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    Roger Sherman's Childhood

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    Roger Sherman was one of the men that signed the Declaration of Independence and he had a pretty interesting life. He was born in Newton‚ Massachusetts. He didn’t know anything else beside what his dad’s books told him. For the first part of his career he was a shoemaker’s apprentice. Even though he didn’t know much when he was a kid as he grew up his dad got more books for his library. He also got his minister that was from Harvard to teach him more things. When his father died‚ he was 22

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    Murder in the Cathedral

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    MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL: The play can be said to begin at the climax‚ for the tension and fear imposed by the state have reached the people at the lowest level. At the beginning of the play‚ there is a sense of doom that hangs heavy in the air. Everyone fears that Becket’s return will result in tragedy‚ clearly foreshadowing the end of the play from the very beginning. The plot centers on the changed friendship between King Henry II and Thomas Becket. Henry has raised Becket to the post of Chancellor

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    The Lesson – Roger McGough (1937-) General assignments  Paraphrase It’s about chaos in the classroom‚ and how to solve this. The teacher is using violence to control the students (swords and all) and The Head is supporting that. The writer tries to make this story funny‚ but still wants it to have a deeper meaning and make you think.  Meaning The meaning is that you shouldn’t use violence in the classroom (it isn’t a solution)‚ but you should be able to control a class.  Intentions The

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    Jack Rogers Monologue

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    One day in jacks ordinary world on the way home from school Jack Rodgers found a pipe‚ black hat‚ and a scarf. Jack Rogers wondered how that stuff got there but he didn’t care so he ran off and played basketball. Being curious he went back and the stuff was gone the pipe‚ black hat‚ and scarf but something else was missing the pile of snow the stuff was on. So he began walking around looking for it. He soon found in front of a hole a carrot. Jack was curious so he reached and grabbed it and there

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    Roger Crisp - Pleasure

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    PLEASURE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Roger Crisp Roger Crisp asks whether hedonism is quite as bad as is often supposed. Hedonism’s decline Since the beginning of philosophy‚ many people have thought that the only thing really worth seeking in life is pleasure‚ and that the only thing really worth avoiding is pain. This is the view called ’hedonism’ (from the Greek hedone‚ meaning ’pleasure’). The ancients were fascinated by the view. Plato‚ Aristotle and the Stoics spent a lot of time coming

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    Murder Story

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    Murder story. George Street. 8:23 am‚ London rush hour. A typically dull day‚ overcast‚ North Easterly wind. Bitter for October. The West End thrum crawls out of the gutter‚ the morning traffic bleak after opening night. Down wheelie bin guarded back alleys‚ pages of a tabloid struggle out of a puddle. Red. Mud. Boot. Disorientated gulls blare out their siren from rooftops. “I’m leaving now honey‚” “ok then see you later.” . Danielle Philips was off to the dentist. As always‚ there was heavy

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    The Life of Roger Federer

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    Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who‚ as of October 2013‚ is ranked world no. 7 by the ATP. Numerous commentators‚ pundits‚ former and current players of the sport have deemed Federer the greatest tennis player of all time.[a] He holds several men’s world records of the Open Era: holding the world no. 1 position for 302 weeks overall;[15][16] including a 237-consecutive-week stretch at the top from 2004 to 2008;[17] winning

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    Is Abortion Murder?

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    abortion. Slavery was brought up because it involves human rights‚ as abortion does also. The question is whether an unborn child is a human being that has the same inalienable rights that a black human being has. This stems the question‚ "Is abortion murder?" If so then there has been a legal genocide going on in the United States since 1973 with over 40 million victims. "Life‚ biologically speaking‚ begins at fertilization. We all begin with the same raw materials: an egg and a sperm

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    A murder is announced

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    A Murder is Announced – Agatha Christie Between 7.30 and 8.30 every morning except Sundays‚ Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on his bicycle‚ whistling vociferously through his teeth‚ and alighting at each house or cottage to shove through the letterbox such morning papers as had been ordered by the occupants of the house in question from Mr Totman‚ stationer‚ of the High Street. Thus‚ at Colonel and Mrs Easterbrook’s he delivered The Times and the Daily Graphic; at

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    Was it murder? In essay I will be speaking about three victims. U.S Marshal Edward Mars‚ Simon‚ and Piggy. What is murdermurder is catologies into first-degree murder and second-degree murder. The definition of murder is: “the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law; committed with malice aforethought; characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commision of another serious crime‚ as robbery or arson (know as first-degree murder) and

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