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    performances. As a boy growing up and to this day, Cosentino admires Harry Houdini saying, "As a child some children had action figures of Superman....but Houdini, he was my superhero". He attended Wesley College,

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    The masked magician or Val Valentino Outline The person I am doing and why I chose the person I did How my person got into his career and who inspired him. How I have been influenced by this person and how has my life changed. Why my person is called the masked magician and why and how I felt about that. Conclusion about my person and also final thoughts about my person and how I feel about this person. For my person it was hard for me to do because I don’t know where I could find my person

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    Houdini DVD Review About NCircle Entertainment: NCircle Entertainment has been providing entertainment to younger kids for the last twenty years. Their DVD's are not only engaging but teaches children skills that will help them throughout life. A few of these skills and learning processes are the STEM approach, teaching reading readiness, problem-solving tactics, science concepts, socials skills and so much more. I recently had the opportunity to check out two DVD's from NCircle Entertainment

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    The Real Heroes in Literature

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    What images are associated with the words “hero”? A muscular Hercules saving the world from Hades? A knight in shining armor bravely riding into combat? Words like bravery, strength, pride, and self-sacrifice are commonly connected with a classic hero. But are those the only characteristics that make someone heroic? A dictionary definition of a hero is “a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities”; however, this is a very elastic definition and there

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    H.R. 3590 (111th): Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act When president Obama was a candidate in the 2008 election he promised wide scale health care reform that would increase the availability and affordability of medical insurance for a large portion of the American population. At the time of his campaign, millions of low-income Americans were stuck in the Medicaid gap – where they could not afford health insurance, but also were not eligible for the joint state and federal government Medicaid

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    David Heyman and the Harry Potter Film Franchise FTV 434 Taylor Grewe December 11, 2013 The role of a producer in the filmmaking process involves financial and technical responsibilities, as well as creative responsibilities. As the industry evolved, producers were typically associated with the financial and technical side of filmmaking, more so than the creative side. However, in the last three decades, more and more producers are being recognized for their creative involvement (Pardo 2). In 1997

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    Why I Didn 't Know It?

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    sorted into a house, and I would just have to sleep in Dumbledore’s office. That would be cool, maybe I would get to braid his beard. “Whatcha thinking about?” George asked from beside me. We were on our way to the Leaky Cauldron, where apparently Harry was staying after he blew up his aunt. We all had a good laugh about that. “Braiding Dumbledore’s beard,” I replied casually. He gave me a weirded out look, as did basically everyone else in the car that heard me. I shrugged. They asked a question

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    After the success of her popular Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling has recently branched out from writing children’s literature. Her first adult novel, The Casual Vacancy, explores more mature topics and is aimed at a new demographic than her previous works. She challenges social issues with her dark themes and her impeccable writing style captures the wide range of problems at the heart of a small town. It becomes more apparent throughout the novel that each character is connected in a web of

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    Bernard Madoff Financial Scandal I would first like to begin this paper by saying why I decide to chose this topic out of the 3 choices. I believe that all of the choices were credible and a viable topic in their own regards, but the reason this one hit home for me was because of the simplicity of the scandal. It’s hard to believe that someone could have made off with the amount of money Bernard did when the idea of a Ponzi scheme was notable as early as the 19th century, and was named after Charles

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    J.K rowling a british author that wrote the big hit series of harry potter. But she didn 't start out famous and her idea for the book wasn 't instantly accepted by publishers. Before Harry Potter Rowling was poor Rowling had to go to several different publishers before she found one that would publish her book. Now she became a known author and eventually the first person to become a billionaire from writing books J.K. rowling is a person worthy of praise because she overcame britain adversed to

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