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    For many years now, America has witnessed the countless occurrences of racially profiling individuals as well as demonstrating excessive use of force, often called police brutality. Racial profiling is defined as an act of discrimination implemented by a stereotype. It is an action that many police officers practice in order to justify their actions towards a person. Police brutality is the use of extensive force when it does not need to be used in a manner that either threatens or physically…

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    Ocean's 11 Analysis

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    new setting is more welcoming. Thanks to the colours, the Mise-en-scene shows to the audience how much Ocean feels at home and the artificial light brightens up the entire shot. From this new setting, represented by props such as the roulette and blackjack tables, slot machines, and the uniformed croupiers, It is also possible to grasp how big the budget of this film is. The croupier’s uniforms are also significant because the croupiers are wearing nametags, giving them an identity, instead of…

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    Beowulf, the defender of all men, was sitting at his desk quietly looking over his paperwork. This research had to be used tomorrow in court. Beowulf couldn’t make a mistake, after all he was only a paralegal. Earning money for his college was a hard task due to his addiction to gambling. Every single night he went out to a new casino looking for the only sound that ever helped him relax. The beautiful gaming machines, made as sound so peaceful that it helped him get his mind off of the case.…

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    the shoreline there was sure to be at least one dead fish. During the summer, the tiny asphalt parking strips at the end of the roads were adorned with the bodies of sunbathing Oklahomans who looked more in pain than relaxed, and the leaves of the blackjack oaks in the surrounding woods never got quite green. But because I spent a truly inordinate amount of time there, I came to regard it with a certain degree of…

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    “Outfoxed” is a documentary that strictly describes a specific media union as a false representation of what the world consists of. Instead, this group also known as “Fox News” is exclaimed to set a “smoke and mirrors” illusion. During the film, different officials, state and show explicit evidence and facts about the misconduct of the Fox News channel. The documentary begins by introducing Rupert Murdoch, a wealthy businessman that bought the Fox station in 1985. Fox began as an affluent news…

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    Gladiator Slots Analysis

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    Gaming options include video poker, table games, blackjack, live casino, roulette, slots, and even mobile exclusive games. You are likely to find all your favourite slot titles here, but the game selection certainly doesn’t begin and end there. At time of writing you are likely find the largest percentage…

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    The author, T.F. Hodge, known for writing the book From Inside I Rise said, “Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity”. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is about a psychiatric ward where the head nurse, Nurse Ratched, hold control over her patients through immoral means. A new patient, Randle McMurphy, doesn’t like the ideals of the ward and fights back. Manipulation is very…

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    Relative Dominance

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    Anderson. These researchers wanted to determine which specific species were found along the moisture gradient. By plotting the species importance values along the moisture gradient they were able to determine where species were located. They concluded Blackjack oak and black oak were very common in upland sandy areas and black oak, white oak and shagbark hickory had the highest importance value on the ridge top locations with silt-loam soils. They also determined that red oak, sugar maple,…

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    What would you think if someone told you that you were round? Would you look at them weird then walk away? Would you say ‘thank you’? Or would you punch them in the face because you thought they just called you fat? Well, you should say thank you since they just confirmed that you are a real person. Round characters are like real people, with many different traits. This is an example of a symbol. Symbolism is an object or symbol used to represent another idea, trait, or quality. When you give…

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    The poem begins with a series of four sample stories about poor people hitting a stroke of luck, and striking rich. Whether it be, doing well in the market, finding love, winning the lottery, and claiming insurance. The story of Cinderella follows the Grimm’s’ version of the tale. After the death of her mother, Cinderella works as a housemaid to her evil stepmother and stepsisters. Her father spoils his stepdaughters with extravagant presents but only brings Cinderella a twig. She puts the tree…

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