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    ran through the apartment with adrenaline as did we. During the week we were to focus on practice and our studies. But weekends, we went out. everyone knew us, I'm not talking us as in my roommates and I. We are just freshman anyways, but the soccer girls. Girls soccer was known for going out. This particular Saturday night was at the “Swim House”. Most sports will host a party and typically we have a core group that goes out, Mads, Em, Kenz and I. We tend to stick together. Making sure our lashes

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    person I am today. I was always an out of the box kid, who randomly liked to break-dance and feed strays on the street due to my love for animals. I just wasn’t into boys like I was into Pokemon or Ninja Turtles. The boys didn’t like that, so that caused me to get beat up every day until my older cousins walked me to school. My friends and I witnessed things that we thought were normal until we were told otherwise. From watching people get locked up, seeing white stuff in small ziplocks, and to a shot

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    Rule In A Short Story

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    many calories that sandwich will be. ELIZABETH No, I’m good. I’ll grab something on the way to the library. PAM Okay just make sure you eat. ELIZABETH I will. Elizabeth exits. INT. MS. KIM’S DANCE STUDIO - DAY Elizabeth’s POV: Through the window, we can see Elizabeth taking off her sweatshirt. She has her ballet outfit underneath her sweatpants and sweatshirt. Elizabeth sits on the floor switching from sneakers into her ballet flats. She walks up to a glass mirror and practices her épaulé, à la

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    Theme Of Cruelty In Ww2

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    Also, the Jewish people would have to hid inside secret places so they aren’t arrested by the Gestapo. The stories The Diary of Anne Frank, and Unbroken are full of accounts of brutal and cruel acts. In Unbroken, for instance, the Japanese would beat the crap out the POWs, starve them, and then make them walk many miles in the cold with almost no clothes. Unbroken tells the story of an Olympic athlete who was put inside a concentration camp during WWII and was beaten daily, as well as starved

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    Life in Kenya Essay

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    progressively worsened over time. People are making a stand for human rights but is it necessarily enough to stop people from doing critical things to others. There are three specific human rights violations that should be recognized and handled in Kenya. We should care about Kenya because they have lost the right to own things, police brutality and torture is happening to innocent people. But three violations are not even close to cover all the human rights violations in Kenya. Kenya has progressively

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    English Comp 1 4/21/12 Popular Culture in Rap Music The history of rap music started in Africa with rhythmic beats using drums. From Africa to the Caribbean islands it came to America and started its influential change on American Music. The first rap song to take flight and make its mark on the up and coming rap culture was the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979. In 1986 rap music finally reached the top of the music charts and was show on MTV for the first time featuring Run-DMC. Continuing to change

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    Helping Homeless Essay

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    (T) When someone's is a tough situation, like getting robbed would you help that person or jst stand aside and watch. If you help that person and other people see that you helped them, next time when you need help people will go help you, because you help other people.People who passively accept wrong doings are responsible for those acts as to those who commit them because the victim is innocent, justice, and they can't defend themselves. (TS) The victim is innocent, they were pressured into

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    you ever looked back to a something that you did in your neighborhood when you were child? Generally, when we just look back to a something that we did when we were child we have a strength feeling, and just starting to ask ourselves why we did that and how we did that. Most likely we cannot find answers to our questions because we cannot think how and why we acted childlike behavior after we became adult. I have an embarrassing story that happened to me when I was child and that happened to me with

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    James Hickman Essay

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    scream or cry “all I could do was lay there and wait for the drugs to wear off.” James Hickman beat the odds for the future that was being laid out in front of him by the system, after severing ties with addiction and homelessness in 1990 thru 1996 James ended up serving time in Iowa State Prison in Fort Madison.

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    events in the past has allowed people to know about current events around them. The Civil Rights Movement took place in the early-to-mid-1960s, the Race Beat is an overview of what took place during this period. If there were advances in media during this era, do you feel that past events in history would’ve had an altered outcome? The Race Beat summarizes the racial tensions in the south, with attempts of unity between separate races after World War II, hence some would find out that there are still

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