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    No Constraints I was about eight years old when my brother and I ran out of our house screaming when we saw Regan from The Exorcist doing a spider walk down the stairs with blood coming out of her mouth. When interviewing my mom, she said “I didn’t have concerns with what you were watching or doing on the computer. I trusted you.” My mother was very lenient when managing my media use because I could watch any television show, any movie, and play any video game I wanted. I was also allowed to search

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    Technique Analysis Quentin Tarantino, the man that started from the bottom and rose to the top, he went from a video clerk in his younger days to a box office icon. As a teenager growing up near Los Angeles, Tarantino dropped out of school, hoping to become an actor. But at age 22, the closest he'd gotten to show biz was a job as a video store clerk. “The only thing I ever cared about when I was a kid was movies.” What changed? Over the years Tarantino created outstanding movies such as Reservoir

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    take that foot and cut it off!” I stop tapping my foot at Abby’s threat. I know she wouldn’t actually do that, but that doesn’t make me any less intimidated by her. “Well if you would hurry up, I wouldn’t be so bored.” I retort. She looks up from the lock she was picking and glares at me. “Right, sorry, you just uhh…. Keep goin’.” I apologize quickly. She fumbles with the lock for a few more seconds when a click is heard. “Got it!” She muttered, nudging the door open. Perfect, everything

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    Reader Positioning

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    crept out on his hands and knees
 In the dim, half-dawning light,
 And he made his way to a patch of trees,
 And vanished among the night,
 And the trackers hunted his tracks all day,
 But they never could trace his flight. But Gilbert walked from the open door 
In a confident style and rash;
 He heard at his side the rifles roar, 
And he heard the bullets crash.
 But he laughed as he lifted his pistol-hand,
 And he fired at the rifle flash. Then out of the shadows the troopers aimed


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    Don Quijano

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    Like Don Quijano many readers are able to losing themselves and their earthly shackles, becoming anything or anyone they aspire to be. Don Quijano is a very peculiar and intriguing character. He is unlike any other character from literature and digital media, he's one of a kind. Quijano is a “book addict”, incapable of stopping. His obsession with chivalry novels verges into addiction, enslaved in a habit of reading and collecting books. He even sells some of his land, so he

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    The United States of America has evolved over time with its policing methods and bringing order to the society. The whole idea of policing has also evolved from political, economic, and social norms. In order to better understand the role of police officers and their place in society, we have learned about the history of policing in class. The history of policing has been already split into three different categories- The Political Era (1840- 1930), The Reform/Professional Era (1930-1980), and The

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    allowed mass production. Cotton was previously a very difficult crop to profit from, because of the long hours required to separate cotton seeds from the actual cotton fibers. This

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    task of struggling between two races that in the past have been in conflict with each other. In addition, they are faced with mixed feelings from the fellow pure bread black members. For example, in Blacker the Berry, Emma character, a mulatto encounter constant resentment and possible envy by not only blacks because of her lighter skin tone, but also from white peers. Even in present society, this is a reality of which many non-blacks are unaware, and which most blacks would prefer to overlook

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    inhumane institution. From the idea behind it to the way that it was enforced, it degraded the lives of human beings and forbade the basic liberties that every man deserves under the Constitution of the United States. Three major areas where cruelty was especially prevalent were in the slaves working conditions, living conditions, and loss of fundamental freedoms. Working conditions for slaves were about as bad as can possibly be imagined. Slaves worked from dawn till dusk and sometimes even longer

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    operated by the governing body; whereas Kamala Markandaya writes about changing economic and political situations in her country, her novel which was published in 1954 - seven years after India gained its independence from the British Imperialism. Industrial revolution lured Indians away from their traditional roles to participate in the new economy. She emphasis on issues like the importance of Freedom of Rights alongside the importance of goodness and spirituality.The poor suffer at the hands of the

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