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    people look at you as if you're dirt. December, January and February are the darkest and coldest months of the year. For you, it means turning up your heating, putting on an extra layer of clothing, or making more fires. But for anyone living on the streets, it is horrid. They don't have a roof above their heads, or a warm blanket to snuggle into. We only know how cold the day gets, but imagine the nights! The noise, the weather, the dangers... nothing is safe. Most humans believe that all homeless

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    me with sad, troubled eyes that seemed to say, “How could you? How could you allow us to live this terrible life in a third-world country?” I instantly felt gratitude for everything I had ever taken for granted. We were led through the narrow back streets of the main section of town. There were high, white walls of buildings on either side of us. These walls had open doorways that were the entryways to small rooms, which were homes. People appeared in these doorways and stared at us as if we were gods

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    jeeps and headed back out into Berlin. In the first jeep was Richards and I with nolan as our guard. In the back jeep was Ilya, klaus and the doctor. We navigated the streets with care looking out for any roads with lots of infected or any type of other monsters we ran into beforehand. I looked over at the roads in a nearby street were fires have been burning so long the bricks have started to form with the fire to make a molten lava supstance. “Look down those roads over there. It looks like lava

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    devoted solely to survival. Yet still, the banner of L'Empereur lies at the top of the hill, setting our hearts aflame as we ready to march once again. We must cross the river. Beyond it lies the empire, home. My father’s winery in Marne, the warm streets of Paris. Maybe I can finally convince Amélie to marry. We’ll have a summer wedding in Versailles. Mama and Papa will be there. Louis will be there, Francois and Claudia and all their little children. Pierre will be there, to fly our colours. Surely

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    home and he was selling pot. The parents in the documentary seemed as if they didn’t have much say with what the children and teens did. We saw how the young girl smoked as the parent stated “she has grown up quite a bit since she has been on the streets she is 14 going on 21”. The parents seem scared of the future pertaining to their children but I did not see much action as if they were attempting to change their children. Their viewpoint seemed to be more lenient they allowed there children do

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    what took the longest. After waiting in line for what felt like an eternity I weighed my bags and passed through security, I was handed a ticket with a destination to Mexico City. After 3 hours of being on an airplane, I could see the ground, tiny streets filled with people and cars everywhere I looked, huge buildings of every color, and a golden angel that stood in the sky in the middle of the city. I had finally arrived to Mexico City, without knowing how long I would live there or if I would ever

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    Persepolis Reflection

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    The graphic novel Persepolis, written about the Islamic Revolution beginning in 1979, paints a vivid picture of the life of a seemingly ordinary girl. Author Marjane Satrapi’s life, recorded in this novel through the perspective of “Marji,” produces strong feelings in the audience through drilling in her reoccurring theme. Her book is centered around the idea that she needs to find the truest version of herself and to set it free. This theme is displayed throughout the story throughout her childhood

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    Theme is the hidden morals within a piece of literature that the author is trying to get readers to understand. In both Angela's Ashes and The Street, we can distinguish a similar theme. One similar theme in both stories is struggling to get through life’s complications. After reading the two different excerpts, we can use character, events, and the setting to further our understanding. In Angela's Ashes, the theme of struggling to get through life's obstacles is shown using character. In paragraph

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    Life In The 21st Century

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    the transportation has become so simple that we can travel from one place to another with ease. Being as an engineer in Metro Services I feel proud to work there because it has solved the transportation problem. While sitting in the metro I saw the streets which were so clean that not even a single paper was thrown away. At

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    Technology is useful to have around like when kids get lost or when parents need them to track their kids. Technology can be useful in other ways, like technology is better for education. Also, keeping touch with family and friends, and for emergencies. First off, technology can be useful for education purposes when teachers give online homework, when you have to check homework, and when a student misses a day of school and need to see what the teacher taught in class. Technology is important because

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