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Dining Room Wooden Table
966 wordsWe pulled into the gravel driveway a punctual half hour before our expected arrival. Great, I thought, an extra hour I would be waste at my grandparents'. Wasn't it good enough that I was spending the entire weekend here? Did we have to get there so soon? When you are thirteen, each minute at your grandparents' is like sitting through an oration of the entire set of the World Book Encyclopedia. Climbing out of the car, my sister and I apathetically walked across the driveway to the brick sidewal...
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High School College Team
403 wordschange that freshman golfer Marcia Perry has taken on since she has begun her collegiate golf career at the University I play a college sport, I am expected to be good. Its a lot to live up to at times, unbelievable, " Perry said. "What used to be an hour to two hours of practice is now three demanding on any college student. College athletes have to be able to balance their schedules extremely well. Between classes, practices, and the occasional free time with friends, it can become very stress...
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Made Him Feel Fifth Grade
1,001 wordsAll children can relate in someway to Katherine Patersons Newbery Medal-winning childrens novel, Bridge to Terabithia. Jess and Leslie, the main characters in the book undergo many life changing circumstances such as becoming the best of friends and then having to let go of that friendship. Three subjects that mold Jess and Leslie into a more mature person are competition, friendship, and acceptance. Jess Aarons is a ten-years-old and grows up in a house where he is the only boy with four sister...
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The Accidental Crusade Spanish American War Part 1
1,662 wordsThe accidental crusade: The Spanish American War The Spanish-American War was brief, but it became the beginning of the American overseas empire, formal and informal. For Several centuries Spain remained the World's empire and its colonies were spread worldwide. But by the end of the nineteenth century only few Spanish possessions remained in the Pacific, Africa and West India. Most part of the former Spanish possessions gained independence or fell into other hands. The remained colonies struggl...
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Neighbor Door Neighbor
2,052 wordsCuriosity One characteristic of Jessica Donnally in the book, Don? t Scream, by Joan Lowery Nixon, is curiosity. Jess spends much of her time attempting to find out the details of other people? s lives, and it often gets her in trouble. The main characters in the book are Jessica Donnally, Lori Roberts, Mark Malik and Scott Alexandar. Jess is a normal sixteen-year-old girl with an unsatisfiable curiosity and a great compassion for kids. Lori is Jess? s best friend. Mark and Scott have both recen...
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Goneril And Regan Thousand Acres
1,031 wordsIn William Shakespeare s King Lear and Jane Smiley s A Thousand Acres, the reader will find that both works use similar character types that mirror each other to increase further the similarities and meaning of the works. Perhaps no similarity is as striking as that of the fathers. They share three characteristics which bind them and make their parallels unmistakable. The first, and most obvious, is that they are both proprietors of a large estate. King Lear s property consists of England and La...
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Great Warrior Main Characters
502 wordsAuthor: Brian Jacques Publisher: The Putnam & Grosset Book Group Date of Publication: December 1991 Setting: The story takes place in Mossflower, a forested area where the animals of Redwall live. It takes place in fantasy times. There are no humans, just animals roam the earth. The Main Characters: The main characters are Mattimeo who is the son of the great warrior mouse of Redwall, Matthias. Matthias is the great warrior of Redwall whose son has been taken captive by Slagar the Cruel. Jes...
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Part Of The Book Doesn T
533 wordsWhat makes this novel a mystery? (5 marks) This novel is a mystery because Jess thinks she is seeing ghosts which she tries to figure out who they are and what happened at Willow Creek Ranch so long ago to Ian and the Shaw s. Describe how the book ended. (10 marks) Choose one main character. Answer the questions below with as much detail as possible... What does s / he look like? (5 marks) Jess has brown hair, blue eyes and is skinny... What are his / her character traits (i. e. what kind of per...
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Booker T Washington Coalhouse Walker
2,379 wordsJess Brock American History Script Ragtime Tape Recorded Book Report March 20, 1999 Jess Brock This is Jess Brock, with Real News. I am in front of the Pierpont Morgan property in Manhattan where Coalhouse Walker and a troupe if young Negroes have moved into the Morgan Library after escalating events in the past few weeks. Im going to tell you the scene here. There is an enormous crater in front of the library stairs, caused by a blast during Mr. Walkers break in. It is oddly quiet here. Most of...
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