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    Dally In The Outsiders

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    Dally is a very important character in the novel, The Outsiders. Dally helps Ponyboy and Johnny after Johnny kills a soc. He hands them money, a gun, and a map. He also gives them advice on where to hide out. Dally is a character who always seems to be doing the wrong thing. He has been to jail numerous times for many different reasons. After Johnny dies, Dally decides to rob a store and pulls a gun so that the police will shoot him. The police shoot him down and Dally died before he even hit the

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    People around the world watch in awe as the speedy racers fly through a plethora of different of obstacles. Raging fans will fill the stadium to the brim. Intensity will be in the air and so will the suspense. The race will start with no clue as to who will come out on top. Racing at speeds of up to 70 MPH, the drones will be speeding through the stadium, exciting fans of all ethics and ages. The drones coming around the corner and WHAM, two of the leaders collide and go down in a heap. The crowd

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    Epilogue: If I Could Live My Life Over Again, I Would... I bet everyone could come up with something that they wish they could do over again, personally I have several things. But if I were, I would probably try harder to not get in trouble for touching other students, punching someone, or bringing toys to school. I would also probably try to get on some of my enemy's good side and so I could become friends with them and so we didn't have conflicts with each other, I would also try to have a healthier

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    Have you ever pretend to be something your not? In the ghost In The Tokaido Inn, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, a 14 year old boy Seikei who was born a tea merchant, wants to be a samurai but can’t because of social ranking. One day Seikei and his father stopped at an inn full of noisy samurai and daimyos. That next morning, they soon find out that a priceless gem suddenly vanishes. Seikei saw the thief who he thought was a ghost, so Seikei is the only one who can find out who stole the gem. In the

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    alien fighters shot out a blue bolt of energy and shot down one of the air force jets causing everyone to panic and suddenly the other alien aircraft began to attack.  "MOVE MOVE MOVE!" A policeman yelled as he tried to get people off the beach. A National Guard group of four Humvees and a transport truck came onto the beach locked and

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    I watched her slip into eternal rest on November 10, 2010; she had finally lost her ten-year battle with cancer. The woman that molded and shaped my world, my mother, had died. Ten years before, the only time I dealt with the medical community was for my yearly checkup and vaccinations. Everyone in my immediate family was healthy and happy. Then she came to me and said she was having excessive vaginal bleeding but was not concerned because she believed it was just fibroids since she had them after

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    Dear: Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival I believe that the “Urban Bush Women” should be a part of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. It all started with this amazing woman named Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, choreographer and dancer. She grew up in Missouri where she fell in love with jazz music and started to imagine movement from the jazz beats. She was able to obtain a “B.A. degree in dance from the University of Missouri”. (historymakers). After her degree she earned many awards in education. When she

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    The Birth of my Daughter In the early morning of January 5th 2016, I awoke to my wife of six months, Scarlett, complaining of abdominal pain. I thought it was more pregnancy pains that she had experienced for the previous five months. Then, she told me that she believed they 89were contractions and she had been timing their intervals and we needed to get to the hospital. My initial thoughts were frantic; cs it's much too soon, it's two months early. After my initial worries were addressed in my

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    school computer. Aaron sat back in his chair and began typing again. He has been working on his essay about China’s extensive government and how it differs from our own for the past five hours. Thankfully, he remembered the actual due date explicitly states tomorrow instead of Tuesday. He pulled his face away from the screen and rubbed his chin. His eyes were like marbles

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    an expectation for John’s persona, he molds into the negativity set for him; and that leads him to his demise: “The Savage had rushed at her like a madman….Like a madman, he was slashing at her with his whip of small cords”(Huxley 229). The World State rejects John, so he decides to seclude himself,essentially further ostracizing himself. As he lives as a hermit, he reaches a breaking point, begins self harming, attacking others, then hangs himself. The impact of a nicknames connotation effects Balram

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