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    Leaving off from where I last left off, noon was fast approaching. By then the town had nearly turned pitch black thanks to its gallery of unlit houses. The darkness somewhat contributed to a tranquil sense of complete nothingness. But on a lighter, less spiritual note lets focus on the plight of a commissioned streetlamp. This heritage lamp post, though not a rarity in Northbrook, was responsible for illuminating the town’s most noteworthy block. Industrial magnets, rags-to-riches lawyers and bankers

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    Standing in the doorway to his best friends’ room, Richard told himself to smile. Relax. Breathe. His shoulders probably revealed how cramped he felt; they were at his ears, but he couldn’t figure out where to drop them. Was Hogarth’s room always so dismal? Richard swore the curtains never used to be so purposely draped in a way that blotched out the outside world. Hogarth’s room used to practically bleed sunlight; it’d fill out almost every corner in the room, and sometimes even find its way out

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    white house; I only looked forward to the beige-colored apartment that, I bragged, was only five minutes from the mall.

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    The Austin Hatch story In a Blowout against Coppin state John Beilein Coach of Michigan called a timeout and put Austin Hatch in the game and most people thought why is he calling a timeout when through this story you will find out. When Austin was 8 he had 2 siblings a brother named Ian and a sister named Lindsey and a mother named Julie and a father and on this one day it was 6 pm on september 1st 2003 on a plane and on board was his whole family and his dad was controlling the plane and it crashed

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    The other location we visited was the Great Expectations Day Care, also In Southbury. Jackie did her presentation with the first group since they were small kids and Olga needed older kids for her lesson plan. We all help Jackie to prepare, the activity while she was addressing the students. The kids had a good time and they learned that they have 20 teeth, need to brush two times a day, and brush their teeth in circular motion. Then it was the turn for Olga to do her lesson plan. She brought

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    government.” In contrast, Lee and the other owners weren’t permitted this. To take a case in point, the “petitioner and 200 of his countrymen similarly situated petitioned the board of supervisors for permission to continue their business in the various houses which they had been occupying and using for laundries for more than twenty years, and such petitions were denied, and all the petitions of those who were not Chinese...were granted.” With this in mind, the Chinese weren’t even given a chance to have

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    Nestled among a group of beautiful homes in Lake Murray Village is a small simple white metal building trimmed in fire truck red. This humble little building is home to the Lake Murray Village Fire Department. The scenery surrounding the station is as humble as the building itself, only a few trees and the occasional roaming longhorn in the pasture behind the station. A new early warning systems for tornadoes lies perched on the northwest corner of the building and a silver flag pole with an American

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    The Plaza Theatre

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    larger apartment buildings that house the individuals who fell in love with what Kensington was and represented. The building itself is an off white, with blue trim, and it is partially obscured by the two trees that tower on either side of its entrance. The theatre plays more alternative movies, like Rocky Horror Picture Show on October 31, A Clockwork Orange, The Big Lebowski, or The Breakfast Club. Playing a mixture of newer movies and cult classics. It houses its own show called A Late Night

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    Previously, the protagonist Arrow was an ordinary college student before the war started, and shows significant development as she becomes an infamous sniper defending Sarajevo during the Civil War. Before the war, she identified with her real name, Alisa, and not with her subsequent persona Arrow, who was “the woman you knew who hated nobody”(13). Her choice to identify with another name signifies how much she changes as a person: her beliefs, actions, morals and personality that no longer mirror

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    In the story “Three Little Pigs” I think the first pig was a foolish to make a straw house. 3 theses that describe him are Silly, Not Hardworking, and uncaring.Who would make a straw house? My reason for sports theses #1 is on page # 3-4 the author states “ The first Pig decided to build his house with straw. So that certainly means that the pig was so crazy/silly to build a house with straw. Also that ties with he was so willing to play he didn't have time to work. My second reason to sport

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