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    Elizabeth Ann Smart is a beautiful blonde hair blue eyed girl. She was born into a religious Mormon family on November 3, 1987 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her mother was housewife while her father was in the real estate business. Elizabeth is the second born child out of six children. All throughout school she was very obedient and participated in cross-country where she would train as a distance runner. She also enjoyed playing her harp and would be asked to perform at funerals and weddings (Biography

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    The case of Elizabeth Smart was a nationally recognized case of a man and his wife who captured a young girl. The captors were Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Ileen Barzee, that led to daily rape, tied up at all times, religiously wed and threatened with her death and loved ones if she attempted to escape. Ultimately leading to her rescue and time in prison for the captors. On June 5, 2002, at around 2:00 a.m. in an upscale neighborhood in Salt Lake City Utah. Elizabeth Smart a 14 year old girl woke

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    “I am alive, but I am not living, I remember thinking as I walked. I am the living dead. I am nothing but a shell,” (170). This quote is from Elizabeth Smart’s memoir, My Story. Elizabeth Smart was 14 when she was abducted. She was taken from her bed in the middle of the night, a long serrated black knife along her throat. She was taken captive for nine months, hidden in several different hideouts. Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee - her captors - threatened to kill her and/or all of

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    Police Officer Body Cam Shows Amazing Rescue These days we haven 't seen very many good images from the body cams that police officers wear. But, that all changes today when we take a look at this amazing rescue footage. After a SUV crashed, Officer Dan Whitney rushed to the scene. What he found there was absolutely terrifying. The SUV is already in flames when the officer arrives. And, he finds the driver trapped in the backseat of the vehicle. Luckily, he is able to pull the man from the wreckage

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    "I have a knife to your neck. Don 't make a sound. Get out of bed and come with me." These are the words that Elizabeth Smart heard as she was awoken on June 5, 2002. (Moses, 2010). At only 14 years old, Smart was taken from her home, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and was not found until nine months had passed. Brian David Mitchell broke into the Smart 's home and grabbed the youngster from her room that she shared with her sister Mary Katherine. What Mitchell did not know was that Mary Katherine

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    It’s lost. I can’t get it back, it’s gone. It was abruptly taken from me. My childhood, my innocence. Yes, I killed her. I killed the innocent and fragile girl inside of me. I didn't do it by myself, every person around me helped in a way, and now they ask me where she is. How dare they ask such a thing when they know they are the reason she is not here anymore. I want her back, I want to be that carefree and innocent child that had no worries. Now all I have left behind is this tired and melancholy

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    In chapter fourteen the readers are presented with the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart when she was only fourteen years old and she wasn’t found until nine months later. These types of events cause’s incredible amounts of stress that only few go through and affects the individual’s health that will affect them throughout their life. However, as the book states her story was one of resilience, today she has overcame the event and now leads a positive productive life and is happily married. Thankfully

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    The novel My Story by Elizabeth Smart is a nonfiction book that tells Smart’s experience as she was kidnapped and stolen away from her family for nine months. A man named Brian David Mitchell took Elizabeth out of her own bed one June night in 2002. This story displays how Elizabeth felt in these moments and all of those after the initial kidnapping in the nine months following. Elizabeth is forced into doing things that oppose her religion and her own morals and is moved out of her state and back

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    For the book I was reading, it's called My story by Elizabeth Smart and Chris Stewart. The book tells a story about Elizabeth Smart and her captures. There names are Brian David Mitchell, Wanda Barzee. In the night as Elizabeth was sleeping in her bed, Mitchell came though the widow that her dad left open because he burnt some food then went up the stairs to her room. Mitchell had a knife to her throat then told, her I will kill you and your family if you try to run or make a noise. When

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    I am reading the final book in the Ranger 's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger. In the book, Will has to take on an apprentice. She is the crown princes of Araluen, and the daughter of Will’s best friends, Evanlyn and Horace. They want Will to take her on as an apprentice because of two reasons. Reason one, Will has become obsessed with hunting down the gang members who lead to his wife’s, Alyss, death, and they hope that taking on an apprentice will help to get his mind of Alyssa 's death. Reason two

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