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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Analytical
1,402 wordsRussia, has a lowest ever temperature of 44 C, and an average of 104 days a year above 0 C and a yearly average of 261 days below 0 C. It is the second coldest continent in the world only behind Antarctica, it snows on average 111 days of the year. It is dark, gloomy, freezing and miserable in the winter, and in the summer, cold, dark, and gloomy. Camps for political prisoners seemed even colder, especially with no real heating and limited clothes to wear on these wintriness days. The camp which...
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Spent Didnt Plane
411 wordsPlane tickets in hand, my possible girlfriend and I embark on our first vacation to Cozumel, Mexico during the summer of 2000. I had known her for about 7 months and during that time i had grown very fond of her. Our relationship began to blossom and that in the near future we would begin to grow even closer. Boy, was I wrong. We both needed a break from our stress filled lives and i was hoping I could help her overcome whatever tragedy happened in her life because i didnt understand why she was...
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Water Lake Brother
459 wordsCreative Story: The Lake It was the middle of springtime and across from my house where the incident took place. There was a lake there in which my brother and I loved to explore from time to time. The humidity and water drops where reminiscent of a fully functional sauna. The onslaught of heat and burning glow of the sun was relentless. Nonetheless, this fact did not bother us one bit, but gave us more incentive to dance with our cool and embracing long-lost love. The first step of this operati...
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Scuff Marks Secret Lair Pat
2,182 wordsCreative Writing The Case: An Original Mystery? Ring... Ring? screamed the phone. ? Damn who could that be... its almost seven a. m. on a Saturday... hold on Allison it will only take a minute... Hello? ? detective Pat said. ? Hey sorry Sergeant McGurn but we need you to come down to the station as soon as possible... theres more trouble over at Gibbons. Meet me there. ? ? Hey sugar I have to go down to Gibbons theres more trouble, do you need a ride someplace? ? said the exasperated homicide de...
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Gloom Brooding Low Shores Sea
476 wordssea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth. The Director of Compani...
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Theme Parks Ice Cream
660 wordsThe black pirate hat danced around in the air, weaving and bobbing to some Disneyland music. Attached to it was my head and the rest of me, being dragged along on this wild ride. The only sounds I heard were ones of trumpets soaring higher and higher, trying to hit an absurdly high note. The pirate hat and the warm Florida night had taken control, and my self-consciousness went right out the window. I danced, not greatly or with any skill whatsoever, but I danced. For that one night, at the end ...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden
369 wordsThe Catcher in the rye J. D. Salingar This story is about this boy, Holden Caulfield, to who gets kicked out of every school, he ever was in. He feels like hes an outcast to his family because everyone smart in his family except him. Instead telling his parents, The Dean has kicked him out of school. He wants to hitch hike out west where he will be a catcher in the rye. He has been in the finest boarding schools in New York but cant manage to stay in them. At first, he went Elkton Hills he didnt...
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Eighth Graders Mexican Americans
1,204 wordsEducation is the key to individual opportunity, the strength of our economy, and the vitality of our democracy. In the 21 st century, this nation cannot afford to leave anyone behind. While the academic achievement and educational attainment of Hispanic Americans has been moving in the right direction, untenable gaps still exist between Hispanic students and their counterparts in the areas of early childhood education, learning English, academic achievement, and high school and college completio...
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Car For Ten Minutes Car For Ten People
490 wordsSitting in the car I did this experiment at South Coast Plaza. I sat in my car for ten minutes in the parking in front of Macys. I just sat there; the first 3 - 4 minutes of the experiment I was bored out of my mind. I started to notice my heart beating, my palms were sweaty, my left eye was twitching, and my stomach was making noises. All of these bodily functions were making their presence known to me. And then I noticed that I was just in a car; it is like being in my house only a lot smaller...
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Observed Her Actions Catnip Was Sprinkled Cat
581 wordsEFFECTS OF CATNIP Purpose: To determine the effect of catnip on cats. Materials: 2 cats Cat Nip 5 cat toys (balls) 2 with catnip inside; 3 without 1 cat nip mouse 1 Scratch Pad Procedure: 1. I sat with my cat and the toy balls. The balls were bounced one at a time, allowing time for the cat to do what she pleased with them. I watched her actions toward which ones she was more active with and which ones she did not care for. 2. I then recorded the data. 3. I presented my cat with a scratching pad...
