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Train Station Five Minutes
972 wordsIngredients: Yourself and the city of New York Please! Dont scream too loud at the sunlight piercing your protesting eyes, torn from the throes of a trip in Rome. Monotonously say, Yes Mom, to the screaming she-devil dragging you out of bed. Place your feet on the cold floor and yelp. Scramble for your floppies; make sure theyre under the bed. No other place will do. You will now be forced to grope underneath the bed for this necessary accessory. Make sure your hand encounters something cold and...
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Mother Happened Dad
337 wordsI walked into the house from basketball practice at six pm. The remains of the vase that was on the stand beside the door, lay at my feet. The furniture in the living room was tipped and topped over and anything fragile had been thrown and had shattered. Mother sat on the bottom step crying, her arms a mass of cuts and gashes. "What happened?" I practically yelled. I ran over to Mom and threw my stuff down beside her. "What the hell happened?"Your dad and I got into a fight. He left, " she said ...
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Angel From Heaven Guy I Knew Carla
1,336 words... s serious, he asked me, why I wanted to join boarding so suddenly. The only thing that I could come up was that I could live my own life. He was laughing at that statement; I thought I lost the case. But I won; he said that I could join the boarding facility next term. I was very happy because I could leave the boring house, and live in boarding with my friends. When the new term started, I met my old friends, and met new friends who were all boarders. They were very nice but I didnt see Car...
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Years Ago 30 Years
855 wordsI stepped out from the yellow Ferrari Get second edition, recalling when was the last time I landed my feet on my beloved hometown. Everything had changed. After three decades being isolated on an island for a government top secret project, I am finally at liberty. The first place that I wish to visit after being secluded is my high school. So, off I go trying to locate the school based on the information on my cars databank screen. Before my eye is a 30 -storey building. As my car drawing near ...
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Lean Back Room Head
677 wordsI scan the room, my drunken eyes taking it all in. I collapse onto a lounge and a cloud of dust surrounds me, making an already hazy room, simply a mass of grey-brown shapes. I lean back giving my exhausted limbs time to breathe. Like an ancient tree I eerily creak and groan as I move: relaxing finally. Scattered around the room, memories almost forgotten, remind one of lives once had. A yellowing photograph hangs on the wall. A moment in time captured forever. The smiling children almost look a...
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00 A M Hip Hop
747 wordsPlace: BluePrint (nightclub) Time 12: 00 a. m 3: 00 a. m Date: Feb 13, 2005 # 1 Observation: The nightclub is located near downtown Toledo on Monroe Street just three blocks from mud hens stadium (observation). The blueprint night club is one of Toledos most popular hip hop night clubs (generalization). As soon as you walk up to the building you are greeted by huge windows so you can see into the club and see all the party goers (observation). As you walk into the club you are immediately greete...
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United States Congress Majority Leader
611 wordsThe legislative processes of the United States Congress are often open to certain influences. These influences can come from such elements of the congressional system as logrolling and party representation on committees. In addition, there are several manners in which party leadership in Congress can also contribute to these influences. Logrolling is one technique used to sway the legislative procedures of Congress in one's favor. Also known as reciprocity, logrolling is a method that one or mor...
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Civil War African American
851 wordsHarriet Tubman was born around the 1820 s in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her parents worked on a plantation, that often grew just one crop, cotton. They named their daughter Armenia Ross, later her name was changed to Harriet. Her owner was Edward Broad; people rented Harriet so she can work for them. At age 5 Harriet's job was to wind yarn. She would sleep on the kitchen floor at night, and shared leftover food with the dogs. Harriet became very ill while working barefoot during the winter so ...
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Law Of Motion Natural Philosophy
332 wordsSir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1642, in the town of Woolsthorpe, near Grandtham in Lincolnshire. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theories of universal gravitation, terrestrial mechanics, and color. His study on gravitation, presented in Principia Mathematica (1687), was supposedly inspired by the sight of a falling apple. When he was three years old, his widowed mother remarried, leaving him to the care of his grandmother. He was...
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Beowulf Questioning The Accuracy Of Oral Tradition
534 wordsThroughout history, storytellers, or bards, have used the oral method of passing legends from generation to generation. This procedure is called oral tradition and is a practice that is very subjective. Beowulf is a prime example of the conflict that occurs when stories are passed orally and the origin of this first piece of English literature is still being debated. The literature text refers to the Anglo-Saxons, as well as the Jutes, as being the first to tell the story of Beowulf, but there i...
