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    “On military radios, there’s a frequency way near the top of the band that’s left unassigned at all times. It was regularly used, however, as an open conference line among enlisted men, and anybody with a spare radio and a little time to kill…” (Bradley and Werner 65). Many of us can say music is one of the greatest ways to way to block everything out. In the sixties and seventies many people in the states were going to these amazing historical rock and roll concerts, meanwhile troops were out…

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    her father George was an insurance agent. Her father loved to be out in nature and hated his job and eventually started drinking; his wife was not pleased and soon filed a divorce. Soon Diana's mother met a new husband, his name was Richard. Unlike Diana birth father, George, Richard was a strict parent who made good money. Dian did not much care for him, but he paid for her education and treated her like his own. Over time they developed a mutual friendship. Dian always loved animals, but…

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    The choice he made led him to his death, at the hands of Diana Moon Glampers, the handicapper general. However, if George and Hazel were an example of all Americans, then his revolution meant nothing. "You been crying... but I forgot about what, I just know it was something sad on the television." (Vonnegut, p…

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    King Philip received an elaborate burial because first and foremost he was a king. He was also a king that used military genius to unite the Greek city-states. He did so by changing the traditional military strategy. He used pikes that were 13 feet long and his formation was changed to be more forceful. He also used a catapult of sorts to be able to get past the walls that some Greek city-states were protected by. He used gold and silver from his conquests to move farther. He united the greek…

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    Today in modern society, the right of free speech is generally regarded as an entitlement an individual has. However, this particular entitlement, which is rooted in deep-seated beliefs that anyone is qualified to emphasize anything they please, can often cause friction and overall conflict on many levels. In most cases, the use of language in mediums such as radio, television, and books are restricted by censorship to a certain extent for a variety of reasons. The central reason is mainly…

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    war leaves him with a wounded leg. At the hospital, he receives a prosthetic leg and healing for his other injuries. Like in a natural habitat, Dunstan adapts to his new injuries and they are no longer a weakness to him. In England, Dunstan meets Diana Marfleet, and she helps him in his rebirth. Aside from helping Dunstan with his physical injuries, she helps Dunstan mature. She helps him with “[the] important step towards the completion of [his] manhood” (Davies 76), and she helps him shed his…

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    “He would never admit to anyone that, on a daily basis, he entertained the thought of blinding his pony and riding off the cliff to be with her.” (West 8) Blind Your Ponies is a book about how many people in the small town rely on basketball to keep them going and are in the town of Willow’s Creek to basically give up, or at least that’s what many people think of it as a town of because their basketball team has not won a game in 5 years. Sam Pickett a young teacher and the basketball coach sees…

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    The Journey of Elton John The people are shocked that the amazing singer is a homosexual, and that he asked to sing with a homophobic. He even has taken a decade off with only producing 1 album each year. John has made his main part in life of helping people with AIDS (Schlesinger, 2008). The journey of Elton John is identified by his outrageous style of clothes, controlling his very own AIDS foundation, having the fastest-selling single ever produced, and simply being one of the best Pop/Rock…

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    the Entandrophragma and Khaya which are African mahoganies (McGinley, 2008). The tropical biome is the habitat of lush plants and trees that made homes for many endemic animals such as primates. The forests hold about 19 endemic primates such as the Diana monkey (McGinley, 2008). These primates found in the dense trees are able to use the multiple layers of trees and plants to build homes and scavenge for…

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    evident, that all men are created equal." In 1848, 260 women and 40 men met together for the first women's rights convention. Together they change the words from "all men are to be created equal" to "all men and women are to be created equal." In 2012, Diana Phan was asked what she appreciated most about her new country after living in a communist society in Vietnam. She said she was grateful her daughters had the opportunity to choose their own paths. She said, "This never would've been…

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