within a monologue to show the discrepancies that some people in the town feel about the Matthew Shepard incident. An example would be, “Moment: One of Ours.” In the previous moment, Harry Woods, and Matt Galloway give emotional interviews about all the support people had shown for Matt at the homecoming parade. However, this is all juxtaposed by Sherry Johnson’s monologue in the next moment, where she goes on to say, “A lot of it is my feeling that the media is portraying Matthew Shepard as a saint,
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country where I now live with my boyfriend, two, toypoodles, a ferret and my boyfriends parents. We all live in the country on 5 ½ acres. Our home is 2 homes in one which are both separated, the parents live on one side and we live on the other. Once you have been use to living the city life and move to the country it can be quite an adjustment because there is not much to do in Texarkana, Tx compared to Houston. For instance, simple things for me like driving to town seem like such a chore. Since
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racially. The town has a large number of very wealthy people living alongside people with average incomes. Although, I moved away when I was only 8 years old, I remember playing in my neighborhood with people whose parents were from different parts of the world and spoke in languages other than English in their homes. This was my start to realizing that people can be different and still be the same. When I moved to Shaker Heights, OH. My parents said they had chosen this town because, it was
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of Hope I dug through the rubble and trash that had once been someone’s home, as I shoveled the waste I could see a little girl’s doll, a family photo, and part of a baby’s crib. I knew this was much more than someone’s house being destroyed, but their life’s been flipped upside and torn apart. On April 27, 2011, an extremely violent EF5 wedge tornado, with estimated winds of up to 205 mph, struck the town of Smithville, Mississippi. The tornado destroyed 117 structures and damaged 50 others
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always barriers to overcome, but overcoming the milestones keep us motivated to achieve what we originally set out to do. My personal goals for the future consist of relocating, followed by a professional promotion into management, and completing my degree in order to have a successful life ahead of me. A personal short term goal of mine is to sell my home. I am preparing my home for resale and hope to place it on the market with a realtor in the next few months. There have been many barriers to overcome
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U07A1-Architecture in Town Capella University Chrissy Zufall August 25th, 2012 The first building that I decided to examine is the office building where I used to work. I was there for 40 or more hours weekly and, even though I came to the same place day in and day out it started to become very tedious, I have to say that I still appreciated the aesthetics and architecture around me. There is a hot tub business and an insurance
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Community art As I walk around my town and neighboring town, I find myself looking at all the older style buildings that are in great shape after all these years. I have come across a very large Victorian style house that has caught my eye numerous times while driving by. There is a stone outside with the house’s history stamped on it. This house was built in 1888 by the founder of Alma, MI. His name was Almy Wright. This was a mansion that he had built for his family. This 2 story wood structure
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for expensive | | |condominiums. (AP) | | |Quote | | |[pic] | | |"For them to come in and tell me how much my | | |property's worth and for me to get out because they're| | |bringing in somebody else when I own the land is | | |unfounded to me.” | | |Shop owner Randy Bailey of Mesa, Ariz.
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The city I chose to do my project over is a city that I know fairly well, Tulsa Oklahoma. I chose to do Tulsa because I wanted to learn more about the history about the area that I grew up next to. Tulsa is the second-largest city in the State of Oklahoma and 47th-largest city in the United States. As of the US Census 2010 the population was 398,121. (US Census 2010) The earliest known Oklahoma settlers date all the way back to the Ozark Bluff Dwellers. The Five Civilized Tribes; Cherokees, Choctaws
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Time flies! I cannot believe that it has been a year since I opened the newspaper and read, “Armistice Signed! End Of The War!.” My name is Jack Smith and I am sixteen years old. My family lives in Antioch, Nebraska located in the Sandhills of Western Nebraska about fifteen miles from Alliance. My little sister, Chloe, is attending the new school that was built during the war. It has eight classrooms, four teachers, indoor plumbing and a gym in the basement. She is lucky to have such a nice
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