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    history of the Native Americans. Calling Buffalo Bill a hero for hunting buffalo, fighting wars and riding horses while the Natives were in held in reservations not being credited for the same. Buffalo Bill’s pawn shop sees much success due to its location and the Native Americans start to pawn everything to get liquor…

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    With these lenders, the items are held during the term of the loan. A person will need to repay the loan on time in order to get their item back. It is never recommended to use something personally valuable when using a pawn shop dealer. Once the loan term limit expires, the item is property of the dealer. In order to get the item back, it will have to be purchased at a higher price tag than what the loan was for. An auto title loan lender will usually attempt to get…

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    her mirror. Soon enough, to her own surprise, she steps through to find another world on the other side of it where she finds a chessboard, with live characters, who do not seem aware of her. There’s a white king, a white queen and their daughter, a pawn, Lily, all of who she tries to help. In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book of poetry called ‘‘The Jabberwocky’’, which she is only able to read by holding it up to the mirror. Frustrated with the strange poem, she leaves…

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    D Angelo In The Wire

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    In the first episode of the show ‘the wire’, as detective Kima mentions the drug war, her fellow detective, Carver says, “You can’t even think of calling this a war, because wars end, but this don’t.” The wire mainly focuses on the crime scenes related to drugs in Baltimore. Detective McNulty and Kima are the main figures on the law enforcement side, and D’Angelo, Avon, and Stringer are the main figures on the drug dealing side. D’Angelo Barksdale, the nephew of the head of the drug dealers,…

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    Hope

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    everything else was pawned off their heart. Buffalo Bill accepted everything and cataloged each item. After the Indians had nothing left to sell, Buffalo Bill closed his pawn shop and opens The Museum of Native American Cultures. Buffalo Bill then charges the Indians five dollars a head for admission to see what the sold to the former pawn shop…

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    Nature In Fahrenheit 451

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    history have likened a story to a game board. The board is the setting, the player is the author, and the pawns are the characters. In all these plots, regardless of the geography or century, there will always be certain forces acting from within those pawns, forces the author will impel on the characters. These forces reach the character either through the actions of nature or another pawn and their purpose is to drive the story forward, complete the writing’s purpose. In Ray Bradbury’s…

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    for a round. Then we continued on our journey. One group went towards the North, one group went towards the South, one group went towards the East and the other group went towards the West of town. We stopped a few blocks down from the pawn shop, and beside the pawn shop was a liquor store, a gas station, a fast food place was a one…

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    Prison Gerrymandering

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    This case has many contradictions to the rule of law including multiple factors. The first main infringement is 1.1 “government powers are effectively limited by the fundamental law”. Sense there is now no law to protect prisoners from being used as pawns in gerrymandering and legislators using the prisoners to sway votes giving the government unlimited…

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    though they are trapped in their own thoughts. With the general, he feels has he is left stranded on the beaches with nowhere to go. The pins, representing Allied and Nazi divisions, resemble chess pawns, which reinforces the thoughtful nature of the general. Due to their inferiority, the resemblance to pawns links to the general figurative speech about soldiers being comparable to…

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    In “Mario and the Magician”, the audience members’ choice to be hypnotized is an illustration of how people choose to submit to the supersense of Totalitarian regimes. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, explaining Hannah Arendt’s thinking, argues that Totalitarian regimes construct a fictitious reality, the “supersense.” Similarly, Cipolla creates a false reality when he hypnotizes the audience members. It is evident that Cipolla does not possess magic powers, but rather Mann is highlighting the audience…

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