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Fifth Grade Playing Field
576 wordsThere goes Wile E. Coyote again, initiating the first phase of his plan. The rockets attached to his feet make him reach speeds fast enough to catch the Roadrunner. Oops! He accidentally put them on backwards. To his dismay, when he activates them, he shoots backwards into a cliff as the Roadrunner speeds off in the other direction. Even though he is in extreme pain, he gets up and starts formulating his next plan. He has the amazing ability to never give up, which I feel is a quality I share. W...
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Falling In Love Fall In Love
1,066 wordsMany have tried to buy it, many have tried to sell it, and many have tried to steal it. Unfortunately many believe that the easiest way to find love really is the hardest. I believe that some people are just too lazy. Love will not just appear in front of your face one day. It has to be earned and shared by two people wanting the same things. (Maybe not all the same things, but most. ) And, of course, there's the whole "love at first sight" legend that people seem to believe in. However, to love...
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Pollution Prevention Pollution Caused
847 wordsThere are all of types of pollution. Industrial pollution is the air, water, and chemical pollution caused by industries. There has always been pollution. Industrial pollution began when our country went through the Industrial Revolution. Most all parts of the world are affected in some way by industrial pollution. Big cities with steel mills, power plants, heating plants, or railroad stations feel the direct effects of industrial pollution. The smog, smell, and contamination of food or water ar...
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Middle Class Family Broad Spectrum
1,082 wordsThe Comparison of the TV family to the everyday real life family can take many avenues to explore, but I'll try to keep it as basic as possible. First I'll break down the animated TV family "The Simpsons", and then I'll break down a real life middle class family that I know all to well. I. The Simpsons; Father, Mother and three children. The various daily problems they encounter in their middle class suburban lives. a) The Father. Hopeless fool. Everything he attempts turns into total chaos, fro...
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Quitting Smoking Quit Smoking
672 wordsSmoking has killed millions of people. Lung Cancer, Emphysema, and heart failure are some of the things that I have to look forward to if I continue smoking. I am twenty-four years old, and I have been smoking for twelve years now. Three years ago cigarettes killed my grandfather, he was sixty-five. I am a person that believes that without some vice or another life would be a bit boring. There is an old expression that solidifies this maxim, if it makes you feel good, do it. Well, I do it. To do...
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Didnt I Asked Thought Youd Make
670 wordsI looked at you and smiled the other day I thought youd see me but you didnt I said, I love you and waited for what you would say I thought youd hear me but you didnt I asked you to come out side and play ball with me I thought youd follow but you didnt I drew a picture just for you to see I thought youd save it but you didnt I made a fort for us back in the woods I thought youd camp wit me but you didnt I found some worms n such for fishing if we could I thought youd want to but you didnt I tol...
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York Longman 1999 Reading Across The Curriculum
1,241 wordsMy high school was relatively small. To put it into perspective, I graduated with eighty-six people. In my class there were the usual cliques. There were the smart kids, the athletes, the cheerleaders, the drug users, and the slackers. But somehow I didn't fit into all of this. I wasn't, and still am not, the smartest person in the history of the world. I'm way too clumsy to play any sports. I wasn't the right size to be a cheerleader. I wouldn't even consider using drugs, and I certainly am not...
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Ignorance And Apathy Teen Suicide Teenagers
553 wordsThe truth of the matter is, is that being a teenager is hard, right from the beginning, and it doesn't get any easier. We are such easy prey for big name companies who advertise using the pressure of popularity, looks and sex to force us to buy their product that, as it turns out, we never wanted or needed in the first place. Our lives are filled with stress. One of the greatest sources of pressure is school. Where we are herded like cattle from room to room, chewing on our cud, while the hay of...
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Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Champion
1,353 wordsThe greatest mystery of the 1996 Olympic summer games in Atlanta, was solved at 28 minutes past midnight the day of the opening ceremony. The crowd erupted when the Olympic torch was passed to Muhammad Ali. The Olympic gold medal boxer Muhammad Ali lifted the torch and trembled before a crowd screaming 'Ali'. He then sent the fire soaring high above the stadium to ignite the ceremonial Olympic cauldron. This moment was truly one of the finest ever to many sports fan, considering the tragedy Ali ...
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Gold Can Stay Catcher In The Rye
905 wordsHolden Caulfield, from J. D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye, and Robert Frost, in his poem Nothing Gold Can Stay have very similar views on certain prospects of life. Frost shows the same perspective as Holden Caulfield. For example, both Caulfield and Frost want beautiful thing to last forever. They both protest the mutability of time. Lastly, they both want to hold on to innocence. In short, you could say that both Holden Caulfield and Robert Frost have a desire to be a catcher in the rye. ...
