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    Wayne Bertram Williams: Atlanta Child Killer Police circulated this photo at the time showing victims of the Atlanta killings. Photo from CNN Forensic Fiber Analysis Case Study The best-known, if not the best-reasoned fiber case in American legal history involving fiber evidence issues is the Wayne Williams trial growing out of the famous Atlanta murders of twelve African-American males in 1979-1980. The Williams case involved all of the subjects still in controversy as we

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    “Dear John Wayne” by Louise Erdrich is about the stereotype of the Native American, being a savage race on film and how the Native Americans watching the film react to those stereotypes. The Characters in the play are the movie goers who happen to be Native American and John Wayne in the movie. The movie was written for a different audience than the one watching. Let’s start at the very beginning… the name of the poem is “Dear John Wayne”, it occurred to me that a lot of these authors put a great

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    It has been said that there is meaning behind every miniature detail that the creator of a piece of literature includes in their work. Why would anyone do something if there is no meaning behind it? There is meaning behind everything that anyone does. However, in literature, many of the specific meanings that an author chooses to include in their work is not inherently obvious. For example, a minor detail about the orientation of an object can provide foreshadowing of a later event, the way a

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    Sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to, but it really takes courage to get through it. In the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Cassie Logan is a very sassy, outspoken eleven year old girl that, in my opinion, is the most courageous character throughout the novel. Some things that made Cassie courageous was that she stood up for Little Man, her little brother, at Great Faith Elementary School, stood up for her and Stacey, her older brother, at the mercantile, and

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    Ronaldinho once said “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.” I honestly never knew what Ronaldinho meant by this since I first heard about the quote. Every time I played soccer or touched a ball, I tried figuring out what he truly meant. I would ask my mom, my uncles, my brother, my cousins, and my friends if they knew what it meant but few of them simply didn’t care or didn’t even care. I was so eager to find out what he truly meant. When I was 8, in 3rd grade, I started playing the

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    “I made decisions that I regret and I took them as learning experiences…. I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.” Words from the beautiful, outstanding woman Queen Latifah. Thought-out my walk in life, I have made gruesome and pleasant decisions, on relationships and the way I carry myself in life. Now that I am in college, I have been thinking about getting an edgy, rough cut. On the hand Michigan weather makes you wish there was long hair down your back. Let’s learn what relationships contributed

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    Just like on television, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dominated the discussion among a handful of voters scattered around Wayne County Tuesday. All said this election was an important one and a big one which could change the direction the country is headed and change how elections are done in the future. For some, like Jennifer Gunnoe, who lives overseas in Tbilisi, Georgia, Trump was among the motivating factors in getting out to vote. “I have pretty serious concerns about Donald

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    humiliation to heart, took way too many jokes seriously. Most of the time it was because they were black jokes, which I didn’t think were funny. People have told me “ No you’re black.” or “ Why are you here? Africa misses you!” “ You look like Lil Wayne.” I never did anything about it and people kept doing it. Everytime someone judged me for being african-american, my self-esteem took a deep dive. But 2015, was the year, the most embarrassing thing ever happened, and more than once. It was May, the

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    From choosing this Scarlet Letter, how I design the letter, to what pizza toppings I would like, or what movie should I watch, I have trouble deciding what to do. Indecision is a large, and a unfavorable part of my life, that makes it difficult to finalize a decision on a test, or even shower before, or after homework. Deciding is hard for me because it feels irreversible, and I cannot do anything about it after I chose one way or the other. In previous essays, I’ve written about the importance

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    received a phone call that her 8 year old son Teagan, was hit by a car, and had multiple injuries. I rushed to meet Ashley at the local airport where they were transporting her son by ambulance so he could be flown out to a level II trauma unit in Fort Wayne Indiana. Teagan suffered several broken bones, stitches, bruising, and a concussion, but thankfully he was still alive. After a short stay in ICU, and once they were able to manage his pain, he was released to go home. Teagan had compound fractures

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