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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    “Mom?” I squealed. My mom went back to her work with the kitchen counter. I got up from my bed and peeked through my bedroom door. My suitcase had stood there, still full with two months worth of clothes. I just sat and laid on my bed for the rest of the night. On the next morning, my mom came to a stop at my door. “Knock, knock, knock.” “Izzy? Are you still in your room? I need you to come out honey your Nana’s on the phone.” My mom had been woken up by the ring of my nana’s call for me.

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    Summer Vacations

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    the help they need and to make that happen there needs to be less summer vacation my argument is that KIPP students are smart and well educated because they have long hours of school and study for approximately 2 hours and read and listen to music for about the same time. “Relation of Education Insanity”(8). The scores show how students who had longer summer schools had a had low test scores and for those students who had less summer vacations and they had better test scores which is pretty impressive

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    getting injured, but continuing to train injured and treating the shooting pain as soreness. This injury lead me to many places, and through many treatments. It has been painful and arduous but the outcome helped pave the way I live my life. It is the summer of 2014 and I am now on my second swim team. My favorite coach was relieved of his position and not long after his departure, the head coach left too. Being a dramatic fourteen-year-old girl, I unconsciously decided that I already did not like the

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    Theme gives the reader a general idea about what the piece of literature is about. The character’s action and thoughts takes part in creating the theme. Animal farm was a book about animals taking control of the farm from their tyrannic farmer. The animals attempts to make the farm a democracy, but Napoleon, the pig leader, takes over and eventually becomes the new tyrant. The Pearl was about a family, Kino, Juana, Coyotito, who catches a huge pearl. They go through a journey to get away from any

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    Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a Disney animated fantasy movie set in 1914 following the main character Milo James Thatch as he practices a speech he prepared for his bosses about finding the lost city. As the movie continues as he is fired, then found by a woman who leads him to a man claiming to be his grandfather’s best friend [Preston Whitmore] and is willing to fund Milo’s expedition. At first, Milo is hesitant, but when Whitmore offers Milo his grandfather’s greatest find: The Lost Shepard’s

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    we theoretically can at least try to help. Although I have yet to work in a therapeutic recreational type environment, I feel that I have learned many helpful skills that translate from other fields that I can apply to the field of TR. This past summer I worked two jobs in two completely different fields from each other and therapeutic recreation. Working at a bar taught me that you need to be patient and accommodating to peoples needs and wants. I also learned how big of an impact you could make

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    experience began when I was eleven, and was able to spend the summer with my best friend named Corinne, who I had known since the age of three. Once we came from our summer trip, we had an argument that would cause me to live with a lifelong regret. The final part of my experience was going two years of not talking, than getting news that would change me into the person I am today. Overall, my childhood experience consisted of a summer of traveling, an argument with my best friend, and news that would

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    Summer for a teenager means beach time , more time with friends and mostly importantly no waking up at seven in the morning for school . Summer of two-thousand eleven to me only meant waking up exactly at seven in the morning to toss and turn because my stomach was making a ridiculous growling noise I personally was not hungry instead it was a tiny human in my stomach she was hungry for fruit . Yes fruit it didn't matter what kind of fruit as long as it was fresh and sweet she would be satisfied

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    My mother is the most diligent worker I know and I highly respect her for that. My mom, sister, and I moved across the globe to find better opportunities for jobs and Education. She worked two jobs as a single mother, and was still able to take care of and support my sister and me in anything we aspired to do. Being a mother itself is difficult enough because it is an everyday job with no brakes or vacation. She is the person who inspires me and the person who motivates me to do my best at everything

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    Robert Gilbert used to be not poor but not rich until he went to Las Vegas and gambled all of his money away. He went with his friends Josh and Jerry which were his only friends, but they did not spend all of there money there, like Robert did. Robert was not a well liked guy he was always in a bad mood and always telling everybody how good he was, He only had 2 people that liked him in his whole town. His mom and dad died about 6 years ago when they both got into a car accident coming home from

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