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    writing, spoke about issues regarding race, sex, and class, and rejected many cultural principles that was happening post war. The Origin of the Beats was in 1943, Allen Ginsberg meets Lucien Carr at Columbia University. Carr introduces Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. From there, the Beat Generation arises and their movement was faced with criticism along the way. The Beats received harsh criticism and negative backlash from the public, critics, and other observers. Despite the…

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    Identity The media has brainwashed many people through their deceitful ways and lies. While they would never admit this, the media is the most racist ‘platform’ on earth. The media can consist of many news platforms such as Fox News, CNN, BBC, Wall Street and much more. social media is also another platform where you can share your life and treasure memories, but many individuals and news platforms use it as a way to directly influence others. There is a saying that one shouldn’t believe…

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    The attempted murder of Marc Schiller was very intense and very brutal. Lugo and his gang attempted eight times to capture Marc Schiller and every time they failed to kill him. "Mark Schiller was the perfect victim because he was involved in medical fraud, something that was illegal," said Levine (Troy Roberts). Schiller had been Tased, burned, beaten, pistol-whipped. When the gang was done with him, they made him wash down sleeping pills with liquor, put him behind the wheel and rammed it into…

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    Lee Harvey Oswald had to have been part of a bigger conspiracy. There is no way that he could have done this alone. Him and Jack Ruby met in a night club 2 weeks before the assassination. Those 2 probably had something to do with the mob. Oswal´s job was to kill the president and if he did it wrong then Jack Ruby was to kill him. Jack Ruby tried to warn police to change the route of Oswald's transformation or else he wouĺd be shot but they didn't listen to him and he did end up dieing.…

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    When people think of golf the first name that pops into people’s mind is Tiger Woods. Tiger has seventy-nine professional golf tournament wins and fourteen majors. Even though Tiger still hasn’t passed Jack Nicklaus’ eighteen major championship people still believe that Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer who ever lived. Tiger’s career hasn’t been all positive, though; the 2008 United States Open being the last major tournament he has won. Because of this slump, Matt Cochran advocated that Tiger…

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    they choose to do. The choice should be theirs and they should not have to suffer more than necessary, they should be able to save their family the financial ruin and they should be able to leave this earth is in a dignified manner, free of pain. Jack Kevorkian was a Pathologist who lived in Michigan where assisted suicide was not legal. The fact that it was not legal did not stop him from assisting those in need. This assistance he and others provided these patients caused much controversy…

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    The Last Jarrell Family Vacation When my father told my brother and I that the family was going on a trip to France, my brother threw the water bottle he was holding into the ceiling fan. Water and plastic exploded everywhere. My dad screamed and my mom whimpered. I laughed. Last week Tommy bought his first car. It’s a used 1998 Toyota Civic. Even though it is old and shitty, Tommy loves his car more than he loves dad or mom or me. Mom took a photography class at the community college…

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    Would you be able to survive in the wild? The Call of the Wild is an adventure fiction story about a dog named Buck who gets taken to the Yukon at the time of the gold rush. Buck changes from a domestic pet to being a wild animal. He has many different owners over the course of the story but eventually he meets the one he loves the most, John Thornton. The theme throughout the story is survival of the fittest. Buck learned how to survive by watching other dogs. Buck first got to the Yukon he…

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    middle-aged company stooge working in a dying industry, with no reason to believe anything could change. He was born Stanley Martin Lieber in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on December 28, 1922, the first child of middle-class Jewish parents. Stanley’s father, Jack, had been a dressmaker but suffered from chronic unemployment during the Depression. “Seeing the demoralizing effect that his unemployment had on his spirit, making him feel that he just wasn’t needed, gave me a feeling I’ve never been…

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    On the day of November 22, 1963, a trigger was pulled by Lee Harvey Oswald and bullets striking 35th President John F. Kennedy in the back of the neck and head at approximately 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas. Little could be done for Kennedy but was rushed to the Parkland Memorial Hospital by his secret service and others including his wife Nellie who was sitting right next to him. Thirty minutes later President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. Kennedy sadly left the nation serving…

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