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    explaining what happened to the Clutter family the night the murders occurred, Capote waited to reveal this. In Part II, Al Dewey one of the lead detectives on the case, spent a majority of that part trying to figure out what happened and find the killers. Capote during this part only allows the readers to know a little bit more than the detectives know. He describes Dick and Perry’s current situation in Mexico, but throughout that time Dick and Perry don’t discuss the murders or what they…

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    I still think back on the night that changed my life. The night started off so normal, but that changed fast. I can truly say that was the most traumatic night of my life. A memory that’ll never be lost. I was only four at the time yet I still can feel all the emotions from that night. I lived in the projects. Saying that I was still trapped with my parents. That night with them changed me for good, and it made me the person I am today. The tiny apartment always fueled altercations between…

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    The Night That Changed My Life I raised my window shade to reveal a magnificent view from above. I observed the multi-lane highway occupied with several vehicles traveling in each direction and broad trees covered in snow, to the mysterious stagnant ocean scattered with icebergs. It was winter break in New England and my family and I were en route towards Miami, where an immense cruise ship, the Allure of the Seas, was waiting for us. I was ecstatic for the adventure my family and I were…

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    very first time that I will reveal my 3 years of silence. It’s been three long years but it feels like it only happened yesterday.…

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    lot of the lake, a certain car caught their eyes, one of their friends. Taking a closer look at the car, it seems as if their friend was in the car with a girl. The three decide to mess with the car, just to find out that the car that they thought was Tony’s was not his at all. Out of the car comes a large mean looking man, the three of the teenaged greasers rally around the man, and attack. After a few good shots being traded from one another, one of the greasers acquires his tire iron from the…

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    “Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” These are the famous words of Princess Diana. People loved and were influenced by Diana. She was a public icon throughout the globe. However, there is one thing that is still strange about this famous figure. Diana’s death is to this day a major point of questioning as the two most common suspicions are a major power murder and an unfortunate car crash. Even…

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    for cheap. The rent was split equally between the four of us with one person just paying sixty dollars a month.In the apartment, there were plenty of windows that should light up the apartment nicely but despite that the house was still dim. None of us would have imagined that it was haunted. Often at night, we'd hear something that sound like footsteps but thought nothing of it as might because the apartment being old. One night when we just finished our semester, we were all excited that we…

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    Weather caused The Titanic's Death There are many different scenarios for what happened to the Titanic. Weather is the biggest contributor to this disaster. The Titanic was very luxurious. It was 46,000 tons and 882 feet in length. The ship was thought to be unsinkable, yet it was struck by an iceberg and sank about 375 miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The story is well known about the disaster. It took 1,500 passengers and crewmembers’ lives, which is about two-thirds of the total 2.200 people…

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    In the book Speak, Melinda called the cops on a party. This one single act turned her into an outcast but nevertheless, I believe that she did the right thing. I believe that she did the right thing by calling the cops because the party was dangerous, there was alcohol, and Melinda was sexually abused. Anyone in this situation would have made the same decisions. One reason that Melinda did the right thing by calling the cops is because the party contained alcohol and Melinda was surrounded by…

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    this moment in the poem, he has a thought that something bad has happened to Lucy and now he is worried. He says, “what foolish and difficult thoughts to control slide into his head about his lover,” he is having bad thoughts that something has happened to his lover (Wordsworth 25). At the end of the poem he has this thought that Lucy might be dead, but we have no reason as to why he believes she might be dead. Nothing happened in the poem that would make us believe that she had died. The…

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