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Candide And His Friends Heavily Damaged Earthquake
1,115 wordsThe earthquake began at 9: 30 on November 1 st, 1755, and was centered in the Atlantic Ocean, about 200 km WSW of Cape St. Vincent. The total duration of shaking lasted ten minutes and was comprised of three distinct jolts. Effects from the earthquake were far reaching. The worst damage occurred in the south-west of Portugal. Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, was the largest and the most important of the cities damaged. Severe shaking was felt in North Africa and there was heavy loss of life in Fe...
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Peach Orchard Cemetery Ridge
1,135 wordsDriving through Gettysburg people see statues and marking at different sites, if youre do not know much history you would still know that these markings are a symbols of fallen soldiers. These soldiers never really needed to die but the North and South could not work out their differences peacefully which caused a great war in U. S. history, The Civil War. One of the biggest battles fought during the Civil war took place in the small city of Gettysburg. The battle of Gettysburg was the biggest a...
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Good Friends Good Luck
1,103 wordsThis was it, this is the time my friends and I were waiting for all week. We were finally going to embark on our weekend of deer hunting. We left Kearney on a Friday afternoon in the late Fall. We were to drive to my hometown of Lawrence and stay with my parents who agreed to have my friends and I for a weekend hunt. We could feel the excitement and anticipation as I picked up Jesse, Scott, and Jason for the hunt. In the process of driving out of Kearney we werent even fretting about the two hou...
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Chose To Interview South Carolina Family
535 wordsThe day I chose to interview my person, I was very anxious yet very nervous. I was very scared to just interview a total stranger. I never did anything like this before. I didn? want to interview my grandmother or any other elder person close to me, because I felt that I knew too much about them and I wanted to learn more about the lives of other elders. I chose a woman? at, ? is what I named her, for anonymous reasons, because I had done a little work at the Rule? House a couple years back, and...
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Four Men Long Island
879 wordsTrue believers still call Woodstock the capstone of an era devoted to human advancement, said Cynics. Then there are those who said it was a hell of a party. The Woodstock music and art festival of 1969 drew more than 450, 000 people to a field out in Sullivan County for four days (tiber). This field became the site of a counter cultural mini-nation where minds were open, drugs were everything but legal and love was free. The music started late Friday afternoon at about 5: 07 p. m. August 15 and...
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Chicken Hawk Floats William Duffy Farm Life
532 wordsLying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly, Blowing like a leaf in green shadow. Down the ravine behind the empty house, Into the distances of the afternoon. In a field of sunlight between two pines, The droppings of last year's horses I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on. A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home. The poem "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota, " by James Wright, ex...
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Side Of The Road Taco Bell
1,900 wordsBy Ray Kelly Sept. 20, 1998 I was truly beginning to enjoy the wonderful fruits of life. Sports were at a peak in my life. I loved my baseball and ice hockey. School was winding down to the point where everyone knows that junior year grades are the most important out of all of your four years, and I had to finish strong. Yet there was something about the changing of the seasons, perhaps the increasingly diminishing supply of threads that the girls were covering their bodies with was a tell tale ...
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Student Athletes Football Players
1,104 wordsIts a joke that the NCAA doesnt pay student athletes. One of the greatest thrills of college football are the weekend trips to all those sacred stadiums that havent changed since Pop Warner roamed the sideline. But they have. The stadiums now look like the coliseum in Rome. The game is much more sci-fi now, that to a fan listening to an audible sounds like an alien language. Thou most of all, the players have changed and along with them the entire concept of an amateur athlete. Nobody's an amate...
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Turned My Back Mate For Life Goose
877 wordsI had just divorced my third wife, Cherie. She was a plain woman with almost no outstanding characteristics about her at all. I married her because she was quite different from my first two wives and because I didnt want to grow old alone. Also, I couldnt cook. Cherie could cook, however, all of her dishes were very plain. This should not have surprised me. I stood along the riverbank behind my house and reflected on my marriages. It was early November, 1985. The Canada geese always flew overhea...
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State Of Mind Miss Jessel
1,207 words... alk in the afternoon whenever she had her own time. She longed to see the master in her walk. She claimed to see some man that she first thought to be the master on the top of the tower while taking a stroll outside one afternoon: One of the thoughts that, as I dont in the least shrink now from noting, used to be with me in these wanderings was that it would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet some one KI only asked that he should know; and the only way to be sure he knew wou...
