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Harper Lee True Courage
648 words"Courage is... when u know you " ve been licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through not matter what. " Atticus Finch (Harper Lee) This is a very powerful and almost inspiring quote from the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. It depicts my very idea of the word courage. I also believe that courage is when man learns from his mistake and goes at the problem again, if he has a second chance. Atticus is completely right, in my opinion. Past experiences and examples ...
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Began Firing Father Moses Adam
1,286 wordsAdam Cooper started out as a fifteen-year-old boy, but became a fifteen-year-old man. In the beginning, Adam could not get along with his father, Moses Cooper, and truly believed that his father hated him. Moses was always getting on to Adam for everything he did. In Moses eyes his boy could do better than he let on if he would only apply himself a little bit more. There was nothing that a Cooper man couldnt do. Moses was a large man who could argue his way out of anything, his reputation for ar...
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Cung Pow Chicken Cung Pow Waitress
561 wordsI was driving down the road back from college and I was feeling very hungry. I couldnt even think properly, all I wanted to do was to gobble down Japanese food. I could almost taste the Cung Pow chicken and the smell the steaming rice while I was driving my car. As I parked in the parking lot and got out of my car I could clearly see the restaurant. There was a big sign outside slightly tilting to the left as it hung over the entrance and boldly read Sunami. From the windows outside I could see ...
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Live Their Lives National Bank
1,590 words"You think that youve got forever to someday make your life mean something, but you dont This is your life, and its ending one minute at a times only after weve lost everything that we are free to do anything. " (Palahniuk, 76) The meaning of life, a question that has plagued humans since the beginning of time, no one really knows what the true answer is, however, people try to live their lives to find this "meaning, " to live their lives with no regrets. Throughout a persons quest to self disco...
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Plea Bargain Im Glad
1,421 wordsAnthony, Im so excited for you, twelve months down, twelve to go, a woman says on the phone. Kari, this has been a long year. I miss you so much, Anthony says. Kari puts her hand on the glass divider and gives a long, loving stare into the eyes of Anthony, So what are you doing first when you come home? Coming to my house and she cuts herself off with a big smile and wink. Going to your house and get the key to my case so I can get what Im in here for. Then going back to your house and maybe let...
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Reading This Book Read A Book
1,389 wordsAnnemarie Johanson and her family lived in Denmark in a chaotic time of World War I. The Germans had been roaming around Europe, searching for Jewish. The Germans even took over Denmark, a country that is so peaceful that the king dont even need protection when he walk out to the streets everyday. They stand in every corner of the streets of Denmark. Taking away any goods that Danish and Jewish need. Everyone feared them. All they know is that if they do not follow their rules, they would be in ...
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Loose Weight Weight Loss
1,087 wordsOnce upon a time in the land of perfect dreams, I was a beautiful princess and I lived in a castle and could eat anything I wanted. Quotes Simply Sarah. Teenagers with eating disorders, specifically Bulimia, often desire one thing, perfect body. They believe that being overweight is the cause of all their misfortunes, and if they could only loose the fat, all of their problems would disappear as well. When in fact most of them arent overweight, and are around normal size for their age. When they...
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Food And Drug Medicinal Purposes
863 wordsDrugs are anything chemically based which alter your perceptions in life and give you a high that sometimes you would like to have forever. Sometimes people dont need this high in their life all the time but for others they always want that ultimate feeling. The feeling of no worries, pain, or sorrow. Some people take drugs for the fun of it, while others seriously have a problem and are addicted to the drugs. For some it is easy to just take drugs such as LSD, snort a line of coke, or smoke a j...
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Lived Through The Depression Eat A Lot Work
1,029 wordsMovies were only a dime, but we didnt have a dime. In Labor, North Dakota not much went on. Aileen Muir was born on Dec 12, 1916. Her father, Gale Muir, was a carpenter who made enough to get by and support his family. When the thirties came, jobs became hard for Gale to find. He always had work. It was just scarce. When Roosevelt started WPA, Gale was the head of a group hired to build sidewalks. He was paid fifty-four dollars a month while the other workers made forty. Times were hard, but we ...
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Dead Person T V
366 wordsIt was a time for me when life was like one of those T. V. shows that have perfect families and nothing bad ever happens. I liked it that way so when my father came home with a sad look on his face I have to say it scared me more then a little bit but I had no idea that the news he would present would change my life forever. My mom came out of her room and my dad called us to him. He started to say that something bad happened but he stopped because he was getting choked up. He finally came out a...
