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    There really isn’t a definitive protagonist/antagonist that is a main character in the play. Hermia noted for her beauty, the headstrong daughter of Egeus, is sought after by both Lysander and Demetrius through the play. She’s in love with Lysander yet her father does not approve of him instead approving Demetrius. Her father asks Theseus to approve an old Athenian law that states she must either obey her father 's wishes by marrying Demetrius, join a nunnery or die. She of course objects and…

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    Threats Of Boko Haram

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    troops on the continent, not to fight in combat, but to train troops of African States. This would be beneficial to the continent as a whole, because military troops would have training for any future conflicts, and U.S. troops would not be put into the middle of another war. Nonetheless, this would require a…

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    internationally because it utilizes the “boomerang effect” when dealing with terrorism and tactics (Moser and McDonald, 2016b). The boomerang effect is the idea that an entity such as ISIS trains its foreign followers and then if their territory falls, they send their followers back to their home countries to wreck havoc. This has already been seen in the France bombings. The millions of lives at stake rest on the shoulders of the United States and its allies to stop ISIS, thus proportionality…

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    bureaucracy run on different tracks, leaving from different stations and heading for different destinations…When they do converge, the inevitable result is as Waldo politely suggest a dialectical “happening”, by which I assume he means a hell of a train wreck”(1997, p. 205), this is a wonderful analogy that to me speaks to the problem of combining the two systems while understanding their similarities. Stivers also speaks about the similarities and differences but with a more positive outlook,…

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    wasn’t sure if Dan knew what had just happened. Did he really not realize that he had not only taken the CD from the rapper, but paid nearly $100 dollars for it. Statistically speaking it was probably just a CD of Malware Software that was going to wreck his computer. Dan had to have realized that he was given only $2 dollars back at least. We had arrived at the Pizza Shop. We approached the counter of the store, ready to order. “I got us, you can cover me when you become a famous comedian”…

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    Jones also helps Lastik with his schools work and helps him achieve the grades to be accepted into college. Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell also become friends. Later in the movie, after celebrating a win, Gerry Bertier is severely injured in a car wreck and crippled from the waist down. While the team is in the hospital Julius comes into the room where Gerry is and is told by a nurse, “Only kin’s aloud in here.” and then Gerry responds, “Are you blind? Do you not see the family resemblance?…

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    The play an ‘inspector calls’ divulges the truth and teaches the moral message about responsibility, warning the consequences if the message is not heeded. As the play was set before the First World War, it enabled priestly to refer to class division and social hierarchy through the characters and to the audience. Priestly portrays the attitudes of the characters and how family is presented in upper class throughout the play. The eccentric, Mr Birling a pretentious factory owner worries about…

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    Since December of 1791 all US citizens have had the right to bear arms thanks to the 2nd amendment and ever since then people have argued that this right is too much for people to handle and that people will suffer drastically for this. Today in America we are seeing huge debates in all governments due to the tragedies of recent school shootings around America like Sandy Hook. So many were moved by what happened at Sandy Hook and tried to find ways to prevent this from ever happening again but…

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    “Chino?” I say, “Should be interesting.” “John Holly’s Asian Bistro” is scrawled across the awning in stylized san serif. “We have to get the seared scallops with guacamole,” she feverishly insists. “You know better than I,” I shrug as we’re led to our seat. We finished eating then exited the restaurant for her mother's house, where Kristen would pick up her essential items for her weekend away with me. Every movement felt wrong to me. She parked inside a housing complex: condominiums,…

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    In “Take Your Choice,” Sakyo Komatsu tells of a man who is led to believe that he is choosing his own future. The man selects not a utopia, but a future that promises nuclear holocaust. Though his decision is part of a scam that feigns time travel, the author reveals that thousands of other unknowing victims of the swindle have chosen the same cataclysmic fate. Common sense seems to dictate that choosing a future of nuclear Armageddon is nothing but a daft decision. However, in Susan Sontag’s…

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