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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
1,336 wordsOur helicopter whirled in a tight circle over Florence and Normandie in South Central Los Angeles. Pilot Mike Smith kept the ship at an almost constant bank. I was in the left seat next to the pilot and had a clear view of the rampaging clutter on the street below. Cameraman Martin Cancer, strapped in a shoulder harness, was hanging out of the helicopter. He had opened the left side door, placed his mini-cam on his shoulder and was recording the helter-skelter action. This was the early evening ...
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York William Morrow Grateful Dead
1,754 wordsWhat a long strange trip it has been was the theme from my graduation last year. The only reason that I am telling you that is because that is a classic quote from the leader of the band, Grateful Dead. And if you stop and think about it, it makes complete sense. Life seems to be this strange trip and we are all on this same boat. Jerry Garcia was a great musician, and also a poet. Everything that he said either in his music or through his guitar, which some people would argue that its the great...
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Mccarthyism Vs Salem Witch Trials
1,346 wordsOver three hundred years ago in the town of Salem Massachusetts a problem was laid into our hands. A problem that will haunt our nation for years and years to come. When our nation was faced with a similar problem was almost taken the same as it was with the Salem Witch Trials. This problem was called McCarthyism. Many people feel that the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism was just about the same conspiracy, but more than two hundred and fifty years later. One day two girls and an Indian slave ...
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Robert Redford For Wax Figure
630 wordsMadame Tussaud's Wax Museum is getting ready to open in New York soon (McShane B 3). It consists of perfect replicas of all sorts of celebrities from Larry King to Meryl Streep. One celebrity that would be a good candidate for the museum is Robert Redford. Throughout the years, he has proven that he is successful in acting, in directing, and in community activism. These are the areas that make him a good candidate for the wax museum. For the past four decades, most people know Redford as one of ...
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American History X Fight Club
653 wordsThe son of a Carter Administration, federal prosecutor and an English teacher, as well as the grandson of famed developer James Rouse, Edward Norton was born in Boston on August 18, 1969. He was raised in the planned community of Columbia, Maryland, and from an early age was known as an extremely bright and somewhat serious person. His interest in acting began at the age of five when his baby sitter, Betsy True (who went on to become an actress on stage and screen), took him to a musical adaptat...
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Stanford University Search Engines
470 wordsGoogle is a privately held company. The funding partners include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. In June 1999, Michael Moritz, general partner of Sequoia Capital joined Googles Board of Directors. Other investors include Stanford University; Andy Bechtolsheim current vice president at Cisco Systems and Ram Shriram. Google Inc. was founded in 1998 by Stanford University Ph. D. candidate Larry Page and Sergey Brin to create a new generation of powerful, scalable search en...
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Wachowski Filming Methods Eyes Are Dazzled Matrix
531 wordsHere is the essay I think the uploader strung the sentences together so the paragraphs are in one long line: As the worlds technological capabilities reach increasingly impressive new heights, we are faced with new problems caused by these new technological capabilities. Along with these newfound problems, such as the now infamous Y 2 K, come the latest futuristic prophecies about the worlds damnation due to the new technologies. Thus is the need for, and theory behind the movie Matrix. The Matr...
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Single Parent Families Divorced Families
1,784 wordsThe children are leaving for school just as father grabs his briefcase and is off to work. Meanwhile, mother finishes clearing the breakfast dishes and continues on with her day filled with PTA, housework, and the preparation of a well-balanced meal to be enjoyed by all when father gets home promptly at 6: 00 p. m. This would have to be a scene from Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver or that of a family during or before the sixties. Only a small minority of contemporary families fit the mold ...
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U S History Sports Illustrated
770 wordsDan Gable is recognized many as the greatest amateur wrestler in U. S. history. He is known by many to be a good coach, wrestler, and friend. He was regarded as the nations most successful wrestling coach. Gable is a brilliant wrestler (Garlits 34 and Lippy 161). Dan Gable was born on October 25, 1948 in Waterloo, Iowa. He started his wrestling career in junior high school. He then attended West High School. While at West High School Gable went on to improve his wrestling skills by winning three...
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Couldn T Four Years
650 words# 3 Discuss your goals for the next four years and comment on your post-college plans. ? Next stop, 66 th Street and Lincoln Center, ? bellowed the cracked voice of the conductor over the loudspeaker. Those words rang in my ear like the notes of a familiar melody. Stepping off the number three train, I was immediately immersed in the scents, sounds and faces of my past. All the wonderful memories of those four years came rushing back into my mind as if they had just occurred. I was finally retur...
