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    “The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” (Adolf Hitler). This is the thinking behind Adolf Hilter. Just in this quote, you can tell how little his mercy and care for other humans is. When you hear the name…

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    Marilyn Monroe’s life was ruined by her drug addiction, depression and anxiety caused by past lovers and media attention. Most of her life she abused drugs. Broken relationships and an unhealthy childhood probably led to her drug abuse. Monroe depending on drugs, having many overdoses, and her life becoming more public were symtoms of how drugs changed her life. Was her death suicide? Was her death murder? To this day, Monroe 's death is still unknown, but what we do know that her death was an…

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    Built from the ground by Alexander Van Der Wells, now it’s Noah’s. This is what he comes to every day. His own kingdom. Ruling with an iron fist. There are four different elevators circling the grandiose lobby, and Mikey Boy leads me to elevator number two. Not sure he realizes he’s spoken to my boobs instead of my face when he steps aside and tells me to go ahead of him. Hmm. Here’s someone who’s not afraid to leer. Can’t blame him, though. I do have a nice pair. Soothing classical music…

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    Jeepers Creepers Satire

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    With her best friend Ann Stoker she would also hang around the Fleet at Portsmouth and Southsea. (A photograph of the two, both inexplicably in boiler suits, shows a hefty young Monica not displayed to best advantage next to the more petite Ann.) They had to avoid her brother Bunny if he was in port and likewise her Uncle Gerald, brother of Henry, who was captain of the battleship Repulse. With another friend she used to drive up to Oxford and Cambridge, a wind-up gramophone in the back of her…

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    Connections across Texts: Discrimination and Genocide within societies Discrimination towards specific societies is a theme most often evident in modern day media as an issue to start debate. Racism, genocide, gender inequality and religious prejudices all exist within many popular and critically acclaimed texts. The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Montana 1948, First Native and Pink Pig, and Fruitvale Station, all revolve around this theme and together have connections between one another as…

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    The evolution of media has evidently influenced the lives of females—young and old—across the globe. Peggy Orenstein, the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, attempts to capture the ongoing issues that affect the behaviors and mindsets of girls in America. She focuses on princesses, toy preference, media, children’s TV shows/movies, and the internet. She wants to apprehend the impact of images, ideas, and societal standards that girls absorb about what they must be, how they should act, and…

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    Jake saw Sky plunge into the midnight black pool. He was now absolutely terrified. Sky was the most dangerous person on the planet, and if you convert that to evil . . . that’s something he didn’t want to think about. “Max you’re a mad man,” Jake screeched, “and soon to be a dead man!” Max chuckled. “You couldn’t take me.” “Not me,” Jake answered. Jake answered his questioning look. “As soon as she comes up, she won’t be herself. If she’s evil and the most dangerous thing do you think that…

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    “Amari lifted her head to the night sky. Bright stars decorated the darkness above, and she wondered if they were the same stars the had winked at her so far away in her homeland,” (Draper 211). In the book, prior to the quotation, Amari, Polly, and Tidbit had just wandered into the woods after being freed by the doctor. Ameri was looking into the night sky wondering if everything in her life had changed or if parts of her old life were still with her. Sharon Draper, as the author of the Copper…

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    Menopause

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    hidden That your wife is still nursing The pains of how you raped her sister? Then, what liberty do you have To call me a prostitute? Wait! Don't go yet Let me give you more Of what you asked for Are you not the same That flirt around with your housemaid? What a shameful act! Even your secretary is not spared I pity your wife that gives you Her body with no fee And thank you Here, Red Light District You pay for our body And say thank you. To unburden your burning urge Pay into my…

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    Talentime Film Analysis

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    Summary From the beginning, Ms. Adibah is going to organize a Talentime. Mr. Anuar wish himself can perform during Talentime but for those who get ‘in’ on a piece of paper they draw, will have the chance to perform in the teachers’ segment of Talentime. It is the seventh anniversary of Talentime, seven teachers and seven finalists will be perform during that day. Then, a guy name called Mahesh, which has a hearing impaired, was taking good care by his uncle. He wants to take good care of…

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