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Divided Into Four Benazir Bhutto
1,507 wordsLocated in South Asia, Pakistan lies proudly, with many different land forms. It has a strong culture and holds the first woman head of government in the Muslim community. Many traditions, cultures, resources and strong religious beliefs are present in Pakistan. Pakistan is a fairly new country, but offers a beautiful country-side and a much needed increasing economy. Pakistan is located in South Asia bordered by India China, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Arabian Sea. The area of Pakistan is 307, 3...
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Army Of Northern Virginia Cemetery Ridge
803 wordsBy late afternoon, on the 2 nd July, 1863, after fierce hand to hand fighting, Major General John B. Hoods 3 rd Divisions flanking attack on Big Round Top had been successful. Meade realising the lack of troops on the Round Tops had rushed the 1 st Maine to try to thwart Jackson who having let Hood bypass Sickles force in the Peach Orchard caught way out in front of the main Union lines and seize the Top (s). Sickle was outflanked and held by Laws Brigade leaving only the 1 st Maine to take the ...
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Make A Decision Back Home
1,613 wordsHey Erik, turn up that CD bro, that songs hella tight, I havent heard Sublime for days. For sure, Im so glad track is over, too much to do, you finish rolling that spliff yet B? Yeah man, hook me up with that light on the table, puff, puff. I laid back on Erik's plush, slightly worn leather couch purchased from the Value Village store downtown and watched as he displayed a phat French inhale. I was in a cloudy state with so much on my mind I didnt know where to begin. I was once again in the bas...
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Finny Accident Separate Peace
1,320 wordsUpon returning to his school fifteen years after graduating, Gene Forrester, recalled his days at the Devon School in a surreal sense. In his own words, In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day I entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left. Helping embellish this reality were his friends, including Leper Lepellier, who appeared in onl...
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Rusty Brick House Willow And Hill Streets One
941 wordsOn a tall slender post two signs peacefully announce that this is the inter- section of Willow and Hill streets. Actually Willow stops here, although some think' it continues down the driveway of the rusty brick house, straight ahead Late one summer, the pretty college sophomore who lived in that house with her brother and divorced mother, stopped using the driveway. The fraternity to which the boy belonged with whom she was riding was suspended after the accident. After that, one could occasion...
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Social Classes Upper Class
437 wordsThe conflict in this short story is apparent in the differing point-of-views of these conflicting social classes. Sammy, the checker narrator and unappreciated, unsuspected hero, depicts the dividing line, or is in a sense the middleman. There are three social classes which are very distinct within A & P. These social classes are all portrayed through Sams description of the events of the fateful Thursday afternoon. This afternoon is when the girls, lead by the one Sammy calls Queenie, entered t...
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Modern History Hundred Days
1,356 wordsThe Battle of Waterloo was the final and decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars, that effectively ended French domination of the European continent and brought about drastic changes in the political boundaries and the power balance of Europe. Fought on June 18, 1815, near Waterloo, in what is now Belgium, the battle ranks as a great turning point in modern history. After raising France to a position of dominance in Europe from 1804 to 1813, Napoleon met defeat in 1814 by a alliance of major powe...
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Competitor To Shame City Of Paris Maguire
986 wordsRewrite ARe-Write Essay Essay # 2 Rewrite A Day At the Races An upper class tourist attends the races in the countryside South of France. As the couple rides smoothly in their stationary horse carriage, the man stops to contemplate the good times he has enjoyed since his first race. The carriage? s passengers comprised of a coachman, a small, black dog, and two women-one carrying a baby while the other holds a parasol. They celebrate the birth of their child and he returns to the scene of his fa...
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Part Of The Poem Robert Lowell
1,468 wordsLowell and Berryman Robert Lowell and John Berryman both used their personal experiences as visuals in their writings. Their styles are similar in that aspect. Robert Lowells poem The Drunken Fisherman tells a story about himself fishing, and describes the seen in great detail. Of Suicide, written by John Berryman, is an autobiographical poem about how depressed he is. Berryman's work describes in detail what he thinks about and what was going on in his life at that moment making him feel so dep...
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Couldn T Find Piece Of Paper
880 wordsOne afternoon I was sitting at a study table at the library quietly working on my? Survey of World Religion? homework. All of a sudden another college student slammed his books on to the table. After he placed his books loudly upon the table, he threw down his book bag on to the floor next to the chair. I glanced up at him with a look of disturbance upon my face. He left as quickly as he came, just to return again. I continued working on my homework until he blessed me with his present. The very...
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