died that my brother, Donald, accomplished the most spectacular deed of his life. I wish I could have been there to see it: Donald taking the Greyhound down to Nogales all by himself, buying the baby armadillo for eight hundred pesos from a pie-faced Indian woman at the Santa Acuna market, tucking the little thing under his arm like a football and running the length of the pedestrian border station, past the heat-struck tourists in their sombreros and loud socks and the guards with their sidearms and
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)The student left standing after this gruel ing process of elimination "wins." One exuberant 18-year-old who aspires to be a physics professor dismissed criticism as politically correct overreaction and likened the game to "playing cowboys and Indians." (No Indians were apparently available for comment.) It began to dawn on me why all those kids in Colorado could go on and on about how "normal" Eric Hanis and Dylan Klebold were. I began to appreciate why the auth01ities might find it hard to pick
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Capable Law Enforcers Ryan Asevo CJA/204 December 4, 2010 Gregory Todd Frum Ever since the dawn of organized society, there has been a need for capable guardians or what we now know as law enforcement agencies. In our present time, we have different levels of law enforcement agencies starting with local, state, and federal. Local law enforcement provides service to its designated jurisdiction which most of the time is one city. State law enforcement provides service to
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the United States is a right or a privilege but what should had never been in question, is the right that American Indians and Alaska Natives carry because they are the only true citizens of the United States who were born with a legal right to health care. Although this sentence carries truth from the very beginning in the making of what the United States is today, American Indians and Alaska natives are still labeled under the term as a “Vulnerable Population”. Funding: The term Vulnerable
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In The Death and Life of American Cities, urban activist Jane Jacobs argues that cities should be designed in a way that assimilates children on the streets. Jacobs writes that city streets should serve as an “unspecialized outdoor home base” where children can “form their notions of the world” (Jacobs 81). While Jacobs believes that an urban environment is suitable for raising children, cities prove to be an unsafe and unhealthy place to grow up. Children raised in an urban environment are not properly
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Memphis is renowned for pulled pork, doused in a tomato-based sauce. North Carolina smokes the whole hog in a vinegar-based sauce. Kansas City natives prefers ribs cooked in a dry rub, and Texans worship beef- you’re likely to find mesquite-grilled “cowboy-style” brisket somewhere that looks like a gas station (secretly the best BBQ you’ll ever have). But why, even if BBQ transcended its way across America’s hearts, did the sauces drastically change? The answer is simpler than you might think- just
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Day 1 Today was this first day of work and I was really excited to begin working with my future co-workers. On my way to work I took a wrong turn and got on the wrong bus. It was a good thing that I left an hour ahead of schedule. I asked a gentleman for help and he told me where to go and was extremely kind. After I finally arrived to The Frozen Food Store, I was kind of disappointed. I thought I would be working at this huge company but it was just a hole in the wall. It was crappy. I had high
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they grew up you would receive multiple answers. One would be bombarded with replies such as a police officer, a fireman, a doctor or a teacher. Driving in neighborhoods you would see kids playing games such as over the line, football or even cowboys and Indians. It was not uncommon to see families sitting down to dinner or even having a picnic in the park. In these days and times family values are not what they use to be, they are disappearing with the fact that parents have to obtain jobs and the
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I was nine. There were four of us, my parents, my older brother and me. My brother Keith and I discovered the bridge almost at once and most of our summer elapsed exploring and playing there. We played Cowboys and Indians presuming the astonishingly undeviating bannisters as horses, fantasizing Buffalo Bill, legendary Indiana Jones, or eminent Crazy Horse. My brother would scream—his blood-curling screech transmitting an ephemeral eerie silence and rippling the
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Three Times That was the number of times that house was broken in one week. The south ide of Fort Worth, at the time was home of a Coca-Cola plant, and minutes away from Tandy Corporation. Dad worked at Coca-Cola, well at least he thought he did, and mother she thought she worked for the Tandy Corporation. Inside that yellow house on Magnolia Avenue, siblings shared a room and at times a bed. I was the oldest of two, and was born in Wichita, Kansas. “Hey kids come check out what they were throwing
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