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Elizabethan Era Queen Elizabeth
866 wordsThe Sounds of Elizabethan Times The Elizabethan Era was a time when music and art were growing more and more each day. This time period, also known as the English Renaissance, is still well known for its styles and sound of music. Queen Elizabeth herself was a musician, and played both the lute and the virginal. It was thought that the virginal was named after Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Other instruments were popular during this time period were the spinet and the viol. All of these are string...
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Post Secondary Education Financial Aid
917 wordsEnglish 102 E 2 Britney Lark Equal Opportunity for Financial Aid Most post secondary institutions consider themselves to be equal opportunity establishments, although their financial aid system does not always seem to agree. In leaving my native country for university I have personally gone through the difficulties of trying to get financial aid. If you are an international student your only hopes of obtaining any aid are based on your athletic ability or your SAT scores. If we chose to come to ...
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Didnt Realize Feel Bad
1,752 wordsShe gripped the the hard cherrywood head bord, waiting for it to be over. Her back lay against the feather soft pillows and cool sheets that brushed across her tensed body. The bed that had always brought her so much comfort at night, was now the last place she wanted to be, especially with him. After he had finished, she made her usual noises to let him know that she was done. She couldnt think of anything to say. Stretching out on her back, trying to ease the achiness, she lit her cigarette. S...
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Weeks Ago White Men
793 wordsEverything Forever Failure Forever Failure Everything was peaceful in my Haudenosaunee village. There were some disputes on land from time to time with other villages, but they were never as greedy as these white bearded monsters. They not only took away our homes, but also the land of our ancestors. I am one of the last ones who survived from their attacks for I led the back up warriors. Not one person from my tribe was able to defend themselves from the white mens gun, not even my father, Moun...
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Pilot Came On The Intercom Seventeen Suitcases Plane
849 wordsPeople. Halfway There Halfway There People. Droves of them, hustling off to their appointed gates with seventeen suitcases strapped to themselves like pack mules. All scowling, furrowing their brows. Hoping to get to where they want to go, and with all seventeen suitcases they came with. Me? I only had two bags, but one of them was large enough to be a body bag. Beside me was my cousin, a tall 16 -year old, the jock type, with broad shoulders and pimple covered cheeks. He, of course, got stuck c...
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Miss Brill Young Couple
488 wordsPeripety can occur when a person has a meeting that results in a change of character. In the short story titled Miss Brill, a woman has a chance encounter that has a tragic ending. Miss Brill was a lonely woman, who found enjoyment in the park on the weekends. While at the park, Miss Brill sat to listen to conversations of others and watch the patrons as they went about their business, as she had many times before. She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn ...
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Computer Screen Jimmy Paper
521 wordsAll Potatoes May 13, 2001 All the Pictures Potatoes. Instant potatoes at that. This was the meal of the evening. A plastic bowl half filled with a pasty hot goo that claimed to be somehow derived from a potato. Thoughtlessly, Jimmy gulped it down as he stared blankly at his computer screen. On the monitor showed a blank white page, even whiter than his potato mush. The screen was ludicrously devoid of all semblance of any color than white. There was no hint of the black font that was supposed to...
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Brill Mrs Women Wore Couple
629 wordsMrs. Mrs. Brill Mrs. Brill Mrs. Brill, a short story by Katherine Mansfield, takes place in Jardins Publiques seaside town in France. The story is about an elder lady by the name of Mrs. Brill who frequents a nearby park on Sundays to hear a band play. Before leaving to the park she removed her fur. Shaken of the moth powder and brushing it of Mrs. Brill admired her fur wrap. The tail was placed within its mouth and its black composite nose was no longer firm, giving the impression that the wrap...
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Im Gonna Lead Singer
1,994 wordsI believe that it is the music of our time that will be remembered long after we are gone, and it is bands like Oasis that led the revolution which took place recently. Oasis, headed by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher was the first band after The Beatles to lash out against what had become the normal way a band should be, and that is why they will be known for years to come as the band who changed rock music. Noel Gallagher was born on May 29, 1967 in Manchester, he was the second son of Thomas...
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Short Story Didn T
830 wordsOne Monday morning my mom called me and said? Your going to be late for school. ? I yelled back? Good I want to be late now leave me alone. ? and I went back to bed. She called me again so I got up because I knew I wouldn? t hear the end of it if I didn? t get up. I rolled out of bed, pulled on my clothes and stumbled down the stairs. The time was 8: 30 and I didn? t have time to eat so I brushed my teeth, and hair, and washed my face. I needed a pop to make it through first period so I stopped ...
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