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    put out one of her white hands and patted him comfortingly on the knee. “How old are you, my dear?” she asked. “ Seventeen.” “Seventeen!” she cried. “Oh, it’s the perfect age! Mr. Mulholland was also seventeen. But I think he was a trifle shorter than you are”… A strange look began to pass through Billy’s face. His eyes glistened as he stared at her and whispered, “I was not seventeen. I was only 15 years old when you first met me. Got me to trust you and then took my life.”

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    the seventies, tuition was approximately one-fifth of one’s income. Consequently, four decades later, tuition has increased an additional seventeen times of the tuition in the seventies. This would not be an issue if the American average income increased seventeen times along with tuition, but this is not the case. It has only increased five times, not seventeen. Furthermore, the question I have

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    stanza is: No one's serious at seventeen. --On beautiful nights when beer and lemonade And loud, blinding cafés are the last thing you need --You stroll beneath green lindens on the promenade. The poem begins with an observation. The second line juxtaposes beautiful nights with beer and lemonade. The mention of beer and lemonade in the same line is interesting in that beer is a beverage of adulthood, while lemonade is a beverage of childhood. At seventeen one is presumably at that awkward

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    triumph.” ~King George III The Tea Act, sometimes known as the Boston Tea Party, has a lot to say about tea. It is referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston." The night, December thirteen seventeen seventy three. Colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians. Seventeen Million Pounds of unsold tea was dumped mid day. With the colonists throwing over the tea off the ships, King George decided to punish the Bostonians. The Colonists were sick of the high prices of the tea coming

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    The most infamous, prolific, and charming serial killer Hickey describes would be “The BTK Strangler,” who is also known as Dennis Lynn Rader. Rader had gone undetected for over a seventeen year period, who was known to consistently taunt the media and police through sending them detailed letters describing in detail his heinous crimes, similar to the Zodiac killer. Eventually, Rader vanished from the eyes of the police, as his crimes went unanswered for over a thirteen year period until Rader began

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    Blue Bird Simulation

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    bird lasted nine years in the first simulation and ten years in the second simulation. The first simulation started out with seventeen blue beetles (ten were eaten) and decreased to fifteen(eleven were eaten), eleven (ten were eaten), one (got eaten), and then became extinct after just five years. In the second simulation, the blue beetle population started with seventeen (thirteen were eaten), and decreased to sixteen (twelve eaten), fourteen (eleven were eaten) , eight (eight were eaten), and then

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    Life as a female isn’t as easy as some people portray it to be, Alice Walker makes this very clear in the passage, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden”. Alice Walker shows the stereotypes, expectations, and the roles of women during the 1920s, to show the gender lens. Women have many stereotypes attached to them: “women don’t understand sports”, “women should stay in the kitchen”, these are just a few examples of these stereotypes. A specific stereotype that is shown in the passage is women want

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    Mandatory Reporting

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    Tamika has an obligation to keep client information confidential which is supported by state and federal law. Texas does have a duty to warn law which requires anyone having knowledge of suspected child abuse or neglect to report it to the appropriate authorities (Sommers-Flanagan, 2015). Mandatory reporting applies to everyone and is not just limited to health care professionals or teachers. The law extends to individuals whose personal communications may be otherwise privileged, such as attorneys

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    Each year, children had influence over $700 billion in spending similarly to the combined economies of the 115 poorest countries in the world. Marketers had different techniques to get children and tweens on buying their products and by doing that, it led them to growing up way too fast, being more violent and lastly it could lead them to negative consequences. Children every day are getting convinced by marketers to watch their advertisement with the help of persuasive techniques they use such

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    1. Janis Ian wrote this song over 25 years ago. Are there themes in her lyrics that were only present in 1975, or are they present now as well? Do you think that these things will be true when the song is played in another 25 years? I think the main idea of the song is stilll relevant. What makes the song still relavant is that it appeals to the angst and loneliness that many teenagers feel. Its themes of confidence and self-doubt are timeless and inherent in being a teenager. The idea of being

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