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Libby 's Last Stand “Why did you leave early today?” Libby asked her mother across the round oak table. It had taken all day to work up the courage to confront her at dinner, when her father would be there and could say something to make her mother see she was wrong. The headaches that had plagued Libby for months had stopped suddenly a week ago, when she realized their source. It had been her mother 's turn to carpool, and Libby felt fine all day until she climbed into the Caprice and…

Witness, directed by Peter Weir, and The Man from Snowy River, directed by George Miller, are often categorized as very different films, but fit into the category of Syd Fields 3 Act Structure. Witness is shown as a crime thriller, whereas, The Man from Snowy River is an Australian coming of age drama. Both films have the same sub-plot of romance, but differ in some areas. Having romance as the sub-plot compliments both film’s plots and provides a soft element to the story. The romance changes…

intertwined with unquestionable magical occurrences. Envision a human being with great virtue spontaneously floating and reflecting in the vibrant light of the sun. Imagine an elderly man naturally tossing a peso into the air and piercing it with a Colt .44 single action revolver. These are prime examples of the unquestionable magic that defines the literary movement of magical realism. Magical realism is also comprised of ancient myths, symbols regarding nature, religious allusions, and an…

Sophia Ho Shannon Welch (B09) The Social Ladder Targets of anti-semitic violence and oppression, Jewish men and women looked to America for a lifestyle away from the fear of persecution and hope for a brighter future. In America, Jewish immigrants settled in the lower eastside of New York and worked to establish a community in which they could call “home.” They formed networks for Jews to meet new people and often found conversations in public bathhouse and candy stores. Many immigrants had…

he had in play “ridden [his father’s negroes], ‘making believe’ they were his horses” (408). After he bestrides his chosen “beast of burden,” The man [sinks] upon his breast, [recovers], [flings] the small boy fiercely to the ground as an unbroken colt might have done, then [turns] upon him a face that [lacks] a lower jaw – from the upper teeth to the throat [is] a great red gap fringed with hanging shreds of flesh and splinters of bone. The unnatural prominence of nose, the absence of chin,…

In February of 2016, a story surfaced entailing a lawsuit against the University of Tennessee regarding the school’s inability to properly handle sexual assault cases that involved the university’s student athletes. The story described that six unidentified female accusers had come together to form a lawsuit against the University of Tennessee, to try to combat the wrongdoings of the university in these situations, stating that the school had fostered a “hostile sexual environment and culture”…

couldn't cry his way out of this one. He was sentenced to two years on each count but the courts allowed the sentences to run concurrently.As it turned out, his cell mate turned out to be William Turner. Bonnie, who visited Clyde every day, smuggled a Colt to Clyde and that night Clyde, Turner and another…

Foundation, "So-called 'Assault weapons' are more often than not less powerful than other hunting rifles. The term 'assault weapon' was conjured up by anti-gun legislators to scare voters into thinking these firearms are something out of a horror movie… The Colt AR-15 and Springfield M1A, both labeled 'assault weapons,' are the rifles most used for marksmanship competitions in the United States. And their cartridges are…

The view of gender is a part of a society women and men are needed to form a perfect and functioning society. Generally, women are needed to bare and raise children and men are needed to care and protect those who need it. While there has been changes in the way that gender is viewed and treated, for the most part the way gender is viewed has stagnated. In the nineteenth century there were clear cut boundaries between what was expected of girls versus what is expected of boys. Girls were…

wires stretched over great distances. It allowed business people to stay in close contact, sped up communication of sales orders and pricing information and helped trains move more efficiently and safely while linking regions of the country. Samuel Colt (Inventor of the revolving pistol and Morse’s partner) and Morse ran an electrical cable from one ship in New York harbor to another ship. Six months later, Congress approved a grant of $30,000 to build a telegraph line from Washington to…