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    Midnight’s Children The history of India and its neighbouring countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is a rich and luminous tale as it encompasses the countless successes and hardships each country experienced during its development as independent entities. In 2012, Deepa Mehta, an Indo-Canadian film director with a screenplay by Salman Rushdie, a British Indian novelist, produced the film “Midnight’s Children.” Together they brought to the screen a magical yet historical tale on the partition of…

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    Poison Persuasive Speech

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    you may not be alive after you devour these even it drop of poison can be 0:10fatal 0:11welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 0:16foods that can kill you 0:17we don't care what they look like Willie them in any way they can fit on a flight 0:21for this list 0:22we're looking at those edible foods that may be fatal if you eat or prepare them 0:27the wrong way 0:28if you eat too many of these guys they might just be deadly 0:31we're excluding foods that…

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    In a case in 1989, Willie Boskett was tried and convicted of stabbing a guard in prison. He was sentenced to 25 years in jail with parole, since the option of death was not available in New York at that time. The judge was positive that Boskett was going to commit homicide…

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    Court decided that though is has not been determined to what means is a punishment cruel and unusual. It was upheld, however; that the definition should not be held only to the”evil” described by the framers of the constitution. On May 3, 1946, a seventeen year old Willie Francis was convicted and was unsuccessfully executed through the means of an electric chair. Six days after the attempted execution, a new warrant of death was issued and so began the major US Supreme Court case known as the…

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    recreating reality. The hypothesis of the uncanny valley is the hypothesis that the more human-like something is the more its subtle imperfections make people feel uneasy (Willie Bouwer et al. 186). Humans know what humans are supposed to be like and when the recreation does not meet their expectation the person rejects it and may even be revolted by it. The driving force behind Pixar is not creating realistic worlds but exploring new worlds through believable characters and stories. Pixar is…

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    out that the insurance money get stolen. There must have been a million thoughts running through their head like, “if he would have done what mama said to do with the money with the family in this predicament?” Or “was that the initial intention of Willie Harris?” All we can do to this day is speculate. Speculate, why the youngers? What will happen to them and their new house, since they can not afford it. Will they ever be able to afford it? Or will they be kicked out by the homeowner’s…

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    In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko discusses in chapter five the use of police in the 1970s. He starts of by mentioning Sam Ervin a senator from North Carolina who would try fight then President Richard Nixon Administration stance on the no knock warrant. At the time the main focus for any political election was showing the public that they were tough on crime in order to tally up votes. This started to set up policies and agencies that will soon begin the war on drugs. First thing was the…

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    For Colored Girls Analysis

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    Self-Actualization: For Colored Girls “I found God in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.” (Shange) For Colored Girls is based from a play with poems written by author Ntozake Shange called, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow isn’t Enuf, describing the life of eight women in New York who face tremendous crisis and heartbreaks. Each woman in this film represents a character/color and a poem from this play. From abuse, secret affairs and abortion, to deceit…

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    Golden State Warriors

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    It was the season of 1995-96 when the Chicago Bulls NBA team led by hall of famers Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman did what no other team has done. They had won 70 games and were able to finish the season with a (72-10) record. Until recently no team has been considered able to break this record, but the Golden State Warriors have shown many people why this year could be a record breaking year. The Golden State Warrior have a vision that they are not just playing aimlessly…

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    My first semester as a Residential Assistant has been an overall interesting, challenging, and defining experience, to say the least. Traversing through the early stages of the position, such as move-in, training, and meeting my residents, couldn’t have prepared me enough for the amazing experience that I have had thus far. Although I’ve had conversations with friends currently and previously in the position, and have had my own past experiences with RAs, I genuinely did not know what to expect…

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