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Twenty Minutes Five Minutes
723 wordsThe September air was cool and crisp ass all the schools and colleges were just opening. Jeff Kodak a college soph more, was anxious to bein college. After his lengthy three month summer break. The only thing he couldnt stand was the workload, because he was lucky because last your he almost didnt pass. This year the only thing he wants is a computer because it would make life so much easier. Jeff began his first weekend since returning to college by waking up early around nine oclock in the mor...
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Broken Down Maverick Spur Of The Moment Car
1,573 wordsWalking, there appears to be no end in sight, stranded on a country road for all eternity. It is almost dark; so far, away from all that is familiar. The trees are groaning against the wind's fury: when did the wind start blowing? Have I been walking for so long that time hysterically slipped away! The leaves are rustling about swirling through the air like discarded post-it notes: smashing, slapping against the trees and blacktop, "splat-snap. " Where did the sun go? It gave the impression only...
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Bye Bye American Pie
617 wordsBye Bye, Miss American Pie. Hello, Madonna "Bye Bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry"American Pie", sung by Don McLean, was originally released in 1971. The song was written as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper who died tragically in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. "American Pie" not only pays homage to three talented musicians, but also serves as an allegory to the history of music. Although the original song was written about ...
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Unable To Cope People And Animals
1,292 wordsIf you took a sensitive caring person and set them in the midst of a chaotic area, what do you think would, happen? Would these person adapt to this area, and live like everyone else, or would they become a mental mess unable to cope with what is going on around them? This was the theme of the novel The Wars by Timothy Findley, that is exactly what happened. Findley took a sensitive caring individual, Robert Ross and sent him to war. Ross became unable to cope with all of the events that were ta...
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Faith Trust And Honor Trust And Honor Mutopa
765 wordsAfter reading Damon and Pythias, I realized that the value of friendship portrayed in the story is also relative to me. As Damon had faith trust and honor, I remember such a friend who had faith, trust and honor in me. Such a friend is incomparable to all wealth and power this life offers. From what I remember, it was back in 1993 - I was on one of my expeditions in the misty jungles of Africa. I befriended a native there who spoke English fairly well. We drove through the jungles in my Jeep, se...
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Buried Her Face Started To Scream Car
1,572 wordsI hate going to bed. Firstly because I know I'll be laying there for at least an hour before I get to sleep and secondly because I never know what may occur in my sleep. I lay down thinking about the kind of career I want to follow. I start to think about where I may have this career. I like the idea of living on the borders of a large sleepless city where I can have a changing high paying career that will give me the money necessary to support the lifestyle I want to live. I thought I would dre...
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U S C Fifty Fourth
1,682 wordsThe Fifty-fourth Massachusetts was organized in early 1863 by Robert Gould Shaw, twenty-six year old member of a prominent Boston abolitionist family. Shaw had earlier served in the Seventh New York National Guard and the Second Massachusetts Infantry, and was appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth in February 1863 by Massachusetts As one of the first black units organized in the northern states, the Fifty-fourth was the object of great interest and curiosity, and its performance would be conside...
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First Time One Hand
1,872 words"Tuesday night again. Time for another band practice", I thought to myself as I ate supper. You see, I'm a member of a community band that I joined a few years ago after leaving high school. I figured it would be a good way to keep up with the music that had been such a big part of my life at school. I also thought it might help me find a girlfriend, though I'd never had any luck meeting girls in any of the other groups I'd been in before. But you never know; your luck has to change sometime. Th...
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Fahrenheit 451 Similarities To Our Society
591 wordsFahrenheit 451 is a science fiction book that still reflects to our current world. Bradbury does a nice job predicting what the world would be like in the future; the future for his time period and for ours as well. The society he describes is, in many ways, like the one we are living in right now. We are always demanding more advanced machinery, and from the past, we have grown into a much more technological society. Lately, more and more people not only want more technology, they want them to ...
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Began To Change Couldnt Move
1,096 words... g boots and we were off. We walked about ten kilometers and there was a route I had to choose either around the mountain is to the left or up the mountain, which is to the right. So I obviously chose the right route where the mountain was very rough up close but from far the view of the mountain was appealing and amazing with the sun rising and the colours of the mountain I could see was a chest nut brown type of colour. The atmosphere was again bustling and lively. And I could only smell th...
