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Ways Of Life Gang Violence
1,375 wordsThe movie Friday is a comedy, but it also depicts many important social issues. The story is set in the city of Los Angeles, California, in what could be called a high-class ghetto in my perspective. The main theme of the movie is about a young black man who looses his job and is influenced by his best friend to smoke marijuana. The movie also shows the relationships of his family and other members of his neighborhood. With a zany cast of characters and a hilarious script this movie touches on e...
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Ice Cube College Students
724 wordsThe movie Friday was one of the best comedies I have ever seen. It had a great director, a talented cast, a good plot, a spectacular soundtrack, and is filled with funny gags and jokes. It was by far the most hilarious movie of the decade. I have never laughed so hard in all of my life. I loved this movie. The cast of the movie was sensational. Playing the main character was famous musician and actor, Ice Cube. He is such a serious person that at first I was skeptical of his performance in a com...
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Berry Gordy Father Of The Motown Sound
1,231 wordsBerry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. He was the seventh born out of eight siblings. His parents migrated to Detroit from Georgia during 1922. They were part of a mass exodus of African Americans who left the South in the 20 's and traveled to northern cities in search of better economic futures. During that time jobs were plentiful in the factories, mainly the big four automotive plants that like, Chrysler, Ford, Chevrolet, and General Motors. Berry and Bertha Gord...
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Side Of Town Native Americans
1,244 wordsIn his traveling diary, Blue Highways, William Least heat Moon takes a trip to various destinations around the United States. His journey is both literal and spiritual. While circling the nation, he gathers history and personality from all corners of America. More importantly, Least Heat Moon sets out to fully explore and find himself. Before his expedition around the country began, William Least Heat Moon experienced two significant life-changing events. His wife abandoned him after being separ...
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Ways Of Life Peer Pressure
1,390 wordsThe movie Friday is a comedy, but it also depicts many important social issues. The story is set in the city of Los Angelos, California, in what could be called a high class ghetto. The main theme of the movie is about a young black man who looses his job and is influenced by his best friend to smoke marijuana. The movie also shows the relationships of his family and other members of his neighborhood. With a zany cast of characters and a hilarious script this movie touches on everything from gan...
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Fried Green Tomatoes Human Nature
1,281 wordsCoping with situations within FRIED GREEN TOMATOES Human Nature, it s our instinct, our reaction, our thoughts, and our ability to make decisions. It has been examined from every conceivable angle. It has been scrutinized, interrogated, glorified and even corrupted by every medium in the world, but none so extensively as the written word. Literature has explored every component of human nature from pride to envy and insecurity to depression. Fannie Flagg s novel FRIED GREEN TOMATOES pays particu...
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Forest Fires Planet Earth
1,471 wordsHow Poetry Comes to Me It comes blundering over the Boulders at night, it stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire I go to meet it at the Edge of the light Online Source For All Ah to be alive on a mid-September morn fording a stream barefoot, pants rolled up, holding boots, pack on, sunshine, ice in the shallows, northern rockies. Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters stones turn underfoot, small and hard as toes cold nose dripping singing inside creek music, heart music, smell of sun...
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Cigarette Smoke Public Places
627 wordsAccording to an article in Public Health News titled Number of? Smoke-Free Restaurants Soars, and published March 9, 1999, cigarette smoke contains over 4, 000 chemicals and exposure to environmental smoke or secondhand smoke is responsible for 1, 000 non-smoker deaths in Washington state each year. Listed below are some ideas that will help eliminate the problem of cigarette smoke ruining many meals in restaurants. In the past few years some public places have established their facilities as no...
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Alcohol And Tobacco Buddhist Religion
1,249 wordsIn 1950, a careless act turned into tragedy when a fire burned wild and swept away over 17, 000 acres of forest watershed land in the Capitan Mountains, Lincoln National Forest. When the fire had died off, a badly burned cub was rescued from a charred tree. This cub, later named Smokey, was taken to the National Zoo where he lived out the rest of his life. Smokey was soon used to create an animated bear aimed at informing people of forest fires and fire prevention. The Smokey the Bear ad campaig...
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O R Couldn T
4,322 wordsThe only light in cell came from a light fixture place in the hall. Bolted on to a slimy dirt covered wall. The nauseating stench of fresh death and decay filled his lungs, making him sick to death some days. In the cell next to his, a man had hours earlier committed suicide. Most of the blood had drained from his body through a large gash across his left wrist and formed a pool in which the corps rested. His skin was pale and clammy. The eyes had sunken deep into their sockets. At his side, a r...
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