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    My red converse pounded the rainy sidewalk as I dashed down Main Street. It's about midnight, and it was raining cats and dogs outside. I had been running away from the hospital, and the gang. Johnnycake, our Johnny, didn't deserve to die. The kid had a rough life, there is no doubting it, but he had hope. Shoot, he was just a kid. Johnny and I were buds, I'm sure of it. We both didn't have it so good, and it was like I was his guardian in a messed up way. I soon run out of breath and stop abruptly

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    “Thank you for your help. Mr. Barnes, please go on home in case the kidnappers call. Do you have a family member we can call to be with you?” Officer Grayson asked. “Margaret is my world. I’ll be okay.” “Do you want us to escort you home?” “Oh, no, that’s all right, I’ll go on home,” he said, going toward his car, as the officers went to their vehicle. Noticing Rosy coming out of the store, Andrew waited, she said, “Please, come inside.” Putting her arm around his shoulder, she helped him into the

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    authors. However, none of these quite resemble Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known as Lewis Carroll. Carroll’s life, the people he meets and his work Alice in the Wonderland enables him to be one of the most renowned authors in all of history. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson “was born in the village of Daresbury, England, on January 27, 1832,” (“Lewis Carroll”). Carroll divided himself up into two names, Lewis Carroll and the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. “He frequently insisted on the division

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    1955 by a British psychiatrist by the name of John Todd. He named it Alice in Wonderland Syndrome because of the symptoms that the patient's experiences are much like what Alice experienced in the book Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll. It is thought that Lewis Carroll suffered from this neuropsychological condition hence the vivid distortions pictured in his book. Since being discovered in 1955, only 170 case descriptions have been published by doctors, so

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    The title of the play is “It Can’t Happen Here.” The playwright of the play is Sinclair Lewis. The production company was Foothill College Theatre Arts Department. The director was Bruce McLeod. I watch the play on November 18 at Foothill College. “It Can't Happen Here” follows a middle aged journalist with his and his family's struggles with a new political government. A new popular candidate is running for president. This new candidate is making outrageous claims to make America go back to its

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    When I saw the twenty minutes almost over I lay money down on the table and went outside. That waiter is like a ghost. I'm not sitting around for her to reappear. I sat in the parking lot and made my call. "Hello." I fiddled with my pants pocket. "It's Imara. What's the job." I heard the voice on the other end clear their throat. "It's a different job than usual but it will pay well." I stayed silent waiting for them to explain. "We need you to take someone out." My eyes widened and my jaw dropped

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    I woke up to the sound of a heart monitor keeping a steady beat and the back of my neck burning up. Was I in a hospital? Opening my eyes, I quickly shut them again. “Ugh” I grunted closing them tight as my head pounded with pain. “Good Morning, Miss Martin. I’m glad to see that you are are finally coming around.” A deep unfamiliar males voice echo through the room causing my whole body tense. Forcing my eyes open and demanding that they focus, I scanned the room so I could place a voice to

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    Chapter – 7 ~~~~~ ***** ~~~~~ I woke up and found myself on my bed. I was having a small headache. Throughout the entire week, I was working on my assignments for school and I was also working on the day-care centre. Today is my wedding day so I also had to get my wedding dress and man; I was so busy in the week days. I am kind of glad that our wedding is on the weekend. I got out of the bed and went to the washroom and got freshened. I came out of the washroom and heard the door knock. "Juni, I

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    Raman spectroscopy (RS) as a powerful analytical method have widely been employed in characterization of different kinds of chemical species. Discovery of RS dates back to previous century which first proposed by C.V. Raman and his colleague K.S. Krishnan. This scattering technique involves electromagnetic interaction of an incident monochromatic laser beam with molecules of a matter. Each of different vibrational, rotational and other modes of molecular motions in target molecule can alter both

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    Recently I (and many others) have read the story “Flowers for Algernon, and the movie “Awakenings”. “Flower for Algernon” is an outstanding story about a Man named Charlie Gordon with an I.Q. of 68, and a small white mouse named Algernon who can beat Charlie in any maze. The story begins when Charlie's Support teacher, Miss Kinnian, advise Charlie to do an experiment that Dr.Nemur and Dr.Strauss believe that a surgical operation could possibly have Charlie's I.Q. raise up triple the amount it was

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