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Scarlet Pimpernel Playing Cards
1,094 wordsIn Chapter One, the aristocrats, traitors to France, were trying to get through the Barricades so they would no longer have to be slaves of the king. Many, though, would get caught, go to trial, and be sent to the guillotine. In order to aid this awful fate, they would try to disguise themselves to get through. Men dressed as women, children as beggars, etc. Sergeant Bibot, who protected the West Gate Barricade, would catch almost everyone. At one point, though, so many people had escaped that t...
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Trench Warfare War Effort
1,346 wordsGallipoli truly demonstrated the view points of Australians and the effects the war had on them. A deceiving perception of the war was emphasized, forgetting the warnings and traumas which were so evident by the end of the movie. Innocence was lost before young boys even had a chance to really live their lives. Misleading propaganda and nationalism encouraged the war effort. Much could have been prevented, yet the naivete of the elders and youth alike kept the inexperienced going on for more. Mi...
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Theme In The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
920 wordsTheme in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" written by James Thurber is a short story that takes place during the trying times of World War II. Thurber's description of Walter Mitty is of a married older man who lives in a town called Waterbury and has an imagination of a three-year-old. In this excerpt of Walter Mitty's life we are able to see into his mind and discover the many conflicts that disturb him. The theme, although it may seem hidden, is of Walter Mitty...
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Cleveland Ohio Twenty Minutes
1,539 wordsThe players, including myself, are veiled behind the platform. My heart begins pounding, as you would wake from a branch tapping into your window on a stormy night. Waiting for all the right cues, I deeply anticipate the rising of the red drapes so I can begin my quest. Yet I still feel overwhelmed by the charge of intensity running through me, easily seen by the bullets of sweat that line my forehead, starting their trickle to my already dampened cheeks. The time seemed to take on a fast pace. ...
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Inversely Proportional Fair Share
1,342 words4. You are not Superman; Marines and fighter pilots take note. 5. A sucking chest wound is Nature's way of telling you to slow down. 6. If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. 7. Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to 8. If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike. 9. If you are forward of your position, your artillery will fall short. 10. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. 11. Never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. 12...
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World War Ii Jan 2001
756 wordsAudie Leon Murphy, son of poor Texas sharecroppers, rose to national fame as the most decorated U. S. combat soldier of World War II (Audie L). At age 12 as an orphan growing up in Texas, he was already a fair shot with a rifle. At that time, his family was very poor, so he quit school to work for a neighboring farmer, himself an ex-marine, and who influentially always said, "my biggest mistake I ever made was gettin' out (of the Military) ." Audie's mom approved of him quitting school to work b...
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Symbol Of Blood Lady Macbeth
864 wordsI am going to prove that in the play Macbeth, a symbol of blood is portrayed often (and with different meanings), and that is a symbol that is developed until it is the dominating thereof the play towards the end of it. To begin with, I found the word "blood", or different forms of it forty-two times (ironically, the word fear is used forty-two times), with several other passages dealing with the symbol. Perhaps the best way to show how the symbol of blood changes throughout the play, is to foll...
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Group Of Men Barbed Wire
2,503 wordsA shell struck near the trench, forcing debris towards Robert. He awoke with start. His friend laughed at Robert's startled expression. "Are you still not used to that?" Dougie said wryly, knowing that no-one could ever overcome the shock of the trenches. "Here, I saved you these. " He handed over some biscuits. Robert thanked him. He tried to break the biscuit to see how hard it was. He found it very difficult to snap so he wet it and smashed it to small pieces with a brick. He had learnt the h...
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Group Of Men Barbed Wire
2,504 words... duties and was exhausted. He shivered under his layers of blankets. "Come on Rob, " he whispered to himself, "get to sleep. If you " re not alert tomorrow, you know what will happen to you. " And he did know. He knew all too well for a man who was barely twenty. He had seen what happened to those who lost their vigilance and he just could not allow himself to be one of them, for Imogen's sake. He carefully placed his photograph of his wife in a small, metal box that he kept in his bag. He tr...
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Law Enforcement Officials Human Rights Violations
1,243 wordsThe fundamental purposes of law enforcement is the serve and protect the individuals of society. Rough treatment is often times afflicted upon unruly citizens as an alternative reform of discipline. Police abuse remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations of today. The secrecy, stress, and dangers of police work leads to an insular and close-knit occupational culture that results in a strong distinction between members of the police and society. An in-depth investigation...
