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    The Big bad wolf and the three Little Pigs Parody Once upon a time the the two little pigs and the Big bad wolf were friends, the pig with the stick house and the pig with the brick house. Until one day Pigers played the Wolfies in football for the championship title on TV. And of course the pigs favoirte team was the Pigers, and the wolf favorite team was the Wolfies.So they made a bet if the Wolfies win the pigs give the wolf $100 and if the Pigers win the wolf owes the pigs $100. The game

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    female adults and 2 female child (approximately 1 ½ and 3 years of age) blowing bubbles at the park. The male shows both child to blow bubbles out of a bubble stick. The adult male would try to blow the bubbles first and then gives the two girls a chance to blow the bubbles. The older child tries to blow air into the whole of the bubble stick but nothing happens. The adult male shows the child with encouragement and says, "You have to blow air slowly like

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    of the Woods involves us to create conversation and shared experiences. Our vacation retreat is on a small island that now has several walking paths, the necessary boat dock and a very modest cabin. As my mother used to say, “It’s a cabin in the sticks”. The island’s inhabitance began in the 1920’s by my father’s father. It’s both humble and grand. More than once will I hear the word” Paradise” as my father voices his awe at the rugged beauty that surrounds us on all sides. You can only describe

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    Fayette: A Short Story

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    I will probably get a bottle of water before I leave too.[/color][/i]’ She thought for a moment, deciding to save the cookies and finish the sticks. Fayette started to munch on one of the sticks, smiling and nodding to Carrietta as she excused herself to get something to drink. She flinched when she heard Matthew spoke, watching him leave the table to go over to where Ivana and Carrie were at to see that Carrietta didn’t

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    SUGAR SHACK JOHNNY NOVAK "JACK" by Craig Fleming Joe Novak, aka "Sugar Shack Johnny," aka "Jack," was a complicated man, who lived a life that was in many ways, larger than life. He was a tough, intelligent, compassionate, and inarguably fearless man who was incredibly comfortable in his own skin. He is missed and remembered with a lot of love. Joe Novak had bigger balls than anyone I have ever known, and those big balls were securely connected to his big heart. I am still intrigued, to this

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    face. The bags under his eyes seem to compliment the walking stick and both show the aging process of man. His clothes look to be unwashed and is probably the only clothes he owns. His clothes consist of a long white v-neck long sleeved shirt and a pair of torn blue jeans to cover his legs. He also has a sack that is hung over his right shoulder. This sack is the same color or appears to be the same color of his hat. The walking stick he carries clenched in his left-hand stands from feet to chest

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    Wood and Waterman’s 1991 article on the Bureaucracy attempted to change the view on Congressional and Executive control over the many different bureaucratic agencies. There have been many different views on who controls who and to what degree that control reaches, as well as different reasoning’s for the same view. Their question was what were the “causal mechanisms” that determined to what extent congress and the presidency controlled bureaucracies, and how effective were these mechanisms? After

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    As we are lining up for drills in field hockey practice, one of my coaches, Marissa, looks over at me and asks, “Who is that all the way across the field in those red tights?” (B+) I respond, “Of course it is Casey, who else has as much team spirit that they would wear those tights to practice?.” Casey is dressed in red, metallic tights underneath a white skirt with a vibrant, blue long sleeve t-shirt; our spirit dress at practice is “America” in order to get excited for our game tomorrow at Phillips

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    A computer is a device that can be given a specific set of instructions to perform a tasks under logical terms. Computers were created as tools to assist humanity in solving problems and achieving goals. During the events of World War II, computers were developed to decipher encryption amongst telegraph messages between the Allies and the Axis. These events have lead to modern day encryption to keep us safe in the case of losing our social security status or our bank accounts robbed. Which is a negative

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    10 seconds on the clock. Mog scoops the ball into his stick and sprints to the goal faster than a cheetah. 9, 8, he dodges right, leaving the defender clueless and confused of what just happened. 7, 6, 5, Mog finds himself in a predicament facing a wall of defenders, yet his toe drag eliminated this as if it was a knife cutting through warm butter. He winds up for a shot aiming for the top, right corner of the goal. 3, 2…wait a minute. You didn’t hear this story already? You must be seriously

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