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    12 Angry Men is a play involving twelve men who are serving jury duty for a court case involving a young man facing the death penalty. This young man is facing this charge for killing his father with a switchblade. The old man who lives under the defendant said he heard the young man yell “I’m going to kill you” followed by the sound of someone falling, and then saw the man on the staircase. There is also a lady, who lived in the building next to them who says she saw through a passing elevated…

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    The accused claimed that the weapon, a switchblade, fell out of his pocket and it must have been picked up or that someone might have possessed the same knife. The men who consider him guilty say that the weapon is rare and no one else could own a similar knife. In response to this argument juror…

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    Ice Water: A Short Story

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    stepped towards it cautiously. There was something definitely moving inside the bag. I would have noticed this before. I can be dumb, but not that dumb. That’s when I heard the muffled cry of a tiny animal. I didn’t have a choice. Using my trusty switchblade I punctured the leather bag and cut it open. Two big green eyes appeared from within the bag. A black kitten jumped out. I admit she got the drop on me. Without meaning to talk to her I said, “This doesn’t make any sense.” We stared at each…

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    The Outsiders Essay: Bravery Cautious people live boring un-thrilling lives, and once they have their first taste of bravery. They can’t stop because they enjoy the thrill that comes along with it. “The brave do not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all” The quote shows the life that Johnny Cade lived from S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders. S.E Hinton present the idea that bravery moves people to do dangerous things in the spur of the moment. The first scene that revealed Johnny being…

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    described as scared for many reasons. One example of this is when he got jumped by a group of Socs. On page 34, when Ponyboy is telling Cherry about Johnny’s encounter with the Socs he says, “Johnny, who was the most law-abiding of us, now carried a switchblade. He’d use it, too, if he ever got jumped again. They had scared him that much”. This shows that Johnny was scared the day he got jumped and was still fearful of the Socs to the day he died. Another example of Johnny being scared is when…

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    The Outsiders Rough Draft Can you hide your emotions from everyone or will you lash out on them? Emotions can be really hard to hide, and they can affect everyone else's emotions too, with sadness passing on to sadness. This can apply to events as well, like a chain reaction. S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders portrays these chain reactions clearly with each character having more problems grow when they were expressing their strong emotions; Ponyboy, Darry, and Dally are perfect examples for this,…

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    Growing Up Too Fast Essay

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    reveals in The Outsiders that some children have to grow up too faster than they should to survive the world they are living in. In the beginning of the novel you can tell that all of the boys are growing up too fast by smoking, carrying around switchblades, and getting arrested at the age of ten. An example of growing up too fast is when Ponyboy said, “ His father was beating him up, and his mom ignored him, except when she hacked off at something and man you could hear her yelling clear down…

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    sniper on the roof of a building of a village in Afghanistan. The squad has two options to deal with the threat. Their first is to have a nearby American sniper team in the area kill the enemy sniper. The second is for a member of the squad to use a Switchblade “kamikaze” drone to kill the sniper with a small explosive. Assuming both options have a low risk of collateral damage and accomplish the same goal, the two choices though differing in practicality, are morally equal. A drone is a tool.…

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    fair fight with no weapons. Tony arrives to the fight to stop it per Maria's request, while there Bernardo taunts him to fight but he keeps his cool. Trying to intervene, Tony aggravates Bernardo leading to the fatal death of Riff from Bernardo's switchblade. At the end of Act One, Tony kills Bernardo, avenging Riff's…

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    Along with this comes the inhumane death of these black people followed inconsistent stories of their murder. Freddie Grey was targeted for allegedly having a switchblade, had unnecessary force used against him as an African American male from Baltimore; profiling. Sandra Bland failed to signal to switch lanes then was dragged out of her car as an African American women trying to just go to her first day of work;…

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