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    an uproar, meaning no one was safe. Likewise, many historical events also exhibit the societal impacts of this behavior. Examples include the Holocaust, the systematic murder of millions of Jews in Germany; and the mass suicide in Jonestown, where Jim Jones persuaded the members of his church to kill themselves due to an imaginary conspiracy. As proved by historical events and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, mass hysteria is an unintentional behavior that can lead to eye-opening, unplanned, and unwanted

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    Jimmy Valvano once said “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up”. When you hear these words, what do you think of? Do you think about participating on a sports team and being down by a few points? Do you think about being so exhausted that you need to stop working and sleep? When Mr. Valvano said this, he was not thinking about how he wanted his team to come back and win or how tired he was and was not sure if he could do what needed to be done. He was talking about his battle with cancer (2012 ESPYS)

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    depicted in an artificial space? Midway through the film the hidden cameras on the set revealed that the set is placed in the centre of Hollywood, Los Angeles instead of the man-made creation of Seahaven Island. The main protagonist, Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is raised to grow up in a reconstructed world, where his friends and neighbors are all hired actors/actresses without his knowledge. His world is influenced by what is called “New Urbanism” in the 1980s where cities tried to transform back into

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    Loss, desperation and hope – this is the heart-warming story of the football champion playing with his brother’s number 5 jersey – Jon Abbate. The Fifth Quarter follows the story of the Abbate family losing their son and brother, Luke, to a car accident. It also uncovers the story of how Jon Abbate conquered his loss and became a football champion to play for his brother and himself. In this movie, young people have been portrayed as emotional and desperate but also able to find hope and direction

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    The representation of women in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ has received much scrutiny since its publication in 1899. The novella reflects a period in Britain and other parts of the world, where women were viewed as inadequate and deficient compared to their male counterparts. Women were not respected as strong-minded individuals, treated as equals and given fair opportunities in a male centric world. This is evidenced in the rise of the suffrage movement in the early to mid 1900s whose main

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    No matter if you are rich or poor because the heart does not know anything about that. The book The Distance Between us by Kasie West is about two different teens that get in love; Xander and Caymen. Xander is a rich guy and Caymen is not. She works in her mom’s doll business. Caymen’s mom hides to her that her parents are rich, but finally Caymen finds out all of her mom secrets. Caymen and Xander get through many discussions and fights, but at the end they both end together. Kasie West uses conflict

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    able to transport children in the future. This could be very useful, however, imagine if a 5 year old could just jump in a car and leave whenever they wanted without somebody stopping them before they did something reclous or got lost. According to Jim Taylor, when he asks a group of young people if they have made stupid decisions and if they will continue to make stupid decisions, they all raised their hands. This shows that children will make stupid decisions, and that won’t change when they are

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    He was so ruthless that he sent out men to murder the congressman, Jim Jones stated that “they would come back and torture our people’s children and that they couldn’t allow that to happen”. He made sure that they knew that there was nothing better than living if there was no peace and if they decided to leave their behind

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    racial justice for the reason that there was no freedom of racism. An example of a promised that did not come true was the promised made by a leader of a socialist group, Jim Jones. People joined a socialist group called People’s Temple, who were promised by Jones to move to Jonestown a place that he created for the people that Jim Jones authorized. Jonestown is located on a little

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    Ben Silbermann, the co-founder and CEO of Pinterest, attended the Research Science Institute at MIT in 1998 according to Ben Silbermann himself. In the following year, he graduated from Roosevelt High School. In spring 2003, Ben graduated from Yale College with a degree in political science. He took a consulting job in Washington, D.C after graduating. “He began reading technology blogs and enjoyed learning about what people were building,” according to an interview. With his knowledge, he landed

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