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Son Of Sam David Berkowitz
2,084 words... d trial... the defendant is a normal as anyone else. Maybe a little neurotic. "Ultimately, it didn't matter because David Berkowitz pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 365 years in jail. In 1979, Robert Ressler, the FBI veteran, interviewed Berkowitz in Attica Prison three times. Berkowitz had been allowed to keep a scrapbook he had compiled of all the newspaper stories about the murders. He used these scrapbooks to keep his fantasies alive. Ressler made it clear that he didn't buy the demon...
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Opened Her Eyes Favorite Doll Lisa
841 wordsHurry up, Lisa! Make a wish and blow the candles! exclaimed Mr and Mrs. Jones. It was Lisa's 7 th birthday and the Jones were celebrating it in their large, luxurious living room. Lisa was the happiest girl because she basically had everything, every toy she wanted. Her parents had her in their mid forties, so Lisa was a very valuable gift to them. So that was the reason why they bought her everything she asked for, making her the happiest yet the brattiest kid on earth. After Lisa made a wish a...
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00 A M T Shirt
1,382 wordsIt was a beautiful day on the open fields of Ireland. A comfortable cottage was the only item dotting the landscape for at least five miles. The door opened, and out stepped a young man. He was not too tall, his blonde hair gathered behind him in a ponytail. His eyes sparkled ever-so-slightly in the morning sun as he stretched with a loud groan. He strode a few steps from the cottage and looked around. It was a great day out. He was dressed comfortably in slightly baggy blue jeans and a black t-...
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Ice Cream Five Years
944 wordsIt is not fully recognizable who your best friend really is until he or she is gone. Many people remember their best friend from when they were little kids as maybe the boy down the street who came down and played GI JOE, or the girl next door whom you had daily tea parties with. Either way, your best friend was usually around the same age as you. This was not the case with me. My best friend was about 65 years older than I was. Yes, it may sound weird, but it is true. My grandma, or Gamma as I ...
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Customer Service Employees Restaurant
535 wordsHave you ever been to a fast food restaurant and the employees treated you as if it was a burden on them to wait on you? They are rude and sometimes even obnoxious and by the end of your contact with them, you do not really want to give that company your business anymore. Do you feel like laughing when you hear advertisements saying things like, Have it your way or Food, Folks and Fun because you know that you will not receive that type of service when you visit that establishment? Well I have n...
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Loud Car Horn Twenty Cents Nice
546 wordsMy two-year-old nieces favorite phrase is Be nice. Anytime she is crossed, does not get what she wants, scolded or reprimanded, Be nice is her response. It is just a quiet, innocently spoken Be nice; almost like she is trying to remind you how to act. Two little words can go a long way. Be nice. Why is that so hard for some people to do? It makes every ones day go a lot more smoothly when people show common courtesy. It does not have to be something prolific, things like holding the door open fo...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexual Intercourse
846 wordsAdvertisements use misleading words and sexual content to sell products. A majority of these advertisements are targeted towards teenagers, which lowers the standards and basic morals of society and creates more problems than any product can solve. Trojan Condoms deliberately target their advertisements towards teenagers and college students by suggesting sexual intercourse simply for pleasure. Their advertisement campaign centers on the physical pleasures of sexual intercourse. They venture awa...
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Loss Of Home Hope
393 wordsDeath is a fact of life and everyone has to deal with it. There is no way around death but there are ways to die happy. In the essay "Death with Dignity, " the author, Dr. Kubler-Ross interviewed many people that were dying. Eighty percent of the people interviewed wanted to die at home so they could die with dignity. Before you die in a hospital, you go through many types of loss. Loss of home, loved ones and hope are just a few of the losses you go through in Norma Richman's poem uses personif...
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Unneeded Garden First Soliloquy
1,454 wordsQuestion: Does Hamlet fabricate the conversation with the ghost? In Shakespeare's Hamlet, madness, along with revenge, is a central theme. Hamlet is driven to destroy his uncle in order to exact vengeance for the murder of his father. However, there is ample evidence that the murder may have never happened, and Hamlets sole evidence, the conversation with the ghost, may have been created from one of two sources. Either Hamlet was truly mad, even at the onset of the play, and used his own subcons...
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Junk Mail And The Art Of Hype
1,080 words... n the common consumer will notice it. Such ads may be so degrading that one may ask, "who do they think I am, anyway?" Moreover, from a semiological perspective, you can find hundreds of hidden meanings behind the techniques used beyond just the typesetting. As the Chinese proverb says, "a picture is worth a thousand words. " If you look carefully at the pictures these ads boast, you will find a plethora of interesting assumptions that the advertisers must have had about their audience. A sh...
