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    The West Wing: The TV Show

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    The West Wing Technology is growing fast, as is the new generations branching off with new forms of media and devices that provide us with the news. News and politics have had difficulty when informing its public and community of the events that happen in their community. Now the media and news are growing to reform to the earlier generation’s way of receiving the news and events related to them, by using media and popular culture. According to Wodak, for politics to air and to engage and intrigue

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    What does America represent? Most Americans would say that the United States represents freedom and liberty. According to the first amendment written in the constitution, all citizens have the freedom of religion, speech, and assembly. Others might respond that America represents opportunity. Many come to America for a new start and a new way of life and have the mindset that everything is possible with hard work and determination. You might even hear people say that America represents justice.

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    The Legacy Of The Capitol

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    For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence—a time set apart. Tonight, with a thankful heart, I have asked for a final opportunity to share some thoughts on the journey that we have traveled together, and the future of our nation. Five days from now, the world will witness the vitality of American democracy. In a tradition dating back to our founding, the presidency will pass to a successor chosen by you,

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    My Great Grandfather

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    as an English or history teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in teaching at LSUS, and received her Master’s degree in teaching through online classes at Northwestern University. She served in the secret service under President Bush, and met Dick Chaney, Bush’s Vice President from 2001-2009. She has three

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    The discussion that started in class on October 14, 2012 was in response to the issue of abortion, since both Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan being Catholics were asked what their position on abortion was and how their views on abortion as Catholics would affect how their administration would deal with the issue of abortion. Biden�s answer was what I found to be quite diplomatic since he one hand stated that he accepted his church�s position on abortion, yet at the same time claimed

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    In the 1940’s a series of propaganda films titled Why We Fight were produced for the purpose of defining the enemies of World War 2 to justify the necessity of America’s involvement in war. Hitler needed to be defeated, Nazism had to be destroyed, and tyranny had to be stopped for the sake of the American way of life by any means necessary. How could society argue against America’s role in the world war when freedom was being threatened? As Martin Luther King Jr. said “Injustice anywhere is a threat

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    and his red coupe at seventy miles per hour. Paramedics arrived immediately and pronounced Don to be dead. He had died instantly in the crash. Many people ran to the scene to help with the 100 hundred car pileup. Among these people was a man named Dick Onerecker. For some reason, he had the urge to crawl in the back of Don’s car and pray with Don even though he had been pronounced dead. When

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    Human Nature Short Story

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    exemplify human nature are “Child By Tiger”, “Am I Blue?”, and “Once Upon a Time”. In all these short stories, there is a climax involving the protagonist and then the author tells us how the supporting characters react. We see how the town reacts to Dick, how the world reacts to Melvin’s second wish, and we see how the gardener reacts to the boy getting caught in the security system. Wolfe, Gordimer, and Coville show us that human nature isn’t the way we act, but it is the way we react; thus we aren’t

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    Herman Melville focused their writings on how man was affected by nature. They translated their philosophies though both the portrayal of their protagonist and their own self exploration. In Moby Dick, Melville writes about Ahab's physical and metaphysical struggle over the great white whale, Moby Dick, symbolic of man's struggle against the overwhelming forces of nature. Ahab's quest is reported and experienced through the eyes of Ishmael. Melville's use of the third person's biographical standpoint

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    Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville, is believed by some to be the greatest literary works of all time. The book takes place in the 1840s and seems greatly advanced for its time. Herman Melville uses many literary techniques that bring about severe imagery as well as insight and education to the readers. One concept that is conveyed in Moby Dick is the journey itself. This is broken into the physical journey, the spiritual journey, and life’s journey. The physical journey of Moby Dick is depicted

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