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    really mind the parties being thrown at Montresor’s home, but he wished he could throw one. Soon the parties got better and better, and they were well know everywhere for their drunken, crazed parties. One day Montresor’s and Fortunato where shooting clay pigeons in Montresor’s large backyard. Fortunato wanted to ask Montresor’s if he could maybe throw a party at his father's…

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    Annie Oakley was born with the name Phoebe Ann Moses on August 31, 1860, in Darke County, Ohio. She is remembered as one of the leading women of the American West. After both Moses’ father and stepfather died when she was a child, she went to live at the Darke County Infirmary, where she received schooling and sewing instruction while helping in the care of orphaned children. She returned to live with her mother and her second stepfather in her early teens, when she was able to help the family…

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    Dewey tells in his paper that, “Incidents of gun violence on campuses date back more than two centuries. Reports of shootings on campuses during the eighteenth and nineteenth century most often involved disturbed teachers turning guns on unruly students” (Dewey). Though shootings as long as two centuries ago involved teachers and professors firing shots at the misbehaving students, shootings of the twenty-first century usually involve a former or current student returning to his or her hated…

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    the ducks in was something I will never forget. From that moment on I fell in love with duck hunting. My grandpa gave me my first shotgun when I was eight. It was a Remington 11-87 painted in Advantage Wetland camo. I spent countless hours shooting clay pigeons, to work on…

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    was actually pretty good at it. He was happy to hear that I turned out just like him. Besides archery, my dad also showed me how to shoot a gun. He brought his 12-gauge shotgun to my grandmas so our family could have a friendly competition shooting clay pigeons. When it was my turn, my dad talked me through everything. He was holding me so the recoil of the gun would not hurt…

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    Buffalo Bills, or American dollars, were “defunct” because although they were meant to help Europe, they backfired and only hurt themselves. Furthermore, the criticism of American involvement in World War I comes through when Cummings speaks about the clay…

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    The Wicked Waterfowl Weekend It was October 24, 2009, on a cold morning. My dad and I had wakened up at 5 am. We had been waiting for my cousin to pick us up to take us to his favorite duck hunting spot. We hopped in the pickup with my cousin and we started out toward Emmett. We had been talking a lot on our way out there catching up with my cousin I hadn't seen in awhile. As we arrive in Emmett we stopped at the first gas station that we knew sold hunting licenses. All three of us went inside…

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    1. I have a few viewpoints about public assistance. There are some people who should be on assistance and some people that should not be on it. I feel that if people are working and trying to make an honest living but are still at the poverty line, they absolutely should get public assistance and yes, they should be able to do what they want with their money that they worked hard for. On the other hand, there are some people that don’t work or try to make an honest living and I don’t feel…

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    Chatsworth, California resides in the northwestern corner of the San Fernando Valley, bordered by the Santa Susana mountains to the north, Porter Ranch and Northridge to the east, Winnetka, West Hills, and Canoga Park to the south, and Simi Valley and Ventura County to the west. Around 8,000 years ago, Chatsworth was originally inhabited by several different Native American tribes: the Tongva-Fernandeno, Chumash-Venturano, and the Tataviam-Fernandeno. Stoney Point was the home of the…

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