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    The Lost Children of Rockdale

    transmitted diseases as a delinquency problem, but the actions that were taken place before and after their sexual encounters is a different story. The consumption of illegal narcotics and underage drinking was indeed a very big delinquency issue. I know in a lot of cities in the United States they do not allow

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    History of the Black Death

    various areas including Central Asia, Kurdistan, Western Asia, Northern India and Uganda (Edmonds). Plague was reportedly first introduced to Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347 (Whipps, 2008). After a protracted siege, during which the Mongol army was suffering the disease, they catapulted the infected corpses over the city walls to infect the inhabitants. The Genoese traders fled, taking the plague by ship into Sicily and the south of Europe, whence it spread north (Edmonds). From

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    Creative Writing: Saving United States

    Saving United States As the bright sun was rose throughout the quiet city , Aiden was making breakfast for his mother, Mrs. Jung. Aiden had light brown hair and as tall as a tree. He was a knight in shining armour for his mother and the town that he lives in. He entered the room where she was sleeping on the hard, wooden floor with just a thin blanket. “Mom, wake up it’s past seven o'clock.”Aiden shook her but she was still in a deep sleep like when a bear is in hibernation. “Eli, bring the syringe

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    A Tale of Two Londons

    A Tale of Two Londons Who really lives at One Hyde Park, called the world’s most expensive residential building? Its mostly absentee owners, hiding behind offshore corporations based in tax havens, provide a portrait of the new global super-wealthy. BY NICHOLAS SHAXSON Up until the 18th century, Knightsbridge, which borders genteel Kensington, was a lawless zone roamed by predatory monks and assorted cutthroats. It didn’t come of age until the Victorian building boom, which left a charming

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    Cast Iron Kings

    The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter. Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’ —THOMAS PARKE D’INVILLIERS  The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 I n my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over

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    The Threshold of Revelation

    Threshold Of Revelation By Christopher A. Johnson Scene 1 FADE IN on a long shot of New York City, approaching from the south. It is dusk, and the lights of the city are beginning to twinkle against the backdrop of the vibrant city. Quick cuts to street level scenes of well-known locales between title cards naming the cast. These scenes and title cards are cut with a moving shot of the George Washington Bridge (span, cables, deck, towers, etc.) from different angles

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    World Religions Report

    visited was a Hindu Temple down the street from my house in Scottsdale Arizona. The actual name of the temple was just “Hindu Temple”. A few years back I did not see many Hindu temples, but now I have seen one in each city that I have lived in. Hindu temples are decorated with bright colors and usually each temple has a different god or goddess statue in it. They are so beautiful inside and have a very welcoming feel to them. There are bells hanging from the ceiling that Hindus ring when they

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    Books

    FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury This one, with gratitude, is for DON CONGDON. FAHRENHEIT 451: The temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns PART I IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN IT was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of

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    Alenxander's Bridge

    foot of the hill made him blink a little, not so much because it was too bright as because he found it so pleasant. The few passers-by glanced at him unconcernedly, and even the children who hurried along with their school-bags under their arms seemed to find it perfectly natural that a tall brown gentleman should be standing there, looking up through his glasses at the gray housetops. The sun sank rapidly; the silvery light had faded from the bare boughs and the watery twilight was setting in when

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    Rap Soul Star

    Intro I’m a fucking lion, born on MT Zion That means I’m an angel doomed to this earth You can trap my body, but I will free this verse Beat Drop Verse 1 I will rip you apart with my fucking heart I mean my fucking art, call it hip hop, It makes my heart stop and do a flip flop When I hear that verse that gives me chills Like AB soulo when he spitting that real Look our government on some other shit Like exploit the poor and get rich off the shit I got this beat from King Tip, call

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