"One thing I have to admit, is that even Rock Steady kinda got a little taken over by the management. ... So, Wiggles decided to do the movie with Little Rodney C and Electric Force. ... And he could break a little, he could rhyme a little, he could do a little bit of everything. ... And then he called us up and said, Hey I got three friends coming to New York with Lionel Richie, they got a big hit record. ... For us as little kids, it was some of the best times I ever had. ...

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Handguns and long guns are not little killing machines. ... On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership. (3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the overall effect on criminal violence was zero. (4) In one study, researchers found no significant differences in total robbery rates between cities where guns were widely available and cities where they were not; in cities with fewer firearms, armed robbers simply used other weapons. (5) The best available ev...

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First communion for Frank and his nine-year-old friends is a huge event for the family, but to the kids is only huge because it provides them with the opportunity to collect some money for their first visit to the cinema. ... Whether this is part of the deal for the rent, or whether, having given so much over the years, she just wants a little 'love' for herself is not made clear. ... It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. . . the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pom...

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My father's friends began asking to see them at parties, and when they found out that I had designed them, they asked me to design theirs. ... Becoming a tattoo artist was without a doubt the last thing my mother would ever have wanted me to become, so I spent the money I had saved to go back to art school on tattoo supplies and kept them in tattoo tool boxes, and became a traveling artist, going wherever I could just to practice on friends who would lend me some skin. ... Over time I had sharpened my skills driving countless hours to different states and areas to practice for little to n...

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"If you talk to town officials, they'll tell you it might be a little Satanism, a little bit of reading into Hitler, a little bit of boy-girl romance problems, of anger at parents and at classmates," said police chief William Slade (Morgan 2). One of Woodham's friends, Justin Sledge said "He was simply pushed to a pivotal point in his life in which the world has spit on him for the last time, and he was fixing to spit back (Morgan 3)." ...

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I believe what is worth dying for is my family and some of my closest friends. ... Ever since I was little I have always been involved in sports and have constantly had a set schedule every single day of different places I needed to be at different times in the day. ... I have always kept myself super busy and that's just how I was grown up, running from one activity to another and when I wasn't doing that I was calling friends to hangout making sure I had something to do. ...

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Maybe they had trouble maintaining relationships and therefore lacked the protective buffer of supportive family and friends or worst of all, they rejected conventional responsibilities and had chosen homelessness (Timmer 156). ... The question is why doesn't this definition include persons who are staying with friends and family or who can afford to rent a hotel room on a temporary basis? ... Judging from the review of reports received, it appears that those in vulnerable economic situations, upon receiving an economic jolt, in the absence of "social margins" (savings, relatives, exten...

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(Time Magazine) The media bombardment that teens are faced with in society distorts the laws of reality, and as one sociologist puts it: "adolescents show little if any concern for the physical injury or harm inflicted for their victims." ... The children that did this cold-blooded act were seen by other High School students as a little bit "different" but not "disturbed," to their knowledge anyway. Little did they know what was about to happen to them. ... (Former probation officer from Brooklyn, NY featured in Time Magazine) Parents are definitely the biggest influence on a child since they...

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The American economy is at its lowest right now. Countless people are losing their jobs and are unable to find work. As a result, many people are unable to keep up with their bills; including the mortgage payment. This has been causing the real estate market to fall to an all-time low. Although real...

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese led their first attack on American soil by bombing the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack was the turning point for America's role in World War II. On December 8, Americans anxiously sat around their radios, ready to hear President Roosevelt address the nation. His message, (Day of Infamy) was clear and powerful, and would go down as one of the most effective speeches in American history. Nearly sixty years later, on September 11, 2001, America was again faced with a devastating attack. ...

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I experienced that my American friends invited me along to worship sessions at their own family church. ... In 1689, Great Britain had passed a religious Act of Toleration, but this meant little for American colonies.4 In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson highlighted the fact that in 17th century Virginia, it was punishable for "parents to refuse to have their children baptized," and for various other offenses.5 Sheriffs imprisoned Baptists living within Virginia; Baptist ministers were not given permission to preach their own religion, and were prey to physical violence.6...

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The Millennium Declaration commits the international community and member states of the U.N. to the achievement of eight major goals. Two of these goals are the eradication of hunger and poverty and the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women. The third problem I will be discussing is ...

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He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. ...

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In A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, one of the key characters Madame Defarge embodies the fury and wrath of the French Revolution. Well, America also embodies her own fury and wrath underneath her peaceful and tranquil exterior. Many believe that Madame Defarge is the epitome of evil; wher...

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On December 29, 1940 Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a speech to the country that was like a "fireside chat- but was not. Roosevelt talked about in his speech statements about Germany's plans to engulf the world during World War II: " The Nazi masters of Germany have made if clear that they intend no...

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This they say is only applicable in the rare cases of premeditated murder, whereas murders that occur " in the heat of passion, with no premeditated intention to kill, the offender often makes little attempt to avoid detection ." ... Another reason that is often overlooked is the misery the innocent family and friends of criminals must also go through in the time leading up to and during the execution and which will often cause them serious distress for years afterwards. ...

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National security America over its short life time has built up this reputation for being "untouchable". We are so far away from any major threats, and because of this, America has gone to sleep. It used to be that communication amongst countries would take months at a time. Your conversation w...

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Cover Letter This portfolio consists of how food choices change every day and the journey of food. It details the journey of food based on pieces written in 1st and 3rd person through research reflected by essays. There was definitely a major change in my written works and projects since I have b...

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Dogs are often regarded as human beings' companions or friends in English-speaking countries, but the same word is often used with a derogatory sense, as in "×ß""ÌÈÊ'""Í ¾uÊ "" ¼ ±ÌÃ¸Ç ½"in Chinese. ...

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I believe in the golden rule, and i feel like love should be universal, not pointed towards close family and friends. ... When she does get on her little soap box though, she does consider herself a democrat. ...

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We have hated and persecuted the Negro we have scourged him out of the temple of justice by the Dred Scott decision we have shot and hanged his friends at Harper's Ferry we have enacted laws for his further degradation, and even to expel him from the borders of some of our States we have joined in the infernal chase to hunt him down like a beast, and fling him into the hell of slavery we have repealed and trampled upon laws designed to prevent the spread of slavery and in a thousand ways given to increase the power and ascendancy of slavery ! ...

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HISTORY: in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form...

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Once the people heard about how easy it was to make money, people would mortgage their homes, borrow money from friends and family and leave their families in order to go search for gold in California. ... Instead of the old belief that working hard enough and long enough would eventually get you what you wanted, the gold rush made people anxious to make money as quickly as possible and gain their wealth with as little work as possible. ...

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