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    The Cancer Culture
    The Cancer Culture
    The Cancer Culture
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    The Cancer Culture

    By Duke Kell

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    The Cancer Culture is the first book in the “Freedom Files" series, a collection of novelettes about ongoing civil liberty issues.

    They thought what they were eating was healthy, they thought the water they drank was safe, they thought the doctor was supposed to help; one word changed everything, Cancer. This firsthand account exposes a culture of lies at the highest levels of government and its ties to industries that drive social and economic manipulation. A philosophical story about the effects cancer has on the families of its victims.

    Included at the beginning and the end is the Freedom Files that correlate with this story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwo Two Productions
    Release dateJul 24, 2016
    ISBN9781370448654
    The Cancer Culture
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    Duke Kell

    Duke is a registered member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation who grew up in the Denver Metro area. He was one of the founding members of Ghost Crew A hip-hop group in Southern California, and Bodhi an alternative rock band. After earning a B.A. in journalism from the University of Northern Colorado and completing his Graduate work in Education at Cal State San Bernardino, Duke became an Author and Educator. By age 27, he was the youngest professor on campus at Chaffey College, wrote and directed his first feature-length movie and signed on to teach at a school for troubled youth. Now in his 40's, he and his family have made Kailua Kona their home where he continues to be active in education and the arts.

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      The Cancer Culture - Duke Kell

      The Cancer Culture

      By: Duke Kell

      Smashwords Edition

      The Cancer Culture, By Duke Kell

      Published by Two Ton Productions, at Smashwords.

      Copyright © 2016 by Two Ton Productions.

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      The Freedom Files

      Class 1

      University of California, Berkeley, 2191

      I walked into my first class excited and a little nervous. It was the hardest class to get into at Berkley because the professor was Olga Verduzco, the architect of the revolution and first democratically elected president of the United States of America in 145 years. Included in the syllabus were five books that the resistance used to help people understand how the united corporations of the world gained power and why we needed a change. I could smell the old wood and dust in the auditorium. The school had been shut down for all of the corporate years and it was an absolute miracle that some of the buildings survived including the old Wheeler auditorium.

      I sat in the first row just left of the center, in between two young men. I was forty five years old on that day and my gray hair made me feel out of place as the sea of young people filled the remaining seats.

      A door opened behind the podium and the air was sucked out of the room as we all fell silent. Everyone stood, and as President Verduzco stepped into the room, it exploded with applause, and I saw more than a dozen people weeping with joy. Never in my life could I have imagined the sensation that washed over me. I wasn’t sure if any of the other students had lived during the corporate times, but they all understood how far we had come, our shared path back to freedom.

      Good morning, She said, leaning down to the mic. Please be seated.

      We sat and silence washed over us.

      She gave us a few seconds, then began, Over the next three months we will explore three units. The first unit includes the five books we used in the resistance and we will discuss the second Continental Congress and our justifications for the changes to the original constitution. The second unit will be on the Reconstruction period and the third will be on our path forward. I suspect you all have the syllabus and hope you have purchased the books as well. Please raise your hand if you didn’t pick a syllabus up at the door on the way in.

      A hand full of people shot their hands up.

      She nodded to someone in the back who quickly made it to each row and passed out the syllabi.

      Ok, now that we all have one, let’s get started. She went over the percentages of the midterm, final and papers she expected, followed by a brief synopsis of each book before she cut class short and told us to have the Cancer Culture read by the next class.

      I went straight home after class and began reading book I: The Cancer Culture.

      The Cancer Culture

      Chapter 1

      Denver, 2008

      The smell of maple syrup and bacon floated into her dreams and awakened her, the day was Oct 2, 2008, A young teenager sat up, swinging her legs to the side and placing her feet on the floor. She took a deep breath and reluctantly pushed herself out of bed. A knock on the door reminded her of the gravity of the situation. She stood up, hung her head, took a deep breath, and slipped her fluffy pink slippers onto her feet as she exited the room.

      She

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