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    An alternative: Consumerism has created a perpetual demand for products, but we are left distinctly unaware of the horrific implications of our purchases. The perpetual demand for goods created by consumerism has left us ignorant to the horrible consequences of our purchases. Confronting texts often incite a process of discovery that can challenge worldviews. As such, composers of these texts offer fresh and meaningful insight into commonly-held conceptions, evoking emotional and intellectual discoveries

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    Beginning yes we were finally are going 6 flags for 2 years i was waiting and my mom got 4 tickets from work.it was packed with cars and it was a few weeks into school.i don’t know how she got them but she got them.so when we got there i was surprised at what i saw a it was a ride where you were on like a roller coaster.but not build like one and the seats are hanging on the top of wheels and that the way.it is built we saw it but we didn’t get on it but when we got in it was bigger.than i expected

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    Praise Of Slowness

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    quality comes before quantity and that things such as mental health and stress are very important to me. I want those that work with me to know that not only will I be a structured leader, but also that I am supportive and want everyone to be able to slow down life enough to enjoy it. I think that it is very important to realize that taking a break and then having the energy to produce better work later is more effective than constantly working and putting in less effort. This experience has taught

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    length pauses, capturing the constant movement and the progressively building excitement throughout the scene. During the first stanza, Plath utilized both visual and auditory imagery, such as the Cinderella’s description, thus setting a romantic, slow and almost haunting tone for the piece. Showcasing the romance between the girl and the prince depicted here, with some haunting overtones, I underscored the word

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    again and it continued ticking — its arms bending to show its crookedness, its true face, distorted, ticking loud, and striking everything else into background noise. Then there was no noise. Ava looked around uncomfortably to see everyone moving in slow motion, cretinous functioning. Standing up slowly, she tried to snap Dahlila out of it to take her

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    apparently turned red thus the man in the other car hitting us. However, everyone says the guy that hit us was drunk, as apparently, he reeked of alcohol and he was speeding because if the light had just turned green, he couldn’t have been going fast enough to hit us at a speed that made the entire passenger side bend inward on itself. I remember dropping my phone and looking up when I heard Jerrick’s friend yell “Oh—!” Do you know how people say everything happens in slow motion when you’re in a car

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    Short Story

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    the door with true terror in their eyes. Time seemed to slow down as the sound of boots came closer and closer. The sight of the smooth, silver doorknob turning was too much to bare. Everyone was perfectly still, still with fear of what's to come, of the unknown. Since the door opened on the outside, there was a second boundary, the cabinet to protect the kids. Mrs. Singh and the kids were leaning against the cabinet to apply more weight. The man said eagerly pushing the cabinet out of the way, “Just

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    Roland The Gunslinger

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    mule are after the man in black. As he crosses the dessert he encounters a farmer and his crow. He stays at the farmer’s house whose name is Brown and his crow, Zoltan. Later that day, the gunslinger started to talk about his old town Tull. When the gunslinger was in Tull he proceeded to a nearby café. He then met this women bartender who told the gunslinger what had happened lately. One day, this guy named Nort had passed away. All of a sudden he had got resurrected by the man in black. The girls

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    Appealing packaging? Alluring plastic? Fantastic box? Appearances of products always attract people before they decide to buy. Therefore, most individuals are actually purchasing the “packaging” instead of the real products that they first intended on buying. Hine mentioned, “Packaging are an inescapable part of modern life” (93). However, how can we discover the authentic value from the superficial packaging? Nowadays, the number of goods has increased since the past, there are more choices available

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    A Volleyball Story

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    “Side out, side out!” “You got this!” The crowd’s roaring chant is a broken record on full blast. All of a sudden, my ears deafen and my heart races. My hands are moist and my throat is dry. Perspiration slowly trails down my face as I glance at the red and blue scoreboard. The score reads 12-13. My team, Beach Vibes 14-1 has been going back and forth with Texas team, Magic 14-1 for more than an hour. Both teams won one set, and now Magic is in the lead by one point. This is such a long and exhausting

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