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    Everyone can imagine their own perfect getaway. My vacation to Orlando became the magnum opus summer trip. Before, most of my vacations with my family consisted of locations in Oklahoma and Texas. However, Orlando provided serendipitous moments of my life. The vacation all started on August 22, 2016, with my family driving all the way to the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas. The airport greeted us with its huge, orange, and gray structure, as it swarmed with numerous people and their luggage. After

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    into a vacation spot that would become home for many summers. Each essay describes both the similarities of their summer trips from past to present and the differences of their trips as well. In White’s essay in the first paragraph he talks about the good ole’ days when he was just a kid going to the lake with his dad. He talks about how this lake was one of a kind and there were no other lakes like this one in the world. White expresses his love and desire for this vacation

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    Children should have pleasant memories about their parents, for example, a vacation spent together, instead of memories as going to court because of divorce. White describes in “Once More to the Lake” a beautiful place from his childhood where he uses to spent the summer vacation with his family, which resulted in a stronger relationship with his father. He recalls, “It is strange how much you can remember

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    my mother’s office, my high school, my old gymnastics studio, and Knightdale Station Park. Over towards Raleigh, the locations are farther apart. Downtown Raleigh is west, featuring my middle school and my dad’s office, and to the northwest is my childhood church.

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    conclusion is never reached. Many people believe that year-round school would be a step in the right direction. Although there are many positive innovations to year-round school, the advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages of cost, breaks, vacations, employment, and scheduling. The traditional school calendar as been the same since the 1800s. This calendar is the traditional 180-day system with a two month break for summer. It was not operated on the year-round system way back when because

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    Rhetorical Analysis: Context In Dorothy Allison’s essay, Context (1994) she suggests that growing up in different a social class may have a negative effect on the perception others think of you, especially the person you are in a relationship with. Through the usage of anticlimactic sequences, ethos and nostalgia, Allison expresses there occurring terror in her mind that her lover will see her as inferior once she meets her family. The use of Allison’s emotional tone helps to convey the author’s

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    Though Stephanie also said childhood, in my opinion, I find that "the best days" for Jim and Antonia over the course of the novel so far was their childhood. When Jim first moves to the wasteland of Nebraska he is upset that he has to live in a solitary place. He doesn’t like the fact that he has to change his life. However when he first meets Antonia he is happy that he has someone to hang around with. From personal experience I can relate to that, whether I am on vacation or out of my familiar location

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    When we think of an all-American family, what do we think of? To me, an all-American family consists of a mother, a father, and two children, one boy and one girl. Unfortunately, today this is not the norm. We have become a society that is full of broken families. Whether good or bad, this has become a commonality for families in the United States. Growing up, I thought I had what some would call an all-American family. Well except the children. I didn’t have brothers, but I did have a mother, a

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    Retrieves Memories In this essay, I will be talking about how the brain stores and retrieves memories. “Memory is the ability to remember something that has been learned or experienced. Memory also refers to the brain’s ability to store information” (The World Book Encyclopedia. pg. 392). Our memories are located in the Hippocampus, but they also interact with the Auditory area and the Amygdala, these parts of the brain are near the center of the brain. The job of the Hippocampus and memory is, “the

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    and events in the past, present, and the future. People cannot see time but the effects happen to everyone and everything like humans, animals, and nature. In E.B. White’s essay “Once More to the Lake”, time has affected his beloved vacation spot from his childhood the lake, roads, and camp grounds have changed since 1904. Therefore, I disagree with White in “Once More to the Lake” that everything was as it always has been; the author changed, the camp changed, and the people are clear examples

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