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Museum Of Modern Art Quot Quot
1,507 wordsMark Doty Urbane, ironic, sometimes genuinely celebratory and often wildly funny, OHara would allow a realm of material and associations alien to academic verse to pour into his poems: the camp icons of movie stars of the twenties and thirties, the daily landscape of social activity in Manhattan, jazz music, telephone calls from friends; anything seemed ready material for inclusion into the particular order that the moment of composition would call for. Dadaist even in his approach to his own wo...
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United States Constitution Immanuel Kant
971 wordsWhen the framers of the United States Constitution drew up the first amendment, they made an emphasis on free speech. Included in this first amendment were the freedom of the press, freedom of religion, right to assembly, and the prohibition of censorship. In this essay, the topic of hate-filled speech and its relation to the first amendment will be examined. For starters, the topic of hate-filled speeches at college campuses will be shown. In addition, the fact of whether or not there should be...
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Role Model Gun Control
552 wordsThe following is an excerpt from an ABC news broadcast on September 16, 1999: And so it has happened once again. After the massacre at Columbine High School and a day trading firm in Atlanta and the Jewish daycare center in Los Angeles, now someone has walked into a church in Fort Worth, Texas and started shooting. The target, 150 teenagers attending a prayer service. Once again we are learning about the killer. Larry Ashbrook, a man with no criminal record but a history of mental problems. A ma...
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Physical And Emotional Dirty Work
433 wordsHorrifying Effects of a Senseless War Dirty Work is an irresistible debut novel from one of the greatest novelist in American literature today. Throughout each chapter, Larry Brown creatively changes the narrator between the two main characters, which works magnificently. He is bold and decisive in his telling of two disabled individuals being tormented by the physical and emotional hell they withstand in the everlasting Vietnam. Braiden Channel has no arms or legs due to a machine gun (73). Wal...
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Feminine Traits Persons Identity
1,007 wordsIdentity-Men and Women What influences a persons identity? Is it their homes, parents, siblings, or possibly where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there a point in everyones life when they get one? A persons identity is their own, nobody put it there and nobody can take it out. Everyone in this world has a different identity because they all make th...
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Test Taker Good Student Life
506 wordsThe score on an intelligence test does predict one s ability to handle school subjects, though it foretells little of success later in life. (Gardner) Intelligence by definition is the capacity to understand and apply knowledge. Honestly, how can that be tested? What happens if the test taker is sick or he / she is answering the questions stupidly for some odd reason? There is too much esteem behind this test; it should have no bearing other than a predicting tool. Not the scale that one must me...
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Larry Watson Traumatic Experiences
1,129 wordsMontana 1948 Essay Maturity may come at any age and time in a person s life. One moment he or she may be a carefree child, and then suddenly realize that they have been transformed into a mature adult by a powerful and traumatic experience. An experience they will remember their whole lives. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the adolescence of Jem and Scout is threatened one fateful night by a dangerous man bent on taking their lives. After this startling experience, they were never the sa...
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N Pag Music Files
718 wordsA teenager named Tom, walked into a music store last week and went straight to his favorite music section. After looking around for a short amount of time he spotted the CD he wanted. Tom then tore the magnetic sensor off the front of the package, stuffed the CD down his pants and then proceeded to walk through the front doors of the store, stealing the CD. Most people would say what Tom did was against the law and he should be punished for the crime. What if I was to say this crime happens thou...
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1,146 wordsGo west, young lady Edward S Curtis: Coming to Light Anne Makepeace 216 pp, National Geographic Sacagawea's Nickname Larry McMurtry 178 pp, NYRB I Dwell in Possibility Donna M Lucey 256 pp, National Geographic Phoebe Ann Mosey doesnt figure in I Dwell in Possibility, a history of women who built the United States: no mugshot, no mention, not even under her arena name of Annie Oakley. Likewise left out is Sacagawea, or however you spelled her Shoshone name; she bore a son and carried him on her b...
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Freedom Of Speech First Amendment
225 wordsSupreme Court Hustler vs. Falwell The defendant, Larry Flynt, the publisher of an adult magazine, Hustler, had the right to publish anything he desired to even if the material was offending. The constitution does not make it illegal to offend anyone. He was merely practicing his freedom of speech. The obscene content of the cartoon at stake does not fall under any of the descriptions that could make it an exception to limit the freedom of speech as guaranteed under the First Amendment. The used ...
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