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    LITERATURE REVIEW. There are so many definitions about piracy but international and customary treaty defines it as said by ademun odeke. (2011)‚ Customary and international treaty laws define and classify piracy under four main categories. However‚ Somali piracy has risen numerous and hitherto unfamiliar issues. First‚ is the unique nature of the piracy; unlike anything known before and which has taken the international community by surprise. Second‚ are the unique underlying causes

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    It’s been over 20 years since the mysterious crimes of Jonbenet Ramsey and Amber Hagerman. Both innocent kids in 1996 who went missing. Not many people know how the crime really happened. Even‚ where they were last seen in Arlington or Colorado. The suspects range from random strangers to their own family. After‚ the crimes occurred they kept looking into the crimes of Jonbenet and Amber. Jonbenet was just a pageant girl like her Mother from Colorado and Amber an Arlington girl. This crime that

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    little girl was found dead in the basement of their home and no one heard or saw a thing. Records say that JonBenet had a fractured skull‚ been molested and had been strangled with a chord. According to biography.com‚ the only evidence found was a ransom letter requesting $118‚000 in which was written on some paper belonging to the Ramseys and the duct tape which had fibers from her mother’s clothing. When her body was found‚ the father should have not moved her. I do not understand why he would

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    island or the one behind that. In the picture of the cliff she is hidden by the clutch of fallen rocks towards the bottom… Everyone has to be somewhere‚ and this is where Lucy is… In Lois’s apartment‚ in the holes that open inwards on the wall…" (392). Lois is logically unable to accept the reality that Lucy was never found. Therefore‚ she creates the delusional concept of her being inside the paintings‚ like they are windows to another world. She even imagines that she hears Lucy calling every once in

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    found a ransom note on the nursery window sill demanding $50‚000. They immediately contacted the Hopewell Police who then notified the New Jersey State Police and they took charge of the investigation. They questioned housekeeping and employees‚ Charles Lindbergh asked family and friends to help reach the kidnapper or to find any trace of who it might be. Dr. Condon‚ a retired school principal‚ starting publishing in newspaper articles negotiations with the kidnapper and he received ransom money to

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    Administration was negotiating with terrorists even though they deliberately stated they were not (PBS‚ 2016‚ p. 1). The timing is a tad bit peculiar because it certainly does appear to be a money trade for human life. President Obama stated‚ “We do not pay ransom. We didn’t here‚ and we won’t in the future” (PBS‚ 2016‚ p. 1). However‚ they decided to pay out a 37-year-old debt at the exact moment prisoners were being released? (PBS‚ 2016‚ p. 1). It appears to be too

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    (and pedagogical) appeal of a characteristic way of reading. The theoretical differences among the critics commonly described as New Critics (not necessarily by themselves)-- I. A. Richards‚ William Empson‚ F. R. Leavis‚ Kenneth Burke‚ John Crowe Ransom‚ Allen Tate‚ Yvor Winters‚ Cleanth Brooks‚ R. P. Blackmur‚ W. K. Wimsatt‚ Jr.‚ René Wellek--are sometimes so great as to leave little ground for agreement. The New Critics tended to be eclectic on matters of theory‚ concentrating instead on what Blackmur

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    John Ford‚ since 1952‚ has held the record for winning Best Director in the Academy Awards. His films have been dazzling and astonishing moviegoers for decades and he was a pioneer for shooting on-location and the extreme long shot. Of the many John Ford movies‚ there is an ongoing presence and repetition of several motifs. These themes are usually significant to the plot or character development in the film and often represent similar themes from film to film. Some of these motifs Ford uses in his

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    jobs under false names. He eventually infiltrates a scientific discovery of a Kryptonian scout spaceship in the Arctic. Clark enters the alien ship‚ and it allows him to communicate with the preserved consciousness of Jor-El in the form of a hologram. Lois Lane‚ a journalist from the Daily Planet who was sent to write a story on the discovery‚ sneaks inside the ship while following Clark and is rescued by him when she is injured by the ship’s automated defenses. Lois’s editor Perry White rejects her

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    Chosen visual essay: Picture Essay Thesis: ’The Giver’ and Ready Player One portray similar and different aspects on dystopian features. This is shown through the political‚ social‚ environmental and class of both settings. Social Management (PEAEAS) ’The Giver’s’ social management shows aspects of dystopia since everyone living in the community is restricted to what they can and cannot say in several different ways. The first way they restrict what people can say is that they set a series

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