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    how good of a baby I was. When I asked about my behavior as a baby, she said: “ You never, ever cried, and you always let me sleep through the night.” I remained pretty quiet throughout my early life. I prefered to play by myself in my room with my dolls, and I remember setting them all up and telling them stories. My brother, who has always been four years older than me, never understood why I absolutely refused to go outside and play with him; I just prefered to be alone. Nothing has changed since

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    Frankie Landau-Banks, from the Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, is your average girl at the beginning of the story. She is crushing on the popular guy, has a best friend, and is very ambitious as far as life after high school goes. However, as the story goes on, she changes into this fierce, independent young lady who isn’t afraid to speak her mind. With the help of the other characters in the book, she is able to realize her full potential. With the help of Zada,

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    story eerie and more terrifying for the reader. A popular theme used by many authors of gothic literature is violence. In the short story Prey by Richard Matheson, the theme of violence can be found intertwined between each sentence. The unsightly doll is an artifact who symbolizes a deadly hunter with malice intentions who causes “blood to [run] down [Amelia's] ankles, dripping off the edges of her feet” (Matheson 5). This short story gives a literal and physical example for the theme of violence

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    I am a 15 year old sophomore and have been going to the Cedarburg schools since kindergarten. I have one brother, Aaron, who is going to be 13 on October 23rd and is in 7th grade at Webster. When I was younger I had a fear of dogs, but now I have a cockapoo bichon dog named Bailey who is going to turn five in October as well. While I have gone to Cedarburg schools for all 11 years, I was born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, but moved to Cedarburg when I was three years old. This past summer was filled

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    as the girls held Paris’ long auburn hair that is now down her back high up in the air. Paris spins as she laughs happily with them while Caitlin stood back admiring her. What a sexy doll. I want her. Too bad she doesn't know what she really in for. Caitlin thought. She sighs. "What's going on- Damn!" one of the guys was asking when he saw how gorgeous Paris looks in the dress. He was taken aback. "Isn't she stunning?" Caitlin asks him, who goes by the name, Draco. "Yes. She. Does." Draco awed, and

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    Love is a powerful motivator that most writers will touch upon in plays and novels. Miller uses the many kinds of love to drive the major events of the plot of A View from the Bridge, and the different kinds intertwine as the characters change and the play develops. The play opens with a family scene, showing the love between Eddie, his wife Beatrice, and Catherine. Eddie is the proud head of the household and is determined to keep the vow he ‘promised [Catherine’s] mother on her death bed’; to

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    Career   Recently, there was a group of Mission College students discussing about the differences of genders on Facebook, a social networking. One of the female students wrote a note which contained 50 factors that guys should know about girls, but most of the comments from the guys said that they couldn’t understand girls. Girls are just lame complicated

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    instance of Christianity in the show, is a main character, Topher Brink. Topher Brink creates these dolls by choosing their personality traits, their physical characteristics, skills, likes, and dislikes. Topher Brink is what some could say, playing God, by making people the way he wants them rather than leaving it to nature. In the episode, “Haunted”, a friend is brought back to life through another doll (Sturgis). By bringing someone back from the dead, goes against many religions, especially Christianity

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    Trying to live a positive and healthy life is possible but very well challenging. As days go by and different occasions come up where I have to choose which is right and which is wrong is hard to sort out knowing it’s wrong but what I really want to do it just have fun. Teenagers in this century including myself experience peer pressure to do things that we know isn’t right. It is all about priorities and not being misled down the wrong path. It is also all about acceptance which is what you allow

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    figure On there knee’s presenting childlike mentaisams: Voice over: Hnnie pie he only he only picks on you because he like you, but stop bossy people around boy Don’t like, miss bossy boot. Voice over: boy, what are you doing men don’t play with dolls. Give that to me. And you 're not wearing the shirt to school men don’t wear pink, and wipe those tears off boy don’t cry. Black out Black

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