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    John Ford’s 1956 film, The Searchers, is a classic Western tale set in the staked plains, post-Civil War era. Like most of John Ford’s Western films, The Searchers is also filmed in Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah. John Ford first introduces Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returning on horseback to his brother, Aaron Edwards’s (Walter Coy) house three years after the Civil War. Ethan is introduced to Martin Pawley (Jeffery Hunter), the adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards. The film moves forward when Rev

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    There are many experiences and situations one goes through throughout life that shape them and make them who they are. There are numerous people in this world who feel as though they have it so terrible in life, and that there is no way anyone else could have it worse than they do. After watching the film Precious, based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire, any person with this mindset would completely think otherwise. The life lived by Claireece "Precious" Jones was utterly cruel and unusual. Physical

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    actual breaking of my ankle and the process of recovery was the long and painful part, but however, I did learn valuable life lessons to work with for future reference. It was Christmas time… All you saw we’re christmas lights outside and Mariah Carey on the radio singing “All I want for Christmas is You.” December 13th, 2013 was a normal day for many people except for me, an unfortunate event occurred as I attended my volleyball practice 30 minutes from home. For about seven months, I faced pain

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    Clarisse vs. Nancy What is a girl with a big ego? CLARRISE!!!! In paragraph #6, they introduce a girl that is very full of herself. That made me think about Nancy Bobofit. Both of them have stuff in common and not. Let’s talk about it. Clarisse is a tough girl that has super big muscles and is built like a body builder. She likes when people are afraid of her and doesn’t care if she gets caught by anybody older person supervising (watch over) her. Also, she bothers or bully people by physically

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    9/11 Creation Story

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    "Hello, Star." "Star, where are you?" "I'm here, Namuh," it said, its voice growing weaker. "What is happening, star?" "I think I'm fading." Namuh's eyes widened. Namuh collapsed. Star was swept away, with a stellar display. The universe shook, but not in a violent way. Namuh slept for 2 weeks. 2 weeks later… Namuh, the infinite planeswalker, was glowing, rising up. Something small entered him. It was shaped like a star. Namuh was unharmed. Namuh rose from the bench he'd been sleeping on, adjacent

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    The morning light shone up across Mariah’s face which was like a alarm clock for her but a nice,gentle,quiet alarm clock. Mariah only though it would be a normal morning but she started getting a queasy feeling in her stomach and started to feel very nausea.She tried to push it off as last night's dinner but as she thought about it she knew that she was sick.She quickly ran to the bathroom and everything came up. Mariahs mother Robyn quickly ran to Mariahs bathroom and immediately called Urgent

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    Rachel Platten expresses how much she is willing to work to accomplish her dreams throughout this piece. The chorus and title of this song explain that this is her ‘fight song’, showing that Platten is not expecting to gain power and become better without hard work (Pegacorn). In the second verse, Platten also states that there is “a fire burning in [her] bones”, pushing her farther and farther (Pegacorn). When analysing the basic value work in the textbook “Sociology and You”, sociologist Robin

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    Precious Movie Essay

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    The movie I decided to watch is called "Precious", the motivation behind why I did so is a result of the trailer. It pulled in me in a way that I had some way or another compassion towards the primary character who is Claireece Precious Jones called Precious.the film's story is about Precious herself, a character who has a perpetually hopeless life. She is an overweight high school young lady, who lives with her mother in the Harlem. Precious had both psychical and sexual mistreat from her father

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    In the film Precious, Claireece "Precious" Jones, age 16, lives in an abusive household, where she suffers abuse (physical, sexual, emotional/mental, and verbal) on behalf of both of her parents, Mary and Carl Jones. Precious mother, Mary, would allow Carl to sexually abuse Precious since the age of three. Mary also sexually abused Precious as well, although it was not visually seen in the film Precious, but it was discussed in the literature Push by Sapphire and implied in the film Precious (Daniels

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    Job was a righteous man who feared God and upheld divine standards. He abounded in gifts of mercy and acts of godly devotion. Job routinely offered sacrifices to atone for his children’s sins. Hence, God was quite pleased to observe as his servant maintained integrity in his dealing. The Almighty spoke about Job’s godly devotion to Satan the Devil. In fact, Satan claimed that Job was primarily concerned with selfish interests. God decided to allow Satan to bring trials upon Job to test the patriarch’s

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