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conversations.value: Light It Up (film): In an urban Queens high school students, Julius Zacharias \'Ziggy\' Malone (Robert Ri\'chard), Lester DeWitt (Usher Raymond), who lost his father, hard-working student Stephanie Williams (Rosario Dawson), criminal Rodney Templeton (Fredro Starr), rebellious pregnant Lynn Sabatini (Sara Gilbert), and Robert Tremontka.\n"Rivers" (Clifton Collins, Jr), attend the history class of Ken Knowles (Judd Nelson).\nPolice officer Dante Jackson (Forest Whitaker) tries to arrest Lester after a misunderstanding when the classroom\'s windows are broken by rocks, mr Knowles takes them to the principal\'s office, where Principal Allen Armstrong (Glynn Turman) tells Knowles to take them "anywhere".\nSince there is no space anywhere in the school, Knowles and the kids go to a local diner, where a robbery takes place.\nKnowles confronts the robber, who was a former student that dropped out of school.\nPrincipal Armstrong is infuriated by what Knowles has done, and puts him on administrative leave.\nLester, Stephanie and Ziggy are at the main office as Knowles leaves the school.\nStephanie is disgusted that Principal Armstrong has ignored that he told Knowles to "take the class anywhere" and confronts him about this.\nIn response Principal Armstrong suspends Rivers, Ziggy, Stephanie and Lester from the school and calls in Officer Jackson to remove all of them.\nZiggy decides to leave but Officer Jackson restrains him.\nThis event is witnessed by other students at the school and soon everything turns into a small riot.\nLester tries to resist Officer Jackson and loses, but Ziggy picks up Officer Jackson\'s dropped Glock 19 pistol and says "I [Ziggy] cannot go home".\nThe reason for this, is because Ziggy has been physically abused by his father for many years.\nOfficer Jackson tries to restrain Ziggy but gets accidentally shot in the leg as he grabs for his gun.\nPrincipal Armstrong tells school security to call an ambulance and theYPD.\nin order to arrest Ziggy.\nLester then grabs the gun and orders everyone to evacuate the school.\nThis finally forces theYPD.\ndetectives to come in, led by Detective Audrey McDonald (Vanessa Williams) as a negotiator.\nIn the middle of all of this, there is a subplot in which Lynn berates Stephanie for being a "goody-two shoes", and a fight in the school\'s library that includes Rivers and Rodney, as well as Officer Jackson fleeing from Rodney and the others after knocking him out to use the bathroom.\nAnother notable subplot was Ziggy showing everyone his artistic talents, such being a mural of himself and others on a classroom wall.\nStill waiting after a couple of hours, the group continues to hold Officer Dante Jackson against his will.\nLester tells everybody, including Stephanie and Dante about how his father (Robert Lee Minor) who was gunned down during a wrongful arrest.\nIn the next few scenes, Rivers, Lynn, Rodney, Ziggy, Stephanie, and Lester,ka.\n"The Lincoln 6", are all becoming infamous across New York City, as they are exposed and identified on such networks such as BET, VH1, NBC, NY1 and CBS, as well as MTV, as well being announced on radio.\nDebate continues as the events taking place, until Detective McDonald and her colleague (Vic Polizos) debate on getting the kids something, which after several hours of stalling, the electricity being shut down at the school and the SWAT team storming in on the others as Lester takes Officer Jackson on top of the roof.\nThere, Lester tells Officer Jackson that he resents all policemen for what has happened to his father, and Jackson tries to reassure him.\nThe confrontation goes horribly wrong when Ziggy comes to the roof and is shot down and killed by a sniper from a hovering police helicopter.\nIn the end, 5 of the remaining surviving teens are taken into custody shortly after Ziggy is pronounced dead.\nAs the film reaches its climax, the narrator talks about what happened to the kids and the officer: Officer Jackson testified in court that the events did not happen as the media have portrayed them, thus giving the kids a less sentence.\nLester spent two years in state prison and has gone off to a city college to study law.\nStephanie spent one year in prison and went to study at st John\'s University, Lynn was sentenced to one year in prison, but was released earlier due to having her baby boy (named after Ziggy) and is never heard from again.\nRodney spends an unknown amount of time in prison and becomes a Muslim, Rivers is forced to join the military, due to the judge having him spent years in prison due to his priors or join the army.\nmr Knowles has been rehired back to the school and still teaches history.\nThe end also shows Lester and Stephanie looking a painting that was crafted by Ziggy, who is forever remembered as the next Jean-Michel Basquiatka.\n"The Radiant Child".
