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    The was once vacant room now crowds with familyys and displined sons. The walls once vibrated with an unearthly silence and the floors once were concealed by a compact layer of dust. The air reeked of despair, an aroma only noticeable to those with keen senses. One by one, people crowd the vacancy, filling every empty void, creating a cluster out of isolation. For Todd Anderson was once a vacant room - forcibly filled with lifeless air, breathing tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence. He…

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    In Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture", he uses the quote: “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people." Randy Pausch uses symbolism to explain the significance of brick walls. Brick walls can be used to let us prove how badly we want something. He…

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    Mana Creative Writing

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    system of using magic, direct control, that in the case of my supreme spell is like trying to solve hundreds of differential equations at once without pen or paper, what could go wrong? ---------------------- I opened my "eyes" to the room, its rock walls greetings me differently than before, before the eerie lightning blue light of the mana well inundated the room with light, now the light was gone but I could see through the darkness without any problems, the sun could shine straight on that…

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    The large wall is brown but it is very obvious that light is shining on it towards the bottom. Everybody with the exception of the man in the blue is wearing either beige or brown. The fire on the bottom of the poster is red, but it fades to a white at the bottom…

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    's nightmare. The silence and darkness in the Patrick house gave way to a blood red scene. The walls, the stairs, the beds, the rooms, everything around him were all painted in blood RED. What was going on here? The sound of thunder could be heard outside of the house. It was storming outside. With every flash of lightning, more of this area was revealed. Near his bed, a dismembered body. On his wall, a human sculpture. On his floor, a trail of blood leading to the living room. "Do you think…

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    The History Of Zoos

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    It was a peculiar night on the 12th day of the 12th month of 2012, and the time was exactly 12:12 at midnight. And then Mombasa was born. In his early childhood, he was different from most gorillas instead of play fighting, he would stare at humans day after day, and he would disappear at night. What he was really doing was breaking out and traversing the zoo. This one storage room he had found had these old films about animals and the zoo’s history, he watched these over and over again…

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    when entering the Gielgud Theatre was how big it was. The stage itself was very large, and was a proscenium arch, meaning that the audience faces the stage straight-on. The very unique thing about this stage was that the back wall was a giant cube-like math grid. Both the back wall and the floor of the stage were technological grids that could light up, creating patterns and images. This stage was very relevant to the play, because it used illustrations to help us visualize what Christopher was…

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    This room had nothing but photographs all around. They had a huge section of the wall that was compacted with different photographs of the same time period. As I moved across the wall and continued to walk I was hit in the face with a stunning, beautifully carved archway. This archway led into an itsy-bitsy chamber that was filled the shelves and glass. On the shelves were pieces…

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    Hemmed in Despair “I’ve been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again and again.” –Gladys Lawson, Blood Borne Connections In the United States alone there is 2,085 reported sex trafficking cases ranging from females and males, U.S. Citizens and Foreigners, and lastly adults and minors becoming victims of sex trafficking (). These are only the ones that have been set on record noncumulative, there still many victims out there who are currently entering,…

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    Rugged Maniac Festival

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    another slanted wall with a rope ladder attached to it and then back down a final ladder wall and off the Antigravity obstacle. The course continued on a very brief distance and up next was “The Warped Wall” obstacle, which was a very challenging warped wall. I was able to make it up the wall on both days without assistance, but the volunteers where awesome and very quick to offer any racers assistance if they needed help with getting up the warped wall. Once on top of the warped wall, the next…

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