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Opened The Door Six Years
1,874 wordsI awoke to the soft trickling of water outside my window. It took me a moment to realize that it is raining again; the tranquil sound of water dripping from the birch was as sweet as the silver bells ringing at Christmas. It was only six in the morning, but more than willingly I got up, put on a robe and opened my window. Almost immediately, the chilling November wind gushed in engulfing me with its icy fingers. I shuddered, but made no attempt to close the window as my eyes slowly came into foc...
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Genetic Disorder Tay Sachs Disease
579 wordsMy name is Put your name... and I am a carrier of Tay-Sachs Disease; my partner is also a carrier of this disease and our child is affected with Tay-Sachs Disease. Tay-Sachs Disease is a recessive genetic disorder which contains harmful quantities of fatty substances called Ganglioside GM 2 which harms the nerve cells in the brain. This disease mostly affect infants. The only way for a baby to be affected with this disease is when both of the parents is a carrier of this disease. There is a good...
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Lean Back Room Head
677 wordsI scan the room, my drunken eyes taking it all in. I collapse onto a lounge and a cloud of dust surrounds me, making an already hazy room, simply a mass of grey-brown shapes. I lean back giving my exhausted limbs time to breathe. Like an ancient tree I eerily creak and groan as I move: relaxing finally. Scattered around the room, memories almost forgotten, remind one of lives once had. A yellowing photograph hangs on the wall. A moment in time captured forever. The smiling children almost look a...
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Youre Gorgeous N 9786 I Am 9787 Didnt
437 words&# 9787; look up, look up please! Just this once, I swear shes exactly above your head... &# 9786; huh? where? (looking up) liar... cant believe I fell for it again! ! ! &# 9787; shut up blind girl, you lack my innate vision... ahem &# 9786; but of course... I beg to differ &# 9787; trust me sweetheart, I can still see her, that little fairy's real angry with you, just be grateful that she didnt jinx you yet for denying her presence... &# 9786; (laughing) youre preposterous! now go get lost befo...
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Withered Arm Thomas Hardy
1,406 wordsThe Darkness Out There and The Withered Arm are both short stories. The characterization techniques they use are contrasting and similar. Each story is from a different time; The Withered Arm being 19 th century and The Darkness Out There being 20 th century. Thomas Hardy writes The Withered Arm as a 3 rd person narrative whereas Penelope Lively uses a mixture between 3 rd and 1 st person. The Darkness Out There combines the authors narration with the thoughts and feelings of Sandra, a girl belo...
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Baseball Player Future Business
968 wordsThere were ten minutes remaining until the bell would ring and free my other classmates and I from the torturous questions being hailed on us like a Georgia thunderstorm in the heat of battle. I was prepared for my question though, being well rehearsed and completely confident: I watched as one by one my peers were torn apart by the sagacious, ruthless counselor who had been sacking students for years. " John Smith, what are your plans for the future?" Smiling as she said this, knowing that in a...
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Dawson And Elisha Israeli Freedom John
631 wordsAn execution is tragic for the victim and his family, but did you ever think how hard it is for the executioner? Dawn tells the story of the night that two men wait for the moment that will change their life. An English officer, John Dawson, will be killed as the sun rises over the horizon. The Israeli freedom fight named Elisha waits in horror for the split second action, which will mark him a killer for the rest of his life. These two men are very similar, but also very different at the same t...
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One By One Bus Driver
1,519 wordsSometimes, even from the most unsuspecting people wonderful and profound messages can originate. This is the story of one such incident when much could be learned from a person like that. On the way to school one day, this kid named Patrick went around telling everyone that he had some beer in his lunch box. Now in the 9 th grade, this topic of conversation is new and exciting. He was the center of attention, and was enjoying it immensely. We all knew he didn't have any in there, but it was stil...
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Heart Of Darkness Compared To Apocalypse Now
508 wordsConrad's Heart of Darkness, deals with the account of Marlow, a narrator of a journey up the Congo River into the heart of Africa, into the jungle, his ultimate destination. Marlow is commissioned as an ivory agent and is sent to ivory stations along the river. Marlow is told that when he arrives at the inner station he is to bring back information about Kurtz, the basis of this comparison and contrast in this paper, who is the great ivory agent, and who is said to be sick. As Marlow proceeds aw...
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Sense Of Humor Educational Background
866 wordsLaughing and Sense of Humor? What is it that differentiates human beings most revealingly? Some say it is their varying degrees of compassion; others say it is amounts of prudence; still others, peoples differing appreciations of beauty, or whatever makes them angry. And there are other possibilities worth considering. But in truth nothing is so revealing as a persons sense of humor. ? It is not very hard to notice the many differences between people. There are thousands of things that different...
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