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On the way out of the room the demon shows up again to try and distract him and tries to get the kids to turn around and leave. He tells them jokes and kicks around the soccer ball. Jacob was so happy playing soccer with the demon and Lily. He had never had friends or played with anyone before. For once Jacob felt like a normal boy. After playing for about…

tells us that if you are born into a poor single family household or raised around drugs and violence, then you to are likely to follow those same patterns and behaviors. What the world doesn’t tell us though, is that sometimes these statistics can turn out quite differently. Allyson Milvo was born in OKC, OK on 20 September 1979. Her parents were unmarried at the time and she came into this world with one older brother. Her birth father decided to leave and never look back but her mother…

powers. Unrestricted submarine warfare was one of the most important reasons on why the United States joined war. Unrestricted submarine warfare is an approach where submarines sink merchant ships without warning. February of 1915, Germany created U-boats. U-boats would sink enemy ships without any kind of warning. International law…

Weaponry has played a large part in shaping history into what it is today: it's toppled nations, built empires, and destroyed them all the same. With this humanity has continued to improve it, from spears and bows to bombs capable of leveling cities in seconds. This massive change in weaponry begins to raise the question, at what point have we gone too far? To answer this, we must look at the evolution of weaponry, especially around World War 1 and World War 2 where this evolution was most…

Interpretation A supports the view that the First World War was the main reason for the booming economy as it gave impetus to agricultural and industrial expansion which is shown by the annual Gross National Product of the USA increasing by 40% during 1922-29. Furthermore, there was an increase of machinery and productivity, shown by the introduction of the assembly line which allowed for faster manufacturing, due to labour shortages during the war as the workers were at war this is a further…

Austria Hungary were called the central powers. During this world war many battles took place on land, but they also took place at sea. Germany had new weapons at the time called the U-boats, which was an underwater submarine that was able to sneak up on the enemy without being seen. So one year into war on May 1915 a German U-boat sank the British luxury ocean liner called the Lusitania. This killed 1,198 people and 128 americans lost their lives. This caused much debate in whether Germany…

ocean liner, the Lusitania in 1915. The sinking of the Lusitania had a big impact on America and the rest of the world during WWI. This attack on The Lusitania was one of the main causes of the United States entering WWI. On May 7, 1915, German U-Boat U-20 attacked the British oceanliner the Lusitania. 1198 people were killed, including 128 Americans. The ship sunk in only 18 minutes off of the coast of Ireland. The German’s released reports warning all ships in a designated area. “In early…

Stone states in the text “Sonny’s fall from grace, in Christian terms.” Which that statement means, Sonny’s has turned his back on everything he knows that is right. He stops going to school, hangs around the wrong crowd of people, and eventually turns his life to drugs. While a person can fall from grace, a person can also be saved by grace. After the literal…

The Golden Touch In this society, separated by wealth, one’s external appearance directly correlates with not only their lifestyle, but also his or her values. The golds, the masters, were driven, evil and unrepentant, while the reds, the slaves, were hardworking and loyal but distressed and worn out from the harsh labor. Darrow from Red Rising by Pierce Brown was a fortunate red as he was the only one given the opportunity to rebuild his life as a gold. When Darrow was a red, he was a…

that runs through the city and draw. We got back on the highway and so far everything was okay. She pulled up to a stop light and my friend got in the lane to turn. I was using my phone for directions and repeating to her the way it was telling us to go. She turned on her blinker and looked both ways and the path seemed clear. We started to turn and the next thing I know we’re stopped and my friend is yelling and asking if I am okay. I sat there for a minute in shock. I didn’t really know what…