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    Over the past four years of McEachern High School, I’ve always been in this shell that kept me in a comfortable place to not try anything new. That all changed when I decided to put my big girl pants on and try out for the lacrosse team. So I went to try outs and already I felt so out of place, but looking back at it, it was completely normal. Being a stranger in the village means to be the outcast; a person who’s not with the crowd or just someone new. Trying out something and not knowing what to

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    Stories gives Indians an outlet to get away from the real world and express themselves freely, while the truth resembles reality. 4.) In the film, Native Americans reinterpret traditional symbols of mainstream America; such as basketball and John Wayne with a hostile attitude towards it. I believe they see this as Western (Caucasian) culture and have a rooted dislike for it. If the European settlers never came, I believe they wouldn’t be in the circumstances that they are in today. For example, Victor

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    1956 film, The Searchers, is a classic Western tale set in the staked plains, post-Civil War era. Like most of John Ford’s Western films, The Searchers is also filmed in Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah. John Ford first introduces Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returning on horseback to his brother, Aaron Edwards’s (Walter Coy) house three years after the Civil War. Ethan is introduced to Martin Pawley (Jeffery Hunter), the adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards. The film moves forward when Rev. Captain Clayton

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    The National Hockey League, also known as the NHL, is the most elite level of hockey in the world. With seven teams playing in Canada, the sport’s country of origin, and twenty-three teams in the United States, hockey has become a favorite sport to watch globally. Hockey is full of high speed, agility, skill, and is widely famous for its violence. Fans love and adore the sport for its glorification of fighting, or best known in hockey as “fisticuffs.” Before the NHL was founded in 1917, fighting

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    In 2013, Robin Thicke, a relatively unknown but well-seasoned R&B singer, found major success in his upbeat song “Blurred Lines,” which featured the big-named artists Pharrell Williams and T.I. (McKinley). The hit song broke records by spending 16 weeks on top of Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Song chart, its popularity earning it the title of Billboard’s Song of the Summer (Ramirez). The uncensored video on Vevo features three female models wearing nothing but shoes and nude-colored underwear dancing

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    Life sometimes seems scary. The fear of failure and the fear of the unknown make a person rethink its choices and goals, this happens all the time. As time passes, be days, moths, years or only simply one experience can change our whole vision of the world, about life, about what really matters and consequently about our goals. Throughout my whole life I have questioned so many aspects of my life, of existence, and consequently about my future. I never stopped wanting to achieve something big, that

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    The company I have chosen to investigate for this assignment is Barnes & Noble, Inc. Originally founded in Illinois, USA, in 1873, this business has risen to become a Fortune 500 company. This bookstore chain boasts over 600 physical locations (cite source) in the United States, as well as a strong online presence. The success of its stores, and of its subsequent web and mobile applications, is proof of its dedication to offering a wide range of quality products and providing an excellent customer

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    What happened in that house Daniel: When you get married you are expected to move into a house right away with your spouse and live happily ever after. That is what I expected to happen when I moved in with my new wife and our son on the way. We had been looking for a house in Atlanta, but we had not had much luck in finding a perfect home to raise our son in that was within our price range. We have been living in a one bedroom apartment, it is just not big enough for the three of us. One day I saw

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    Kendrick Lamar and J Cole are two of the best hip hop artist of our generation. Although the two make music about similar subjects they are completely different at the same time. Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born June 17, in Compton, California. Before he was born his parents moved there to escape the gang culture in Chicago. In his early days he enjoyed writing stories and poems. In Compton he was exposed to a lot of gang activity in the area even though it didn’t really effect him. In his teenage

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    While I don't claim to be (anywhere near) the best Personal Development Speaker in the world, if you were to Google the search term Motivational Speaker you would typically find that my name usually comes out somewhere near the very top of the list of about two million matches. Now, let me quickly add that this fact has pretty much nothing to do with my speaking skills or my profile, and everything to do with Johnnie's ability to do what he does with those amazing tech skills of his. I don't really

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