The best advice I could give you is not to write an essay.

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Noel "Razor" Smith, who was in prison for 33 years and is now a writer, said putting TVs into prisoners' cells actually helped reduce violence in prisons, because it gave inmates who could not read or write a way to occupy their time.

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Why the author of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and The Prince and the Pauper could not fathom the leap of imagination required to write outside one's life experiences is itself hard to fathom.

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The real estate overcapitalization in the United States followed by immersive equity losses could not be overcome another way, the banks had to write off the accumulating bad assets, foreclosures, draining capital, etc.

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When they could not secure funding for a film, Mr Thacker commissioned Mr Vasili to write the play, called Tull.

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It was senior spring, I had nothing to lose, so I instead wrote an essay about the way Operation Iraqi Freedom could not yet be consigned to history books and that it seemed foolish to write about something that was far from over.

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As a consequence, a write-down of 30% of that debt could lead to a European financial crisis not unlike that which struck the U.S. banks from sub-prime mortgages.

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The write-offs were made so the body could show that it had not allowed its annual rent arrears to exceed those of the previous year.

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