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    Second Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution which changed the way we live and do things till today “The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.” The revolution began in the United Kingdom, then spread throughout Western Europe, North America, Japan, and eventually all over the world.Well, I won’t say that the Industrial Revolution was neither good nor bad for the world.” In my opinion,…

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    It had all started at about three AM. Lace had been one of the main streets of the slums at this time of night the street was alive with the homeless, the drunk and drugged and the all around bad and as usual Lace seemed slightly out of place. Perhaps not as badly though. She had found a jacket a week earlier with a hood and it had kept her mostly safe from both the cold and any watchful eyes. Her reason for being here though was not at all out of place. Hands stuffed in her pockets she quickly…

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    Gordon Monologue

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    I'm going to get straight to the point. You two are my best detectives. I want you to be working with me on my daughter's case. As you know she was found approximately at 6 am at Prospect Park. I need you detective Michaels to find out the results of the autopsy, approximately…

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    Forrest Gump

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    successful shrimp company in the world. Forrest felt most useful when he was in the army. This is shown when he says “For some reason I fit in the army like one of them round pegs. It’s not really hard. You just make your bed neat, remember to stand up straight and always answer every question with, yes drill sergeant”. (Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump, 1994).The film demonstrates that Jenny continued to struggle with her identity. Jenny was raised with an abusive father, this is in contrast to…

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    Heliya

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    through the Quran, salaah is the method in which Muslims use to respond to Allah. During the prayer, while standing, the congregates would raise their hands up to their shoulders and would say “Allah Akbar” which translated to, “Allah is the greatest.” Following this motion, the congregates would bend down and repeat, “Allah Akbar” with their back and neck straight and leveled with the ground in a 90 degree angle. While in this position, the congregates would praise Allah in Arabic, repeating…

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    My defining moment happened my junior year at the end of my wrestling season. The moment was not what I had in mind, but it was the best thing that happened to me. Starting in 4th grade all I wanted was to make it to the state tournament for wrestling. My freshmen year came along and I started training all year long for wrestling, it was the only thing on my mind. My junior year came along and I was ready: this was my year. The district tournament was upon us. It was a Saturday, I was up…

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    before his eyes, and James halts. He doesn’t call. They aren’t friends, they aren’t fucking bosom buddies- they were brothers in arms once, if one were to be archaic about it. Still, Julius had taken those arms (stolen those arms) and rammed them straight through James’ back, so excuse him if he switches off the television and goes to take a piss rather than phoning a man to whom he owes…

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    lost territories such as Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Germany just wanted to keep us neutral so that they could win the war. The US had to send so many soldiers out to be in this war, and it was strain on the government. A song called “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” by lyricist Alfred Bryan and Composer Al Piantados stated it perfectly, “Ten million soldiers to the war have gone, Who may never return again. Ten million mothers’ hearts must break,” it goes on to say “Who dares to put a…

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    about herself as being colored. Even though it did not bother her; Zora continues by saying that “The position of my white neighbor is much more difficult. No brown specter pulls up a chair beside me when I sit down to eat. No dark ghost thrusts his leg against mine in bed.” (942). Hereby stating that she feels sorry for the “white man” and the guilt in which they have to wallow for the deeds of their ancestors. This can be linked to the concept of “animatedness”, by Sianni Nga, meaning, to…

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    Dominican culture, similar to many other cultures, have traditional gender roles that separated the patterns of personality traits. There are general expectations of roles from both males and females within the Dominican Republic. In a novel called “The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz. The novel begins describing what is called a fuku, which people believe to be a curse, and how that same curse has haunted the family of the De Leon through generations starting with Belicia’s…

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