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    I woke up on a cold, torn up mattress. I try to stand up, struggling since I was tied to the wall behind me. My head was throbbing and my wrists and ankles burned from the rope. That 's when I heard you walking down the stairs. My heart was pounding out of my chest. You then slowly unlocked the cage. For the first time I couldn’t save myself. You leaned over me, you stunk of stale cigarettes and booze. I knew I could survive the things you would do to me, I just didn’t know if I could ever get out

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    Before Eleven The police are knocking on my effervescence covered door, a child is missing, and I lost exactly $39.94 along with the dryness and intactness of my clothing. Moreover, I 'm stuck with a hungry dog and only minutes to save my wonderful self. In order to asses such a situation, how about we go back to the beginning? Now is the time to queue the ‘back to the past’ sound effect in your head. Albeit having known the Wattersons for two-thirds of my life, surprisingly, I never babysat them

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    A Guy In A Red Bandana It was a simple and quiet day in Manhattan, 2001. I Had gotten a new job as a computer personal, 103rd floor of the south tower, World Trade Center. When I had discovered that I was allowed to work at the World Trade Center, I was so excited to be employed there ever since it was constructed. It’s similar to when you finally get to play with your most favorite dream toy, but in this case it is my job. I’ve always wanted to prove to my father that I would be successful ever

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    The period between 1995 and 2005 is very memorable in America’s history. There are several incidences and occurrences that unfolded which helped in shaping and framing the current United States of America. The bombing of Oklahoma City is a major epic event that still lingers in the minds of most Americans. However, there is much to contemplate and deduce based on the incidence of 19th April 1995. The music industry also experienced drastic changes between this time frame and analyzing these changes

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    Jim Jones and Jesus Christ, two names of two very known people, they share many similarities. Yet only own of them is praised and the other is demonized. Even comparing the two is almost forbidden, how could someone compare the savior of mankind and a man who is responsible for the death of hundreds? Both managed to gain a large following, had people who feared them, and they both made the ultimate sacrifice. While they share many similarities they both are remembered very differently. Jesus is known

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    Cults

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    strives to make others believe as they do so they will join. There are somewhere around 3,000 to 5,000 of these cults throughout the United States, but only 75 to 100 are documented (Study Resources). The most commonly known cults are Reverend Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, Heavens Gate, and Charles Manson and the Family; these cults were able to drag people in and

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    The event that I chose was the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City by an ex-Army soldier and security guard named Timothy McVeigh. He parked a rented Ryder truck in front of the building loaded with a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals. The bomb went off at 9:02 a.m. When the smoke cleared the area looked like a war zone. Half of the building had been reduced to rubble, surrounding

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    the subject of my paper, was behind the bombings, and later executed. On April 15, 1995 Timothy McVeigh rented a Ryder truck in Herington, Kansas under the alias Robert D. Kling. On April 16, he drove to Oklahoma City with fellow conspirator Terry Nichols where he parked a getaway vehicle several blocks away from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. After

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    in which 168 people died.” (Timothy McVeigh) McVeigh served a trial in Denver in 1997, and the jury of the trial found guilty. McVeigh was then charged with conspiracy and murder. He was then put on death row. Terry Nichols The second suspect of the Oklahoma City Bombing was Terry Nichols, who had helped McVeigh plan the bombing. He had met McVeigh in the military and they were both discharged at

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    Terry Fox’s display of Sacrifice Sacrifice is doing something for the greater good. Sacrifice often requires the person to put themselves in harm’s way. Sacrificing one’s life in exchange for something greater is the truest way to display selflessness and courage. Terry Fox is a hero that sacrificed himself to achieve a greater goal. Terry Fox is a professional long-distance runner who lost his leg and eventually his life to cancer. Greek heroes such as Theseus help others by using their own courage

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