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Flew Off The Road Game Of Pool Tom
1,078 words
Its New Years Eve 1989 and the dawn of another
boring decade is upon us. At least that was my
opinion as I sat in my car driving to my friend
Rons party. It was going to be the best party of
the night. Everyone who was anyone in the Senior
class was going along with a few juniors and
sophomores. When I arrived I saw my girlfriend
Cindy's car parked along the side of the road
along with about thirty or forty others. I was
rather glad she was already there because I hadnt
seen her for a few days b...
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Cosmic Irony Verbal Irony
414 words
Assignment: Free write on the irony in your every
day life. Then polish it up and write a paragraph
about the irony you encounter. In general, a
discrepancy between appearances and reality is
irony. Irony is encountered throughout our daily
activities and comes in many forms; verbal,
situational, and cosmic. Verbal irony is the most
familiar kind, this occurs when we understand that
the speaker's meaning is far from the usual
meaning. For example, Sally rushes all morning to
get to the parking l...
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Reaction To Kubuku Rides Again
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My Reaction to Kubuku Rides Again (This is it)
Kubuku Rides Again was written by Larry Brown in
1988. This intense story portrays a powerful theme
of alcoholism and how damaging it can become. In
fact, alcoholism is very destructive because in
most cases the user is unaware of the negative
affects and their own dependency that the highly
addictive drug has caused. I loved reading this
story because I could relate to it. I compared the
destructive theme of alcoholism, and the
dependency that is c...
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Dark Vs Light In A Clean Place
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Dark Against Light in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
The main character in A Clean, Well- Lighted
Place, written by Ernest Hemingway, is the old
man. The old man, who remains nameless throughout
the short story, comes to the caf for the light it
provides him against the dark night. He stays late
into the night, and sits In the shadow the leaves
of the tree made against the electric light. The
old man is deaf and finds comfort in the
difference he feels inside the quiet caf. The old
man struggles wi...
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Illegal Drugs Drunk Driving
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several things, some of which are freedom,
expanding and taking care of our families and our
financial security. We, the people, take such
things for granted. We also discourage some
behavior, such as crime, laziness and use of
illegal drugs. Drug abuse is one of the most
discouraged behaviors in our country. ...
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Point Of View Tale Heart
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Horror and suspense-filled movies, books, and
stories are Americas favorite form of
entertainment. One of the most famous American
writers is Edgar Allen Poe who wrote the two
famous stories The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black
Cat. In the The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black Cat
narrative and imagery is used to express the main
characters eerie sense of evil. Both stories lack
moral sentiment yet describe conscience. They also
make one tremble with fear and think with
suspense. The Tell- Tale Heart...
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Juvenile Delinquent Police Officers
1,550 words
They Cage the Animals at Night is a
heart-wrenching autobiography in the form of a
novel. This book is written by Jennings Michael
Burch, who is the main character. His father is an
often drunk alcoholic and has left a family of six
boys to his wife. The oldest is George, who
follows the steps of his father and also gets
drunk. He is also a smoker. Contrary to his father
though, he tries to support the family, although
he takes a lot from it. Next is Walter, who spends
most of his life studying ...
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Elderly Woman Long Time
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followed her instincts, she would have saved
herself from the cruel At the beginning of the
chapter, Hardy foreshadows that fate will not be
kind to Tess. He states that she was leaving
Marlott, "the Green Valley" of her birth, and
moving towards an unknown "grey On reaching her
destination, Tess is shocked to discover that Mrs.
D'Urberville is blind. She also finds the elderly
woman to be cold and uncaring towards her. Tess
learns from her that in addition to tending the
Trantridge fowl, she is...
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Social Norms Takes Place
664 words
In my personal experience I consider myself a
Farley normal human being that would generally
follow most of the considered social norms in our
society. I take a shower every day, I dont talk to
strangers on the elevator, and I like to eat my
cereal with milk. Nothing too out of the ordinary
as far as being in agreement with society and the
environment around me, but the one thing that I
have not done by this point in my life that most
people my age have is to have the urge to go out
and get drun...
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Caring Of Her Reputation Claims To Love Guy
613 words
Miss Julie, a character who is caught between two
personalities. The two social statuses she
belonged to one side, which is her mothers, being
poor. And the other which belonged to her father,
being one of the richest. How does one expect a
woman like this to act? I speculated she would be
one of those spoiled, getting all she wants,
wanting everything from a persons lover to a
persons everything. This is what exactly happens
in the story. She is a person who doesn't know
herself. All she wants ...
