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    Anna Garcia Case

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    They found Anna lying face down in the entry hallway of the house. Police immediately notified crime scene investigators and a medical examiner. After investigating the scene‚ persons of interest were verified*. Persons of interest included Alex Garcia (Anna’s ex-husband)‚ Doug Greene (Anna’s neighbor)‚ Erica Piedmont (Alex’s new wife)‚ and Lucy Leffingwell (Anna’s co-owner of their bakery). A series of labs were done following item found at the scene. Fingerprint analysis‚ blood type analysis‚

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    Strange Wedding Customs

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    Strange wedding traditions Wedding traditions differ from culture to culture‚ nation to nation. Some of traditions are actually quite hard to explain. Here are just few examples of such traditions. Let’s start with Korea. After the wedding ceremony‚ friends of the groom take off his socks‚ tie a rope around the ankles‚ and start beating soles of his feet with dried yellow corvina. Yellow corvina is kind of fish! It is done so to make the groom stronger before the first wedding night. Korean bride

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    Jeremy Garcia 4

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    Jeremy Garcia English 101 November 25‚ 2014 Compare and Contrast Truman and O’Conner In both stories of “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by O’Connor‚ similarities and contrasts exist in their literacy forms. The characters in both stories are also comparable‚ although diverse at certain points. Several of the similarities ranges from foreshadowing‚ character simulation‚ and even the setting is similar since it envies’ and harbor criminal incidences (O’Connor‚ 121)

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    Gabriel Prosser’s Slave Conspiracy In the year 1800 several slaves decided to put up a fight for their rights as American citizens. Gabriel Prosser‚ a very large‚ black slave‚ helped to gather a large sum of fellow slaves and began to plan a revolt‚ create weapons and ammunitions‚ and secretly plot their attack. This secret attack remained a secret attack for quite sometime until the governor and a few others caught wind of the slaves’ plans. A few letters had been written in regards of a rebellious

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    discuss. Although I really enjoyed poetic memoir in Surrendering by Ocean Vuong and the story of family development in Cisneros’ Ghosts and Voices‚ I found my responses to the other three readings were more important to discuss. In Alibis’ A Literary Pilgrim Progresses to the Past‚ I found that as someone who has continually tried their hand at writing‚ I really connected to this reading. I completely understand that it’s very difficult to discover what distinguishes you from others. Sometimes even when

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    In Delany’s article "Pilgrim at Topanga Creek”‚ Boyle makes a social commentary about possible causes and solutions for the immigration problem through further development of coyotes as a symbol for immigrants. This is my favorite example because it ties so many different aspects of the novel together with the metaphor. On the surface‚ Delany describes coyotes in his article as “our cleverest and most resourceful large predator” (p.211). He claims that they are able to take advantage of the resources

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    San Gabriel Research Paper

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    I have chosen to do my public field site on the Mission of San Gabriel for my research paper. The Mission of San Gabriel connects to historical events‚ starting with the Native Americans who lived in Los Angeles area‚ who were known as Gabrielino after the mission of San Gabriel. In 1774‚ Juan Bautista de Anna arrived and established a route from Mexico City to California. In 1779‚ the building of the San Gabriel Mission was build. By 1805 the building of the Mission was completed‚ however a tragedy

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    Hamlet's Strange Behavior

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    King Claudius greets Guildenstern and Rosencrantz at Elsinore and explains his concern about Hamlet’s strange behavior. Claudius chose both of them to investigate if there are any reasons to Hamlet’s strange behavior other than his father’s sudden death. As Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are both childhood friends of Hamlet‚ they are familiar with his normal behavior and personality. They both agree to do their best and leave to locate Hamlet. Polonius then enters the room and claims he has found the

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    Sister Mary Gabriel Hogan

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    Assessment Task 2: Early educators of the Deaf in Australia. Sister Mary Gabriel Hogan (Ellen Hogan): Unfortunately because of poor records kept at the time there are a few different dates of Ellen Hogan’s actual birth‚ but it was in August 1842‚ 1843 or 1844 in Dublin and died November 25th 1915‚ then put in her final resting place at Sandgate Cemetery‚ Newcastle. Her parents were John Hogan and Mary McMahon. When Ellen was either 7 or 8 years old she caught Scarletina (also known as Scarlet

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    We go to school to learn and study. What’s strange is why we still have to study things that can’t be applied to our everyday lives. Like in math‚ why do we have to study X and Y when it wouldn’t be applied in real life. It’s not like we’re going to buy in the department store and the cashier would say this cabbage price is x5 – y9. That would be ridiculous. We can’t apply that to our daily lives. So why do we have to study such things. When guys flirt with a million of girls some would say

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