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Jake And Vivian Unable To Control Back
3,491 words... new in the square soft light from the window, and started to peck the damp ground in search of worms. Im coming for you. the words rang thorough Vivian's head like a fog horn blaring through the deadly silence of a warm summers night. She looked up and screamed, the man from her dreams stood four feet from the window. He stared at her, his deep, black eyes didnt move, they just peered through the window. Im dreaming, I have to be dreaming Vivian thought frantically but she knew it was not tr...
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Turn My Light Caves Entrance Rock
896 wordsOnly a few of my friends share my passion for caving or as it is called in the professional world Spilunking and it is hard to find a time when we are all together and willing to indulge. So one day last spring I decided to explore the newly opened Rimutaka caves just out side the city. I left early Saturday morning while the dew was still forming on the green grass, taking the east highway out of Wellington past the artificial brilliance of the sky scrapers and their fast paced culture into nat...
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Smoke Cigarettes Mental Hospital
1,114 words... One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest is written by; This book is about several patients in a mental hospital who succeed in realizing the harm it caused them by an under cover patient Mcmurphy. While reading this book you will begin to realize that the power shifts from the nurse; Ms. Ratched to a patient named Mcmurphy in many different ways. Mcmurphy breaks the rules, sticks up for the patients, and shows them that they are like any body else living in the world. Mcmurphy brakes the rules by tak...
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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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Police Department Video Tape
1,419 words... of so many people who live in the community. Now, there would be no jobs, no places to buy anything, no hope, no future. All because of these fires of April, 1992. For years to come, sociologist will be trying to find out why this happened. What were the deep roots that ignited this tragedy, this rebellion? There will be many questions and many answers. However, there was really only one direct, immediate cause that was the flash point; when the jury in the televised trial of the four office...
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Kino And Juana Found The Pearl Coyotito
513 wordsThe Peal by John Steinbeck, a story of a man, his wife, their baby, and greed. Kino, the man, had no need for money, he was happy with the little things he had. A brush house, a sleeping mat, a canoe, and a family, thats all he needed, until his son was in danger and needed medical treatment and Kino found The Pearl. When Kino held the pearl for the first time he began to want, and his wants became needs. Kino was a simple man; he lived a simple life, in a simple village. Kino cared greatly for ...
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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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Fourth Grade First Movie
1,261 wordsThis morning, just as every morning, I got the privilege to see the sun rise up over the horizon as I traveled down the freeway. Driving at four oclock was never much fun, but had become a part of my everyday life. In precisely fifty-five minutes I would reach the film studio, at which I was to spend every day for the next two years of my life working at. Filming a movie always took so long. However, when it comes to acting, time is not an issue. Acting had become the foundation of which I lived...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Four Legs Good Two Legs
1,651 wordsh 2 >George Orwell: The Callous Nature of Totalitarianism The establishment of an elite power in a society produces feelings of hopelessness and fear. George Orwell, a world-renowned poet and author is known for his politically influenced works regarding socialism. In Animal Farm, Orwell creates a satire based on the communist regime in Russia from 19171943. The animals seeking freedom under their liberators the Pigs, revolt against their oppressive owner, Farmer Jones. Ironically, after ...
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National Football League Super Bowl
1,353 wordsThis was war! Since its inception seven years earlier, the upstart American Football League (AFL) had fought the National Football League (NFL) for players, fans, television revenues, and respect. The successful new league had won everything except, respect. On January 15, 1967 the first World Championship game against the AFL and the NFL took place. The powerhouse NFL champions the Green Bay Packers against the AFL champion the Kansas City Chiefs. What ended in a 35 to 10 loss to the NFL, the A...
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Acts Per Hour Violent Acts
2,093 wordsViolence on Television When you turn on the TV on Saturday morning to watch cartoons, statistics show that on average you will view at least twenty to twenty-five acts of violence per hour (Murray). During prime time you will view about five violent acts per hour (Murray). I define violence as any violent act. This can be as minor as one person hitting another, or as serious as murder. People are constantly saying that there is too much violence on TV and that it is negatively affecting our kids...
