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    The Mirriam-Webster dictionary defines the word “blame” as a verb, meaning “to place responsibility for a fault or error; to hold responsible; to find fault for.” In the face of a horrific tragedy, it seems to be a natural response to want to place the blame on someone or something, perhaps to channel the anger and the trauma and be able to put it somewhere, anywhere, in hopes of alleviating the pain. It might be a way to rationalize what happened, to try to apply reason and logic to the…

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    Arriving to school at 7 in the morning is hard enough, but doing so on a Saturday for detention, is even tougher! Yet five students, from different walks of life do just this, in one of the most iconic movie of the ‘80s. Directed by John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, is a film that follows the events of five teenagers serving their time -and shenanigans- in detention, while lifelong friendships are made by the simple act of understanding and relation. In the opening of the movie, the teenagers…

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    When Claire Zachansian was a young woman, she fell deeply in love with man named Alfred Ill. She was abandoned by Ill once he had found out she was pregnant. Claire decided to take Ill to court for paternity, although Ill had paid two men to testify against her swearing that they were the ones that slept with Claire. The court eventually ruled against her, causing Claire to become a prostitute. Claire eventually met a very rich man at the brothel, and married into fortune. Many years later the…

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    Mea nwhile, the mentoring by student counselor of Seton Hall University whose name was Carla Dickson had also helped Sam to avoid any possible injury from his old friends. Even though Sam had made a poor decision of helping his friend to commit robbery, his thoughtfulness had knocked him on his mind, making…

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    The invention took place back in the 1891 . This sport was invented by James Naismith , Mr.Naismith was born on November 6 1861. He taught multiple sports for kids to interact with like Physical education which was used in many schools you may know it by the name P.E . This class would have many different sports you are welcome to play. Naismith had gotten an idea of the game of basketball when he realized what all an football and a soccer ball are capable of doing. Naismith was told by many…

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    every prime number up to 7507, and receiving an A in a A level math exam (one of the higher level math exams an individual can take). A specific moment in the text in which his mathematics ability was displayed was how he was able to answer The Monty Hall Problem correctly. Marilyn vos Savant answered a math problem that was featured in a magazine and was requested from a reader. She answers the problem to then receive letters from many individuals that include mathematicians and scientists.…

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    An Invisible Space

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    space and man 's perception of it’ (Hall, E.T 1966, p. 1). This is the first sentence of a book named ‘The hidden dimension’. Space and the perception of it, people normally imagine some physical objects, or something we can see through eyes. However, when we carefully think about the space, it is actually not just an object that can touch by our hands, can be something cannot see through our eyes but still can fill and remain in our brain. In this book, Hall talks about the hidden dimension,…

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    cultural studies, the field was majorly oriented toward political problems. Hoggart, Williams and Hall chose to enter into the educational arena because it “was the social and cultural form in which they saw the possibility of reuniting what had been in their personal histories disrupting: the value of higher education and the persistent educational deprivation of the majority of their own originary [sic] or affiliated class” (“Uses of Culture” 25). The formation of British cultural studies…

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    Pre-service For the religious service I am going to go to a Kingdom Hall in Murphy, North Carolina. Tyler Graves, a friend of mine, is a Jehovah’s Witness so I plan on going with him. I am planning on going over Thanksgiving break. I chose to go there because I wanted to have a friend to go with, so I wasn’t completely alone and clueless. Initially I had planned on going to a Mormon church with another friend but he will be in Utah at that time. Growing up, I never went to church that often…

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    The Cosby Show Analysis

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    The Cosby Show is a positive image of African American television show compared to other television shows representing negative image of racial discrimination an example, is The Jefferson’s. The viewer’s acknowledges that the show avoided racial issues and existence of stereotypical African American middle-class family on television. The Huxtable family show made it a reality that a person could be able to follow their American dream and that hard work does pay off. In the 1970 to the 1980s the…

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