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    “The demon’s body is super sensitive to heat. I shot it with my laser gun nearly a week ago and it’s barely healed. The core in this laser gun is old, highly unstable and likely to explode if placed in a liquid…” “Like blood?” Jagger guesses. I nod, prying the casing protecting the yellow core away. “Hopefully.” “But you will have to break the skin for it to work,” he objects. I pop the final casing away, exposing a burning yellow core. I instantly feel the unstable heat, it gives off. I try to

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    Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey enter Private First Class Santiago’s bunk room to perform a “code red,” a form of punishment used by military personal that is not in protocols; the two men were following an order given to them by a superior officer. At Guantanamo Bay orders are taken very seriously. A quote from the film, A Few Good Men, states “they are not permitted to disobey orders,” showing that the two men had no other choice “because they were ordered to

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    The Life of a Rebel in Star Wars Battlefront I search for a game in Star wars battlefront I search for a Blast because that’s my favorite game mode and I’m good at it. I finally see a game pop up, just in to because I was the last person to join. There are ten people on each side ten for the Empire ten for the Rebels ( I was the tenth person on the Rebels). I soon find out that we are playing on Sulfur Fields on the planet Sullust. I finally pick my blaster the TL-50 Heavy Repeater the

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    “Are you nuts? Go be a doctor, at least you won’t die poor.” This is exactly what my grandmother said when I gave her the awful news that I wanted to write and direct films for a living. Sound familiar? This is often what aspiring creative individuals hear – not to negate the special few who have thoroughly supportive relatives and friends. But for the rest of us, we get that all too recognizable tone of skepticism, doubt, and in extreme cases, outright pessimism. I don’t blame people for harboring

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    “Night of the Living Dead” Film Analysis Essay Alexa Shorrock (58 sentences) The film “Night of the Living Dead”, is about a woman, Barbara, who went to see her father’s grave with her brother, Johnny. While they are there, they both get attacked by a another man at the graveyard. But it wasn’t a usual person, he seemed almost like he was already dead. The man killed Johnny, and then continued to attack and follow Barbara to her car and then to a runned down house. When she got there the dead

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    Enterprise, Ala., An enraged boyfriend stabbed a Target cashier to death at 2:00 P.M. Wednesday for talking to his girlfriend. A disgruntled Hispanic male identified by Police as Hector Vargas, 19, entered the Target store and yelled, “Amy, Amy, where are you, b*tch?” When he saw his girlfriend, Amy Morgan, receiving assistance from cashier, Miguel Alarcoe, 19, at the jewelry counter he became increasingly hostile. A heated argument broke out between the men, as Morgan attempted to intervene Vargas

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    faced with conflict, they tend to inhibit themselves from learning self worth and growing from their experiences however, if one were to embrace conflict they could make positive changes that explore self acceptance. Through the film Milk, Dustin Lance Black highlights the ambition individuals have when they are placed into subordinate positions, and the lengths they go in order to overcome conflict by acknowledging their self worth. Harvey Milk being the first openly gay politician during an LGBT

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    The Life of Louis Armstrong He was known as the greatest of all jazz musicians. He defined what it really was to play genuine jazz music and taught the world to swing. He included joy, spontaneity, and amazing technical abilities. Louis Armstrong was a genius when it came to his inventive musical ability. In this paper, I will tell you about who Armstrong was, his early childhood, accomplishments, and his living legacy. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana which

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    The Moon Landing Was Not a Hoax Some Americans now ask, "Was the moon landing a hoax?" Is this actually possible; would the U.S. government lie to our nation, let alone the whole world? The answer, no, should jump out. Hoax believers (HBs) thought they researched this thoroughly and gained enough evidence to prove that the moon landing was a hoax, but they don't know jack! Their whole case can be compared to a brick house with one difference. It seems like the bricks have all the corners

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    Moon Landing Hoax John F. Kennedy once said, "No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”. The main motive for this quote was to ensure that the United States wanted to beat out the Soviets in the space race. Ever since the Soviets tried to advance on the moon, the United States wanted to be the first successful

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