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    sometimes act as parrots, simply imitating any idiotic utterance that is conceived. In the speculative fiction book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from Rod Serling’s television anthology The Twilight Zone, and the episode “Once Bitten” from the Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants, it is clearly demonstrated that the circulation of unverified ideas can bring forth great…

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    Panopticon Characteristics

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    similar to the emphasis of the banks intimidation, and their use of discipline to grow their power. Obviously, if you get any sort of money loaned from a bank, you are in debt to them, and until you pay off this debt, you are trapped inside the twilight zone of their financial panopticon. All pawns of these banks are forced to perform payments of this owed debt every month, year, and technically every day considering some aspects of their taxation and programs. But if someone fails to meet these…

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    ?The Aquatic Biome.? The Aquatic Biome, www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/g lossary/gloss5/biome/aquatic.html. New Hampshire PBS. ?Ocean Zones.? NatureWorks, 2017, www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nw ep6c.htm. Texley, Julian. "Aquatic Biomes." The Science Teacher, Summer 2011, p. 81. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A270896101/AONE?u=j0799 07999&sid=AONE&xid=e6a4d392. Accessed…

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    Henry David Thoreau, an American journalist, has lived quite an eccentric lifestyle. He decided to leave the comfort of urbanization and live a solitary life in the woods for two years so that he can become self-sufficient and, in his words, experience everything and anything–and that includes living in the most natural form: away from the cities and farms and depend on nature and nature alone. The answers and enthusiastic revelations he had reached are the result of living without the…

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    It might be the biggest cliché in the world: girl goes abroad with family, experiences new, crazy adventures, and happily returns home with self-discovery, and memorable, yet hilarious stories. It was basically the plot of National Lampoon’s European Vacation, where the family encounters one challenge after another as they travel through England, France, and Germany, except it was my family. Although there were various obstacles throughout the trip, I learned a lot about life: culture, history,…

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    indefinite procession of shadows,” which in part refers to the uninvited visitors who “rogued and powdered” through the house they didn’t belong in. (107) Closer to night time, on the other hand, was known for its danger. Even driving during twilight, the misty purple zone between sunset and nightfall, was driving “on towards death,” cool and empty and signalling a negative change in the characters’ lives. Evening was described as hurrying in a constant “disappointed anticipation or else in…

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    Father Interview Essay

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    I conducted my in-person interview with my father, David, who is 64 years old. He was born in 1951. He grew up in the little town of Racine, Wisconsin. My father refers to Racine as being more decent than Santa Monica, California. He lived there for five to ten years upon finishing college, and he felt that the people there were superficial. Furthermore, my father was the middle child, and he has two brothers. While being interviewed, he informed me that his family was customarily exposed…

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    What It Is Like to Go to War (2017) Karl Marlantes Thesis: Although maintaining many of the themes expressed in Vietnam war narratives, Karl Marlantes’ What It Is Like to Go to War provides a new, twenty-first century viewpoint on war that challenges the homeland culture and the military chain of command in sending a generation of a country’s young men off to war. Unlike previous eras in the United States’ history, the nation is no longer led by men with military experience. (By the numbers:…

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    relatively small company, COM DEV in Cambridge, Ontario. Not understanding at that time what cultural shock meant, working for a small company I suddenly had to wear many hats and extend my capabilities beyond the safe haven and comfort zone enjoyed during my twilight years in the UK. Within 3 months and many work hours, I was called into a conference room with 5 others only to be told we are now managers. Having an excitable ego, I was quick to call my parents and share with…

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    which is probably why they made multiple movies and a tv show. The film was revolutionary for the prosthetics they used for the apes. The film even won an Academy Award for its makeup effort. The movie actually started out as an idea for The Twilight Zone but it was too expensive for the show to make, so they brought it to 20th Century Fox. When they brought it to Fox they had to make a quick test scene. The movie ended up being released February 8th, 1968. The 911 operating system idea is an…

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