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    overwhelming power that the bureaucracy has in misleading the public. Since the public has important information actively withheld from it, the bureaucracy indicates that it lacks honesty and hints that it may be covering up corruption. Moreover, the power of the military’s information results in both manipulation and devastation. Deceptive information Doc Daneeka, a victim of the bureaucracy’s overpowering process, is afraid of flying and thus arranges to lie about his flying status. When the plane he is supposed to be flying in crashes, everyone presumes him to be dead, even though he proves to everyone on the base that he is still well alive. He cannot override the bureaucracy’s decision that declares that he is dead and even his letter to his wife informing her of the situation is covered up with a message from the military that “she was undoubtedly the victim of some sadistic and psychotic forger in her husband’s squadron” (342). By believing the bureaucracy’s twisted words instead of the words of her husband, someone dear and trusted to her, Mrs. Daneeka depicts the scope of influence that the bureaucracy has over the public. Doc Daneeka thus loses control of his life, having his wife taken away by the military’s manipulation. He is treated as dead to such an extent that “the sacks under his eyes turned hollow and black, and he padded through the shadows fruitlessly like a ubiquitous spook” (343). Here, the words “hollow,” “padded,” and “shadows” suggesting an…

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    Ronak Suva Andrew Saskin Jan 25th,2016 ENG2D I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this. —A Comparative Essay Between “One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Catch-22” Young adults still have a life to live and enjoy while they are still young. So, when I read these two books which were released in the early 60’s, (Catch 22 in 1961 and One flew over cuckoo’s nest in 1962) the protagonists from these novels show us that freedom is important for our lives. John Yossarian…

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    Holliday was born a normal child, he did decent in school, his parents loved him, and he was happy, until one day his dad went off to war as a paratrooper, his father never came back as his parachute plane pilot was a bit of a drunk and ended up killing his father during a para drop training exercise after he decided to bank the plane a little to far to the right causing his father to get sucked into the engines while jumping, after this Holliday was determined to become a pilot to prevent this…

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    Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. He was one of 5 sons to Nicholas and Virginia Earp. As a teenager, he always tried to run away to join his 2 brothers, James and Virgil, who were fighting for the union during the civil war. When he was 17, he left and found him a job for the Union Pacific Railroad. In early 1870, Earp married his first wife names Urilla Sutherland, but she ended up dieing due to typhoid within a year of getting married (history.com). Devastated…

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    like Tombstone, which requires the moral hero to stand for and bring the safety to the community. The distinguish between American ideals and the reality to some extent discloses the disappointment of American upon the society they are in. As Wyatt says, “what kind of town is this anyway” when he meets the drunken Indian and “this sure is a hard town” after Doc kicks one gambler out his saloon, which implies the civilian’s unsatisfication and unstable community in Western frontiers with serious…

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    resolve disagreements that may arise while working on the project? How will your team make decisions: By majority? By consensus? We can resolve scheduling conflicts by using technology such as email and Google Docs. We can resolve work ethic issues with communication and encouragement. If one member isn’t doing their work, other members will volunteer to help them. Other conflicting issues such as decision-making and project content will be handled with a majority vote. If there is an obvious…

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    The plot essentially was the same in the last 2 hours of both films. They had traveled a distance to find wealth in a new town to settle down in. As Murphy's Law states Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, all at once. This seems to be present in the both of the movies. In ‘Tombstone’ Wyatt's older brother gets shot and is predicted to lose his arm. Soon after Wyatt's other brother gets shot and killed. Then after that he goes after Johnny Ringo, Doc ends up killing him. Again another…

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    as gentlemen farmers“ (Fandango), west toward California. But that is not the case, soon after arriving in town their cattle are rustled away from them, and the youngest brother James is killed in the theft. “Wyatt, disgusted by crime and cattle rustling, eventually agrees to take the marshalling job until he can gather enough evidence to bring to justice the scurrilous Clanton clan, headed by smooth-talking but shifty-eyed Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan). Almost immediately, Wyatt runs afoul…

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    We followed Doc Holiday at first then the rest of the characters started coming out. It seemed real with how they were walking through the streets, yelling at each other, and the whole thing just made us feel like it was really happening and it took us back in time to when it was really like that. After that, we went behind a building and they came out of the door fighting and yelling and ended up on the ground fighting. When Billy the Kid went back inside, someone else came out and then the…

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    nature that surrounds him. Outside of the classroom however, he is a savior and a caregiver to all athletes he encounters. Travis Holifield, commonly known as “Doc”, is a science teacher and a sports medicine physician. Holifield’s exceptional love for his jobs has inspired many of his past and present students to study medicine, just like him. Surprisingly, Holifield’s path to becoming a scientist or a sports medicine physician was not easy. He is usually seen wearing a polo shirt, khakis, and…

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