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    George even uses Lennie’s need as leverage to keep him under control. Lennie strives to hold responsibility. Unfortunately, Lennie tends to hurt the animals that he does receive. He is too strong for the animals that she cares for. During their journey from Weed, Lennie tends to a mouse, only to end up killing the fragile creature. Later on, George gets Lennie a puppy that Lennie regretfully

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    It was dark brown with a long tail and looked like it had wings. It was a horrible looking creature that I had never seen before. My dad came down to the water to see what I was looking at. He told me that they were called skates, and they would not hurt me. That was the first time I saw something living in the ocean besides a fish. My dad then showed me that there were little creatures called, sand fiddlers, which would wash up when the waves crashed into the shore. We sat down on the sand so he could

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    When I was a child, my mother kept her runes and tarot cards in the headboard of her bed. Sometimes I would go into her room, climb onto her bed and pull them out, carefully untying the sink coverings and look at each card, wondering if they could tell me my future. I was young, and I didn’t understand their meaning. I thought pulling the death card meant you were going to die, I thought the fool meant you were going to do something stupid, and if you got the Queen then you were going to spend the

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    Men know deep down that a woman has emotions attached to an affair, whereas we believe we are detached from serious emotions when we do the exact same thing. If I could make Karen believe that I was capable of letting her grow as she saw fit and totally count on me to be supportive even at the risk of my personal feelings, she would ultimately be loyal to me. Or, at least loyal long enough for me to play house with her without too much emotional damage. The worst-case scenario would be if Karen

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    Math Reflection

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    There I was in eleventh grade in my final month of school that year. I was sitting in the front row near the door of my Math Inquiry classroom, just behind the foreign exchange student from Japan and my friend Eryn. I found Math to be the most difficult subject in school for me, always getting C’s and D’s on exams and never comprehending anything that was told to me. Which is why I was put in the Math Inquiry class in the first place with a teacher named Ms. Dickey. Math that year was beyond difficult

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    The worst day of my life was in the afternoon of September 16, 2011. I had to be woken up to get ready for school, rode the bus for an hour and a half, and spent the majority of my day wishing I was back at home. When my wish did come true, I immediately regretted it. I loved being home, but once I made my way inside my house and opened the door, I had the feeling that the rest of my day would be anything but lovely. Upon stepping foot into my home, I realized that there was an eerie vibe surrounding

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    A Rush of Cash, Love, and 9/11 to the Head Coldplay’s sophomore album “A Rush of Blood to the Head”, harbors many incredible songs, including the tenth song on the record for which the album is named; therefore, the artists must have wanted to install an emphasis on this particular song. The album was released in 2002 after the September 11th terrorist attacks, and the song, “A Rush of Blood to the Head” in particular has many interesting elements pointing towards that event as inspiration. The

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    Rachael Ray is a celebrity cook, businesswoman, and an animal rights activist. She is known to be a wealthy and famous individual that has the heart to aid the underprivileged, some of which include the animal society. In an effort to spread awareness for animal protection, Ray has created her own website as well as her own line of pet food. Her website features animal programs that support animal rights, and her line of pet food raises funds for organizations such as North Shore Animal League America

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    The Hurt Man

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    The Hurt Man Nothing in life is certain except one single thing: death and it is coming for us all. We cannot do anything to prevent it, though we can hold it off for a little while. In our life we will eventually get hurt by the ones we love, thus our lives on earth has and will always be filled with sorrow and disappointment, but the difference lay in how we deal with it. The main character, Mat Feltner discovers that death is inevitable in such a young age, when “The Hurt Man” enters his

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    Hurt Locker

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    Civic and Cultural Literacy II 12 October 2011 Hurt Locker: An Addiction To War The Hurt Locker can give almost anybody the nerves with its numerous suspenseful moments. But what lies inside all the tension filled scenes is a much deeper meaning. Kathryn Bigelow stresses an important message in this Oscar-winning epic. Although the film depicts the gruesome horrors of war, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is not an anti-war film. The Hurt Locker is a film about James’s addiction to war because

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