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    The ground was shaking. I stood still for a brief moment. It was a herd buffalo running towards a cliff. They were running through the field, as if it was away from someone. I took a second glance and saw that it was my people which the buffalo were running away from. Everyone that was in my band was chasing after the buffalo, including my daughter. Had I known that they were going on a hunt I would have gone with them. It was in that moment that I knew something didn’t feel right. In Alberta,…

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    The next day, I woke up slowly, not wanting to go to school. But hey I’m a teenager, and what teen wants to go to school? Oh yeah, people that actually have friends. And guess what! I don’t have any friends. I went to school as normal and went straight into my first period, AP Calc. Our class is very small, due to many kids not being smart enough to take the class. I was the first one here, which is becoming very normal. But soon after, a tall male walked into the classroom and started…

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    Throughout my life I’ve known plenty of people, and quite a few of them ended up being rather toxic. This particular debacle began over vacation on the cusp of autumn. My sister and two of our friends were together on a trip to Newport, Rhode Island, and on the two hour car ride there, one friend, I’ll call her A (I don’t want to use any names), threatened to reveal a long-time secret kept between her and another of my friends who was also my boyfriend, J, which had the codename of “Muskrat.”…

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    I was a young boy in the 2nd grade at Muldoon Elementary. I Will not be using the actual names but let's call this kid Kyle. Kyle had a very bad flu and always snorted and sniffed his buggers up. I Remember he smelled weird too, he also always sneezed in his shirt and wiped his buggers with his shirt. He wasn't a bad kid, he was smart and nice, he was one of my peers but I didn't really know him. All I wanted to be was funny and popular. First, Kyle was a lonely kid because no one liked to be…

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    time service expectation among society has become bigger and bigger. The reason is the expectation among the users of public service has become a growing demand, which has caused for public administration to become more efficient. In Jan Carlzon, 1987 Moments of Truth he talks about how turned around a Scandinavian Airlines System into a client-oriented business. (Cronkhite, 2013) During his observation of the organization, he discovered that the company was losing $20 million dollar and that…

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    the police. Morris recounts that Boney was “found hanged by a football sock in a police cell” (p.18), however whether this was murder or suicide it could not be said. In honour of Boney, a wake was organised in a public park on the 15th of August 1987, however, this wake was met with hostilities from the white patrons in the hotel across the park. The police equipped with riot gears such as batons and shields responded to this affair by “breaking up the wake and driving mourners out of the…

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    Cabrera-Rosete,70 NY2d 879 (1987). The Court must also determine the reasonable value of counsel 's services, taking into consideration counsel 's skill and experience, the nature of the services rendered, the time…

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    opportunities, and disenfranchisement in the South. Eleanor spoke against racial discrimination (Scharf, 1987). Eleanor helped to make lynching illegal (Scharf, 1987). When the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) prevented a black singer from performing at Constitution Hall, she resigned from the organization (Scharf, 1987). Eleanor resigned to prove her opposition to racialism (Scharf, 1987). When World War 2 erupted in August 1939, Eleanor was dismayed at Hitler’s treatment of political…

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    employer and patron, Archbishop Maximilian Gandolph of Salzburg (Chafe, 1987; Clements, 2001; Holman, 1999). Consisting of three groups of five short works (The Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries) and a longer stand-alone work, the sonatas and unaccompanied passacaglia together represent the fifteen mysteries of the rosary, a Catholic meditative prayer sequence chronicling the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary (Chafe, 1987; Clements, 2001; Holman, 1999). Biber’s contribution to early…

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    Foucault. In Rose’s article, he poses the question, “What is specific to madness itself?” (1987, p. 142). Rather than having a specific definition or characterization of ‘madness,’ the term is in relation to the constitutions of society (Rose 1987, p. 143). The idea of ‘madness’ is reconstructed (Rose 1987, p. 144 and dealing with it is seen as a means of recognition and regulation in a given society (Rose 1987, p. 144). Rose provides the interpretation that Foucault states the Histoire de…

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