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Booker T Washington B Du Bois
614 wordsBooker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois were both civil rights activists, yet one mans solution to the problems faced by African Americans in late-nineteenth-century America, was better than the others. That man was Booker T. Washington. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery where as W. E. B. Du Bois was born a free man. Their different backgrounds created very dissimilar ideas of how the African Americans would achieve full civil liberties and equal rights. Having studied at Hampton Inst...
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Didnt I Asked Thought Youd Make
670 wordsI looked at you and smiled the other day I thought youd see me but you didnt I said, I love you and waited for what you would say I thought youd hear me but you didnt I asked you to come out side and play ball with me I thought youd follow but you didnt I drew a picture just for you to see I thought youd save it but you didnt I made a fort for us back in the woods I thought youd camp wit me but you didnt I found some worms n such for fishing if we could I thought youd want to but you didnt I tol...
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Hang Glide Mental Institution Dont
880 wordsThrown up in public: yea, in an airplane and i couldnt get out... it was horrible Eaten or drank anything spoiled: probably but i usually make my mom taste the milk first Had a rip in your pants and didnt know it: yea but it was in the crotch region so you couldnt really see it Tripped while checking someone out: probably Had to pay from something you broke: yea... i hate that Nearly drowned: yea a couple times but i was young Passed out: uh huh Had a crush on somebody: of course who hasnt? Been...
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Make Them Feel One Day
599 wordsHelping a Dear Neighbor Growing up in an environment wherein I am always left alone, I tend to long for companion or just simply look for someone I can talk to or focus my attention to help me forget about my loneliness. I try my best to keep myself busy to feel productive. My parents were always at work. I understand that life is hard so they have to work for us to be able to acquire the lifestyle that we want. In our neighborhood, we treasure friendship and hospitality. We welcome every person...
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Baseball Game Baseball Field
963 wordsOctober 11, 2007 Recap: NLCS Game 1 - Rockies 5, Diamondbacks 1 Several days ago I decided to take my daughter to the baseball game. These were not the two teams nobody expected to see in the season 2007, as it was NLCS Recap Rockies v. Diamondbacks. Probably, one should ask why did I take my daughter with me, as baseball is traditionally the game for strong men, and the vast majority of spectators are male. Yet, I believe, this event is really meaningful as attending a baseball game allows not ...
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Helen Burns Creates Tension
1,072 wordsThroughout history in literature achievements of widening popularity always seem to create tension. In Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, the pursuit of dependence and self-fulfillment is confronted by her romantic characteristics in a Victorian age. What makes Victorians Victorian is their sense of social responsibility, a basic attitude that obviously differentiates them from their immediate predecessors, the Romantics (Landow 1) who are more open-minded, much like Jane. Although her romanti...
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Couldnt Kill Harry Uncle Vernon Witch
472 wordsHarry Potter starts off slow, but gets very interesting near the end. In the beginning, you meet the Dursleys, Harry's aunt, uncle, and their son Dudley. Then you learn that Harry's parents were witches, and that they were destroyed by a evil wizard. A good witch, Albus Dumbeldoor, sends Harry to the Dursleys, because theyre his only remaining family. The Dursleys however, hated Harry and his family, so Harry was mistreated for years. He was forced to live in a cuborrod under the stairs. He had ...
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Head Games Jenna Police
572 wordsby: Head Games Head Games by: Christopher Golden They were my friends. Ive known them almost my entire life. Maybe they both just lost it. But I think somethings going on here, and I have to take a closer look. Jenna Blake was having a hard time not being with her friends and her boyfriend from college, for she was on Christmas Break and it kept them apart. She couldnt possibly deal with the weird happenings that would surface over the next two days, but maybe what she learned with Slick, the me...
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Ferry Dock Heard Karley Wed
1,241 wordsAs I, woke up, fuzzy from lack of sleep, I crawled out of the tent to see where we were. It was so dark the night before when we arrived, I wasnt sure. Our campsite was on a hillside terrace, and the campground was empty except for our Barbie sized blue plastic pup tent. I heard Karley moan from inside the tent. I looked at my watch, 6 oclock, it was time to go. The ferry would be leaving in an hour and I wanted to get there early. I called to her to get up and proceeded to look for a bathroom. ...
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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
1,565 wordsThroughout the ages The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been a treasured novel to people of all ages. For young adults the pure adventuresome properties of the book captivates and inspires wild journeys into the unknown. The book appeals to them only as a quest filled with danger and narrow escapes. It is widely considered that children of 12 or so are a little too young to absorb the books complexities (Galileo: Morrow). However, as readers mature and become older, they read the book through...
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