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conversations.value: the first four paragraphs for the book
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conversations.value: Light It Up
  The chain-link fence was ten feet tall with razor wire at the top. It began at the front corner of the repurposed cement-block warehouse in North Denver, wrapped in a neat rectangle around the side parking lot and the rear loading dock, and continued to the opposite corner of the building.
  Peter Ash stepped down from the back seat of Henry Nygaard's big four-door pickup to pull open the rolling security gate. He kept his head on a swivel, eyes chasing from the street to the fence lines to the windows and flat rooftops of neighboring buildings.
  He wore a decent secondhand armored vest and one of Henry's spare pistols strapped to his leg, neither one exactly hidden under an untucked flannel shirt, but not particularly visible unless someone was looking for them. Which was more or less the goal.
  He could feel the warmth of the blacktop through the soles of his boots, and the late-September sun was hot on his shoulders and the back of his neck. The waistband of his pants was damp from the sweat trickling down his back.
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conversations.value: When the breeze picked up, Peter could smell the heady, distinctive funk of healthy cannabis plants. To the west, the clouds were moving in from the Front Range and getting darker.
  McSweeney was a wiry guy in his mid- to late-thirties. He had a clean shave and a crisp, blond, chamber-of-commerce haircut, but he was dressed like a Colorado slacker in a green athletic hoodie, minimalist cargo shorts in some new synthetic fabric, and trail runners. Lean and sleek as a greyhound.
  His grip was strong but not obnoxious, and his sun-browned face held an expression of perpetual amusement. Like he was having fun just standing there.
  The heavy weather over the Front Range was moving down toward the Plains, leaching the color from the land. Bright flashes lit up the foothills to the west, and gray streaks hung from the clouds like thin penciled lines.
  He pulled out his phone and hit a few buttons and climbed into his car. A moment later the chain-link gate rolled open. Peter and Lewis got in the Jeep and followed the green Volvo inside the fence.
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conversations.value: the last five paragraphs
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conversations.value: Margret Petrie, Sweet Patootie and font of all wisdom, suggested that I try writing about something else.
  The Oregon recreational cannabis law had been passed only recently, and the man—I'll call him Alex—hoped to be ready for cultivation by the first of June, when the law went into effect.
  One of the best things about being a writer is that you have an excuse to call up smart people and ask them dumb questions, and Hunter Garth of the Iron Protection Group was kind enough to share some insights into how various security companies work with the cannabis industry.
  Thanks again and again and again to the astounding Barbara Poelle at IGLA for getting Peter in print; to Sara Minnich, Putnam Editor Extraordinaire, for her sharp eye and her sharper red pencil; and to Stephanie Hargadon and the rest of the Putnam publicity team for getting me out into the world and talking to readers.
  For all those readers addicted to facts, please note: this is a made-up fictional novel that is, in addition, untrue. I have bent the world to suit my needs, including the use of an antique gurney as a steerable alpine escape vehicle, as well as geographical liberties with Metro Denver and Colorado in general.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Margret Petrie, Sweet Patootie and font of all wisdom, suggested that I try writing about something else.
  The Oregon recreational cannabis law had been passed only recently, and the man—I'll call him Alex—hoped to be ready for cultivation by the first of June, when the law went into effect.
  One of the best things about being a writer is that you have an excuse to call up smart people and ask them dumb questions, and Hunter Garth of the Iron Protection Group was kind enough to share some insights into how various security companies work with the cannabis industry.
  Thanks again and again and again to the astounding Barbara Poelle at IGLA for getting Peter in print; to Sara Minnich, Putnam Editor Extraordinaire, for her sharp eye and her sharper red pencil; and to Stephanie Hargadon and the rest of the Putnam publicity team for getting me out into the world and talking to readers.
  For all those readers addicted to facts, please note: this is a made-up fictional novel that is, in addition, untrue.