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    severe trauma to the lower right side of his face. He is rushed to the hospital, but unfortunately an hour later he was pronounced dead. One of the first things of evidence that is discovered is a Remington 30-06 rifle with the fingerprints of James Earl Ray on it. The weapon was wrapped inside a blanket, along with other unused bullets outside the Canipe’s Amusement store. This was the key piece of evidence that lead to the arrest of

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    “Jesus be a fence all around me every day. Jesus, I want you to protect me as I travel on my way” (Wilson 1.2.21). The play Fences follows the journey of an African American family, the Maxons, and their struggle to handle the appearance of both physical and metaphorical fences. Fences shows the difficulties that the Maxons face in an attempt to balance love, loss, and laughter. The Maxson family lives in Pittsburgh during the 1950’s, and they meet tensions when searching for equality within their

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    My Family Monologue

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    Ollie: “Academy for the Adolescence, founded in 1774.” I read out loud to my parents. My family and I are standing in rounded cement pathway around a statue with what I assume is the headmistress. I gaze up at the statue, I look at all of her face facial and take in the sense of what it would be like to actually be her presence. After awhile of me standing there in awe, daydreaming, my parent 's guide me into the big brick house. There is a deck, wood, very old, it creaks when I walk on it. There

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    The books The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (written by Sherman Alexie) and The House on Mango Street (written by Sandra Cisneros) follow young adolescents as they come of age throughout the novel. In the former, Alexie writes about Junior’s struggle to come to terms with both his place in his Native-American heritage and his new found home in an all-white school. The later contains the story of a young Hispanic girl striving to defy the gender roles set in place by her family and society

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    A Marriage between Roses and Thrones A marriage is usually perceived as two people in love and bind themselves together with an unbreakable bond. However, in the medieval age, political marriages were more often than a love between couples. Both the Wars of the Roses and HBO’s Game of Thrones, political marriages occur in order to lead to personal gain and conduct strategic planning for one's kingdom. In HBO’s Game of Thrones, a scene from season 3, episode 5 shows Tywin, Tyrion, and Cersei discussing

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    The Parthenon Marbles

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    Located on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, the Parthenon is the most famous and most important piece of architecture in Greece. Standing in ruins as a former temple dedicated to the Greek Goddess of wisdom, Athena, the Parthenon has held the most important sculptures made by the Greeks. During the 1800s, when Greece was under the control of the Ottomans, sculptures from the Parthenon were sent to Britain by Lord Elgin for safe protection. The Parthenon Marbles have since then never been returned

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    "Not though the soldier knew, someone had blundered. Thiers not to make reply, thiers not to reason why, thiers but to do and die." Lord Tennyson wrote the last sentence as part of a larger poetic tribute to the courage of those who made a particular charge during the battle of Balaclava. This essay is to address the Mission Command principles of Lord Raglan, and how as commander he influenced the Battle of Balaclava. Lord Raglan's most notable impacts on the Battle of Balaclava was not building

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    Starting as the CEO at Litosphere Enterprises, Richard Plantagenet somehow worked his way to the top, in the most astonishing rise to power seen in British political history. Politicians dropped out of the election left, right and centre, leaving Richard as virtually the only competent candidate for Prime Minister. In the UK, millions are left astounded and confused, curious and worried about what is to come. We all are left asking: how did Richard Plantagenet do it? From mysterious disappearances

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    Short Story: Madison Knight

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    Madison Knight checked the dismal bank balance before placing the laptop on the coffee table in her apartment. Pity tears threatened to fall, but she blinked them back and held tight to the blanket she’d thrown over her shoulders for extra warmth. She sat back on her couch dreading winter, dreading the snow that always followed, and now dreading the holidays. How did she let this happen? On her previous salary, she could afford the rent and utilities, but now it consumed her entire income. She no

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    This source was found to be reliable because it has updated information, and is a secured website having https://. The article written by Lee Jamison discusses his opinion on the Oxfordian Theory. The theory surrounds Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford who is the most popular alternative candidate. We travel through De Vere’s life, he was born in 1550, attended two prestige colleges. The piece compares and contrasts Shakespeare and Edward De Vere, contrasting their levels of education.

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