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National Basketball Association High School And College
1,100 wordsBasketball originated in the late thirties or early forties, I think. Back then there were no rules or exceptions to the game. People just played it because they loved it. Many young children made their own baskets out car tires, laundry baskets, bike rims, milk crates and any other cylindrical object they could find. But as the years flew by organized basketball started to emerge. Rules and regulations started to hinder the game from being just a game. People started to take the game more serio...
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Song And A Prayer Love And Honor Life
476 wordsA Trilogy of Love From the moment we met in early spring, as she stepped out of her car and threw her hair back, I knew I was in love. Her long dark hair, her beautiful smile when she says hi, Im faint for a while. While gazing into her soft beautiful eyes as she spoke, I couldnt help but notice her laughter that accompanied that mystifying beauty. Her laughter echos, the silence awakes her beauty abound... just makes my heart ache... She told me she was from the mountains in Kentucky and how mu...
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Supposed To Bury Body
414 wordsA feeling of despair lingers in the air causing everyone to walk around in a daze with a far away look on their faces. The murky colors of the wall only reflect the sea of different dark colored clothing on the people in the parlor. Family members and those close to the deceased try their hardest to look brave and strong for the sake of the others who are not able to. Those who are not close to the loved one hold up the others on their shoulders. They try their hardest to not break down like the...
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Burning Sensation Nine Years
1,455 wordsCan I have a regular king size Demurer please? Thats what I use to say after finishing a pack of cigarettes before the day was even finished. It all started nine years ago my first day of grade nine. I wanted to be cool so the cool kids would like me. I managed to get my hands on a cigarette and a lighter; I sparked it and took a puff. I felt a burning sensation down my throat as if I have been trapped in a burning house full of smoke. I coughed and coughed clearing my throat trying to spit out ...
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Barbed Wire Gas Station
1,575 words... es, their own civil structure, their own government when they have been deprived of every last paper that might have provided something at least to build upon? Back outside we pass more buildings pitted by war and destruction. At one high-rise, its entire western wall missing, we can see clearly a man hanging from a metal beam, stripping the wire from the ceilings of the otherwise empty building. Below him on the street, his donkey waits next to a wooden cart filled with odds and ends. Acros...
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Ayn Rand One Day
866 wordsIn the novel Anthem, Ayn Rand writes about the future dark ages. Anthem takes place in city of a technologically backwards totalitarian society, where mankind is born in the home of the infants and dies in the home of the useless. Just imagine, being born in to a life of slavery having no freedom, no way self expression, no ego. The city represented slavery. When in the city, Equality had been guilty of many transgressions. He was not like his brothers, he was different he was smarter, healthier...
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Act 1 Scene 5 Act 3 Scene
1,307 wordsThe death of Hamlet was caused by a number of reasons, many of which were his own fault. Although this may be disputed it is a fact that this was a tragedy, but aside from the obvious reasons (the trap set by Claudius and Laertes) there were steps leading up his death which could have easily been avoided. Probably Hamlet's most tragic flaw is that he becomes too involved in his thoughts, it is his tendency to ponder upon the possible outcome of every situation and scenario that he faces in his l...
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Culture Shock Police Officer
1,055 wordsAxtell, Roger E. Gestures: The DOs and TABOOS of Body Language Around the World. Jon Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998 -- Rev. and expanded edition. Over the past decade the author has been presenting seminars, speeches and workshops around the United States on the subject of international behavior. This book is the result of accumulation of more than ten years of research on the subject and it includes research on his travels to England, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. All thi...
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Cheeky Smile Joe Anne
447 wordsAnne stood on the beach, paralysed with fear. Around her she could vaguely hear the sound of her mothers terrified screams. She knew there was something she had to do, but her mind was blank, and her legs wouldnt move. Then, a memory filled her mind. A horrible memory... She was standing on another beach, a small, cold beach. Preparing to go into the water for a swim, when she heard a scream. Looking up, she saw her best friend, Amelia, wave her hand frantically, and then she went under. At firs...
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Lord Stanley Good Lord
1,393 wordsThe boy-page held the tent flap open as Richmond and his officers emerged out. They had been occupied in there since the messenger came with the letter from Stanley and had not emerged for hours afterwards. The page had waited obediently; making sure that no one interrupted the counsel. As Richmond came out, his kind eyes fell on the boy and he greeted him with a warm smile, Hello John. He remembers my name! Johns heart filled with pleasure. His nervousness didnt let him speak so he just bowed a...
