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    This case is about an experienced city postal carrier who has recently filled a position at a small town post office and has difficulty adjusting to a different way of life. The central characters include: Larry (the postmaster of Foster Creek), Jim (a senior carrier) and George (a senior carrier). The Foster Creek Post Office exists in a small town and the typical way of life is carried through at the post office. Harry has arrived at Foster from a fast-paced big city post office. Upon his

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    The events that occurred on November 18, 1978 has rocked the psychological world on how Jim Jones was able to manage what is now known as the "Jonestown Suicides" or the "Jonestown Massacre". It all started from when Jim Jones created what was known as the Peoples Temple in the middle of Indianapolis in 1955 leading only just 20 followers at the time. After a year had past, the people’s temple started to make a name for itself by serving for the disadvantage and opening an orphanage. This started

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    and having to living with a disease eating at your body, well Jim Valvano lived under those circumstances and was able to give one of the influential speeches of all time that people still turn to for motivation. The ESPY Awards is an annual award ceremony in which awards are presented to individuals to recognize their achievements in both sports-related performance and high character outside of sports(Rothman). At the 1993 Espys, Jim Valvano or “Jimmy V” delivered an acceptance speech for the Arthur

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    ‘The Truman Show’, directed by Peter Weir and ‘Animal Farm’, written by George Orwell both explore the ideas of the good life, how the main characters of both texts have a lack of the good life. Control, the animals and Truman being controlled without them knowing it. Freedom, and how the main characters do not have a great deal of it. These views have been displayed in both The Truman Show and Animal Farm. These ideas are presented through the characters and events throughout both texts, they are

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    an award for the AMPAS, best picture, best film editing, and the best sound which were many accomplishments for this film. This movie is definitely under the drama category as you will see after watching it. In the movie, Tom Hanks plays astronaut Jim Lovell, Bill Paxton plays astronaut Fred Haise, and Kevin Bacon plays astronaut Jack Swigert. These brave astronauts were originally supposed to fly Apollo 14 but were changed to fly Apollo 13 and faced many situations that could have taken off of their

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    Volunteer Reflection

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    Purpose For the service learning portion of this class I volunteered at a children’s clinic. The clinic I volunteered at is called Chandler Medical Plaza located in Dallas, Texas. The purpose of me volunteering there was to get a look at children and to get an understanding of my future career. Volunteering gives students like me the opportunity to gain experience in a career field I am interested in. It is also important that I understand the extent and the importance of working with children.

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    at possibly having to pay for all the embalming and burial costs (“The Horror,” 28). Embalming and burial costs are expensive and many people lost sympathy for cult members. So, people opposed paying for the consequences of the Jonestown massacre. Jim Jones realized he was losing control over the People’s Temple, leading to the Jonestown massacre. Then in 1975, he uprooted his followers and isolated them in Jonestown, Guyana. Jones began instructing his followers to commit a revolutionary suicide

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    On Monday, December 25, 2017, at approximately 1308 hours, I responded to 1032 Worthington Spring Drive, Melbourne, Brevard County, Florida 32940 in reference to a disturbance. Upon arrival, I made contact with four family members who advised they reside at the location. I separated each subject and conducted interviews regarding the domestic violence statements made to dispatch. The first two subjects I interviewed was the two witnesses, Ms. Denise Iverson (Witness 1) and Ms. Julie Hart (Witness

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    On 7/5/17 worker spoke with Mrs. McClellan via phone. Mrs. McClellan wanted to know if she could get full custody of Hailey because her daughter Ja’shonna is not mature to take care of her daughter (Hailey). She said Ja’Shonna is overwhelmed by the task and does not take her responsibilities serious. Worker told Mrs. McClellan she would have to go through the court to get full custody of the child. However taking full custody would let Ja’shonna off the hook and would not mature her. Moreover,

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    With all the war, police brutality, and violence in today’s world it is extremely easy to see why some people believe that humans are naturally violent. Pair that up with the fact that some of us like violent sports and video games like the National Football League (NFL), World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and Call of Duty (COD), you have an airtight case that we humans are naturally violent. However, through all this, I believe that us humans are not naturally violent. I believe that humans

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