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    Laws are supposed to protect the rights of citizens and communities, “it is the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may be enforced by the imposition of penalties” (Schauer, 2015). Marijuana also known as Cannabis is a well know plant that is sometimes used and misused and is considered a substance that originated from immigrants whom entered into America back in the 1920’s. Prior to the immigrants using the Cannabis…

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    lower-class women worked as a menial labour on a regular basis. However, Florence Nightingale was a stubborn believer and in 1850s she rejected a marriage proposal from an intelligent and well-mannered gentleman. This gentleman was Richard Monckton Milnes who loved young lady Nightingale for years. She justified her rejection by stating that God has called to follow another path that was…

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    “Trauma involves the experience of an event that is emotionally painful or distressful, which often results in the development of traumatic symptoms that have lasting mental and physical impacts” (Milne & Collin- Vézina, 2015). Most people have experienced trauma in one form or another and did not have any long-term effects from the situation; for example, starting high school was a traumatic event that did not create any long-term effects. On the other hand, there are several traumatic…

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    King John Weak

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    Shakespeare, like Milne, wrote stories and could pick what he wanted from the truth. What Shakespeare portrayed him as isn't necessarily true but may be based on the truth. He may have exaggerated the truth into the play, as he had done that with previous works. This could be proved by reading the text carefully, it says he made him seem a ‘weak’ man. If he was weak, he wouldn't have been unfair to people (according to other sources). This means that parts of Shakespeare's play is definitely…

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    Ten Little Toes Summary

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    Fox, Mem. (2008). Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes. Boston, Massachusetts: HMH Books This book is intended for infants. It says that a baby was born far away and another was born in town. Another baby was born the day after and another baby was sick with a cold. But “as everyone knows” all of the babies have ten fingers and ten toes. The pictures in the book are of babies from different countries. The main point of this book is to tell babies that regardless of where you’re from or what…

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    Module Code: CRM3500 Module Name: Violent Crime: Violence, Sex & Punishment Module Leader: Emma Milne Student Number: M00549909 Assignment Title: Book Review: We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity. Department of Criminology & Sociology School of Law Book Review: We Real Cool: Black men and Masculinity by Bell Hooks. We real cool: Black Men and Masculinity by Bell Hook’s is a book that explains the hardships of being a black male in the United States and what black males endure because…

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    Saki: Hector Hugh Munro

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    Munro was a British writer and master of the short story form and his works were often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. He influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Caroll and Rudyard Kipling and also he influenced to the other authors, such as A. A. Milne and P. G. Wodehouse. Saki was Munro’s pen name and inspiration of his pen name came from the boyish cupbearer in “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” by Edward FitzGerald. However, Saki may refer to a South American monkey name. Hector Hugh Munro…

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    In every story you read or hear about have these elements; the setting, plot, literal devices and its theme throughout stories to make a story come into depth to the audience. These elements allow the audience to connect in a real-life situations which generate the potential in the short stories. Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine” is a fantastic piece that represents a story analysis work in the culture of writing. Erdrich short stories are based on encouraging women to remain strong with their…

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    Global warming, as one of the many facets of climate change is unequivocally the most pivotal climate, health, security and economic issue of the 21st century. The anthropogenic factors towards global warming are inextricable to the exponential increase in global mean temperature and its reciprocal effect on global climate systems (IPCC 2014; Keller et al. 2005; Rogelj et al. 2015a). Explicitly, international initiatives to maintain below a increase of 1.5˚C and far less than 2˚C above…

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    Flowers For Algernon Summary

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    Mina Kubie Professor Tracy Sieglaff LIT 255 7 May 2016 Module 1 1. Cannon, Janell. Stellaluna. San Diego: Harcourt, Inc., 1993. Print. Stellaluna does a wonderful job of educating children on bats and birds and the differences between them. Although the story itself is fiction, the book is based on facts about bats and at the end of the book there are a list of facts about bats. During a lesson discussing bats, the teacher can read Stellaluna and have the students gain a substantial amount of…

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