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“Trust doesn’t come with a refill. Once it’s gone, you probably won’t get it back, and if you do, it will never be the same and that's a fact.”- Unknown. In the tv series The Twilight Zone, an episode called The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. In the episode, aliens took all the power off and eventually flickering all the lights. The neighbors thought that whoever owned the house with the mysterious light was the alien. Eventually, the whole turned into chaos. This episode is based on the…

In this article, the authors engineered an experiment to see how a storyline in a first-person shooter video affected the players’ experiences in comparison to players’ experiences when there is no storyline involved. During the experiment, participants played 4 total games, two that included a storyline (Outlaws and Half-Life) and then two that did not include or have minimal storylines (Doom 2 and Quake 2). After finishing eight minutes of each game, the participants answered specific…

America. The place that some rave about, and others dream of, but for me it’s home. As one nation under God, so many people and events have impacted the lives of the present, the next generation. Whether it was sacrifice, diligence, or dedication involved, this country has made sacrifices to accomplish freedom as a reality. For these reasons and many more, America is a nation worthy of not only honor, love, and respect, but fighting for. Here, you will see what America solely means to me in…

Living in America, life should be richer, and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement, regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. Everyone around the world conflicts with their differences and in America, not everyone agrees. Some have stronger beliefs than others and sometimes we meet in the middle. Living in America we have created a diverse society by expressing true opinions and understanding the value our country has to offer. Everyone…

#1 Hi! The song I will be talking about today is “Scars To Your Beautiful” by Alessia [Aless-sia] Cara and hopefully, you will learn something valuable from this presentation. #2 Alessia Cara is a twenty-year-old R&B Canadian singer and songwriter from Brampton, Ontario. She empowers young women and men as well today about self-acceptance and the obstacles that she has experienced in her youth, from the many songs she writes about. Growing up, Alessia enjoyed writing poetry and theater as a…

I'm writing this letter regarding my grandson Dale McRill, he was pulled over on May 26, 2015 in Mt Clemens by Macomb County Sheriff for something that happen in 2014. This arrest was for warrant issued by Sterling Hts. The warrant was over a year old which Dale was never notified about it, and they were unable to tell him what it was for per police (due to lack of information).…

Moreover, hunting the pig drives the plot as an allegorical novel due to the long metaphors current in the scenes where the hunters are killing pigs. Consequently, the long metaphor starts when Jack, as well as the other boys, initially cannot kill a pig because the enormity of the event is weighing on the his consciousnesses. When Jack, Ralph and Simon cannot kill a pig, they feel guilt because they tried to take the life of another creature. Seemingly, Jack only paused for a second, “the pause…

“Animals” (128), a perfectly apt description of the boys that drove to Greasy Lake at night. Much different from the boys that drove away the following morning. This sudden change within the boys is exemplified between the two interactions with the girls up at Greasy Lake. The stark contrast between the animalistic urges and restrained behavior exhibited between the two moments show the sudden character change within Digby, Jeff, and the narrator. The sudden realization of that night, the…

The term “rent-seeking” was coined by a man named Gordon Tullock in the late 60’s, then became an expression in 1974, by Anne Krueger. Rent-seeking involves seeking to increase an individual or a business organization’s wealth without creating a new wealth. Attempts to capture regulatory agencies to gain a monopoly can result in positive results for the rent seeker in the market while imposing disadvantages on competitors and the economy. The word “rent-seeking” does not as a refer to a…

Right off the bat, at the beginning of the story, Francis Macomber shows signs of fear and weakness not only to his wife but to everyone else at the campsite. It is given that he does not want to be killed while hunting but also wants to show that he can be a real man and redeem himself for all the cowardly things he has done in the past. During the lion hunt, he is very scared but does not show it until he is just about to shoot the Lion. When he does not kill the lion the first time and sees…