The Small Assassin

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    “Hello Ma’am.” I stood behind her, clearly a head taller. “Who are you?” Ross demanded with her back still turned. Obviously, she believed that she was more important. That was her fatal mistake. Reaching behind into my back pocket, I produced a small spray bottle. Then I pressed down just a slight bit so only a few drops flew onto her bare neck. Upon doing so, I quickly hid it and answered her question. “Your chauffeur ma’am. Please be ready in 10 minutes.” With that said, I turned…

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    disbanded. All done by King Abraham, he had made a new world, a new time, he had brought world peace. Day One: Time went by quickly, almost two years. King Abraham thought the Britanic people had completely disappeared as with their ideals, but a small group remained in the kingdom a group of plotters; plotting the king’s assassination on the night before his birthday. They struck on that fateful night, it was a slaughter for the king’s guard and the plotters; they all died, but they had…

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    Pirates In Somalia

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    of the country's second president, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, who was killed by his very own bodyguard, hired to assassinate him. After his death the army chief General Mohamed Siad Barre took over, even though he was speculated for hiring the paid assassin. Siad Barre forced the herders to move into settlements, therefore changing…

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    managed to get out of the car and shoot back at the assassins before collapsing in the streets. Himmler’s private doctors could not save him. Hitler was very upset that Heydrich was killed and sent the Gestapo and SS to find and murder all Czechs involved or suspected in the murder. The Gestapo murderer about 1000 Czechs and 3000 Jews were also murdered. In addition the village of Lidice was destroyed on the fake charge by Hitler that it helped the assassins. All the men and boys on the Village…

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    Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a book about an alternate reality where the Nazis lose the war and America is not under Japanese and German rule. Juliana agrees to go on the trip with him, unaware that his true intentions is to kill the author, as he is a hired assassin. Later, in Denver, after a day of shopping, Joe threatens to kill Juliana and tells her about his true intentions. This sends Juliana into a frenzy in which she wounds and kills Joe. This event shows that Juliana is a pawn of fate,…

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    dressed and desexualized. For Example, the Judith seen in Sandro Botticelli 's The Return of Judith to Bethulia, and with Michelangelo with a small depiction inside the Sistine chapel in the Vatican city. Later Renaissance artists, notably Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted at least eight Judith 's, ended up portraying a more sexualized Judith, as a "seducer-assassin" or…

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    story starts in Florence where a hospitalized Harvard professor Robert Langdon is awoken with a head wound that leaves him unable to recall how or why he arrived in Italy. He is treated by Dr. Sienna Brooks, a former child prodigy with an absurd IQ. A small projector is detected in Langdon’s clothes which depicts the altered rendition of Dante’s version of hell. Sienna helps Langdon to retrace his…

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    be constantly aware of their surroundings. Charles Caldwell, a former slave and a current state senator, became a marked man for angering the white members of his county. At a bar on Christmas Day, Caldwell was shot in the back of the head by an assassin. Just months prior, he had escaped an angry mob of white democrats for the crime of trying to organize a barbecue. Four days later, the mob hunted down and executed forty black, republican leaders. Eventually, the Ku Klux Klan grew so powerful…

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    The Pearl

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    35 years of age and wasn’t stopping. He killed more people than all the criminals in the whole prison of La Paz. The President of the United States wanted Perlo died and all of his money given to everyone of the town of La Paz. A group of trained assassins were out for Perlo. The sharp shooting snipers of the United States never missed even from a half mile away from the target. The snipers would only take 10 minutes to complete the operation to kill Perlo. One shot and one dead Perlo would…

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    Trujillo Character Quotes

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    how the people’s hate and contempt for Trujillo grew as he became more tyrannical. “They kill our fathers, our brothers, our friends. And now they’re killing our women. And here we sit, resigned, waiting our turn,”(Vargas Llosa, 137) Many of the assassins were formerly close to Trujillo, Antonio Imbert who said the previous quote was a politician who grew disenchanted with how cruel Trujillo was or Antonio de la Maza Trujillo’s former guard who is seeking revenge for his murdered brother. These…

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