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North By Northwest Alfred Hitchcock
1,330 wordsDirectory Auteurism of Frederico Fellini, Satyajit Ray, and Alfred Hitchcock Auteurism is a term first coined by Francois Truffaut to describe the mark of a film director on his films. A director can be considered an auteur if about five of his film depict a certain style that is definitely his own. In other words, much like one can look at a painting and tell if it is a Monet, a Renoir, or a Degas, if a film director is an auteur, one can look at his film and tell by style and recurring themes ...
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Hell Quot Evil Quot
4,302 wordsDevil? s Playground Slowly the snow drifted along the sidewalks and streets as he strolled down his own path. Following no particular way but his own, he traveled. Knowing not his destination but only his outcome. His ideas were changed, his beliefs were diminished to that of nothing and his perception of reality was turned upside down. All he knew now was himself and that of his tendencies. His own nature was the only real and raw thing that he was able to hang on to. A life of mistreatment and...
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1 St Edition Effects Of Television
2,391 wordsHas EITHER The Television OR The Radio Has EITHER The Television OR The Radio Had Any Decisive influence On Everyday Life During The Last Media are channels through which information is transmitted. The media includes: television, radio, films, videos, computers, books, and magazines. Janowitz (1968) states that: mass communications comprise the institutions and techniques by which specialized groups employ technological devices (press, radio, television, radio, films, etc. ) to disseminate symb...
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Hundred Years Ago Snow Falling On Cedars
3,045 wordsAir, food, water, shelter, and fire are important elements of life for human bing's. Without those elements humans could not possibly survive. Those are the obvious ones, but have you ever thought of something else that you couldn? t live without? When you answered that question did television, or books come to mind? If they didn? t then think again. Entertainment is a very important part of our existence, especially in our culture. Without entertainment, whether it be individual or with a group...
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Severe Pain Forty Five
1,081 wordsLife has more imaginations than we carry in our dreams. Its full of incredible events and unexpected surprises that change our moods. And sometimes they can even shock us. After that we feel frustrated, tired of living in the world which only yesterday didnt seem to be savage, in the world full of fuss and problems. Once I changed my attitude to everything, I saw the world differently and liked my life. It happened when I became seriously ill and was afraid of bad consequences. The fear of death...
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Invasion Of Privacy Crime Rate
1,314 wordsGovernment surveillance in Surveillance Surveillance Government surveillance in the United States is controversial for many citizens. There are many questions facing citizens, a few being: what are the costs and benefits, should we give up privacy for a lower crime rate, and what will the future look like? Great Britain already has an extensive government surveillance system with 250, 000 cameras with full pan, tilt, and zoom, and still has plans to increase that number (? Are You Being Watched?...
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Mother And Daughter Treated Differently
856 wordsDo you think that race is a social construct? Race as a social construct exists everywhere you go, it is known by everyone. Race all comes about when you know that you are different then the people around you. People construct race socially. Socially it all happens when you are young and just starting to learn facts of life and learning society. We watched two movies that really got me thinking about how people that are different then me, get treated worse. In the movie Imitation of Life, an Afr...
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Addison Wesley Longman Reading Across The Curriculum
1,147 wordsEssay 4: Synthesis Activity # 2 How often do you hear a person refer to a movie as a horror movie these days? Now that you think about it, you don t hear it very often. Usually, when you hear a person describing a movie categorized as a horror they refer to it as a scary movie. While working on this project I came to the conclusion that there is a noticeable difference between the two. Last week I invited some friends over for a night of scary movies. The first movie that we watched was Wes Crav...
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American Psychological Association United States Congress
1,934 wordsTo find a realistic and logical answer to this question I felt it important to begin at the beginning. I wanted to know if this is a legitimate problem, or if this was another politically correct way of blaming television for a societal problem. So, on this journey I began with the introduction of television to the public. The official starting date for television in the United States was in 1939, at the Worlds Fair. At the time of the debut, there were mixed reactions to television because it w...
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