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    Hero Name and Jerry Puff were entering the room together. "Hey Jerry Puff!" said Hero Name. Jerry Puff was looking unhappy for some reason though. "Bad news Hero Name. We’re broke" "How? But after our last adventure we were rich" (Their last adventure was great: they stopped the CDC from contaminating the ocean with lawnmower oil, and sued them for over two hundred and forty million dollars) "Yes, but after taxes we are broke. In fact, we owe money now because taxes are high for rich people." "Oh

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    California State Budget

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    The state of California along with many other states has gone through periods of recessions. The major difference between California and other states is the difference how California manages the state budget. The California governor creates a budget and is sent to the Department of Finance. The Department then modifies the budget according to the likings of the governor. The governor can have a deficit but must fit the deficit into next years budget. A deficit refers to a shortage of funds and can

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    La Fitness Analysis

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    On Tuesday, February 14th I visited the LA fitness located on 111 Marcus Ave in New Hyde Park. The gym borders Lakeview road and Union Turnpike. The site is shared by four adjacent buildings. There is a large shopping center on the north side as well as three private buildings on the east side. On the west side of the gym there is a pond and further east there are two soccer fields. If you enter from Union Turnpike there is a parking lot before the gym itself. When you enter the building the first

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    I took a 360 trying to see the entirety of Boston from my position in front of a massive statue of our nation’s first president. The skyline of Boston’s financial district sat behind George Washington’s statue in the Boston Public Garden. This park is the oldest botanical garden in the USA, and it looked it, but not tarnished. Behind the park, the skyscrapers didn’t reflect the light like yesterday because the sun hid behind the numerous gloomy clouds. The buildings seemed taller and newer than the

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    The chains of the decision wrap themselves insidiously around his torso, binding the man while the woman sits smiling in the corner ignoring his pleas. Sometimes the cold metal shifts and loosens its harsh grip when the child rests her small hands on them or the woman gets up and whispers in his ear, but never long enough to let him forget. Just like these constraints, Tom Sherbourne faces suffocating guilt about failing to report Lucy and Frank’s mysterious arrival to Janus and subsequently claiming

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    13 Hours Apa Citation

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    13 Hours is a movie based on the book, 13 Hours, written by Mitchell Zuckoff. The film is a nonfictional war movie that was directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by ChuckHogan. Dion Beebe is the director of photography. The film follows and gives the accounts of six members of a security team who fight to protect and guard the American compound in Benghazi after a series of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2012. 13 Hours shows the point of view from three of the men on the ground

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    On a bright sunny Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, started off as an ordinary day where Americans were out working to achieve their ambitious goal called the “ American Dream”. I decided to grab a coffee to start off my day. As I walked by a street vendor, he nicely asked: “ It’s a beautiful day huh?”. I smiled and answered, “ Yes it is sir”. “ What are you up to today? Are you in a rush?” he followed. I answered, “I’m just on my way to grab a coffee and get some fresh air”. He waved as we finished

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    Affinity Water Essay

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    Affinity Water is the UK’s largest water-only water supplier. It supplies approximately 900 million litres of water every day to its residential and business customers. Affinity Water became established through the purchase of Veolia Water’s UK water supply operations. The three separate Veolia Water branded businesses: Veolia Water Central, Veolia Water Southeast and Veolia Water East were brought together as one company under the Affinity Water brand in October 2012. Areas Covered by Affinity

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    Stargirl Essay Topics

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    Stargirl summery Stargirl is a book narrated by Leo Borlock. He’s an eleventh grader who is content to conform to his close-minded high school environment. In this school environment everyone has a particular place and a new person will collapse under this organization. But Stargirl didn’t. Stargirl Caraway is an unapologetically unique student who has been homeschooled and now is attending high school for the first time. For the first half of the school year, Leo observes Stargirl and her classmates’

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    Rainsford Cocky Quotes

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    Jerry was a kid at high school, who thought that he was all that. There is a difference between having skills and putting them to use, and being confident and cocky and being arrogant about it. Jerry on the other hand didn't have skills, and was very arrogant about everything that he did, boasting about his so called “talents.” Rainsford falls overboard a yacht and comes upon an island, Ship Trap Island, where he meets General Zaroff and is forced to play a “game” with the general. During the hunt

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