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It is six thirty in the evening. I walk into a pub on Madison Avenue, shutting the door behind and plunging into a blur of blissful silence. The pub is mostly deserted, except for an old man with ears pointier than my own nose. He is reading a paper and frowning, and he oddly reminds me of Yoda. He turns to me, smiles and nods in acknowledgement, before hopping down from the stool and hobbling out into the evening. And then there is the bartender whose real name is Andy, but I call him the bartender

The right hand corner of my laptop read 2:30AM and I was sitting on my raggedy West Elm sofa frantically working away in the mist of yawns. Max would have left the Abbey bar by now and was presumably having passionate sex while I struggled to keep my eyes open and double check whether I’d spelt “” correctly. All I had to do was proof-read, decide on grey, or green, for the color scheme and then I was free to sleep. My Egyptian cotton sheets were calling like a mother looking for her lost child but

glasses. This new location is a prime piece of real estate in the middle of New York City, right on the southeast corner of Central Park, with a vast amount of foot traffic. In order to keep their glasses a hot commodity for the public, there are only a limited amount of the product sold each day, making the product extremely desireable to the public. The glasses sell for $130 a piece, but to buy a pair now on eBay, the prices range from $900 to $4,500 for sealed and unsealed containers. The cheapest

Hendina Riyadi Blood Diamond Research For thousands of years, diamonds have been highly regarded by everyone from kings and queens to ordinary people. Diamonds are a symbol for wealth, elegance, love, and power. Centuries ago, they were also a symbol of courage, invincibility and strength. What is less commonly known is that these stones are also a symbol of terror and death. Conflicts arise from the mining of these gems; many people have died and many are perhaps still dying because of the mining

It all began with a simple phone call one night after dinner, “Joe,” my father hollered up the stairs, “it’s for you. It’s Jackie, and she sounds upset.” As I came downstairs to pick up the phone, I was not happy. I was tired and had looked forward to a nice quiet evening at home, not another stupid adventure with Jackie. Thirty minutes later, however, Jackie’s silver Mustang convertible swung into our driveway, and Jackie was leaning on the horn before the car came to a full stop. Grabbing my

Unsolved Mysteries - The Lost Colony During the 1500’s, the English started their first attempts at colonizing in the New World. One of the first colonies to settle in North America was named after the island on which they settled. That island was named the Roanoke Island. After a while of living on the island the colony had to return to England, since there had been a shortage of food and they had been attacked by nearby indians multiple times. A second group of English settlers also tried to settle

“Strong willed, the leader” Claudius’s mind seemed somewhere else, and I snapped my fingers near his face. He stared blankly at me as if he forgot we were walking. “I’m not done showing you around” He led me away from the sight, but I turned back, taking one last look before sauntering along the canyon. After hours of trekking and talking, he turned to me as we stood beside a waterfall. "Have you ever seen the depths of the ocean before?" "His eyes now resembled the large, dark green tree ferns

1.    Introduction Abc history began in the year 1886 when the concern of an Atlanta pharmacist Dr. John S. Pemberton, lead to actualize a quality of tasting a bendable form of alcohol which could made at soda fountains. He created one of kind flavoured syrup, took it to his based pharmacy, place was occupied with carbonated charged baptized and named ‘’excellent’ by those who designed it. Dr. Pemberton’s company and bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, is accustomed with the assigning of the trademark

On June 7, 1998, 49-year-old James Byrd Jr. of Texas accepted a ride from three white men, who then beat him severely, urinated on him, chained him by his ankles to the back of their pick-up truck, dragged him for three miles into the countryside, and dumped his corpse in front of an African-American cemetery (Graczyk). A little over a year later, a jury sentenced ring leader John King to death by lethal injection (“Man Executed for Dragging Death of James Byrd”). While this particular case may

The power that a few words thrown together is amazing; the meanings we can conclude from them are so powerful. I remember the first rap music CD I ever received: 8 Mile by Eminem. The album was released in 2002. I was in 2nd grade but I would listen to it with my brother and his friends, who were a solid eight to ten years older than I was. That Christmas my brothers’ best friend gave me my very own copy of the album, but made me promise to not let mom and dad know where I got it from. I listened