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Lot Of Really Expensive Pipe Wrench Louie
1,168 wordsIt all happened so fast; it felt like a dream. I wish I could tell everybody my story but no one is listening now. Yeah, that was the best: the dreams we had. Nothing mattered except for those otherworldly dreams. Every day, Louie and I would wake up, whether it be in a high school boiler room or a urine-soaked alley, and talk about what we dreamt. He used to always have dreams with that Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters in them. We talked about it for a while and came to the conclusion that Lou...
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Masters Of The Universe Castle
1,122 wordsAs evening approaches on the planet Eternia, the Masters of the Universe guardians of good gathered outside of the Castle Grayskull. Their leader He-Man spoke to them from atop a turret of the castle. It is our duty to guard Castle Grayskull, and the secret locked inside, from the evil demon Skeletor! At the very mention of the Dark Lords name, the wind turned cold and black clouds hid the sun. Something is wrong, said Man-at-Arms, uneasily. Yes, Princess Teela agreed, there is something I dont ...
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Police Officer Long Ago
1,216 wordsCharlotte Johnson, a kind and loving mother of two, looked at the old barn and realized it would soon fall down. It was in a terrible state of repair. Its wooden foundation had long since rotted away, and the building now leaned unsteadily to one side. The boards, many of them sun-bleached, were loose and old. Several of them hung by only a single nail. Occasionally one of the dangling boards would mutter in protest, and then clatter noisily against its neighbors as it was set in motion by the w...
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Alcohol And Drug Young Men
797 wordsThis 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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View From The Bridge Mac Beths
1,152 wordsThe whole of this play involves symbolism, on many different levels. The end scene, in which Eddie takes his own life with his own knife is symbolic of the self-destructive nature that led to such an ending. As Arthur Miller wished to write a modern Greek tragedy it is likely that the symbolism of the dagger is Eddies sexuality, which drove him to his drastic actions and eventually death. During the confrontation earlier in the play Marco raised a chair like a weapon, symbolic of the fight yet t...
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Men And Women Bubonic Plague
684 wordsIn the 1340 s, approximately one third to one half the population of Europe was wiped out by what was called The Black Death? The people of the time were armed with little to no understanding of why and how the plague happened and how to control it; and this allowed for the vast destruction that occurred in little more than three years time. The origin of the epidemic has, with little doubt, been identified as Lake Issue-Kong in what is now a part of Russian Central Asia. A flood, or some other ...
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Plates Or Insurance Ricky And Jim Truck
1,219 wordsAbout two months Joyride JOYRIDE About two months before getting my drivers license, I sat in our truck pondering a plan to sneak the old girl out for the night. It had been months since I first thought of the scheme, but tonight it was time to go for it. The plan was to wait until it got dark and with little effort, push the truck down the street. It was an old 1979 Chevy pickup truck with no license plates or insurance. I did not care, because I was tired of walking the two miles to the place ...
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Eating Disorders Fashion Industry
1,336 wordsAt 17 Leslie Hornby took hold of the world. At 21 she let it go, she was the original waif, a 60? s phenomenon a superstar. She was " Twiggy? (Vogue). Leslie Hornby was the revolutionary woman who changed the idea of beauty in the eyes of the fashion industry and the entire world. Twiggy exemplified the androgynous mod look that swept America as it had Britain and much of Europe in the 1960? s. She healthily maintained a 5 ft 6 1 / 2 inch 90 lb body. Based on her thin figure, a nickname of?...
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Mom Took Skippy Skippy Never Came Back Dog
473 wordsWhen I was little I loved animals. Although most children have pets, I could not convince my parents into allowing me to have one until my pre teens. I could not have been happier the day my family went to the pound and I picked out my dog Skippy. Skippy loved to run and he was loyal to me and I will never forget the day I lost him. My mom and I would take Skippy for a run after school some times. We drove down Parker Rd. to an undeveloped neighborhood with a street that resembled a quarter mile...
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Made The Decision Susan Smith
762 wordsWhen Susan Smith Susan Smith When turning on the television, radio, or simply opening the local newspaper, one is mess with news of arrests, murders, homicides, serial killers, and other such tragedies. 1994 must be a great year to be alive if you are a criminal! Nobody takes liability for his or her own actions anymore. Someone commits a heinous crime, and everything but the criminal is blame, it was a cruel childhood, abusive parents, in my mind, if you commit a crime, and then you are a crimi...
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