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    Five years ago, Taylor messed up badly at her lake house in the Poconos and avoided going back. But when her father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her family decides to visit the lake house one last time. Morgan Matson’s Second Chance Summer recounts a story of friendship and love when times are tough. When it comes to fight or flight, Taylor always runs away. But taking the easy way out has its consequences, and she realizes this as she revisits her lake house. Her ex that she dated

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    different views on, how our nation should be. As we all know, Barack Obama has commuted inmates to be free from their jail sentence. "I believe that at its heart, America is a nation of second chances, and I believe these folks deserve their second chance," Obama said in the video this year. He believes that everyone has a chance to change what they have done, to become a better person in the world. “Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the opposite—intense depression

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    Many second chances are given out, but it is what the person does with the chance that matters. In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities the reader sees the constant struggles of the characters because during this time people were treated unfairly based on their social class. It is clear who belongs in which social class based on how Dickens characterizes them. The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is that no matter the circumstances anyone can be given a second chance, it is evident that this is the

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    America is the land of opportunity and the land of second chances. People come to America to live a better life, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. When Veterans come back home, all they want is a second chance at life again. They want to come back and be able to start from where they left off. But the government has done very little to help these veterans. The government believes they have done enough with the programs they have created, but it hasn’t had much of a change. The purpose of this

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    The essay “The War on Second Chances” discusses the stories of both Omar Khadr and Christopher Simmons, and how lawfully right it was for the U.S. and Canadian governments to do what they did to them. With Khadr, they interrogated him when he was drugged from the medication he was given in the hospital and cuffed to his stretcher for killing an American soldier in combat. With Simmons, they sentenced him to life in prison for killing a woman by pushing her over a bridge into a lake. Youth should

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    Grant Proposal Second chance Act Smart on Juvenile Justice: Community Supervision Reform Program I. Statement of the Problem: The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) is requesting funds to provide juveniles a second chance through a community supervision reform program. The Department’s goal for requesting these funds is to reduce the number of juveniles currently on probation. As of 2013, there were over 383,600 juveniles on probation

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    scholars, from throughout the years, have primarily clung to two different beliefs: annihilation and U (known as the classical view). However, there is also a third way of dealing with hell that has recently picked up momentum in the recent years: second chance theology. In this paper, the two primary views of hell will be discussed more in detail than the third view because of the extensiveness and development of each idea. The third view will be discussed slightly, but the discussion will not reach

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    Celine Dion dominated the pop charts in the 1990s. She remains a popular entertainer and is the second-highest earning musician in history. In 2007, Celine Dion released some of the most adventurous music of her career on the album Taking Chances. She really suffered personal tragedy in January 2016 when her husband and her brother died of cancer just two days apart. By the End of February, she returned to the Las Vegas

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    "Time I almost died"

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    This essay is about an accident that happened to me last year, and how did it changed my entire life. It happened last year, but the memories are still fresh. The slippery road, the small shards of glass, and the coppery smell of the fresh, red blood are still deeply ingrained in my mind. I remember everything just like it happened yesterday. I never pass that stretch of road without seeing it all again. I was driving in my new Volkswagen to my friend's birthday party on a rainy evening. The white

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    Celine Dion dominated the pop charts in the 1990s. She remains a popular entertainer and is the second-highest earning musician in history. In 2007, Celine Dion released some of the most adventurous music of her career on the album Taking Chances. She really suffered personal tragedy in January 2016 when her husband and her brother died of cancer just two days apart. By the End of February, she returned to the Las Vegas

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