulp
Fiction is like boot camp for the Marines. You
come into it from your civilized life, they
subject you to violent language until youre numb,
they abuse you verbally and physically until all
of your normal feelings and values are reduced to
dust. Leaving you aware that you have changed, and
able to describe the change, you find yourself
questioning the person you were previously. Next
thing you know youre saluting. This story is a
cleverly disorie...
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Streetcar Named Desire Opposition Of Forces Blanche
428 words
Good drama is built on conflict of some kind an
opposition of forces or desires that must be
resolved by the end of the story. Streetcar Named
Desire employs exactly that. An opposition of
forces, and desire, all of which must come to some
sort of resolution or conclusion at the end. This
is the backbone of the dramatic structure used in
Streetcar Named Desire. The start of the play
introduces the audience to the conflicts. Straight
away the audience is introduced to elements of
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