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    that everything else has. There is one man clinging to a boulder trying to escape the waves and another dragging a women to shore who is either unconscious or dead while another man tries to help them. The one man that is trying to help is in a dark raincoat, wearing gloves and a rain hat which makes the viewer question if he was involved in the shipwreck or just happened to be nearby when everything happened because the three coming from the water are dressed in plain clothes and not as…

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    9/11 Short Stories

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    The pale skinned girl walked with the sound of her heels clicking the midnight concrete. Her breath visible in the cold air, she tugged her yellow raincoat closer to her small body. She turned left on the road, coming upon a deserted farmhouse, she was frightened. As she strolled past, there sat a motorcycle, it seemed older, and out of shape. As the streetlamp and lights of the night lit up the old deserted house, she glanced over towards it. There was a dead tree sitting tall in the yard,…

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    The A Team Analysis

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    took from the song was this is a real issue in today’s society and drugs can ruin people's lives. This is shown in the verses when he describes her way of living. The lyrics “struggling to pay rent; long nights, strange men” and “ripped gloves, raincoat; tried to swim and stay afloat; dry house, wet clothes; loose change, bank notes; weary eyed, dry throat; call girl, no phone” show just how rough this girl's life was. She couldn’t pay…

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    stopped talking, kite running was the first thing that Amir and him did that actually brought Sohrab out of his shell. Amir states while flying the kite “I felt a presence next to me and looked down. It was Sohrab. Hands dug deep in the pockets of his raincoat. He had followed me” (368). This moment is the first time since Amir and him got into the United States that Sohrab actually wanted to do something with Amir. All of these huge event in the book happen after the kite running, after all the…

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    The Pedestrian Dystopia

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    We start out in “There Will Come Soft Rains” in a house that has no one living in it, just this living system that makes the house come alive. “Rain, rain, go away; rubbers, raincoats for today…” and the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing.” (There Will Come Soft Rains). With this information found in the story we learn no one lives there, but the robotic cleaning service, “Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice darted…

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    Andrew Brown, a MLB player once said, ”The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.” Technology can be defined as the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. To add on, the story “There Will Come Soft Rains,” by Ray Bradbury shows the aftermath of an atomic bomb. Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 and died on June 5, 2012. In his lifetime he published over 30 books. In my opinion,…

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    Since that person has glasses, they’re such a nerd! Since that person wears ragged clothes, they’re worthless and don’t mean a thing! These are mean and are judging people by how they look. Like in the story “The Other Side” by Jacqueline Woodson one of the main characters was judged by how they looked on the outside. The theme of the story is don’t judge a book by it’s cover. This story is a message to everyone. In the beginning everyone except Clover judged Annie. The middle and end of…

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    stopped caring about her coat and sneakers, and instead of hanging the coat and placing the sneakers in the closet as usual, she throwed them around instead. (page 6) she also stopped caring about her appearance, she started to wear "navy blue poplin raincoat over grey sweatpants and white sneakers, looking, at thirty-three, like the type of women she'd once claimed she would never resemble."(page 1) yet she did a lot more than what her husband Shukumar did, at least she go to…

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    Just recently, by air mail, I received an invitation to a wedding that will take place in England on April 18th. It happens to be a wedding I’d give a lot to be able to get to, and when the invitation first arrived, I thought it might just be possible for me to make the trip abroad, by plane, expenses be hanged. However, I’ve since discussed the matter rather extensively with my wife, a breathtakingly levelheaded girl, and we’ve decided against it—for one thing, I’d completely forgotten that my…

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    Taliban Beliefs

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    Speaking for the Oppressed During the late 2000s, the Talibans began taking over Pakistan and their beliefs spread like wild fire. Before they took power, Pakistan, struck by powerful and dangerous earthquakes became vulnerable. Consequently, this facilitated the Taliban’s rise to power the same way Hitler initially rose to power, through his promises of a better tomorrow. Although, what the Taliban mentioned could be interpreted as anachronistic, they gained many followers through his usage of…

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