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    the Suez Canal by hand and many died there. The quote from Karabell continues ‘Forced to labor on the Suez Canal, the fellahin brought their culture with them … They did not try to fight the injustice of the corvee” (Karabell, 177). The Open Door’s Layla describes the fundamentals in relation to her cousin Gamila who married a rich man “She had accepted life as it was, and simply, without creating any complications. Gamila had not stopped to philosophize. She had listened to her mother and she had

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    The Wicca Club Analysis

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    A lesbian recruits a group of girls to act as vigilantes to protect women by exterminating male misogyny. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: SINEAD COSTA (19) and four other girls, all dressed in black, circle a man that they have just attacked. The girls look tearful and afraid, all except Sinead. She seems proud. Two years ago, Sinead, a senior at High School, supports the idea of a female-only, anti-capitalist, lesbian society. She tries to recruit girls to her Wicca club, including NASEERAH ABBOUD (17 Middle

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    In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon of the United States of America on September 11, 2001, the American people banded together with a shared sense of patriotism and a willingness to punish those responsible. There was no divide between retaliation against the terrorist organizations that performed the strike and the countries of origin that retained them and millions of innocent civilians in the eyes of the United States government. As war ensued throughout Afghanistan

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    Gene editing is a type of genetic engineering in which DNA is inserted, replaced or removed from the Genome or the genetic material of an organism. This treatment saved the life of one year old Layla. She was diagnosed with Leukemia and after several failed treatments, her parents turned to gene editing. Layla’s doctors performed experimental gene therapy on her, they inserted immune cells from a healthy donor into her body. The immune cells fought off the cancerous cells in her marrow.She is an

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    My family has fostered dogs for the last 6 years. Two years ago, my mom came home with a foster named Layla. This dog was terrified. People found her at 6 weeks old and kept her for 9 months. They tied her to a tree and rarely interreacted with her. Her basic needs were met. She was given food and water; but she was not given love. Being a baby tied

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    There is a lot of controversy and misjudgments with people owning pit bulls. Growing up I never really was a dog lover and definitely never imagined myself being an owner of one! My parents never really allowed my sisters and I to have large animals as pets. We had guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, but never a dog. I remember times that I would go to a family member or friend’s house and they would have a huge German Shepard or Great Dane, and I would just be disgusted by the fact that they would

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    least 1.26 trillion dollars of student loan debt in the United States alone. There are at least 44.2 million American students who have to pay off their student loans. Chris Lewis and Layla Zaidane explain why Allan and Thompson from the article ‘The Myth of the Student Loan Crisis’ are wrong. Lewis, Chris and Layla explain in their essay, ‘Here’s Your Crisis: Student loan Debt Isn’t a Myth’ that, “six figure calamities are indeed rare, but millions of americans are caught between stubbornly weak

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    anxiety as I was waiting for him. He’s outside. I ZOOMED out of the room, grabbed my essentials (phone, camera, chargers, etc.), and climbed into Joey’s car. I still can’t believe I’m going to see Twenty Øne Piløts in person. Joey and I waited for Layla and Shakiya to come over to his house. Once they came, we sat in Joey’s room for about thirty minutes, just trying to take in how overwhelmed we all are. We all talked about Tyler and Josh, and how much we loved them, and we talked about hoping

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    keep himself calm. Before he realizes what is happening, his lips are pressed against hers, and he has her down on the couch. “Ahem,” Quinn’s voice, filled with amusement, interrupts the two of them. “Sorry to interrupt, guys,” she states. “Fox and Layla are going to try to link up and see if they can see where the girl is in the present. I told them to give me a few minutes to make sure the two of you are decent.” She laughs. She purposefully avoids calling the girl Gage’s sister, sensing he isn’t

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    New School Year Essay

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    standing there was Julie.Julie has been my 2th best friend ever since we were babies,or so my mother and her mother are very good friends.But every morning me and Julie had always walked to school together ever since.”So you ready for a new school year,Layla”,”Yeah,I just really hope I don’t have any classes with him”.”Yeah,it would be very surprising if you to both had the same classes with each other”,“Let’s just hope that it doesn’t happen,Julie”. As we walked into school,Melissa had been waiting

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