Some people still see California as a state for the laid-back, people who sat in movies or television, surf, tan, and otherwise live a life of pleasure. What reality provides, however, is a far different state: one with some of the most severe penalties for criminal activities, sometimes no matter how slight. ... "1n news stories, opponents often misrepresent how three-strikes is being enforced and its effect on crime."" (Westerman 1) The author writes that opponents of the law claim that the majority of criminal sentenced under this law have been convicted on nonviolent crimes, like marij...

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"The Awakening-, another popular story written by her, was published in 1899, and by then she was well known as a writer, and had published over one hundred stories, essays, and sketches in literary magazines. ... The "storm of grief- is an ironic inference to how Mrs. ... In another way, Chopin makes a statement of irony when she writes, "...as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams,"" (Chopin 262). ... All of these elements of irony show how Mrs. ... Finally, Chopin writes, "...those days ahead of her. ...

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This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died- - thus falling victims of the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers" (From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, London, 1789) In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African the protagonist recounts the pain involved in entering this enormous ship, and how, gradually, the more the ship flew over ...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and throughout his lifetime, Theodore suffered from severe asthma, becoming so bad that they would nearly suffocate him. His father, who refused to have a sickly child, would constantly carry him around, hoping that Theodore's lungs would become stronger. ...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and throughout his lifetime, Theodore suffered from severe asthma, becoming so bad that they would nearly suffocate him. His father, who refused to have a sickly child, would constantly carry him around, hoping that Theodore's lungs would become stronger. ...

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While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. ... So, the question is now, how could this one man and his political party (the Fascists) become so unbelievably popular within Italy in a post World War One era? ... When a man cannot earn a living simply because there is nothing he can do no matter how willing he quickly...

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