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    1. The Three Strikes Law is a law that constructs the actions courts must take to handle a felon convicted a third time. Moreover, it works to paralyze those more like to commit crimes by forcing the courts to impose harsher sentences on repeat criminal offenders. 2. States virtually had different ways of passing their three strikes law. For example, the State of Washington three strikes law was passed by voters and called Initiative 593. The State of California law was passed by legislators and…

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    The decades following the Civil War were a time of explosive growth for the United States, by the end of the Nineteenth century American economic wealth dwarfed that of its former colonial overseers. With this growth came challenges, the growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor led to deplorable and unsafe working conditions as the demand for production and more wealth for business owners became a more powerful motivator than human life and safety. This increase in economic success had…

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    second hunger strike in the Maze prison because the prisoners wanted to be recognized as prisoners of war. In Northern Ireland, the British government planned to isolate, criminalize, and demoralize the IRA. Some Mother’s Son appeals to the personal side of the argument by showing how one person can affect their whole family and then some. Hunger depicts the personal side as well, but it shows by making the audience think deeply through silences. In Some Mother’s Son, the hunger strike is shown…

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    energy and environment. Each one of these cuts were made strategically, with a logical reasoning behind them. Within the military budget, I have cut $57 million. A majority of this cut comes from the cancelling of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program was established to work on a high level defense plane, The F-35 Lightning. The project is expected to cost $1.5 trillion over a span of 55 years (Ehley 2). By canceling this program, the United States could…

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    Both Paprika and Inception are the kind of films telling the relationship between reality and dreams. Also, Kon Satoshi and Christopher Nolan are both well-known directors with a large number of fans. However, Paprika was produced four years earlier than Inception, which, in my opinion, also has the content with deeper and more complex thought. Inception is mainly about the demons story of the character which was played by Leonardo DiCaprio. It is a really simple and clear film that can be…

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    Before i analyze this fictional character i will talk and explain who he is. Anakin Skywalker later known as daar is a star wars fictional character he was born on the planet tatooine a dessert like planet when he was a little kid he and his mother were slaves. Two jedis named qui gon jinn and obi wan kenobi were stranded in tatooine and they their ship broke down they needed a way fix it. They went to a junk shop were anakin was working as slave they couldn't afford to fix the ship anakin told…

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    SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK AND THE LAST WAVE Australian cinema has started to gain succes at the beginning of the 1970s. As well as the films that are screened in succession demonstrate varities in Australia, Australian cinema awake the attention in Hollywood. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a film that directed by Peter Weir in 1975 and is acclaimed worldwide. Actually this mysterious film is the adaptation of an Australian historical novel by Joan Lindsay. The plot is…

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    Have you ever wanted to catch an illegal alien? That’s exactly what director, Steven Spielberg was attempting to do in the blockbuster film E.T. extra-terrestrial. At the time of its release, E.T. was ahead of its time and drew record crowds. The score was written by the famous composer John Williams and won an Academy Award for best Score 1982. The music in E.T. the extra-terrestrial establishes the exciting and frantic mood the characters are feeling and foreshadows the action in the upcoming…

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    “Star Wars Force Awakenings” Forced Me to Stay Awake All Night to Finish it, and I Loved it. (Movie Review) Characters in the movie Refresher of the last movie Basic one sentence summary of movie If you are a big fan of the entire Star Wars franchise then you are going to like “Star Wars The Force Awakenings”. It’s Basically a movie that takes place far in the past in a different galaxy with future technology. So if you need a bit of a refresher this takes a few decades Into the future from…

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    special effects into the 2000s, and ILM became one of the most successful effects studios used by Hollywood. Lucas followed the first Star Wars film (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope) with two sequels, Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi (1983). The franchise did very well in the 1980s and ’90s through the release of videos, a huge merchandise line, and the re-release of the trilogy in…

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