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Recommend This Book Part Of The Book
678 wordsI read the book, Go Ask Alice. The author was anonymous. The main character was a girl, and her name was not mentioned. It was written as a diary. I thought that this book was very interesting because it was true; it is based on an actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user. In the beginning, she has a break up with her boyfriend and is anorexic. She eats very little. She overcomes that obstacle though. The girl moves because her father gets a job at a university as a professor. She moves with...
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Pretty Good Senior Year
1,202 words... ad for the first day of our senior year huh?"You found someone today too. SWEET! Hey I just got a great idea! Why don't you, Cindy, Charity, and myself all go out together on Saturday?"Hey that sounds great. Let me run that by Charity and I'll tell you tomorrow on Friday. Is that cool. "Yeah it's cool. See ya tomorrow. " I went to bed that night but I couldnt sleep. I was so afraid that if I went to sleep and woke up that none of this would have happened and this just would have been a cruel...
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Disposable Income Orange County
1,473 wordsUpscale Steak-House Restaurants (We found the Beef) Where's the beef? There is no lack of quantity or quality of product at upscale steak-house restaurants. Who would have ever thought that people would stand in line to pay an average of $ 65 for a steak? Not so long ago, beef was taboo for the young, upcoming, physically fit executive. Today, however, traffic and spending are on the increase at fine-dining steak houses. Currently, more than twelve companies have been successful in the "big beef...
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Chinese Language Vietnamese People
931 wordsA man walks into Footaction to browse the wide selection of shoes and apparel that the store has to offer. As he comes across a pair of shoes that have some Chinese writing on it, he automatically turns around and asks Chris, an Asian sales associate at Footaction, what it says. Chris, who is not of Chinese decent, tells him that he does not know. The customer says, Well, arent you Chinese? Chris replies, No Im not, I am Vietnamese. Vietnamese, Chinese, they are all the same, the man remarks. Ch...
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San Francisco Mental Hospital
1,432 words1. Alice, the writer of the diary. She's 15 years old when the story begins. Her real name is not known. Mom, her mother, and Dad, her father, a university professor. Gran, her grandmother, and Gramps, her grandfather. Roger, a schoolmate with who she is in love for some time. Jill Peters, a schoolmate at her first school. Gerta, Beth, Fawn, friends she meet at her new school. Jan, Marcie, drug-users at her new school. Bill, Joe, Lane, Jacky, drug-users. Chris, a girl with who Alice goes to San ...
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Locker Room Brendan Game
419 wordsso now with the finches gone and pops meal mobile saved there was only one thing left to do... buy tickets for new yorks favorite hockey team, the strangers. they were taking on the mexico muskrats in what was sure to be the game of the century. it was game 7 of the bologna cup finals. the game was surrounded by controversy before it even started. muskrats captain julio "dirty" sanchez, had assaulted ranger captain mark messier in the locker room, messier was reported as saying, "first he pushed...
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U S S Naval Base
1,109 wordsI am a normal kid, well sort of. Everyone has those different things about them, for example: I fly planes, fence, and can perform geometry in my head. I am also a good shot with almost any type of gun. I am one of the best strategists in my school. Troon High School, the high school of Troon a town just north of Corpus Christi, Texas is one of the only schools in the state to have a fencing team. We have been the highest rated one in the state only the year I have been here. I am the second bes...
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Downs Syndrome Genetic Disorder
1,468 words... y common in Downs Syndrome babies. Another thing that should be checked is for congenital dislocation of the hips. Extra care should be taken during the usual neonatal examination. In about 13 % of Downs Syndrome newborns there are already version problems with congenital cataracts. The removal of this early is very crucial. The sooner removed the better the babies vision is. (How to treat people with Downs Syndrome) Infancy It is extremely important to watch that the child during infancy do...
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Athletic Power Forward Athletic Power Forward They Ve Pick
1,592 words... tty good relationship with China after bringing Men Butler over this year. Since losing Re LaFrentz, they have no center. He's a great fit here, though I've heard that Yao didn't include the Nuggets on the short list of teams he was willing to leave China for. Who they'd take No. 3: Dajuan Wagner or Mike Dunleavy. Wagner's the next best thing to Williams. He has the talent to go this high and he'd be instant offense for the Nuggets, regardless of what position he plays. They " re also intrig...
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Barnes And Elias Chris Taylor Platoon
696 wordsPlatoon tells the story of Vietnam from the point of view of a young, naive soldier, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen). The film showed its viewers about war, and what it really was. Hot the dramatized part you see on TV, but the hell that it really was. Oliver Stone, the director of the movie, was actually a soldier during Vietnam. So parts of the storyline and the general idea behind the film were based on some of his personal experiences there. Sergeant Elias is portrayed as a caring leader who li...
