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    Dawn’s early morning light crept over the city, the various shades of amber emanating from the horizon bringing life to the shapeless skyline. Outside Booker’s apartment, the resident sparrows began their morning song of joy, their cheerful chirrup filtering through the dark-haired officer’s dream, pulling him toward consciousness. Moments later, his alarm sounded, the annoying bee-dee-dee-deep, bee-dee-dee-deep shattering what remained of his slumber. With a sigh, he rolled over and hit the off

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    Here are some reasons why some people do not see dance as a sport. They do not consider dance a sport because it is more of an art. Dance is a creative, expressive art form without winners and losers and not defined by crass comparisons. Many people, including myself, do a lot of dance without ever taking part in a competition. ” “Conventional sports like basketball and athletics have simple, non-subjective winning criteria - 'number of baskets scored' or 'time to run

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    Katerina is slapping Bianca and ties her to a chair. The use of juxtaposition, helps the audience to feel sympathy towards a character and deepen our understanding of the character’s personality. The alienation of Katerina is highlighted through the crass treatment she receives from the unimpressive series of suitors in Padua, the way that her father clearly prefers her younger sister and his overall view of marriage as a way of gaining wealth. Therefore enforcing only through acceptance can we belong

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    her to be lustful and passionate. Therefore, the narrator stereotypes her as wildly uncontrollable, and crudely describes her as “… a prymerole, a piggesnye/ For any lord to leggen in his bedde/ Or yet for any good yeman to wedde” (). This rather crass imagery portrays her as an prey about to be ravished by its predator. In a predator and prey relationship, the prey fall victim to predator because of social darwinism- the idea that the strong prevail over the weak. Thus, the narrator’s comparison

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    The Round House by Louise Erdrich presents the issue of justice and of the right manner in which to seek justice. Due to the legalities associated with proper jurisdiction, and a lack of solid evidence, the law is unable to provide justice for Geraldine. Joe’s decision to bring about justice for his mother is selfless, but it is ultimately immoral. While it is respectable that Joe seeks justice for Geraldine, he does so in such a way that somewhat lowers the value of that justice. By killing Linden

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    and was thought of as a great commander by his troops. He completed his governorship in high esteem. Julius Caesar ran for Consul, the highest Roman elected office, and won in 59 BC. While in office l:')e created a political alliance with Pompey and Crass us, two other consuls, known as a ' J' triumvate. He was given governorship over southern France, known as Gaul. He also commanded southeastern Europe and northern Italy. While in office he traveled to Gaul

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    together to fight one of the leading causes of death for women. Instead, I want to make a new call for action. Let’s take Breast Cancer Awareness Month back to its roots. Let’s once again call attention to that which is being ignored. Let’s stop the crass commercialization and be responsible about where we put our resources. We need to raise awareness, but shift our focus toward addressing the deficiencies in breast cancer research and treatment. If we are going to be serious about stopping breast

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    was the Governor he was elected to the Illinois House of Representative in 1992 and then won the US House Seat for Illinois in 1996. All of this was nice for the ascetic view of his political resume, but behind the veil he was a “devious, cynical, crass and corrupt politician”. He wouldn’t for anything to get what he wanted and the people that he wanted in the seats around him. This view began all the way back in 1992 and it only picked up speed from there. In 2008, he was impeached by the House

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    Forrest Gump Satire

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    The crass, annoying and gullible Forrest is used to represent the baby boomer generation, of which he is a part. Forrest, much like his generation, never stops to question whether things are right or wrong, he simply does as he is told. This leads to several

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    The kitchen was brightly lit and mostly empty. With most of the crew off sleeping or working out, only Hank and Fern had bothered to come down for a late breakfast. When the two spoke, it was quietly, but for the most part they simply let the silence hang between them. It wasn’t awkward, just a bit odd- at least for Hank. Fern had long since learned the art of shutting up when she had nothing to say and was perfectly content to poke at her burned scrambled eyes without a word between them. The girl

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