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The Medias Effect On Underage Alcohol Abuse
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The Medias Effects on Underage Drinking The use of
alcohol is a major aspect of our society. It is
used in religious ceremonies, during
socialization, and its presence is seen
everywhere. Second only to caffeine, more people
drink alcohol than any other substance. It appears
in many forms such as beer, wine, and hard liquor.
It has been praised, denounced, accepted, and
outlawed in the past century alone. The effects of
alcohol are numerous. From drunk driving accidents
to fetal alcohol syndrome...
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O Henry Madison Square
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After Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, William
Sydney Porter (known as O Henry) is the most read
author in the world and bears the title of master
of the short story. He has been called many
things. Some people have called him the
twentieth-century Balzac. Some have called him the
American Maupassant because of his so well made
surprising endings. The short story is the one
fundamental and self-contained genre in American
prose fiction, and the stories of O. Henry
certainly made their appearance ...
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Kill Cassio Iii Iii
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ter> An analysis of Shakespeare's unrecognized
dogma through the play Othello People
are merely products of their circumstances.
Hopelessly bound to the conditions surrounding
their existence, their only true personal
characteristic is in their ability to resist
influence. William Shakespeare's Othello
demonstrates that even this ability can give way
and the noblest characters can end up falling into
a downward spiral of deceit and suspicion. Iago,
and his unwitting observation of othe...
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Main Road Good Friends
1,096 words
I was sitting laughing. This was my graduation,
but I was not giggling for any reason like the
friends I would miss or the remembrance of good
times past, I was just laughing my ass off. People
had been telling their children about this
occasion for years, they described it as a huge
thing, the turning of a page, they said or the
birth of your adult life. Bullshit, I thought.
Those people had forgotten that for their class
and every class since theirs it was just another
reason to get drunk. I w...
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Ellen Foster Fall Asleep
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In the book Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, the main
character Ellen is a young girl growing up in the
south who tries to understand why her relationship
is so complex with Starletta who is black. The
pressure that Ellen's family puts on her makes her
think twice about her friendship with Starletta.
In the final passage of Ellen Foster, Ellen says,
I came a long way to get here but when you think
about it real hard you will see that old Starletta
came even further. (Pg. 126) Ellen has arrived at
a...
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Extraordinary Man H 2
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h 2 >Setting This story was written and
takes place in 1866 fifty years before the Russian
Revolution and during the American Civil War in
the ugly slums of St. Petersburg. Anyway, in my
eyes the author already fears a failed revolution.
He mentions for instance the rejection of religion
and he uncovers the play of the secret police Major Characters Radio Romanovitch
Raskolnikov: The main character of the story. He
conceives a theory that he is an extraordinary man
and can ne...
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Sir Toby Sir Andrew
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Observations & Lessons learned, by an alcoholic,
through characters, Shakespeare introduced in his
Twelfth Night: Sir Andrew Aguecheek, conspirator,
or innocent bystander? Sir Toby Belch, is he a
cunning freeloader, or a drunken clown? Moreover,
who, metaphorically speaking, will drown in the
end? N. B. , Olivia questions Feste the fool
[actually a professional witty fool]: Whats a
drunken man like, fool? Feste replies: Like a
drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One drink too
many makes him fooli...
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Herman Melville Narrator Feels
654 words
Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story
of Wall Street Herman Melville presents this story
through a nameless narrator who is the lawyer. An
elderly lawyer who sees himself as a good
businessman, helping wealthy men transact with
mortgages, title deeds, and bonds. The lawyer
introduces us to one of the strangest man he has
ever known, Bartleby. The lawyer has already
employed two other scriveners, Nippers and Turkey.
Nippers suffers from eating disorders while Turkey
is a drunk, but t...
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Alcohol And Drug Young Men
797 words
This is a letter i wrote last christmas when i was
bored addressed to the editor of a local newspaper
in The Bahamas, where i live. Hope you enjoy. Dear
Editor and my fellow Bahamian public, I am
disturbed, disgruntled and shocked at the
magnitude of carelessness that the public shows
for the well-being and security of our youth.
Recently, I was invited with a few friends to join
them to celebrate at one of the local clubs in
downtown Nassau. I was pleased to join them and
proceeded to ride with...
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Larger Than Life Alexander The Great
990 words
The general characteristics of a great historical
figure are leader ship, bravery, intelligence,
self-confidence, and loyalty. These are important
because if you have no leadership skill then how
are u supposed to lead people in times of trouble,
your not going to be able to if you are a
follower. Its good to be brave so if you are in a
war with someone you are not afraid to take a risk
or go and fight them. You also have to have
bravery if you are going to go and do a task. Say
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