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    The back door of the moving truck slammed shut, making me slightly jump gasping in surprise. I turned in my seat and look at the house, I've lived my whole life in. Gloomily I stare remembering all the happy and sad times I've had here. "come on Kate stop thinking such sad thoughts the new house is going to be great," I said clapping my hands over my face. The cab driver turned the ignition key, and the cab rumbled to life. We start rolling forward down the street behind the moving truck. Watching

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    breaks and spews water into the backyard. Maybe it is lying to a parent about the whereabouts of a dollar after the ice cream truck goes by. For author Gary Soto, it was stealing a pie from the neighborhood grocery store. In his autobiography, Soto recounts the story and emotions of his six-year-old self taking an apple pie off the rack and walking home with it, only to be overwhelmed by a guilt-ridden conscience. Throughout the narrative, Soto uses imagery and precise diction to recreate his experiences

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    at most three things the same whether it’s a type of pie or actual food, they are the same. About six, maybe more, are different than what we eat. One thing is dumplings, not everyone eats dumplings. Green Beans, cheese and cracker platter, chips and dip, and French Silk Pie are all more examples of what we eat differently than others. For Thanksgiving, some have seven pies or they have one pie, or we have pecan pie and someone else has apple pie. We all have different qualities of certain food depending

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    1. Act: I baked a pumpkin pie and brought it into work for my co-workers Reaction: I went out of the way to do something nice for my co-workers during the holidays to boost morale. They appreciated me doing this because it made their day especially during such a busy time of year for us at work. It made me feel good because I love to bake and it was great to see the smile it put on everyone’s face. 2. Act: I gave a homeless man my Reese’s candy I had just bought Reaction: I was walking outside

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    It was a dark, dry night in Johnny’s shed. Johnny was staring at the roof of his room. Hungry and tired, Johnny imagined how the next day would be. The shed was cramped. After a long day of work, Johnny was exhausted. Johnny worked on the field, helping his mom plant crops and look for food. Johnny was a poor kid with a rough background. His dad, Nick, died after a bear attacked the house. Johnny was just seven at that time. Nick would walk into johnny’s head every night. Every day when Johnny reflected

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    Today I am going to explain how to make my favorite apple pie and also a little about why this is something that my mother, my daughter and I choose to do every year. It’s a labor of love that actually started 5 years before I was even born with my mother and grandmother, they started simply just making this pie for the family Thanksgiving that year and for the next few years without fail. This continued until I was about 4 and old enough to help and ever since every year my mother grandmother and

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    Pumpkin Lab Report

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    By day one everyone should have brought in a pumpkin to start their experiment on. The first step is to take measurements on the pumpkin, they include weight (lbs.), waist (in), and count the number of grooves. All of the data found should be recorded into the table given. Following that we are to cut open the pumpkin, scoop out the inside, and begin to count all of the seeds found inside. After completing counting the amount of seeds you will record the number collected in the table as well. Once

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    Madelynn Parrott Section 21 General Purpose: My general purpose is to inform. Specific Purpose: Inform my audience about Snoopy. Central Idea: Snoopy is so special to me because he gives me the realization that I can be myself despite what others think, he serves as an inspiration to think adventurously, and he gives a demonstration of how to treat the people closest to me. Snoopy for the Win Introduction How many people, by a show of hands, have a dog or at some point want to get a dog? I

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    nice pumpkin Johnny, I think it would be a great idea if we all created a pumpkin patch.” I would ask the children questions to learn how much they know and what they want to know about pumpkins. I would ask the children what holiday makes them think of pumpkins, what foods you can make with pumpkins, do they want to know how pumpkins grow, what colors do leaves turn, what’s inside pumpkins, and if they would like to make their own pumpkins. I would list what the children know about pumpkins and

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    One of the critical elements of the marketing research is the test market. For the Ajax pot pie there would be a combination of both quantitative and qualitative research done. This decision is based on the fact the methods are most beneficial when used together. According to Essentials of Marketing Research, qualitative research is research that addresses marketing objectives through techniques that allow the researcher to provide elaborate interpretations of market phenomena without depending

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