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    the dental assistant was using the saliva ejector as Steve was getting a filling, she became distracted by her conversation with Steve’s girlfriend and accidentally stuck the saliva ejector into the back of his mouth into his throat causing him to choke and vomit. Steve had already had some fears associated with dental appointments and had a very sensitive gag reflex, which magnified the negative effects of the situation. This experience has had a very profoundly negative impact on Steve causing…

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    of people who attend four years or more of college (see Figure 1). In fact, without affirmative action the percentage of Black students at many selective schools would drop to only 2% of the student body (Bowen & Bok, 1998). This would effectively choke off Black access to top universities and severely restrict progress toward racial…

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    teacher was always rude to Mara and even threw chalk at her once for answering a question wrong. Mara was able to control her anger towards Mrs. Morales until she received an unethical F on the final. This exasperated Mara to the point that she wished for her spanish teacher to choke on her own tongue and die. Meanwhile the wish became reality and Mara was once again reluctant to face the fact that she killed somebody: “I made it to my bedroom and darted over to my desk, to the bottle of Zyprexa…

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    The short story, “Sonny’s Blues,” focuses on the narrator and author, James Baldwin, a Algebra teacher in Harlem reuniting with his drug addicted brother, who was recently released from prison and able to back home to their childhood neighborhood. As they catch up from the years pasted, tension between them starts to occur when they both to attempt to deal with anger toward each other. The story puts emphasis on major themes of suffering, racism, a recurrent theme that Baldwin writes about in…

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    Find Yourself Here on Out In the film “Dead Poets Society” directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. This film is set in 1959 but released in 1989, it takes place at Welton Academy, an all boys school preparing them for the Ivy League. A former student who attended Welton, is now an teaching an English class who is John Keating. The first class keating teaches he introduces himself by reciting a poem that goes like this “O’ captain, My captain... It's from a poem by Walt Whitman…

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    Reduce Police Brutality

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    How, Why, and How to Reduce it Police brutality is a growing problem in the United States, and it needs to be stopped. According to Chaney and Robertson (2013) “there were 5,986 reports of misconduct, 382 fatalities linked to misconduct (p. 485). Racism is the main reason behind police brutality, and this is causing concerns in many Americans. These concerns are valid because as Pierce (1986) states, many people who were victims of police brutality claimed that there was a racial factor…

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    Deckard were overly sexualised; We see Pris is wearing a flesh-toned leotard, which clung on to her body as it highlighted her curves as well as her nipples, which were visible through the see-through leotard. In the fight sequence, she attempts to choke Deckard with her thighs, which actually is such an absurd way to attack someone but the way Pris’s character is depicted it suggest the act of cunnilingus. The scene ends with the death of…

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    Hopkins, of the humorous arguments they had and how no one ever saw him again. His happiness went away, but Nick tried not to go to that place in his mind. The story states, “His mind was starting to work. He knew he could choke it because he was tired enough” (Hemingway). The point of Nicks trip was to fish, but when he started to catch trout he found he was not enjoying it. He was thinking about the fish and the grasshoppers he was hurting. He seems to grow attached to each bug he tried…

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    You are an old man, who has a health condition that makes you extremely tired to the point of passing out from only walking up a flight of stairs. You are the same old man that would throw around guys weighing over 200 pounds, and standing six foot and taller. These huge men would run swinging and kicking trying to beat the old man, but never could. This isn’t a Mr. Miyagi story, this is the purest form of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at its best. Since 1925 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has been helping the…

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    successful entertainment franchises in the world. Call of Duty: United Offensive was an expansion pack for the original game. United offensive included new single player missions including a new American campaign taking place in the famous Belgian choke point of Bastogne. United Offensive introduced the idea of ranks in multiplayer claiming new benefits the more they played. Call of duty: Finest Hour. While the original Call of Duty was only available on PC, Spark Interactive make a…

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