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    Soggy Bottom Boys and helping the mayor to get reelected it does not take long for his wife to come back, on the condition he gets her wedding ring from the house that is about to be flooded for the lake. As the group arrives they are greeted by the sheriff, after being pardoned by the mayor for helping him, but he intends to hang them anyway. As the group faces the gallows Pete and Delmar begin to pray as they have come to know Jesus over the course of their journey, but when all seems lost…

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    The Yellow Sky Analysis

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    This story introduces a newly married couple on a train heading to Yellow Sky, the groom’s home town, from San Antonio. This is a Western story set sometime back in the 1800’s. His name is Jack Potter and he is the sheriff of Yellow Sky. After having left his town to obtain a wife, he returned newly married without telling the people in his town of his marriage. When he arrived at Yellow Sky, he tried to avoid people because he thought that they would start to celebrate. To his surprise Scratchy…

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    Audrie Film Analysis

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    The film represents the stories of Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman who were sexually assaulted while both were unconscious. As well as Delaney Henderson and Daisy Coleman’s friend Paige who was also assaulted. While also including the effects it had on their families, schools, and communities such as cyberbullying and abuse. When the sexual assaults occurred Audrie was fifteen and Daisy was fourteen. Audrie Pott didn’t remember what had happened on the day of the assault but heard rumors about it…

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    was young. This novel talks about abuse of power and racism. The novel starts off with David recalling these significant past events. Marie, David’s family’s Native American housekeeper becomes ill, however when David’s father Wes Hayden, the local sheriff, decides that they should call his brother Frank, one of the town’s local doctors, to come over and check on her, Marie declines. Frank still comes with the request by Marie that Gail Hayden, David’s mother, stays in the room with her during…

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    Sheriff Higgins glanced over his shoulder and mopped his face with the soaked handkerchief. The crime scene vans arrived minutes before the cadaver dogs. Robert wasn’t sure which grated on his nerves worse, the whining from the hound, or the camera flashes that exploded at random. He gritted his teeth at the thought of his sleepy town becoming a circus. Still, it was better for him to hand over jurisdiction without protest, and he knew it. It was the only chance Hamilton had of returning to some…

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    would identify as vice, Shariff Ed Tom Bell is presented as a weathered, virtuous man, who struggles to reconcile himself to the ever-expanding presence of evil in the world. Despite McCarthy’s use of Bell as a type of moral compass in his book, the Sheriff is still utilized, all be it in a less evident manner, human depravity. After trailing in the bloody wake of Chigurh and Moss for the majority of the book, Bell is broken down both mentally and spiritually resigns himself…

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    the same without it. Firstly, after fighting for American freedom in the Revolutionary War, farmers hoped for recompense and recognition. Instead, they were met with vast amounts of taxes that were caused by both national and foreign debts. “Local sheriffs seized many farms and some farmers who couldn't…

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    everywhere non stop. But one day a Sheriff went up to Bob's trailer and Bob didn't answer and has a escape door on the bottom of the trailer and he had his baby with him and the Sheriff left thinking it is abandoned and it really wasn't. After the Sheriff went away he came out and the Sheriff really wasn't gone he was going slow to see if he was there or not and he backed up quick when he seen him and Bob went in and put Bob Jr. down and ran out and the sheriff came out and said to his radio…

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    As Sheriff John Wydell takes aim at the Firefly's demonic abode ready to shoot whoever comes in his view the family takes precaution with a few things up their own sleeves. The Firefly family has armor of steel masks and vests, along with firearms throughout the family farmhouse. The Firefly family consists of Mama Firefly (Leslie Easterbrook), Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley), Tiny (Matthew McGrogry), Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) pull off a great performance…

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    experience. They know the brutal cost of survival and what it takes to get there. Throughout this story, there are several wars that are alluded to; however, the most prominent one presented was the Mexican drug war. Personally, I think the reason that Sheriff Bell is not as involved as Wells and Moss is because of his age. Those few extra years resulted in him being wiser and more cautious as he questioned the reasoning behind this kind of fighting in the war for money and power. “I know…

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