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    Jamoni's NBA Career

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    the ball. He does all this with his eyes closed, he imagines playing a game, using his footwork his hands taking ankles and then when the time is right put it up and score. He runs out of balls to shoot and it is time to take a break it is now 11:30, 30 minutes before practice begins. His teammates start to settle in but Jamoni is unaware of this, he has lost track of time in his imagination. He keeps working and the coach Tyronn Lue is now watching still Jamoni is unaware. Snap goes the net…

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    Roger Giangrande Professor Steve Sciara January 30, 2016 Big Bertha: The Contingency killer? Replacing the two their road right at the water, Seattle is building a 2 mile tunnel underneath the busy streets. Big Bertha is named after Bertha Knight Landes, who was elected as Seattle's first female mayor in the 1920s. Bertha is the worlds largest boring machine that stands 5 stories tall and 326 miles long only moving 35 feet per day weighing it at an incredible 6,700 tons.…

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    difficult for some but needed at the same time. Many immigrants coming to America in the 1920’s and 30’s were from Europe. They came to America to escape persecution and seek freedoms and new opportunities America had to offer. The immigration for some was very turbulent and somewhat strange like in the story Son from America by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Immigrant came to America in the 1920’s and 30’s for many reasons, some of witch were to obtain higher opportunity and persecution. But coming to…

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    agent or environmental pathogen that causes LP, which is then transported throughout the brain retroactively (by neural pathways) [11]. Ultimately, this leads to neuronal death and dysfunction in the brain [12]. Subsequently, four separate case reports [13-16], revealed that implanted dopamine neurons in PD patients showed evidence of LP inclusions 10-22 years post operation. Therefore, -synuclein may be the pathogenic agent spreading PD and it may be mediated in a prion-like manner. These…

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    end up together because Landon does something bad and ends up doing a musical with her father doesn’t approve and they still end up falling in love with each other. 13 going on 30 when the best friends fall in love with each other a 13-year-old girl makes a wish to be successful and beautiful gets the wish wakes up and turns out she’s 30, she freaks out and in the end she figures out the only person who has been there for her was her best friend who has been in love with her. Last but not least…

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    Intellectual montage comprises the introduction of new ideas in a really emotional and charged sequence (Dancyger, 2011, pp. 20-21). Just at the beginnig of the film, when the main characters (Jenko and Schmidt) had just arrived to the college campus at minute 13:10, there is an intellectual montage, which lasts for a bit under 10 seconds. This estabilishes the idea of starting college. The students’ behaviour and the way they were showed around in campus let the audience understand the new…

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    Truman Show Symbolism

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    As Truman proceeds to his car to go to work in a closed form frame (6), a barking Dalmatian charges him. The composition changes at this moment depicting a point of view shot (8) of the neighbor’s Dalmatian through Truman’s eyes. The dog is close to Truman’s face, as if to signify his fear of the animal. This psychological technique allows for the audience to witness an emotion more carefully, in this case, the emotion is fear. The low camera angles exhibited the enlarged action of the dog and…

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    commandments of God, just as I. This is why we don't have the righteousness to save ourselves. God is calling us out of temptation, God is calling us to freedom. He says "For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light." [Matthew 11:30] Weight is a perspective thing, and what is heavy to one person could be light to another. Jesus went through the wrath of God to bring us to this freedom, and to me, when put in perspective our lives are pretty easy in comparison. There is such…

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    head what could happen and what I would do. I watched games while I stretched. I wanted to win. I needed to win. I waited for that clock to hit 12:00. Our game was at 1:00 and we needed to be there at 12:30. My worries were growing higher and higher as each minute passes by. It was it was 11:30 and I couldn't wait any longer. I got in my uniform, did my hair, put my cleats on and grabbed a protein bar. I was ready to go. I grabbed my phone as my parents and I walked to the car. Every soccer…

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    Leslie Graham looked at herself in the mirror. She had to be at the bus stop in 30 minutes. She has to be presentable enough to both not attract to much attention from the school or her classmates. She had a clean face. No freckles, no pimples, no other third thing that goes on face. She wore no glasses. Her face was.......okay. Her eyes were a beautiful dark blue that she got from her dad's side of the family. Thank God it wasn't her mother's eyes. They were a boring brown. She had brown…

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