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    In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Sanger Rainsford falls off his boat, and ends up on General Zaroff’s island, known as Ship-Trap Island, and is expected to hunt with him. While at first Zaroff is a fan and becomes a friend of Rainsford’s, they both find out that they have many similarities such as their beliefs, what they have experienced in their lives, and their love for hunting which also has a difference which leads to Zaroff’s misfortune. Both Rainsford and

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    Mughessa Bhatti Psych B9705 Professor Brian Corby 07/20/2015 Final Exam Q1. Robert Axelrod conducted a computer tournament between two computers based on the prisoner’s dilemma to investigate reciprocal altruism and cooperation in a social setting. More specifically to examine the evolution of cooperation. Cooperation and reciprocal altruism are two concepts that (to some degree) go hand in hand and for this reason they are considered the most studied topics in evolutionary psychology. Axelrod,

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    Ronald Reagan, the former California governor and a popular actor in his 20s. Reagan served as the 40th United states president from 1981 to 1989. Reagan was one of our most achieved presidents and lived from 1911 unto 2004. This all starts with how Reagan is remembered. One of the biggest deals here was that he was the first president, during the cold war to preside 8 years of broken peace. Reagan was the first ever president to reach an arms reduction with the soviets. Along he also helped Mikhail

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    War Powers Resolution it is stated “ The president in every possible instance shall consult with congress before introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities.” That basically states the congress makes the decision to go to war. President Richard Nixon was in office when congress brought this forth. President Johnson announced he wouldn't run for a second term in his “Address to the Nation” March 31, 1968. He talked about partisanship and how the country's become so divided. Lyndon knew

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    Born in Chicago on April 7, 1931, Daniel Ellsberg helped secure open resistance to the Vietnam War in 1971 by releasing covert reports known as the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and several other national newspapers. The documents contained evidence proving that the U.S. had deceived the public regarding their involvement in Vietnam. On June 1967, officials in the U.S. military headquarters were ordered to collect a history of U.S. strategy toward Vietnam by Robert McNamara, the secretary

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    Austin Holley Mr. DeBoy English 10 (H) Aug. 12, 2015 Summer Reading Project: Playing for Pizza The author of Playing for Pizza is a brilliant writer named John Grisham. He is a very well known and acclaimed author. Not to mention the fact that he wrote maybe my favorite book of all time in The Firm. The Firm was a New York Times bestseller and just an incredibly well penned novel. He brings that same encapsulating plot (for any athlete) and gorgeous description, in a much shorter, sportier, and

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    "The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier's book on January 19, 1924. The story features a big-game hunter from New York who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Cossack aristocrat. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. The story has been

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    “Notes of a Native Son” follows the narrator and author, James Baldwin, from the past to the present as he reflects on his father’s and his relationship, while he tries to understand him from a more mature and forgiving perspective. James’s father has always been bitter and emotionally distant as long as he can remember, due to being born into slavery. However, James also inherits this mutual hatred towards the white society in America, by his father instilling his “bitter warnings” into him, but

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    Rec: Movie Analysis

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    For my quarter project I have decided to watch a Spanish movie. The movie that I have chosen is called Rec, (short for record) filmed in 2007. The movie is a horror film about the zombie apocalypse, but instead of the apocalypse already happening it shows how it was discovered/started. The film takes place in Spain, and is like a fictional documentary. It is filmed with a hand held camera, but does have high quality. I like that my project was something that I love to do. Which is, watching scary

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    Sean MacFarland- In 2015, MacFarland was chosen as the commander of the joint forces against ISIS. He joined the U.S. Army in 1981 and is currently a Lieutenant General. MacFarland is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College, United States Military Academy, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and the School of Advanced Military Studies. He has commanded the 1st Brigade Combat Team and 1st Armored Division during the Iraq War and the Battle of Ramadi in 2006. He is also the current

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