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Fell Asleep Police Station
1,711 wordsIt was like any other Friday at my house that night. I ate my dinner in a rush, ran into the living room afterward to watch television, and quickly fell asleep. My mom was always sure to wake me up around 7: 30 or 8: 00 and send me up to my room for the night. Usually I would go upstairs to sleep, but not on Friday nights. Friday nights were the nights when every teenager went out on the streets. Myself, being eleven years old and practically a teenager, was in the mindset that I was just as des...
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Found Her Husband Laying Found Her Husband Wife
584 wordsThis article came from a national magazine: Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with a dive tank, flippers, and face mask. A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about determining how a fully-clad diver en...
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Long Period Of Time Three Hundred
458 wordsAs Steve Prefontaine once said " I like to make people stop and say, Ive never seen anyone run like that before. " True, anybody can run, but not just anybody can run track. There is more to running than just the fast movement of legs. Running takes strength, endurance, and a tremendous amount of guts. There are many races which a track runner can take part in, from the fifty-yard dash to the two mile. Each race falls into a particular category. These categories include the sprinter, the middle ...
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Animal Farm In Relation To The Russian Revolution
1,078 wordsANIMAL FARM IN COMPARISON TO THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Animal Farm is a satire on the Russian Revolution. You can look at this story as a fairy tale about the animals, or on a deeper level, as an account of the events in the Russian Revolution. I chose to learn more about the real meaning of Animal Farm, which Orwell indirectly explains throughout the story. Animal Farm starts out with introducing us to life on the Manor Farm, and Old Major's opinion on the outcome of their future. Old Major is con...
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Horse Podhajsky Rode Taught Me How Important Horses
1,238 wordsMy Horses, My Teachers is an excellent book on Horses and how to learn from them. Alois Podhajsky tells about his experiences with horses and how they taught him how to ride and teach them from the time that he was a small child and for most the rest of his life. I especially appreciate this book because it is so much like how I learned most all I know about horses. Someone that is having problems with their riding instructor could use this book to tell what the problem is and someone wanting to...
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Gulliver Travels Jonathan Swift
680 wordsThe book Gulliver's Travels was written by Jonathan Swift. It takes place in different, unusual places. Gulliver goes on four important voyages, the first to the city of Lilliput, the second to Brobdingnag, the third voyage to Laputa, and the last voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms. On Gulliver's first voyage, he did not mean to go to Lilliput, but Gulliver's ship wrecked on rocks and he had to swim to land. When he found land, he was so tired that he could not move and the people captured him....
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Single Moment Changed Moment Changed Car
330 wordsThe sound of screeching brakes brought a painful shock up and down my spine. My heart dropped to my toes. Wondering what had just happened, I walked to class with an eerie feeling around me. Kids fluttered around gossiping about what had just happened. The words coming out of everyones mouths was that it involved a small car. This single moment changed everything about me. My class I was in was real close to the street. I peeked my head around the corner and saw the word Taurus. It was on the ba...
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Dont Worry Big Deal
1,307 wordsIt was Palm Sunday and Jesus was coming into Jerusalem. He was riding on a blazing white stallion and kicking up a cloud of dust as he rode along. He was looking for trouble. The people that he passed on his way were in awe of such a beautiful animal but they were even more awestruck by the man who was riding it. As Jesus passed by, you could hear the people say, "Who was that masked man?" There were bad guys on the loose and Jesus had a job to do. As he rode into Jerusalem he quickly sized up t...
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Quit His Job Main Characters
874 wordsIn the short story "Soldier's Home, " by Ernest Hemingway, Krebs's rejection of his community's values can be related to Sammy's relationship to his supermarket job in John Updike's "A & P. " Even though the two stories are different in style, one story being more serious and gloomy and the other being more humorous and sarcastic, they both reveal two similar settings, which the main characters reject. Both authors use precise and detailed examples of how each style and setting are portrayed. He...
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People Who Love Hairpin Turn Matt
620 wordsWho would have ever fathomed dirt bikes would enter mainstream sports as a fierce competitor? This sport is for people who love pushing it to the edge, people who love fear. Motocross exemplifies speed, power, and agility. If you put all these factors into one and you dont have the proper equipment to perform, tragedy can strike at any moment! In June of 1998 Matt, James, and I went on a late ride at around dusk. Before we left the house, I had been trying to fix my back break for about and hour...
