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    Night Terrors

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    PS4 and Xbox One are fantastic, popular gaming platforms but don't rule out the iPhone just yet. Yes, that little technology brick in your pocket can do more than just Angry Birds. Just in time for Halloween, there's a new game on the market and it's the scariest ever made. NIGHT TERRORS ON IPHONE PUT PS4 AND XBOX ONE TO SHAME In the past, people weren't serious about iPhone gaming. However, that was before Night Terrors AR Survival Horror came out. Upon playing it, gamers will have trouble…

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    We follow Katniss and Peeta into the arena, and watch as the tributes form alliances. Katniss has formed a connection with Rue, the girl from District 11. They want to take out the large alliance, and separate to destroy a stockpile of supplies that belongs to the large alliance in the arena. When they meet again, Rue is hit, in the heart, by a spear thrown by another tribute (The Hunger Games). Katniss, though she is very clearly overwhelmed with heartbreak, remains calm for Rue. Rue asks…

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    and the men are gathered around BARTON. MAXIMOFF and WILSON run to only fall to their knees around BARTON’S lifeless corpse. Silent tears escape the eyes of all the men, the SERGEANT bends down to take the letter to BARTON’S loved ones out of his pocket. They start digging, giving BARTON a final resting place. The grave takes a while to be completed and they all stand around it, in a silent pray to their fallen…

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    In addition to how much Emily’s father had structured her life and held her back, there is the issue of Emily’s love life to consider. Her father never allowed her to have a man, for he was the only man he felt she needed in her life. This idea was so prominent that even the townspeople knew that Emily’s father was the reason Emily ended up unmarried and alone: “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which…

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    John Harrison to be quite sad. He spent his lifetime trying to solve the problem of longitude only to be rejected time after again by people that most likely didn't even understand his constructions. Even after Harrison had finally finished the pocket watch that was capable of telling time more accurate than any other at its time, others were still unwilling to accept the possibility that it could solve the problem. I think that this was much more common in the past due to many of the scientists…

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    I can’t wait until we go to Orlando .I bet we are going to have some fun .My dad has been planning this trip for three years .People say Orlando ids the best place to go for kids, but not for parents pockets. ‘’Get in the car” my dad yelled. ‘’ Okay’’ I say .I’m waiting for my dad in the car. We finally pull off.4 hours into the drive we started talking to each other about school and my dad said, how has school been going.” Good” I say .We begin to become hungry so we stop at churches to get…

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    being physically shot can be an equivalent to the emotional pain Gatsby feels from missing Daisy. It also can be associated with how Gatsby was shot by Wilson at the end of the novel. Gatsby's love costed him his life. Broken Clock The broken pocket watch is a metaphor for the long period of time Gatsby waited to see Daisy. He was unaware that the longer he waited, the farther they grew apart. Gatsby feels like he can freeze time and bring back the past and that’s why his clock is broken. He…

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    Second Level Thinking

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    Friends get together to play a friendly game and after a few drinks and a few hours everyone is tired and had a good time and congratulates Bill on taking the big money home, again. No one suspects that Bill was cheating and no one knows what to watch for to spot potential cheaters. Well, follow these guidelines and you can feel a little safer at the poker table. Rule 1. Never play with strangers Now I know that this advice has been given out so many times that it makes you feel like pounding…

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    There also a good chance that someone has asked you what’s your favorite team or who you’re rooting on Sunday night. Then if you’re that Minority that don’t watch will either (A) press you to be a part of their team or (B) disown you as a person. Thus the majority side starts to take effect in as s person’s everyday life football apart of it. So as the population of football fans increase each passing year…

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    threat to the Khmer Rouge. When her father is found and taken away for being part of the former government, the family is distraught. As Loung remembers she writes, “Pa walks away with a soldier on either side of him. I stand there and wave to him. I watch Pa’s figure get smaller and smaller, and I still wave to him, hoping he will turn around and wave back. He never does.” (Ung 103) That was the last time she saw her father before he became lost among the bodies in a mass grave. For months…

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