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    For decades discrimination has been continuously growing, being angled at minority groups. These negative outlooks have created many barriers and disadvantages, with society, for those belonging to different cultures. Each set of characters within the stories are created with different backgrounds, but live with similar expectations and struggles. These barriers occur in day-to-day activities and interactions, affecting individuals, and creating negativity. Paul K. Chappell once said, "To truly

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    Sherman Alexie says that being funny breaks down the barriers between people. In his short stories, “This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona” and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto and Fistfight in Heaven”, Alexie has different characters who tells jokes. Many of the jokes are funny but can lead to many problems is said at an inappropriate time and place. The two characters are already an outsider as Indians, so they would have to watch what they say and do to not offend anyone near. In “This Is What

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    How can two stories be so different yet so similar at the same time? In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the author depicts the life of the soldiers as they are in Vietnam. He writes about what the soldiers carry in their bags, but he gives it a deeper meaning. He writes about the soldier’s life, all the emotional baggage they carry with leaving their loved ones and the pain of losing a fellow soldier. In “The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie, Victor goes through

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    inhabitants repeatedly described as frozen and stagnant: “Four forty-five. Office workers, waiting release as the minute hand moved slowly towards the hour, looked at the darkness beyond their windows and saw edges of frosting begin to mist the panes” (Moore 117). Despite this passage’s emphasis on stillness, however, it nevertheless features two references to time. Throughout Moore’s novel, attention is repeatedly paid to specific times or time frames, complicating the underlying image of Montreal as

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    This is Stan Mueller and here is story. Stan was born on May 12, 1968 in Elkader, Iowa. It was on Mother's Day. His parents are Harold and Lois Mueller. He has two older sisters and an older brother; making him the youngest. They lived on a farm a few miles from Garnavillo, Iowa. He would ride his bike up and down the lane and all over. Stan remembers working on the farm with his dad, talking about stuff, and getting the work done. He would shoot his bb gun at little Indian guys, pop cans, and dinosaur

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    Impact of Agriculture on Clayton and Fayette County North Fayette Valley Middle School Mariya Yasinovska, McKenna Kemp, Cody Smith, Andrew Schmitt Agriculture impacts all of our lives in many different ways. There is the economic impact of agriculture and the physical impact. Agriculture is one of the main industries in Clayton and Fayette counties. These counties export a lot of agriculture products to the rest of the U.S.A lot of people’s careers are in the agriculture industry

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    The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson is his latest film, released in 2014. The film has received a number of awards and nominations. The Grand Budapest Hotel won the Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Prdouction Design, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Best Achievement in Costume Design, and Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling. Anderson and his film were also nominated for Best Motion Picture of the year and Best Achievement in Directing. (IMDB) This film received

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    It is common knowledge that numerous documentaries have been made throughout the years. Various of the documentaries had very minimal effect on the world if any effect at all. While, plenty of other documentaries changed how someone, some movement, or some country is perceived by society. The later is what is going to be mentioned in just a little bit. The definition of documentary is “a movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record or report”. This definition is quite important

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    Wes Anderson has done it again with his new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. True to the style of Anderson movies, The Grand Budapest Hotel is filled with gorgeous color schemes, witty lines, impeccable scoring, and perfectly symmetrical frames. We even get glimpses of the usual crew that act in the Anderson franchise, including Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, and Bill Murray. Shot in a 1930’s style movie frame, the story starts out on a snowy white scene in a small European town. A girl walks to a

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    December of 2013. Prior to this, he attended Stockbridge Elementary in Henry County, Georgia. He attended 2nd grade at this school from September of 2012 to December of 2013. Previously, he was enrolled at Mt. Zion Primary and East Clayton Elementary (both in Clayton County) for Pre-k through the first month of his 2nd grade year. According to records made available by Henry County, Peter was experiencing significant distress at his school. As indicated by anecdotal notes that accompanied his records

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