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Years Of My Life Game Of Baseball
745 wordsPicture a young child full of life and happiness. The love of his parents shows through his eyes, smile, and tears. Some people would like to think that those things about a child are exactly what make life wonderful. People who think that way have no idea how right they are. Its a wonderful life to know that your parent? s dreams live on in you. The dream of a mother; that her son will be a doctor. The dream of a father; that his son will some day become a major league baseball player. Most of ...
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Didn T Couldn T
1,540 wordsHe always loved his gin in the morning, noon, and night; it came to him like water and it was impossible for him to leave home without it. No one could ever sway him from his essential life fluid. It wouldn? t matter whether you cried, pleaded, or begged on your two knees, he would not stop. He only started to drink this much when he was 35 and I was about 9 at the time, no one could explain this drastic change in him. Before, he used to drink often but now, it? s just crazy how much he drinks. ...
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Eric Harris Negative Feelings
1,094 wordsJake Miller? s M. E. P. A. Theory It was a nice, warm, sunny day in the city of Littleton, Colorado. The bell rang like it does every day, telling everyone that school was starting. This day was going to be different, though! Within a matter of hours, the? peaceful, yet busy halls? of Columbine High School would turn into a living? Hell on Earth? by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold! Why did this tragedy happen? Does the saying, ? Survival of the fittest? , play in this? We will take a look at this ...
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L A Times Jim Morrison
1,666 wordsMr. Mojo Risin and Fallin: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison He is often referred to as the electric poet for his tantalizing words and mesmerizing music, and called to be the Lizard King for his deep obsession for all creatures of nature. His name is James Douglas Morrison. Jim Morrison is one of the most influential artists in history. His life brought inspiration to many young people s lives, and his death continues to weave us into the mysteries that he left behind for us to break through. ...
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King Lear Good King
1,047 wordsShakespeare: King Lear Good King, that must approve the common saw, Thou out of heavens benediction comsat the warm sun Approach, thou beacon to this under globe, That by thy comfortable beams I may Peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles But misery. I know? tis from Cordelia Who hath most fortunately been informed Of my obscured course, and shall find time From this enormous state, seeking to give Losses their remedies. All weary and oer watched, Take vantage heavy eyes, not to behold ...
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One By One Younger Kids
1,238 wordsSitting out Kuwait Welcome Back Sitting out by the front gate during the early evening I look toward the horizon, the sky is turning all different shades of yellow and orange as the sun begins to set. A nice gentle breeze begins to come in off the shore. It is a warm evening but the breeze helps to sooth the heat as it gently sweeps over my body. Lunchtime is just about over and the younger kids should start coming out anytime now. I look around and see that life has not really changed much sinc...
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Night Santiago Young Women Abraham
745 wordsIn the still of the night Santiago? s crying cut sharply like a knife. His crying was relentless, as though it would never end but then, a child of three knows no other way to express his horror. Abraham Name walked down the narrow street made of hardened earth and nothing more. His dress was pure class, white blazer and pants with matching wide brimmed hat. Lost in thought he rolled his cigar between his lips, then, as if in a motion as natural to him as his tendency to smile at beautiful women...
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Hamlet Madness Shakespeare Hamlet
1,159 wordsDenmark: The Land of Make-Believe In William Shakespeare? s, Hamlet, there exists a predominant motif of pretense. Throughout the play, the characters feign emotions in order to achieve their own purposes. Various characters use pretense to hide their true thoughts from each other and to cover up for what evil deeds they have down. In Act I, Claudius, Hamlet and Polonius demonstrate their pretentiousness. Claudius claims to mourn for his? dear brother? s death? (I, ii, 1) when actually, he was t...
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Pride And Prejudice Jane Austen
1,577 wordsSense of Humor It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. What we read is just the opposite; a single woman must be in want of a man with a good fortune. In this first line of Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice we are at once introduced to language rich with satire. The comic tendencies displayed in the novel s language introduce a theme very important to the novel the character s laughter and their attitudes towards laught...
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1,146 wordsGo west, young lady Edward S Curtis: Coming to Light Anne Makepeace 216 pp, National Geographic Sacagawea's Nickname Larry McMurtry 178 pp, NYRB I Dwell in Possibility Donna M Lucey 256 pp, National Geographic Phoebe Ann Mosey doesnt figure in I Dwell in Possibility, a history of women who built the United States: no mugshot, no mention, not even under her arena name of Annie Oakley. Likewise left out is Sacagawea, or however you spelled her Shoshone name; she bore a son and carried him on her b...
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