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    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a prequel to the 2003 movie. This movie is about two brothers who decide to go on a road trip with their girlfriends before one brother goes off to the Vietnam War. They get into an accident, and one member of the Hewitt family is there. He decides to take the young adults back to his house where they are tortured and tormented by the Hewitt family. There have been numerous movies about the Hewitt/Sawyer family. In the 2003 and 2006 version of The Texas

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    ________________________________________ 491 U.S. 397 Texas v. Johnson CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS ________________________________________ No. 88-155 Argued: March 21, 1989 --- Decided: June 21, 1989 This case analysis of Texas v. Gregory Lee Johnson was a Supreme Court case that overthrew bans on damaging the American flag in 48 of the 50 states. Gregory Lee Johnson participated in a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, where he burned the American

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    Lawrence v. Texas: The Justification for the Decision and its Significance for the LGBTQ+ Community The history of LGBTQ+ rights in the United States is long and complicated. LGBTQ+ identities that are accepted by people outside that community change with time, as some identities establish themselves as commonplace while others are just being introduced to non-LGBTQ+ people. However, rights and acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community are nearly always tied to legal recognition. Lawrence v. Texas questions

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    remake the 1974 version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, I would update it to have current technology. I would update the movie so people had cell phones; I would have social media play a big part in the movie; I would also put in updated vehicles and machinery. With these changes to the movie I feel like it would help the movie become more modern. Nowadays everyone has a cell phone. From 80 year olds to 10 year olds, almost everyone has a cell phone. In remaking The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for current

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    Thesis: How significant is the use of mathematics in the Texas Hold’em Poker Game? How can you deduce the probability of winning and infer the strategy from your starting hand? Rationale: I have decided to focus this math exploration project on the mathematics within the leisure card game Texas Hold’em. On first impression, the outcome of any poker game seems to be entirely arbitrary and based solely on the player’s pure luck. However, after we dismiss the wildy exaggerated poker “legends” we see

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    Texas Chainsaw Massacre El Paso, Texas was a small quiet town. Anything and everything modern like theaters and shopping malls were a long drive away and there was one high school that everyone went to. This was where my parents were from. We visited quite frequently and there was something unique about each visit. One visit, it was a gloomy day at my Grandma’s house and we were isolated by the muddy and wet elements outside her walls. My brother and I were rotting with boredom and we did not hesitate

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    Marijuana usage when discussed brings about debate and division no matter the forum. This is a topic that many individuals feel either one or the other about. Very few feelings can be described as “Middle of the Road”. As students at Texas Christian University we felt that in the time we were in attendance no one had tried to measure how students felt and view Marijuana. This information could be used by organizations such as NORML; it could help them decide whether or not pursuing a NORML chapter

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    history of the United States, Texas is one of the few states that demonstrated three-way segregation including white, black, and Latinos communities. Generally, segregation influenced all dimensions of the society. In specific, former segregation in Texas has left an immeasurable impact on the state’s culture, economy, geography, and education. Despite the fact that institutional desegregation occurred decades ago, segregation of minorities still exists in modern Texas. In particular, the contemporary

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    horror film that is famous to the U.S. is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, involving five kids that stumble upon an eery home. How would this movie change if the cellphones we use today were such a thing in this time period? An upgrade in technology would change this movie drastically by the ways and means of transportation, communication, and distraction. The movie begins with five friends that are traveling and have seemed to lost their way (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre). This is the first spot in

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    University of Texas at Austin” Response Racial discrimination has been a prevalent issue in America since the beginning. After the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, American society has tried to correct its discriminatory behavior, particularly in the field of education. But some believe this correction to ensure equality of educational opportunity is infringing on the rights of, not minorities, but whites. The Supreme Court Case, Abigail Fisher vs. University of Texas at Austin, tried

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