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    Leafy: A Short Story

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    There once was a boy named leafy who loved riding his bike. one day he was riding around and out of nowhere he hit a penny on the ground while he was braking. It made the back tire slide out and he fell. When he got back up he noticed that the penny was face up. He put it in his pocket and kept riding. As he turned the corner to his house he heard a noise as he looked back before he could see it there was a crow chasing him. he pedaled as fast as he could then an ally came. he crossed without looking

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    outside, I knew something was off. I prepare for the anticipated attack by grabbing the weapon closest to me, I believe today is the day our enemy tribe has chosen to cause an onslaught; the day I've been preparing for since the day I was born. I step out, ready to fight, but I see nothing else than a crowd of people violently whispering to themselves. I don't care to drop my weapon, but rush to the area of interest. As I get closer, I not only see a vibrant white, but I hear a tongue that sparks my

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    amazing. These dreams occur for these reasons because your brain is trying to help fix your emotional problems. Being naked in public. This dream occurs quite frequently for some people. It represents you hiding something. Something you want to get out to your peers, your friends, or family. It can happen when you are keeping secrets. Being chased is a way of your body telling you to stop stressing so much. Relax, and not to stress over things so much. It also can be an example of anxiety. That you

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    bored out of my mind. My sister however, seemed excited for some reason. I was desperate for something to do that wasn’t boring. My grandma was outside gardening at the time, so that left me in the basement alone watching this little brat. I decided to just play some games, so I turned on my SNES (even though I already played for 2 ½ hours that day). I started up the game and started playing when out of nowhere I hear my sister giggling a lot. I ignored her and kept playing when out of nowhere i hear

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    from an article called “The Race to Nowhere in Youth Sports” he wrote, “’It was a nightmare. My son kept getting yelled at by both coaches as we left one game early to race to a game in the other sport. He hated it.’”(John O’ Sullivan 2014.) This shows that children can be yelled at by the coaches because of the way they do things, causing stress. Not to mention another quote from the article “The Race to Nowhere in Youth Sports” says, “The path is a race to nowhere, and it does not produce better athletes

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    “Lovely, beautiful, and about nineteen,” is the words F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe the modern day flapper girl. Flapper girls came out of nowhere it seems, and now they seem to be everywhere! Except, we flappers did not come out of nowhere at all, we are all a little girlish and wild on the inside, and while the men were off at war it was time to break free of our shell. See while they were gone a lot changed. This including us women rising up, and doing things as big as getting ourselves

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    these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out. Then when the dough runs out, I could get a job somewhere and we could live somewhere there with a brook and all and, later on, we could get married or something.”(Salinger, 145-146). This scene of the novel shows Holden’s need to leave and find a new start yet, these dreams end up crashing due to the fact that he is living in a fantasy. As the lyrics of the song say ”but I go nowhere” since Holden is running away about he can't hide forever

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    Motif In Invisible Man

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    In Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, demonstrates a common theme/motif of invisibility, to show the conflicting role of African Americans in a white society, throughout his literature. In particular, it starts off with an unnamed narrator battling with in internal conflict between his identity and what others tell him what his identity should be, which causes doubt and even self contradictory. “All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was

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    Would you put family over the well being of others? Author Katherine Patterson talks about a young girl working in a factory during the 19th century. In her novel Lyddie, Lyddie is a girl who is trying to make money to help her family pay off their debts and goes to a factory to work there. One of the factory workers is circulating a petition that states that a 10 hour work shift is the maximum amount of hours that someone can work, but even though it benefits those around her, she should not sign

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    in the story it kinda came out of nowhere and it meant something. Nia was waiting for Bobby at the end of the stairwell with the red balloon, no one knew what it symbolized at first, that's why it was so important. She then handed Bobby the balloon and he knew that it meant something was about to change. Later on he found out the balloon symbolized Nia's pregnancy. The second symbol I noticed was the wall. This stood out to me because Bobby was going

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