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    Nixie Monologue

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    her travels. It made a great spit when she couldn’t bother to find anything more suitable. When she wasn’t using it to cook, she used it to push burning wood around in its pit. Generally she considered it an all purpose tool more than an actual weapon to defend herself with. If the edges were dull enough, she could even use it as a makeshift fishing pole! Nixie was silent

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    The Weapons of World War One Introduction: World War one was a time of new and innovative weaponry, developed using methods invented in the Industrial Revolution. These weapons had an enormous effect on the war and how war is waged today. Weapons used in WWI: The rifle was the most common weapon in the war, almost every soldier had one. The rifle most commonly used, at least by British soldiers, was the Lee Enfield, a rifle which could fire up to 2 kilometres at 15 shots per minute, or 1 shot every

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    It’s all about ringing steel out to 1,000 yards. Hearing the steel is music to the shooters ears. Having a; properly bedded, free floating precision rifle allows for the shooter to get the best possible results from their rifle. As a long-range shooter, I, know that small errors in any method applied or even a tiny change in wind will make the difference between that sweet steel hitting music or a disappointing miss. Whether engaging steel targets or food for the family, it is best achieved with

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    Short Story: Fort Mana

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    safer for the every day common man to use, though it still had to be handled with care. Rising from where he was, Hal followed the lithe form of the Princess, his expression grim and weapon now in hand. Speaking the ancient word that activated his ancestral sword, arcs of electricity rode along the length of the blade.

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    sales after mass shootings including the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, Colorado Movie Theatre Shooting, and the mass shooting in Oregon Community College, and mass killing spree in Virginia Tech. These incidents have raised the bar for concealed weapons and have led to an increase of overall gun sales. Many people say that carrying a concealed is bad however that is not true if they are used properly and for the right reasons. People should have the right to carry a concealed handgun. First of

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    Film Blade Runner Essay

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    Film Blade Runner Director Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" is a film adaptation of the book: "Do androids dream of electric sheep." The film is about a man in the division of the police that involves the "retirement" of NEXUS 6 Replicants; this division is called the Blade Runner division. The film begins with a view in long shot of Los Angeles in 2019 as a dystopia. In the middle of the dark and crowded city, under the blackened sky and blanket upon blanket of

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    The implications of debatable experimentation and thriving ambition could evoke on humanity are explored in the novel. Likewise, “Blade Runner”, a sci-fi film directed by Ridley Scott in 1982 is a futuristic representation of Los Angeles in 2019. The film reflects its key widespread fears of its time, particularly the augmentation of globalization,

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    Essay about The Future of Cyborgs

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    The Future of Cyborgs Terminator and Bladerunner, portrayed cyborgs or cybernetic organisms as creatures of destruction. Are they really as horrible as the movies make them out to be? They can be more useful than perceived; it is necessary to first perfect the technology involved in creating and operating them. In this paper, I will describe how these cyborgs work and how they are portrayed in the movies. Furthermore, I will explain the helpful ways that they are expected to perform in the future

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    In Philip K. Dick's world of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, life has become a precious commodity. But, the definition of what life entails has become very vague. A new hierarchal order has been set up to rank a particular life's value. Humans still reign supreme, at least in theory, but the exaltation and protection they place on an animal's existence in this futuristic society closely shadows, and even trumps, that of another human being. Far beneath animals, is a close race between "chickenheads"—humans

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    is evident in the module Texts in Time; as Blade Runner, having been written more than one hundred years after Frankenstein is still able to reflect the ideas proposed in the latter. Blade Runner by Ridley Scott deals with the effects of globalisation and consumerism during 1980’s. Alternatively, the epistolary novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley deals with the kinship to the natural world set in the Romantic Era and enlightenment period. However Blade Runner, although subjected by a different context

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