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Webster Collegiate Dictionary Spinal Cord
1,157 wordsOnce in a lifetime, a person comes along who make you want to do your best. Phil Duong is one of those people. He tries his best to get a smile and be a great friend; in which hes mastered both. However on November 2, his life almost came to an abrupt end. You never know how much a friend means to you until theyre almost not there anymore. Prior to that night, Phils life was going pretty good. A good female friend had asked Phil to the Homecoming Dance. That same girl was crowned Homecoming Quee...
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Goal Post Ball Forward
403 wordsYour feet should be shoulder width apart (for better balance) with them Place the ball in one hand on your fingers - not on the tips, but not flat on the palm, (a finger space between the ball and palm). Your other hand is used to support the ball only. Rest it slightly on the ball during the Being a high shooting technique, your arm should be straight above your head and almost resting against your ear. Try not to arch your back. It is very important to take aim before shooting. Aiming at somet...
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Kung Fu Hip Hop
997 wordsBreak Dancing or B-being is a form of hip-hop dancing, which is popularly known as breaking. It consists of top or up rock, footwork, spinning moves (power moves), and freeze. B-being came from Bronx, NY. The term "B-boy" or "B-being" was created by Kool Herc who was a DJ spinning at block parties in Bronx back in the days. B-Boys means break boys and they were called so because they dance to the break part of music. Later, by repeating this break part done by DJ, "breakbeat's" was born. Althoug...
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Three Legged Tables Back To Olympus Hephaestus
1,046 words... ld get some time to without these goddesses in his life, so they divided a year up into three equal parts: 3) Four months to be with whomever he wanted to be with. 17 Although this is what the court ruled, Aphrodite wore her magic girdle and persuaded Adonis to let her not only her time with him, and she persuaded him to let her have his time to himself to be with him. 18 Persephone did not agree with this at all. She went to Ares and told him how angry she was. Ares got jealous of Persephon...
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First World War Tells The Story
622 wordsQuestion: In what specific ways do Wilfred Owens poems attempt to dispel the illusions about the war represented in the art on pages 367 - 368? As the First World War raged through Europe many of the countries involved used posters to draw people to the cause. The posters located in the Human Record showed scenes of happiness and patriotism. People were seeing these posters and assuming that war was similar to them. But, on the other hand, Wilfred Owens was writing poetry that truly portrayed th...
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Roman Soldiers Jesus Died
1,125 wordsJesus' life has provided for the religion of Christianity. Jesus was and is a very important part of modern life, and without him, our lives would be totally different today. In this paper, we are trying to dig deeper into the meaning of Jesus' crucifixion and death. The basis of the writings about Jesus' death is solely made up of literature, and no physical structures. In the Bible, the four Gospels go into detail of Jesus' life and death. This topic is discussed by the Roman historians Cornel...
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One Lives Line 12
631 wordsOzymandias to express to us that possessions do not mean immortality. He used very strong imagery and irony to get his point across throughout the poem. In drawing these vivid and ironic pictures in our minds, Shelley was trying to explain that no one lives forever, and nor do their possessions. Shelley expresses this poems moral through a vivid and ironic picture. A shattered stone statue with only the legs and head remaining, standing in the desert, the face is proud and arrogant, Half sunk, a...
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Didn T Night
1,389 wordsWiping the sweat from my brow I called a halt to the crew. Phil and I dumped our packs and found a comfy boulder to rest on. I looked back to where the last guys were coming from back down the trail. They had stopped talking a while back and marched slowly along the dirt trail. Phil produced an energy-bar he? d saved from breakfast and began to munch on it as I drained another water bottle. After the refreshing drink I laid back against the rock and stared up at the pine trees. But a moment late...
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Males And Females Boys And Girls
613 wordsLets talk about puberty. What is the first thing that comes into our minds when we say puberty? Well, sex is the most common thought that pops out from the head of many people. But there is much more than sex to puberty. Puberty is a very unique and important evolving stage of all males and females. During puberty, guys and girls go through many changes that we might find funny, scary and weird. During puberty, the level of testosterone and estrogen in both boys and girls increases greatly. The ...
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19 Th Century Learn To Swim Swimming
485 wordsSwimming Swimming is the act of moving through the water by using the arms, legs, and body in motions called strokes. The most common strokes are the crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and sidestroke. Some scientists believe that human beings are born with an instinctive ability to use their arms and legs to stay afloat. That instinct, however, disappears within a few months after birth. Later in life many children and adults learn to swim in order to be safe around the water, to have f...
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