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    I could also be more productive at work by doing homework during lunch break. I used to stay on my desk during lunch break and do nothing because I felt too exhausted to go out and get lunch, but during this week I felt more productive than I was before. The rehearsals were great, I felt more present and did a lot of contributions. There were a lot of ideas that I proposed to my band, and most of them worked well with the song. Everyone was happy about it and this made me feel so too. During the

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    Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is set in a small village who relies deeply on their crops. This story is about a sacrifice that takes place every year in which the heads of households draw for their families in order to see who “wins” and saves the town. The readers grow close to a character named Tessie who decides to speak her mind when it’s too late. In the end, the townsfolk realise that what comes around goes around. Before the ceremony started, Tessie Hutchinson was almost late

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    A writing assignment used to mean an easy five-paragraph essay. It was an essay that students mastered and could complete in an hour. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case and we are now assigned papers with a requirement of at least five pages. Throughout the past week, I have asked several classmates about their assignments, specifically, about their writing process. From there, I noticed that several students did one thing similar…they all gave up after just an hour or so. While, I am no

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    English 300 Reflection In the first quest from the semester, summary and analysis of “Cheer up, it’s only the end of the world” by Ira Chernus, the thesis of my paper was the thesis of the article too. “The Article, “Cheer up, it’s only the end of the world” states that there are two major threats to the world which could lead to an apocalypse: nuclear extermination and environmental extinction.” From my first paper to my last, I could see a difference in how I wrote. I had a lot of minor mistakes

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    The movie follows the character Will Kane the former sheriff of the town soon to be married to a beautiful woman named Amy. After the couple is married bad news follows up right after, that Frank Miller an outlaw Will Kane put away for murder just got released and is headed their way with a death sentence for Will. The town in panic tells Will that he’s a married man now and has his life with his wife to look forward to and they tell him to leave town before Frank came. The wife agrees with the townsfolk

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    1. • Frank Miller-He was pardoned in the North for murder and comes in on the noon train to seek his revenge on Will Kane for putting him up. Ben Miller, Jack Colby, and Tim Pierce are all waiting at the train station to fight with him. He is depicted as the rugged, crazy man that everyone is scared of. • Will Kane- He is the Marshal who put up Frank for murder. He was only to be Marshal for the rest of the day and heard Frank was riding the noon train. Will just got married to Amy the day he found

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    In the long distant future, in the year 2016, the cable news empire has fallen, and former talking heads have stooped to running for political office. In fact, five former talk show stars are running for President of the United States, and locked in a close race. Your task is to design and implement a set of classes that process a collection of Integer objects, corresponding to votes for each candidate. The integers are stored in a queue by a driver. In particular, the following code must compile

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    In this era of information overload, our brains are bombarded by so many different news outlets it can be difficult to choose which channel you want to watch. With all the accusations of liberal or conservative bias dominating the feuds between the cable news channels, it would be easiest to choose the channel that we believe best fits our own ideological views. When you look at MSNBC and Fox News the ideologies seem to be completely opposite, but they have some similarities. Both are accused

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    The controversial 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle, adapted from the novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter, follows the experiences of a new teacher, Mr. Richard Dadier played by Glen Ford, at the all-boys inner-city North Manual High School. The school’s students are juvenile delinquents exhibiting violent and anti-social behavior. The film portrays the challenges Mr. Dadier and the other teachers face in their efforts to reach the students and capture their interests to learn. The result of the

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    The prolific Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould, was immersed in music early on in his life. Even before Gould’s birth his mother, a musician herself, played him music during her pregnancy. When he was still an infant he was known to hum along to music and wiggle his fingers in apparent chord patterns, leading a doctor to say he would end up ”either a physician or a pianist”(Ostwald 40). When Glen was three his mother realized that he possessed tremendous musical talent, including absolute pitch as

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