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    The play “Machinal” was unlike any I have ever seen before. As I was reading the play brochure before the play started, I realized this may be a dark, twisted production. To some extent, it was. A young woman who still lives with her mother works in an office. Her boss, George H. Jones, wants to marry her; however, the woman does not really love him, but marries him anyways. They have a child together shortly after. Later in the play, the woman meets a man her age at a bar from a mutual friend. She

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    • Ira Levinson – Ira is an old man in the lower nineties with health conditions that are worsening. He is suffering with lung cancer and only has a few weeks left to live. Sophia and Luke found him stuck in his car, after failing to see the curve, at the beginning of the book. When waiting on an ambulance to come, Ira gives a letter to Sophia to keep safe. The couple comes to find out that Ira has kept a collection of love letters to his “Dearest Ruth.” Throughout his years of marriage, he and

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    The Dragonkin Trilogy Box Set Wytchfire: In the dragon-haunted land of Ruun, Rowen Locke has been many things: orphan, gravedigger, mercenary. All he ever wanted was to become a Knight of Crane and wield a kingsteel sword against horrors he's known since childhood. But that dream crumbled—replaced by a new nightmare. War is overrunning the realms, and in a world where no one is blameless, the time has come for one disgraced man to decide which side he’s on. Knightswrath: Rowen Locke has achieved

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    Mr. Moncharmin and Mr. Richard started selling the seats. La Carlotta, the main singer was sick Managers recieve another note from the ghost. The ghost suggests that Christine performs instead of La Carlotta again. He also complained about finding other people in Box Five. Mr. Moncharmin got angry at Mr. Poligny because he thought he was writing the notes. He blamed Mrs. Giry and fired her because she looks over the boxes. Raoul gets a note from Christine saying she remembers him. She notes that

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    When a celebrity dies, it’s common to see people form various opinions about the person’s life while they were alive. This can be said about Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s recent death. Opinions of Hefner seem to go one of two ways: the public seems to either idolize or criticize him. Even if by some chance he was still here, there’s always going to be varying opinions on him. At the end of the day, he was about the empire he created. Typically, men are the ones who idolize his lavish lifestyle of

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    Setting Spring-Summer 2015, Upland, California (in Southern California) Main Characters - Solomon Reed: a 16-year-old boy, agoraphobic (has a fear of crowded spaces or enclosed public places), hasn't left the house in 3 years, his parents are Jason and Valerie Reed, pale, chronically barefoot, does online schooling, has been having panic attacks since age 11, geeky, skinny, has messy hair, spoiled suburban kid, doesn't like going to therapists, weird, terrible at video games, like his dad (introvert)

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    The story begins by Douglass being separated from his mother after he is born. Captain Anthony, who is suspected in being Frederick's father, is the clerk of an extremely wealthy man named Colonel Lloyd. The colonel owns hundreds of slaves, who call his plantation the “Great House Farm.” and the slaves that break the rules are beaten or whipped. Because Douglass is only a child, his life on the plantation isn’t as hard. When he turns seven he is given to captain Anthony’s son-in-law’s brother who

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    Pietra Rivoli uses a random T-shirt she brought from Lubbock, West Texas while she was on vacation to contribute her story about globalization of world trade, especially in the textile and apparel industry. The story begin in Lubbock, West Texas when she decide as "cotton city" because there were almost lunar nothingness. She discovered the foundation of the cotton, especially with the process of the seed which gave the cotton farmer some challenges. The stage is a story that is determined mainly

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    Now that I have finished the story and know that the protagonist chooses the girl over the bass, I will be evaluating the character of Sheila Mant. While reading this story, I have found Sheila to be both rude and conceited. To begin, Sheila is patently rude. One notion that supports this is how she acts during the date with the boy. During the date, she is standoffish and disinterested, reluctant to get into the boat with him and having a face that “had on its delightful fullness a very dubious

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    It is 1925 in the United States and the economy is in disarray. Ben Richards, a citizen of Co-Op City is unable to find work, he turns to the Games Federation, a government-operated television station, to win money for his gravely ill daughter Cathy. After meticulous physical and mental testing, Richards gets selected for The Running Man, the networks most popular, profitable, and deadly game. Richards, now an enemy of the state, is tracked down by an elite group of Hunters who are sent out to kill

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