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Home From The Hospital Months To Live Dad
906 wordsIt was the month of June 1996. My dad was very sick in the hospital so my mother sent my younger brother and I to my cousins house for the week. It was a Saturday and I was more than ready to go home for the weekend. I missed my parents and I was anxious to see how my father was doing. My cousins drove us home later that afternoon. My mom had just brought my dad home from the hospital but she had to leave right away to go to work. My dad seemed to be doing great. He was in a very lively mood and...
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Jerry Renault Chocolate War
1,435 wordsJerry Renault in The Chocolate War appears to be going with the flow trying out for football, checking out girls but his inner character drives him to differ. He fights to grasp his feelings and lacks self-confidence when he needs it most. As Jerry begins to unearth his inner-self, other obstacles and ideas dealing with certain emotions arise. As he progresses and reaches a level of comprehension, he grows closer to his goal sense of self-rule. Jerry seems to be a typical freshman, in a period o...
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Tight Rope Tuesday Morning Didnt
714 wordsThere is nothing in the world I love more than coffee, I thought. The aroma that calls you from a million miles away. The bitterness it sends through your soul, filling you up; giving you the warmth that you so desperately crave. And the darkness the blackness that reminds me all too much of my life. I didnt know what I was doing there, but somehow it made sense. I skipped my first class that day. My first class ever. I didnt know why. If I had to think about it, I never knew why I did anything....
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Opened Her Eyes Favorite Doll Lisa
841 wordsHurry up, Lisa! Make a wish and blow the candles! exclaimed Mr and Mrs. Jones. It was Lisa's 7 th birthday and the Jones were celebrating it in their large, luxurious living room. Lisa was the happiest girl because she basically had everything, every toy she wanted. Her parents had her in their mid forties, so Lisa was a very valuable gift to them. So that was the reason why they bought her everything she asked for, making her the happiest yet the brattiest kid on earth. After Lisa made a wish a...
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Wollstonecraft And Dickens Fight For Educational Reform
1,194 words... d there. Norrie Epstein, in The Friendly Dickens, states that, utilitarianism professes function over feeling, facts over fancy. Mr. Mcchoakumchild, who is brilliantly named (check-um-child), is not seen in action but we get a good description of him. He is supposed to represent the ordinary teacher who had gone of to school and been stuffed with facts of all kinds but never asked to really think about them, only regurgitate the information. We see no signs of actual humanity in this man; he...
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Santa Clause Drivers License
1,250 wordsJules de Gaultier stated, Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. I think the war against reality is the process of aging and imagination is our naivet that shields us from the frightening world. By imagining that situations will never be uncomfortable; girls will never experience heartbreak; men will always have jobs to support their families; and people will never become sick, we are setting our selves up for a slap in the face when, inevitably, we are forced to notice how t...
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Star Crossed Lovers Romeo Juliet
1,323 wordsIt is known that in Shakespeare's tragedies main characters die in the end, and in his comedies people marry. Since Romeo and Juliet are a tragedy, Romeo and Juliet are going to die in the end. Some events have to lead to their deaths, and someone makes these events happen. The person (s) who started it all and did something that led to all the other events that caused the death of "a pair of star-crossed lovers." The Capulets and Montague's would be most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and ...
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Serial Killers Arnold Friend
1,101 wordsA famous short story is Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates. This stunning story describes how the seemingly perfect girl, Connie, is terrorized by the most abnormal man, Arnold Friend. Some would argue that he is the devil. Any argument that Arnold Friend is Satan can be used to say he is nothing more than a psychotic serial killer. While this prospect is horrific, it is considerably less disturbing than the devil knocking at your door. Though his persuasive behavior,...
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Jack Sat Prep School Began
564 wordsJack let the last note of the song he was singing ring through the air. The D was way to flat, he thought to himself. It must be perfect! I can accept no less! He started the song over again. The last note remained flat. His face began to darken in color. He tried again. The results were no difference. He began to feel his temper try to take over. Calm yourself, he spoke silently to his mind. Dont let them see your frustration. Stay true to your British nature. Be cool, calm, collected. So he tr...
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Worst Day Of Life
412 wordsThe worst day of my life was when I lost my thumb it was very painful I was emotionally scared and I cant play video games like normal people. I lost my thumb when I was only a few years old and it hurt a lot. It got taken off in a bike chain. Thats how I lost my thumb. Im not able to play video games like normal people play. My thumb is always sliding off the buttons. It always hard to keep up when playing video games with my friends. Its really annoying to play. Im not as accurate when playing...
