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    personal suffering,¨ to achieve Indian self-rule (Document 7). Gandhi helped calm down the violence towards the British but the vehement resentment remained as many Indians died during the British rule. Indians wanted freedom similar to America's breakaway from Britain and they would eventually receive that…

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    I was contemplating whether I should write to you or not. Literally I wrote to everyone I could think of before I wrote to you, because my parents informed me how it is not proper etiquette because we live in Park Ridge Estates as well. However, after I saw a book you wrote I knew you were the perfect person to write to. The title of your book is, “Now or Never: Getting Down To The Business of Saving Our American Dream”. For years I have disregarded my own American dream, covered by my own…

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    Lanyards Essay

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    Different Uses of Lanyards Lanyards are now an important tool in any type of businesses. Its increasing popularity is likely to continue in most industries and organizations. Aside from its value in the workforce, it has its function in your daily life. People recognize the usefulness of lanyard in different situations and occasions. The concept started in the seventeenth century when Navy ships use cords to keep important items and details safe. The military forces use it for holding knives,…

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    I steal the ball from the other team to pass it outside. My teammate passes the ball back to me and I have a breakaway. It’s a one on one with the goalie. I take a shot and I score the comeback has begun. I get another break away up the left side, I make a scissor move. I got past the defender making it so I can take a shot to score its 2-5. The other team kicks…

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    In Arthur Miller’s screenplay, The Crucible, some of the information throughout the screenplay was changed from the original play by Miller. Some of the effects may have been included to add more of a visual to occurrences between acts that had only been mentioned through dialogue in the actual play. Although it may be easier for an audience to remember the information, the adding of visual scenes that were not original to the script is not necessary to follow along. Therefore, I do not believe…

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    “Like its Union sibling, it had a dark blue field in the upper left corner -- or the canton -- and only three stripes, two red and one white. It had seven stars to represent the breakaway states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. And the white stars formed a circle, much like the original Betsy Ross American flag” (Brumfield, 2015). There are so many different versions of the Confederate…

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    The Game Movie Essay

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    The Game, a 1997 drama film directed by David Fincher, sets place in the late 1990s in California. Michael Douglas stars as the film’s main character as Nicholas van Orton. Van Orton is a mid-aged, divorced, businessman who appears to be very stoic and cold, and who tends to be bothered by interaction with other people. The film takes place in one-day’s time with a few flashbacks. The movie begins on van Orton’s birthday where van Orton receives very few “Happy Birthday’s” from those that he…

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    According to behindthename.com, Alexander means “defending men”. I like to think that this is true since I play center defender when playing soccer. A few years ago, I was playing in an incredibly close game on a dusty field. The other team got on a breakaway with me trailing close behind, they slid a ground ball past my keeper and I sprinted to save the ball. I slid on the ground to extend my body as far as possible to knock the ball away from the goal, and I spotted the other team immediately…

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    highlight the figures below (Henri Matisse. n.d.). Picasso has made the stage smaller and more cramped yet the brown at the left and the blue-white at the right construct a similar stage that focuses the eye toward the figures (Cubism. n.d.). Now their breakaways. Matisse used such curves and arabesques in the shapes of the trees and then mirrored that in the curves of the bodies. This made that painting seem more sensual than Cezanne's (Fauvism-Matisse. n.d.). He also used such bright and…

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    The Mexican Independence and the Venezuela Crisis have some things in common. Both historical events have short and long term effects. Both of these events were also influenced by ethical beliefs. The similarities between The Mexican Independence and the Venezuela Crisis are not many. Both historical events have a great impact in their own way. The Mexican Independence was about how the Mexican’s wanted their Independence from Spain because they were being treated badly, In the Venezuela…

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