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    He married Alexandra Fedorovna ( Tsarina ) and had five children,: Olga, Anastasia, Alexei, Maria and Tatiana. Nicholas was influenced by his family, being a family man himself he was portrayed as ignoring counsel unless it was his wives.Of course this would be alright if she had the head of a ruler, nevertheless she was influenced…

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    authorities have spent many millions more. Officers wearing the recording devices are 66 percent less likely to use force, the data shows. Rialto also receives up to 88 percent fewer complaints about police conduct when officers clip on cameras (Anastasia 2). Police officers will point out to people that they are being recorded and the civilian starts to calm down and stay cool during the event of an arrest. The people who are not in favor of body cameras are the people who say it is an invasion…

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    investor funds and some tax evasion sprinkled on top.” Ben is surprised that Rod seems to be well versed in the legal system. Rod tells him that there are not too many crimes that he hasn’t committed that deal with fraud or theft. Ben asks Ty and Anastasia to leave them alone, which she does reluctantly. Rod tells Ben jokingly that it’s going to be hard for him to leave this set-up for a prison cell. “Good thing they don 't let you have shoe-strings…

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    Today I was awaken by the bitter coldness that was creeping onto my toes throughout under my clothing. Making my body completely numb. All I could think about was how my child, Anastasia was putting up with this miserable living condition we were in. As I looked over to her room, I see her small fragile body shaking fiercely, as her teeth were chattering, grabbing her light blanket tightly. Seeing this destroyed my heart. I could not afford to have the heater on for the night nor during the day,…

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    rank, and social stature. The sense of fashion always depended upon a person’s choice. The women were seen wearing big dresses. The bodice was tight fitting and the skirt was big and wide. The women would also wear hairnets called. “snoods”. (Anastasia Romanova). They would also wear other accessories as part of their outfit. The accessories that the women would wear were usually very big. The…

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    at least 48 books. She published her first novel, A Summer to Die in 1977. This story was a fictional account of her sister's passing. After the serious novel, Lowry showed her funny side with the book about a suburban preteen and her family in Anastasia Krupnik. This was written in 1979 and became the first in a series of humorous books. She won her first Newbery Award for the 1989 historical novel about the Holocaust called Number the Stars. In 1993, Lowry received the honor a second time for…

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    girl I have had a strange obsession with the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II Romanov and his family. I was introduced to this story from the FOX animated movie, Anastasia. This was my all time favorite movie as a young child. I would sing and dance along with the movie as well as daydream that I was actually the lost princess Anastasia. As I got older, I became more curious about the storyline so I did some research. I found out that the film was based on an actual family and that the daughter…

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    In Anastasia Toufexis’ “Love: The Right Chemistry,” Toufexis uses 3 different types of diction. The first 2 ways she uses diction is to dehumanize our emotions about ourselves and the way we see love, only to personalize those same emotions in the end. The last way she uses diction is to build a sense of trust. In the beginning, Toufexis uses diction to refine the way we see ourselves but ultimately changes this emotion in the end. She starts off by calling us “human species and mankind”…

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    Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Host by Stephenie Meyer and many more. The topic-book of this essay is also a utopian novel that is by the award winning author, Lois Lowry. Lois has written many novels including Number The Stars, Gathering Blue, Son, Anastasia Krupnik, and A Summer To Die. This quarter our class read The Giver by Lois Lowry and studied it’s concepts. This essay is analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of living with the law of “sameness”, or having the government control…

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    his future bride Marguerite taught him how to be human again (human feelings is what I mean by humanity). “...I gained at first, marginal jobs...and learned to impersonate a human being...I managed to marry Marguerite. And father a child we named Anastasia, whose name means “resurrection”, as in the resurrection of hope.”(Schweitzer…

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