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    It took 648 miles to walk from Southern Sudan to Ethiopia. Salva did this on an empty stomach with no food or water. Do you think you would survive in a 100 degree weather with no food or water, with the same cloths that you been wearing for a year? Because salva did. In the book “A Long Walk to Water” written by Linda Sue park, she talks about Salva's journey that took years and years to get to safety after the war stated. The war came to his village while he was in school he had to run to

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    Unwind By Neal Shusterman

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    Science fiction is a way for an author to express their concerns in the world while using fiction to bring up controversial ideas. In Unwind , Neal Shusterman is able to incorporate science fiction in a way to not only get his points across but to also make the reader think, and adjust the message to relate to one's own life. Unwind takes place in the future where it is an option for parents to choose to have their child unwound, meaning they would be taken from their family and taken apart. Their

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    Unwind Analysis

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    "What can fingerprints mean when they're not necessarily yours?" stated Lev in the novel “Unwind” written by Neal Shusterman. This occurs when a person receives the body parts from a teen who was unwound. Unwinding is a three hour long process in which a teenager between the age of 13 and 18 is “divided” into several pieces by two teams of 12 surgeons, nine surgical assistants and four nurses. The concept was created in a Civil War that occurred which was also known as the Heartland War. The war

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    Symbolism In Unwind

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    Imagine living in a world where parents can send their children to be killed by removing their body parts one by one for medical reasons, if they were rebellious or were unnecessary in their life. In Neil Shusterman's novel, Unwind, one is shown a world where abortion is illegal, so instead parents are allowed to have their children unwound between the ages of 13 to 18. Like many others, Conner, Risa, and Lev, are faced with the betrayal of their parents and are sent off to be medically murdered

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    Medcomp Case Study

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    Good Morning Dr. Steele, ( Pam)  I hope you are well and had a great weekend.  At long last I was finally able to get through to the right person at the Alabama VA Medical Center. Here is what I learned:   I spoke with Angela Jordan, the Contracting Agent who provided for me the process that they used to purchase the monitors.   Their  respiratory department requested g a quote from Medicomp and then use their credit card to buy them monitors because the purchase was under $3500.    Medicomp

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    1. I called to make Juanita Buda, aware of my being back in Memphis and my intent to become permanently employed at the Memphis VA, she made the comments: The Memphis VA do not transfer from VA to VA, and perhaps I should seek employment at another VA facility in the surrounding area and the Private sector. I made her aware that the nearest VA was Little Rock and it was 324 miles round trip for me. She led me to believe they where no longer doing Transfers. Junita Buda said, “this VA don’t

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    Unwind Research Paper

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    "What can fingerprints mean when they're not necessarily yours?" stated Lev in the novel “Unwind” written by Neal Shusterman. This occurs when a person receives the body parts from a teen who was unwound. Unwinding is a process in which a teenager is “divided” into several pieces. The concept was created in a Civil War that occurred which was also known as the Heartland War. The war had three sides in total, the pro-life, pro-choice, and the remains of the American military, which tried to stop

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    Unwind Book Report

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    The book Unwind, written by Neal Shusterman, is about three teens who are going to be unwound. Being unwound means going into a different form of living where all of a person’s body parts are unattached from them and given to other patients in need. If a kid is older than thirteen but younger than eighteen, their parents can sign an unwind order to have them unwound. The parents might do this if their child is becoming a problem for them or they just think it’s the right thing for them. These three

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    Before I really get into the character analysis, you sort of have to understand what this series is about, and what Cam is. In the series Unwind, it's a different world, where parents cannot abort a baby, but when their child turns 13 they can decide to unwind it. Unwinding is the process where they take all of the parts from a living human apart. People can then use those parts. They can use everything (skin, cells, tissue, arms, blood,). Those parts move and act as if they never left a body. Unwinding

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    illustrates the reinforcement of racial hierarchies through the proliferation of a predominant, societal white aesthetic by recounting passages from the Dick and Jane books, a standardization of family life. Next, “The Black Arts Movement” by Larry Neal demonstrates the reinforcement of racial hierarchies through the proliferation of a white aesthetic by discussing how Black culture, including Black art, is in danger if the white aesthetic is accepted by Black artists. The reinforcement of racial

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