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    How I survived the Zombie Apocalypse Waking up to the loud screeching siren and a voice blaring through the speaker of my phone at the crack of dawn wasn’t the best feeling. The Public Service Announcement stated that that there was a zombie apocalypse and it wasn’t a drill. My heart raced. In a split second, instantly grabbed the three most important things I could think of that time: my energy drinks, my machete, and my slowest friends. It was three in the morning and I was doing what every…

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    of the film he notes how it is surprising to find that it is simply strongly pro-labor with a “particularly sympathetic interest in the Mexican-Americans with whom it deals” considering that it “occasioned controversy and violence when it was being made.” In “The Suppression of Salt of the Earth in Midwest America” James J. Lorence talks about how Republican Congressman Donald Jackson of California denounced Salt of the Earth as “the work of Communist filmmakers” and warned that it would “aid…

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    later films include From Dusk to Dawn (), Sin City(2005) and Spy Kids (). Director and filmmaker was born on June 20, 1968, in San Antonio, Texas. As a part of a large family, Rodriguez began by making short films, which often featured some of his nine siblings. Initially rejected from film school, Rodriguez continued making movies. He won several awards for his efforts and was eventually accepted into the film program at the University of Texas at Austin. He made his first feature film El…

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    awarded the Oscar Prize. Someday, lyric writer Sonia visits his house when he is composing new music. She brings her own 86 of lyric work tapes and shows Vernon. He is playing the piano what he is composing, Sonia is not long in crying because she thinks her lyric is not enough to work with his music. She is off the wall. She is a high unusual woman, but he feels the beginnings of love. Vernon has promised to meet Sonia in his house. By the time she shows up one day and thirty minutes late, he…

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    and passionate singer, like Keats and Shelley, Batalvi had a intuition of his untimely doom : "This lyric of mine took birth with me, And with me it's to sojourn to Heaven. I'll sing my own song and depart the next dawn." Lovelorn poet Batalvi, physically also resembled Keats. And almost all his lyrics were addressed to some "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." During his college times, Batalvi's poetry was agony for him, but ecstasy for his…

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    questions the ethicality of animal testing. The practice of animal testing mutilates the physical appearance of traditional house pets, corrupting their gene pool and increasing the physical and genetic deformities for generations to come. Animal testing is superfluous, with the costs outweighing…

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    John Biggers Baptism

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    This paper will analyze and compare two works of art from Hampton University’s Museum. The first is John Biggers’ Baptism, and the second Lloyd Toone’s Natty Dred. This paper will specially analyze themes of culture and labor as they pertain to both works of art. John Biggers’ Baptsim is a colorful painting depicting quite surrealistically several aspects of African and African American life. It was created in 1989 and it’s medium is oil and acrylic on canvas. Firstly, while the painting is…

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    I was so excited about new journey. It was the beginning of fall, so the leaves turned to gold with the light of dawn. The wind was smooth and fresh with slowly cloudy. I had seen the sadness and worries in my mother’s face. She did not say anything and just looked at me as much as she can like last time. In her mind, she may think that her little star-lord just yesterday…

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    everything else that New Orleans has to offer in vivid detail through first-person essays written by everyday people. Two essays that delve into these subjects are, “On a Strange Island” by Billy Sothern and “The Presence of the Past” by sisters Dana and Dawn Logsdon. Sothern takes his readers on an excursion to all of his favorite places in New Orleans, despite how abnormal (i.e. Holt Cemetery) they seem, while the Logsdon sisters explore the history and importance of remembering what a…

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    the themes presented throughout The Great Gatsby. Despite her beauty, she is perhaps one of the most selfish and fickle characters in the book. One quote that shows Daisy’s selfishness is at the beginning of The Great Gatsby. Nick goes to Daisy’s house for the first time since he came to East Egg. It has been some time since Nick has last seen his cousin, and Daisy uses this time to catch up. It is here that Daisy says: “I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way East, and…

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