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    October 1, 2017 was supposed to be a day of enjoyment, of excitement for those attending country music star Jason Aldean’s concert in Las Vegas. This excitement quickly faded as 64 year old Stephen Paddock opened fire with modified semi-automatic weapons from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Hotel killing 58 and injuring 489 innocent people. After reaching his hotel room the police found a dead Paddock from a self inflicted gunshot wound and 24 firearms, 23 semi-automatic rifles and

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    Just a normal day in American schools. Children are in their classes, and all the sudden an armed man comes to the front doors of the school killing many innocent lives. In the United States, School shootings have become increasingly common. Shootings from my perspective are disgusting, and create such harm to the world. However, school shooting statistics show a growing trend in the United States

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    The XPCC: Farmers Who Sometimes Carry Guns and Run Prisons Faced with an alarming rise in Xinjiang violence over the last two years, Beijing is searching for a high-visibility, public solution. Most recently, officials’ attention has settled on the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), known informally in Chinese as bingtuan (‘Corps’). While it has been a martial organization in name and structure since its inception, the international media is getting ahead of itself in playing up

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    Carry On was written by Rainbow Rowell after the success of her book Fangirl -- a novel in which the main character, Cath, in a fanfiction writer for Simon Snow (the character by which this book was based on) -- this book is about the fanfiction that Cath was writing throughout the whole story that would later only be finished by some means of writing therapy. This book central theme is of sacrifice. Each character must sacrifice something within them to boost the plot and find the resolution

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    Oscar Wilde said that "Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us." Every page of our diary filled with a series of memories, but we wouldn 't make a perfectly diary. Sometimes we lost pictures in the diary, sometimes we miss spell words; just like memories will become vague and pass out of mind. The process of memory includes Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval; those three parts correlate and restrict each other. Memory storage is a step encompasses how information is retained over time

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    Every sector within all the economies has felt and continued to feel the influence of technology advancement and changes. Technological change is currently inevitable in every sector. Organizations and government agencies have to embrace it so as one of the way to promote success. Where organizations are reluctant to embrace technological change, they should be prepared to deal with the negative effects that may result from failure to use technology. Law enforcement agencies such as police and military

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    The two poems “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe and the poem, “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)” by E E Cummings share the same similarities because they both have the same theme of love. In the poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, the author writes the poem in a very overwhelming and emotional way. In this poem, Poe talks about losing a loved one and having that person taken away from them. Even though the poem is very gruesome and mentions death, it still is very powerful due

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    E.E Cummings’ poem “ i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)” show’s exactly what people truly feel, it’s as if he yanked someones feelings straight from their heart and put them on paper. This poem is the best explanation of true love, that there is. He says, that this woman is his love, he will love her forever, and no matter how far she may be from him, she will still be in his heart. Nothing could ever make his feelings for her fade away. When someone really truly loves someone, nothing

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    Lian Dolan’s “Carry Your Own Skis,” she effectively used all three rhetorical appeals to convince the audience that responsibility is necessary to be a part of the things that you enjoy. Through the use of ethos, she established a sense of trust in the reader. Through the use of pathos, she created an emotional sway and implemented a bit of humor. By using logos in an unconventional way, Dolan rationalized her mindset into a simple statement that summarized how the audience should carry themselves.

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    Bacmen, Kevin wants to help change his community into a prospering town where his community would continue to grow. Although Kevin has so much pressure on him from his community, he can carry the weight of his community because of his hard work and determination. First of all, one characteristic that proves Kevin can carry the weight of his community is his work ethic. For example, in the excerpt "from Beartown", Bacmen states, "Kevin practices with the junior team every afternoon, and one final hour

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