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    Acquiring Personal Freedom On a cold January day, a performance broke all barriers. The crowd erupted as the curtains opened to reveal the silhouette of a rock legend. The music initiated moves that seemed to defy explanation. Long, sensuous legs captured the audience as they moved with lightning speed while voluptuous red lips seemed to pour lyrics like a fountain. Some people were in shock about who was performing, while some mystified by how the artist seemed to control the stage. The

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    Break A Leg Identity

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    A Mysterious Identity and Dark Humor Maintain Suspense in Break A Leg By: Emma Morgan Jesse Shamata's Break A Leg, which focuses on a hitman discussing his life philosophy with an unknown subject, creates and sustains suspense through the combination of a hidden identity and dark humor. Concealing the identity of the person sitting with the main character – a hitman – is what makes this short film particularly unique and intriguing. It's not often that a film leaves the viewer wondering who

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    3rd grade when I broke my leg. How did I break my leg? I broke my leg by getting it stuck in a seesaw at the playground. So I was at my sister's soccer game and I went to the playground. The first thing I went on was the seesaws. What I did is I walked up the seesaw and my leg slipped in between the pipes in the seesaw. I didn’t know what to do so I lifted my leg out. What I didn’t know is when I lifted it out, I twisted it and broke one of the bones. So i limped my leg to my parents and told them

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    BRIEF SYNOPSIS: JOSE FORTUNA (40’s) is a bathroom attendant who has a dream of creating his own blog business. He lives with his father, CUCO (70’s) who wears a new prosthetic leg. Jose gives him the money he earns from his job and watches his father hide the money inside a secret compartment in the prosthetic leg. Jose’s plans to head to Vegas are stalled when his irresponsible brother, RICO, needs Jose’s help. He owes VADIM, a Russian loan shark, thousands of dollars. If Vadim doesn’t get

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    Finny and being dangerously jealous of him. Genes jealousy got the best of him when he decided to step on a branch on purpose, which leads to Finny falling and breaking his leg. Sadly, Finny breaks his leg again and dies from bone marrow passing into the bloodstream during surgery and it was caused by the first break of his leg that Gene caused. Gene learns from this that he should not compare himself to others, because it is simply not fair. There is growth shown in Gene when he learns this and he

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    overcome to break his chains and let his voice out. The author demonstrates the difficulties of the boy by using imagery to describe the complication that he has to overcome. The imagery provides visual description of what they boy experience when he

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    The medical name for broken capillaries or spider veins is telangiectasia. They usually appear in the face around the nose, cheeks and chin. The capillaries just under the skin are very delicate and can dilate or break. Once they are broken, they will not return to their normal condition. There may be preventable causes for broken capillaries such as vigorous scrubbing of the skin, washing with too-hot water and excessive sun exposure. Some of the causes of broken capillaries may not be preventable

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    origins of a superstition in theater are unclear, although people might have a theory. The infamous curse known to the theater is Macbeth, a tale so vile even uttering it can cause mayhem. The most common however are such, like telling someone “Break a leg!” before performing in order to avoid awful luck, or simply never leaving the stage dark to prevent chaos and destruction. Of course , the theater has been around for thousand of years.

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    have defective results. But I might do, for example, a leg workout for day 1, I would do it again for day 4. Day 1: Leg Workout: Stretching (Both Before and After): First take your left leg and bring it up to bottom and balance on your leg for 10 seconds. Also, do it to your left leg. Next, do toe touches, standing and on the ground for about 5 minutes. After that, do some lunges for 3 to 5 minutes. If you need, you can have ten-second breaks. Finish off with by trying to spread your

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    Oscar Pistorius's Death

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    Oscar Pistorius was a Olympic runner in the 2012 Olympics. He was the first runner ever to run in the Olympics with two prostatic legs. He was charged with murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. On February 14, 2013 Oscar Pistorius heard a very loud noise from his bathroom in his house. He thought it was an intruder. Oscar then reached under his bed and grabbed his 9mm. Then walked on his nubs to where he heard the noise. He told his girlfriend in a low voice to call the cops. Oscar

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