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Grew Older First Started
639 wordsAt the beginning of the play, all of the characters thought Helen was just fine. The doctor said she was ok, but it really took a mother to find out she couldnt hear or see. Their servants didnt know what to do with Helen; no one did. They were frightened if they picked her up she would just Kate, her mother, screamed the first time she found out about Helen. She almost fainted; she was so devastated she couldnt's top pressing her knuckles against her mouth to stop her own cry. Mr... Keller, her...
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Center Of The Universe Scientific Revolution
1,221 wordsThe scientific advances of the seventeenth century challenged traditional concepts of God and the universe, leaving a profound effect on the rest of western civilization. Revolutionary thinkers such as Aristotle, Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galilei, and Newton through their discoveries, transformed the way of thinking of an entire culture. As the people of the day searched for more logical explanations for the events they saw, Copernicus and others sought out the answers through science. A combin...
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Atypical Adolescent Eric Hochschwender Wexford
1,078 wordsEssay # 2: Wexford (A Portrait of Evil) The character Wexford of the book Peace Breaks Out, is by no question an atypical adolescent. He is different than the rest of his peers, Wexford is an evil villain. But, as well as being evil he is also extremely bright, he goes about his business very smart and without having do any of the dirty work. He is smarter than the average teenage boy. He is more mature and more prepared to face the real world. From the start of the book when the characters are ...
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Pg 123 One Richard
350 wordsWhen put into a foreign environment animals adept, so do humans when they need to learn they ways of life. Richard Wright, due to his surroundings, had to adapt and become independent early in his life. In the book, Black Boy, Richard shows how he progressively became independent in his writings. He never had a real relationship with anyone, so he never knew what it was like to rely on anyone else. Richard being an African-American in the south at that time was very hard. No one was willing to h...
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Potato Famine Tenant Farmers
613 wordsIn 1845, Ireland suffered through a potato famine that killed over two million Irish. History has taught us to believe that those two million died because of a fungus that caused all the potatoes to be bad. The guilt doesnt rest with the fungus, but with the myriad of problems before it. The potatoes should not be blamed for those many deaths. Several people or organizations could have prevented them. The most prominent government in the whole world, at that period, was the British Government. T...
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Romeo And Juliet Friar Laurence
692 wordsThe tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is the most famous love story ever written. But this love had a fatal flaw, it had to end with death. Now people can argue either way why they died, was it fate of free will. But maybe a more important question is... why they had to die? In the death of Romeo and Juliet its true that free will did have a remarkably small part. The fact that they decided to get married in the first place presented many problems. A chose that Juliet made was t...
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Dont Worry Quit Smoking
844 wordsYou may not recognise me at first. But trust me, you know me well. Im the voice that makes you crave those Light and Tangy potato chips, and the mocha cream puff the one with inch-thick cream and smooth lemon vanilla custard, sandwiched between light cloud pastry with mocha flavoured icing on top, drizzled with chocolate. Do you know who I am now? Im the reason you smoke 20 cigarettes every day you try to give up, but we both know you always cave in and smoke all the more. We both know youll nev...
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Ufo Sightings Unidentified Flying
1,104 wordsThe Effects of UFOs on People By Steve Edwards Almost every civilization in history that has kept a written history has recorded the sightings of strange objects and lights in the skies. These objects have been described as glowing wheels, colored balls of light, and disk shaped objects. Today unexplained aerial phenomena are generally referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or flying saucers. The effects of extra terrestrial sightings can have an adverse effect on people if influenced...
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Revenge On Claudius State Of Mind
1,249 wordsThe Unbelievable Yet Predictable Tragedy Hamlet by William Shakespeare illustrates foreshadowing through its characters to keep the reader interested throughout the play. Several examples of this foreshadowing are Hamlets depressed state of mind which foreshadows his motivation to find out the truth about his fathers death, when Hamlets father comes to him as a ghost and informs him about his murder, this causes rage within Hamlet that foreshadows his revenge and when Hamlet asks the players to ...
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Stop Smoking Hypnosis Didnt
979 wordsLife or Death: Stop Smoking NOW! By James T. Smith Everyone was starting to notice that I had a problem. My wife would ask, Are you O. K. ? as I hacked and coughed every morning. My friends would joke about how I would run short of breath just from walking to the car. My wallet was really talking to me! Somehow I managed to lose five or six dollars a day somewhere between home and the convenience store. But the only voice I would heed had to come from within myself. Finally one day it did. I had...
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