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    the other witch in a wrestler’s hold and yanked her backward while Cotton ripped the broom out of her hands. “Ow!” he yelled. “Ow! Hot! Hot!” The witch I’d hilt slammed came at me again, sharps nails ready, but I swung my sword and she broke open like a piñata. The witch was trying to get Emma off her back. She kicked, clawed, hissed, and bit, but Emma held on while Cotton got the witch’s legs tied up in her broom bristles. Finally, they both pushed her backward into the dirt. The witch tried to get

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    implementation of their health care” (p. 3). Consequently, for many years patients have maintained a central role in their personal healthcare, albeit one regulated by doctors who, “were the only readily accessible source of information for most patients” (Broom, 2005b, p. 327) and specialised in understanding medical terminology. Other traditional sources of health information originate from

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    In Richard Wilbur’s ‘The Juggler,’ the speaker describes the juggler as someone who is striving to lift the spirits of his audience with his talent to distract them from their tedious and arduous daily lives. Through this description, the speaker reveals about themselves that they too are suffering from a tedious and arduous daily life. The description of the juggler and what it reveals about the speaker are expressed in each stanza through the use of diction, figurative language and tone. The opening

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    Trenton, my brother, made up a game where he asked questions and if we got the answer wrong then he swatted a broom at us. Daniel and I decided we could play so Trenton stared asking questions. " Who is my favorite character in Harry Potter?" Trenton asked me. " I don’t know," I answered," Is it Harry?" Trenton thought for a second, then said " No, it's Ron Weasley." He then swatted the broom handle at me instead of the brush side. I was on the top of the bunk bed and I tried to stay away from it

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    that impact how Black males see themselves and how they envision their futures. Brooms (2016) asserts that school culture cannot understand the context of the lived experiences of Black males within education without positioning them as victims of the system. However, it is due to “institutional racism, intergenerational poverty, and the lack of meaningfully sustained educational reform and community development (Brooms, 2016)” that disproportionately puts Black males at risk for educational failure

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    for many families who typically do not know what to do, what to expect and how to handle grief (O’leary & Warland, 2013). Furthermore, there is very little information on Stillbirth experiences especially about men who lose their child(Bonnette & Broom, 2012). Experiencing the loss of a child can be very difficult and often complicate grief which can affect parents social well being (Kersting & Wagner, 2012). In pregnancies that follows a loss such as perinatal loss, it has been found that parents

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    When I first looked at my degree plan I was always eager to take Sociology for some reason. I actually never really understood the subject. I often thought it was somewhat similar to psychology but as the semester went on I realized they are not similar at all. Sociology is the study of groups of persons and their function of human society. While psychology is more about one individual and their mind. So while the semester continued I became more and more interested in this class and begun opening

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    To Be A Gryffindor

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    of time or if he honestly has a good reason for the wait. You sincerely hope he will explain himself soon. Your hopes are answered when on a perfectly normal trip to the bathroom during History of Magic, you are grabbed by someone and pulled into a broom closet. You struggle against your abductor, assumed to be male as when you aimed a kick at his nether region you encountered dangly bits that when kicked elicited a high-pitched shriek from your captor. “Bloody hell woman! It’s me, James!” he shouts

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    but he climbed his extensive ladder and was ready to get the job done. Nonetheless, his father wanted him to have a broom just like his, but the grandfather wanted him to use his mop like broom, and the young boy felt miserable. He didn’t have a say in any of it. Significantly, the boy felt like he didn’t know who to listen or who to pay attention, because of such the great influences brought to him to

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    On another occasion, General Stanley McChrystal flew into a combat outpost to see my platoon with the majority of my chain of command. We sat in a stable around a fire and he asked direct questions about the mission and what he could do to help us accomplish it. I answered his questions respectfully and bluntly. When he asked what questions I had for him, I asked the questions that my subordinates asked of me. After General McChrystal departed, one of my leaders pulled me aside and he told me

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