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Self Esteem Maintenance Theory
818 wordsIt was recently announced that Chris Webber was going to be traded to the Philadelphia 76 ers this week. He has since started his career there with Alan Iverson on his side as well as the entire city. My roommate, our next door neighbor and I were watching Sports Center when they broke the news that the trade was official and had taken place. My roommate a native of Philadelphia was, needless to say, pleased with the trade. I was relatively unaffected as a Wizards fan, although Webber was, at on...
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Fearless Driver Main Campus Chris
778 wordsSome people go to great lengths to attend the musical performance of their choice. Middle aged washed-up hippies donning Hawaiian shirts, parrot hats, and Caribbean-style beads, flock in a sea of bright and blinding colors to the obnoxious sounds of the man they call Jimmy Buffet. Thousands of screaming teenage girls swarm like the Black Plague and pay hundreds of dollars for a one-way ticket to hell to catch a glimpse of such mindless pop-cultures whores as N Sync and Britney Spears. For my fri...
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Mental Institution Taking Drugs
927 wordsGo Ask Alice, was a real diary of a young girl. The author of the book was anonymous. It was written and published in March 1998, by Simon &# 038; Schuster Inc, in New York. There were no specific settings in this book because Alice ran away from home a lot and went all over the place. Although the book didn t state the exact places she lived in, it did say that she went from her small town to big cities such as San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Denver. The main character in this book was Alice....
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Locker Room Brendan Game
416 wordsso now with the finches gone and pops meal mobile saved there was only one thing left to do... buy tickets for new yorks favorite hockey team, the strangers. they were taking on the mexico muskrats in what was sure to be the game of the century. it was game 7 of the bologna cup finals. the game was surrounded by controversy before it even started. muskrats captain julio dirty sanchez, had assaulted ranger captain mark messier in the locker room, messier was reported as saying, first he pushed me...
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Chris Is Dead Answering Machine Brother
230 wordsIt was February 15 th, the morning my brother s best friend, Chris, took his life. I awoke to hear Chris girlfriend, Danica, screaming hysterically into the answering machine that Chris had shot himself and his blood and pieces of his head were all over the room. As I walked into the dark kitchen half-asleep, I thought I had only dreamed such a horrible vision. The lingering smell of garlic pasta we had eaten for dinner awoke helped me realize I was in a real nightmare. I then listened again and...
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Dont Like Being An Object Friends Cannot Be Objects Zen Phaedrus
949 wordsFriends Cannot Be Objects (Zen And The Friends Cannot Be Objects (Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance) Friends Cannot Be Objects I suppose if I were a novelist rather than a Chautauqua orator Id try to develop the characters of John and Sylvia and Chris with action-packed scenes that would also reveal inner meanings of Zen and maybe Art and maybe even Motorcycle Maintenance. That would be quite a novel, but for some reason I dont feel quite up to it. Theyre friends, not characters, and as ...
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Reading This Book Reading The Book
1,635 wordsReview of HARDBALL (by Chris Matthews) Before I started reading the book Hardball, by Chris Matthews, I had a preconceived idea of what the content of this book would be. From the title of the book I drew the conclusion that Matthews would write more about the darker side of politics and how it is really played. I dont really know much about politics, and frankly, I dont care much for politics. However, when I hear the word hardball in the context of politics, I think of blood shed. I think of d...
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Parents Mccandless Chris
466 wordsChris McCandless, the main character of Into the Wild, is searching for his true self. His numerous tests of both his physical and mental abilities are proof of his determination. He felt affected in his families presence so went on a road trip. He was criticized by many for this, but who could stop him from discovering who he is. It is clear from the novel that Chris relationship with his parents is not good. He refuses gifts from them and then disappears. He had instructed his family that he w...
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Older Brother True Friendship
624 wordsStand By Me Stand By Me is the story of true friendship and the loss of innocence. It brings all childhood insecurities, fears, and dreams into sharp, crystal-clear focus. It begins, as childhood stories often do, with curiosity. Four friends, each with his own emotional baggage, decide to go on an adventure: to find the dead body of a boy who has mysteriously disappeared. Our quartet, being young and adventurous, see the excitement as outweighing the possible dangers and risks. The group consis...
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Early Morning Religious Experience
1,549 wordsA Religious Experience remember many an early morning mocking my friend as he donned his wetsuit on a cold January morning as early as sun up. As he would grab his surfboard and leave the apartment, just as hung over as I was, I would think to myself, He must be insane. Its twenty degrees out, and he is going surfing in the cold ocean. Who would have thought my views would change so drastically in the future? Ever since I was a small child, I have always been searching for an adrenaline rush. Wh...
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