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    Joseph pierce is an inventor who created the indoor snow machine. No mess just touchable white snow that leaves no water. Really it is an amazing piece of work. There is only one problem, well for now. That is that Joseph is only 9 years old. Joseph is walking to school with his two friends Emily and Alex in the land of Pictopia. Pictopia is a hidden underwater continent humans made after the icebergs melted and the ozone was destroyed. Joseph is an A student who is known by everyone in the school

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    Last night (April 11) Drake took the stage to close out the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and he packed his set with a series of surprises. During his performance the rapper turned out some of his newest material from his current album If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, but the biggest surprise was when he was joined onstage by fellow superstar Madonna. As the rapper broke into the debut performance of his single “Madonna,” the musician joined him onstage and

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    with, have been changed to fit the needs of individual cultures and families. Their influence stretches over geographic and linguistic boundaries leaving a mark on cultures around the world. The tales of damsels such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White are ones that are known by every generation, in almost every cultures around the world. These stories that are told now are not the ones told long ago in their home country of Germany. Many adaptations have been made to these three stories over time

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    In the summer of 2006 I was inspired to do something that inherently would never have even crossed my mind. I was born and bred to be risk averse. My parents, the resolute material providers that they are, taught me not to fend for myself, but rather to avoid confrontation altogether. Their eastern culture centric and old-fashioned way of child rearing has had a profound effect on the way I lived my life. However, their penchant for negative reinforcement and their inability to show physical affection

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    Awe. Complete and utter awe. That was the only way I could ever describe the feeling the night sky struck into me with its thousands upon thousands of stars. I had never seen the sky this beautiful. I had never seen anything like this all my life. Taking a few steps back, I seated myself on a stone that stood like a miniature plateau above the surrounding grass. I had been told this would be the best spot to see the sky tonight, and I had not been told a lie. I looked straight up so that the rest

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    Las Vegas Shooting Case Study When news outlets broke the news on “Who was Stephen Paddock?”, headlines followed by "He was a quiet man. He liked to gamble, and enjoyed country music.” Oh and let’s not forget that he also had just murdered 50+ people. When tragic events occur, reporters and editors agonize over the words they will use to present the news to the eyes of the reader. As the United States is still recovering from the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, news coverage is steadily

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    Ava Duvernay Essay

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    Hollywood currently is facing is its lack of diversity both in front of and behind the camera. Very few opportunities are offered to minorities in the entertainment industry, so it needs to be celebrated when someone who lacks the same chances as a white male is able to make their voice heard. Director Ava DuVernay is one of those artist who refused to be silenced. Ava is a black female director, screenwriter, film marketer, and film distributer. The majority of her narrative films feature black female

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    novel, Atticus needs to prepare for an upcoming trial that he mostly has no chance of winning. Atticus is put on the case to represent Tom Robinson, a black man who is accused who raping a white female. One night, Miss Maudie’s, the Finch’s neighbor, house catches on

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    Phalguna is the twelfth month on the Hindu calendar, the same calendar that governs the Hindu religious life. Phagwah Day is celebrated all over the country at festivals and parties. Phagwah Day marks the beginning of spring in Suriname, and is known in Suriname as the festival of color. The people, who go the Phagwah festivals, wear the color white to show that they are ready to celebrate and get dirty. Today, Hinduism is one of the main religions in Suriname, and at one point was the most common religion

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    Celebrating Pagan Yule, a Winter Solstice Holiday The winter solstice (also called midwinter) is a celebration to celebrate the longest night of year, and is on December 21st or the 22nd. Officially the first day of winter, the winter solstice occurs when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun (precisely. *sips daintily from teacup*) and is the “dark night of our souls”. It celebrates the birth of the new solar year and the beginning of winter. The winter solstice has been celebrated for

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