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    1.5: A Short Story

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    everyone went running out the door. There were four people still there Margaret ,Max Tom and George and there was a reason why they were there.The reason why was because they wanted to and make fun of Margaret Max lead her out the room.Max and his friends made fun of her for getting the question wrong because it

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    being late to class, to forgetting my lunch on the bus, I was having one of my worst days of my life. I walk into the room and look around at a jumble of new classmate. In the corner of my eye, I spot my best friend and I am brought back with a surge of relief. In the song “You’ve Got A Friend In me”, Randy Newman portrays a similar image of friendships. By showing the different situations of when friendship is needy, Newman describes friendship as an indestructible force that can help you at risky

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    psychotic jerk. He needs friends yet he may hurt them just for the fun of it. He will be mean and then falsely apologize. He needs friends, but only when he feels like being a friend. These trips were just his way of being mean and getting away with it. He doesn’t care

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    encounters will take you to their special friends, the imaginary friends. Imaginary friends are a psychological and social event wherein friendship or interpersonal relationship exists in the imagination, instead of in the physical reality. Your kids may interpret them as if very real but they know that their intangible friends are just part of their imagination. Imaginary friends may also be called invisible friends or pretend friends. Kids create their imaginary friends through the personification of objects

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    Charlie Gordon: Smarter

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    being slow, but he didn’t realize it. So he went to a school that had doctors who were going to experiment on Charlie to make him smarter; which made Charlie happy. After the experiment, Charlie had an IQ of over 200. Charlie was better after the experiment. Charlie was better off after the surgery because realized he was in love with Miss Kinnian. On page 128, Charlie says “The thought of leaving her behind made me sad. I’m in love with Miss Kinnian.” In the story, it also shows Charlie realizing

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    only reason why the surgery shouldn’t have happened. But there are more and better reasons of why he was better with the surgery. One reason Charlie was better with the surgery is that he understood what was happening around him. His friends weren’t really his friends, he even laughed at their jokes. He had no idea that what they were saying was about him. Even though, when Charlie found out, it hurt him. It was better for him to know what was happening. In the story Charlie

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    low intelligence level and inability to communicate well. He wanted A.I (artificial intelligence) so he could be considered normal or smart. Charlie’s life was greatly improved after the A.I. surgery. Charlie realized his “friends” were not really friends. Also he developed better social skills and got to experience new emotions such as love. Charlie got to experience new emotions such as love after the A.I. surgery. A short time after the surgery, Charlie fell in love with his teacher Miss Kinnian

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    may have a lot of friends in this life, but only a few of them are your real friends. There are people you can't imagine your life without, and you and you are grateful for every day you spend with them. Not only do you make them a better person, but they also make you the best person you can be. The trust you feel in a friendship is uncomparable to anything in the world. Knowing that you have someone who you can say/tell anything to bring so much relief: even though, your friend may judge you sometimes

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    African-American teenager who is very smart and a very good writer. He is dared to go up to an apartment owned by “The window” who ends up being William Forrester, a famous writer who hasn’t been heard from in decades. These two end up becoming very good friends, and William helps Jamal with his writing. Jamal becomes a great writer and submits a paper he wrote in a contest. He is called out for plagiarism because he used a title of William’s. William ends up leaving his apartment to save Jamal from being

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    others as well. Integrity is a great value to live by, it is what makes me a better student, employee, friend and family member. Through many years of schooling, integrity has always been a core value of mine. By having integrity in a school setting it makes me more of a trustworthy student. Being a person of integrity in school means that I am honest and do not cheat or plagiarize

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