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Three Dimensional White Man
946 wordsMaurits Cornelis Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden. His drawing and graphic skills can be traced back to his schooldays, and in particular to the influence of his teacher F. W. van der Happen. After leaving school he spent three years at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem. The graphic skills he had discovered at secondary school were further developed here under the dynamic S. Jesse run de Mesquite. He lived in Italy for ten years after 1922 and from there he visited...
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Born A Slave Kunta And Fiddler Freedom
759 wordsIn Africa, where people can live in peace. Tribes live freely in the vast country, doing what they please, living like human beings. They have families, friends, religion, and a culture, like what we have now. That was what it was like for Kunta Kunta from the movie "Roots", a young African male, that was kidnapped from his home. They put him in chains, and shipped him over to America with about 1000 of his own people. His freedom was destroyed the second they forced him on the evil boat. He was...
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Hydrothermal Vents Hydrogen Sulfide
1,001 words... e used for medicines. The discovery of hydrothermal vents have presented us with a possible explanation for the origin of life as well as life on other planets. Many of the minerals that develop there could be minded safely and used by humans (Chu). In addition to these, there are many more reasons why vents are, and are potently important to humans. Introduction to Tube Worms Up until recently it was thought that nothing could ever live at hydrothermal vent sites. The vents hostile conditio...
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Controlling Deer Overpopulation Through Increased Hunting
1,554 wordsLong Island comprises about 1, 200 acres and is home to more that 500 families. During the 1960 s, deer on the island were kept in check through restricted hunting. But in the 1970 s, this limited population control was ended when residents made hunting illegal on Long Island. By 1983, overpopulation had created a stunted sickly herd of deer serious problem for the Fish and Game Department. Since most residents were still opposed to killing deer, the department was forced to use supposedly more ...
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Customer Service One Third
901 wordsDepending on the time of day and day of week, the abiding time at checkout varies. In order to maintain and manage the variety of store customers and staff availability during this time, a flexible self-checkout line should be considered. To meet this challenge, these self-checkout lines offer a convertible lane. It can function as a self-checkout lane or as a traditional, fully assisted cashier lane. The transformation is done in just a few simple steps, leaving the time to choose the most usef...
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Ill Just Clean Back Into Bed Thought
717 wordsI was drifting off to sleep while listening to the summer nights breeze, rustling the leaves on the oak, outside my window. It was peaceful, dreamy, and most of all, safe. I was almost asleep when a loud buzzing sound filled my ear. A disturbing annoyance cancelled all my thoughts of sleep, and it disturbed all the peace. Buzzzzzzzz... buzzzzzzzz... buzzzzzzz. Only a mosquito can make that sound. How did it get in here? I thought. Buzzzzz... buzzzzzzz. I swatted and slapped at that annoying crea...
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Gladiatorial Games Free Men
930 wordsThe subject on Ancient Rome I am writing about is Roman Gladiators. To watch men kill each other was what the Roman loved to watch. It was entertaining to the Romans. They took pleasure in watching elaborate show that involved danger to life and bloodshed. Originally they were for funerals but turned into holidays then into ways to exploit for political purposes. When holidays were announced all public business stopped and all citizens had a holiday. In this paper I will talk about where they fo...
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Magical Realism Dramatic Monologue
702 wordsAs the centuries pass, people seem to have more courage to express themselves in unique and innovative ways through their own medium of representation. In modern poetry specifically, we see writers who are bending the rules of traditional form, presentation, and subject matter. A new era in our civilization calls for new poets who are not frightened to be different. Gary Soto, a Mexican-American, has the courage to express the struggle his people have had in the southwest through his mystical wr...
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Orange Juice Kenny Room
451 wordsThe date was January 23, 2001; waking up at 8 am for class was every college student s nightmare. My roommate Kenny s eyes were still half shut, my vision blurred, and his hand still numb from sleeping on it all night long. Somehow he built up enough strength to swing his hand softly to tap the snooze button on my ever so loud alarm clock in hopes for the alarm never to sound again. Seven minutes later, waking again to the most annoying buzzing sound on earth. The plan failed, the alarm didn t b...
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Baseball Field Football Field
970 wordsAn experience that shall never escape me is my first week of marching band camp in ninth grade. Held at my high school of the time, this two-week journey will fill your soul with glorious notes and alert your senses to the feeling of music. Everywhere you place yourself for those two weeks at camp, no matter where, you cannot get away from the essence of song and rhythm. Whether you? re sitting in the heated band room with humidity that resembles walking through an ocean or on break for fifteen ...
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