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Part Of The Story Code Of Honor
1,457 wordsOld Man and the Sea This part of the story has to do with Santiago against nature and the sea. In this part of the story, he goes out and fights nature in the form of terrible forces and dangerous creatures, among them, a marlin, sharks and hunger. He starts the story in a small skiff and moves out in a journey to capture a fish after a long losing streak of eighty-four days. Unfortunately his friend must desert him due to this problem and a greater force, his parents. Santiago must go out into ...
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One Of The Major Television Programs
809 wordsDo you choose what you wear or does the media choose it for you? I am one of the million Americans who struggle with keeping up with the new trends of the season. The media works their hardest to try to persuade us into buying new things for our home, work, and family. The media today is the largest advertisements money can buy and many large companies spend millions of dollars for a one-minute commercial on one of the major stations. Television and Magazine elaborate not only on what to wear an...
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Media Shapes Our Thoughts Shapes Our Thoughts Television
655 wordsDo Fashionably Loud Fashionably LOUD! Do you choose what you wear or does the media choose it for you? I am one of the million Americans who struggle with keeping up with the new trends of the season. The media works their hardest in trying to persuade us into buying new things for home, work, and family. The media today is the largest advertisements money can buy and many large companies spend millions of dollars for a one-minute commercial on one of the major stations. Television and Magazine ...
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Good Teacher Subject Matter
960 wordsTeachers have the very important responsibility of shaping the lives of young, impressionable children. With this responsibility comes great pride and joy. Therefore all teachers should strive for what can be considered to be a? good teacher. ? A good teacher can be defined as someone who always pushes students to want to do their best while at the same time trying to make learning interesting as well as creative. A positive or negative influence from a teacher early on in life can have a great ...
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Book Because I Thought Brian
417 wordsHatchet I chose this book because I thought it would be very interesting. I read the back cover and picked out the book because I thought I would like it. The main character in this story is Brian, who went through a plane crash and had to survive on his own for fifty-four days. The character I liked the best was Brian because he is brave, smart, and never gives up. Hatchet is about a boy named Brian Robeson. His parents are separated and live in different parts of the continent. Brian is on his...
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Tropical Storms Water Vapor
818 wordsIn this Hurricanes Hurricanes In this essay I am going to be talking about hurricanes. I am going to tell you how they form, the location, the size and force of hurricanes, the damage they do and also about the air masses and fronts. I will also tell you some simple information that many people don t know about, this will include things like how many hurricanes develop every year and what to expect when a hurricane hits also which area will get hit the hardest by the hurricane. Location Hurrican...
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Strengths And Weaknesses In Writing Weaknesses In Writing Reading
518 wordsMy Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing By Irl Kelly 327667271 COMM 215 (N-NH) REPAST 05 Paul Aberasturi July 18, 2000 My Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing In this paper, I am to write about my strengths and weaknesses in writing. This is not an easy task for me because I have never considered myself a writer. Reading other peoples thoughts are activities that are more my speed. I simply have trouble putting my thoughts into writing. Since, I do not feel that I have many strengths, lets move on...
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Harper Lee Southern Town
704 wordsTo Kill A Mockingbird The popular yet classic novel written by Harper Lee A single, widowed father, Atticus Finch strives to raise his two children with good morals in a southern town during the 1930? s. Atticus, Mrs. Dubose, and the children are the main characters in the story. They all reside in a small town by the name of Maycomb, where this story takes place. Mrs. Dubose is a sick old lady and is often criticized Jem and Scout and other children who pass the porch where she was confined. Sh...
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Match Against Elon Big South Conference Tournament Ball
752 wordsOn April 17, 2000 the Radford University tennis team played a very important match against Elon college in North Carolina. The winner of this match would play as seed number two in the Big South Conference tournament. Eventually, our place in the Big South Conference tournament depended on the result of my match against Elon s number four player. During the match I knew that he was better than me and I didn t expect to win. However, I tried my hardest, and learned that even though my opponent wa...
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Goneril And Regan Tragic Hero
1,873 wordsMany tragedies have been written throughout history. The purpose of these tragedies were to illustrate some type of moral lesson. The tragic situation involves mans miscalculation of reality and the fatal results of those miscalculations. Our tragic hero must endure a great deal of suffering. It ends in his ruin or destruction. We must also understand that tragedy not only destroys the guilty, but also the innocent. The tragic hero represents what could happen to humankind. He is responsible for...
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