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  2. Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories - Wikipedia

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    The story begins with the narrator explaining his current social situation: he has to deal with the public scrutiny he has received from many of his peers. He is removed from Oakland High and placed into OMLC, a school which Telephone Man describes as a place for "kids who are 'eccentric' along with kids who should be in prison". [3]

  3. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    The collection was first published in 1955. The subjects of the short stories range from baptism ("The River") to serial killers ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find") to human greed and exploitation ("The Life You Save May Be Your Own"). The majority of the stories include jarring violent scenes that make the characters undergo a spiritual change.

  4. Redemption movement - Wikipedia

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    The redemption movement is an element of the pseudolaw movement, mainly active in the United States and Canada, that promotes fraudulent debt and tax payment schemes. [1] The movement is also called redemptionism. [2]

  5. Hyperreality - Wikipedia

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    Hyperreality is significant as a paradigm to explain current cultural conditions. Consumerism, because of its reliance on sign exchange value (e.g. brand X shows that one is fashionable, car Y indicates one's wealth), could be seen as a contributing factor in the creation of hyperreality or the hyperreal condition.

  6. High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group - Wikipedia

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    The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) is a U.S. three-agency intelligence-gathering entity that brings together intelligence professionals from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

  7. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts , often called the Setup, the Confrontation, and the Resolution. It has been described in different ways by Aelius Donatus in the fourth century A.D. and by Syd Field in his 1979 book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting .

  8. Morris E. Goodman - Wikipedia

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    Goodman wrote a book about his experiences, The Miracle Man: An Inspiring Story of Motivation and Courage. [1] A motivational/training short film about Morris' experience was also made, [7] and a feature film of his story, written and to be directed and produced by filmmaker Brian Jude is currently in development.

  9. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An ...

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    Like many of the other Glass family stories, Raise High is narrated by Buddy Glass, the second of the Glass brothers. It describes Buddy's visit on Army leave (during World War II , in 1942) to attend the wedding of his brother Seymour to Muriel and tells of the aftermath when Seymour fails to show.