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Snuff Films Law Enforcement
1,315 wordsAlso known as "white heat" films and "the real thing, " the snuff film myth lives on like Bigfoot, despite the fact that no law enforcement agency in America has publicly admitted to ever locating one. Alan Sears, former executive director of the Attorney General's commission on pornography during 1985 - 86, agrees with the more than two dozen law enforcement agencies I interviewed. "Our experience was that we could not find any such thing as a commercially produced snuff film, " says Sears. "Ou...
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First Two Books Farewell To Arms
966 wordsIn the beginning Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I, meets a beautiful English nurse named Catherine Barkley near the front between Italy and Austria-Hungary. At first Henry wants to seduce her, but when he is wounded and sent to the American hospital where Catherine works, he actually begins to love her. After his convalescence in the hospital, Henry returns to the war front. During a retreat, the Italians start to fall apart. Henry shoots an ...
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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce Biography
969 wordsAmbrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in 1842 into a fairly poor family as the youngest of nine children. He lived in a log cabin in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio as a child. The only formal education he ever received was a single year at the Kentucky Military Institute when he was seventeen years of age. He enlisted with the Ninth Indian Infantry as a drummer boy in the Civil War. Then, in 1864, he was wounded and left the war to live with one of his brothers in San Francisco. There he began his career as ...
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Lady Macbeth Blood Imagery
639 wordsShakespeare is perhaps most famous for his use of imagery and metaphors. Who cant recognize the quote Hark! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun as being uniquely Shakespeare? In Macbeth Shakespeare uses all sorts of imagery including avian and animal. However the most predominant imagery in Macbeth involves blood. Blood is used as a symbol to represent different attributes of the characters in the play. It is used to represent honor, guilt, and strength...
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Jack The Ripper Alfred Hitchcock
717 wordsBy: Alfred Hitchcock Everybody has read a horror story before at some point, but a story from Alfred Hitchcock is different because at the end he leaves the reader thinking what has happened. In 'The Knife' he uses Plot, Setting, and Conflict to do just this. Edward Dawes and Herbert Smithers are just two friends having a drink with each other, but one of them has a knife that was found in a nearby sewer drain. Herbert is cleaning it will as if he was possessed. Then a red ruby appears on the kn...
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Lee Harvey Oswald John F Kennedy
880 wordsThe cheers and cries of the crowd were roaring and still escalating as he approached. The 1961 Lincoln Continental peered over the corner. The flap of hands in the air blocked the lens momentarily. Two security motorcycles made the turn on Elm Street and I felt excitement circulate my entire body as I knew any second the 35 th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, would appear. My legs trembled as I felt the breeze of the motorcade approach me. I was perched on a stone on Elm Street g...
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The General Prologue And Kingdom Of Heaven
1,281 wordsThe General Prologue and The Kingdom of Heaven In this paper we will compare similarities and contrast differences between Chaucer's The General Prologue and movie Kingdom of Heaven by Ridley Scott, which was released in 2005. Even though that the genres of analyzed pieces are very different, Chaucer's poem and the movie are filled with the same spirit. Characters behavior is motivated by the same reasons and the action itself takes place takes place during the Middle Ages. This period of histor...
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Milo Minderbinder Colonel Cathcart
1,897 wordsSatire is often used by writers to express their discontent towards a subject in a humorous way. Joseph Hellers novel, Catch- 22, satirizes war and its implications on society and man himself. Heller reveals the dehumanizing aspect of war, not the glory of it. He makes a social comment on the corruptive, self-fulfilling, irrational side of war that is often disregarded or dismissed. As he sheds light upon the darker part of war the universal qualities of mankind are revealed. In the novel Catch-...
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Snuff Films Charles Manson
2,605 wordsAlso known as white heat films and the real thing, the snuff film myth lives on like Bigfoot, despite the fact that no law enforcement agency in America has publicly admitted to ever locating one. Alan Sears, former executive director of the Attorney Generals commission on pornography during 1985 - 86, agrees with the more than two dozen law enforcement agencies I interviewed. Our experience was that we could not find any such thing as a commercially produced snuff film, says Sears. Our commissi...
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Delta Force Movie Theater
592 wordsSuicide in Chinatown There was a normal afternoon in Chinatown. Everybody was really interested in Silvester Stalone s new action movie that was being played for the first time this weekend. Delta Force was the movie. Stalone was acting as a very famous cop. He became popular because one year before he killed all a group of terrorists that was planning to put a bomb in the Empire State Building. Now he is fighting against some bank robbers. The critics and also the public were complaining about ...
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