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    Lost after the wound The beginning of my new life: Has every individual dream and picture how they want their life to be when they reach adulthood. This is my story, after I graduated from high school I got Married and as a woman I wanted to have 2-3 beautiful children 's a couple of years after I got married. Well it did not work out as I planned it to be. Six months later after the man that I married had to leave me behind for a couple of months in the states while I continue my education by

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    The Searchers came out in 1956 and has been named the number one film for western genres by the AFI’s 10 top 10 (American Film Institute, 2014.). This film was directed by John Ford with Winton C. Hoch as the cinematographer. It starred John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, the ex-confederate war soldier with a chip on his shoulder. Walter Coy plays Ethan’s brother Aaron, who seems more than a little wary of his brother whom he has not seen in over three years. Jeffery Hunter is Martin Pawley whom

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    On January 2, 2012, I gave birth to a baby girl at method hospital in St. Louis Park, Minnesota at 1:25am. When I learned I was no longer living for me but for her. It was a bittersweet moment in my life that I would not change for the world. This is my story of how it happened. It was the Middle of winter and I was pregnant and due any day. The feeling of being a mom took a big toll on my life because I was so use to being stubborn and not having to care about anyone. This was until the sight of

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    Air Horns, Yelling, Sweat, Tears and Blood, this was the moment I knew all the hard work put in over the last fifteen years came to an end. All around me I could see my teammates, my brothers, kids I go out everyday and work my ass off for crying and shaking their heads. The look of defeat was all around me, the feeling of emptiness filled my heart faster than liquid fills a water bottle. This was the second time my High School hockey team had lost in the state championships game. Losing two times

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    location of Monument Valley is a favorite location for John Ford. The presentation of Stagecoach has many great exterior shots that collocate the characters with the environment they occupy. The stars in Stagecoach does fit in a Western movie. Like John Wayne, he stars in many Western movies. What makes Stagecoach a western is the traditional western theme. Like the fight between whites and Native Americans. There is a good use of the American West’s open plains and mountains.

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    Communication is the most important thing in every relationship. Whether it is good communication or bad, it always says something about the relationship of the people. After reading an article called A Tale of Two Front Pages, by Stanely Fish that was about two magazines that communicated a story in very different ways, I have concluded that I agree with the assessment of the articles. In addition, I covered the two different ways that an argument, like the one that Fish brought can be handled when

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    Autumn had just begun. Once vibrant green, now crispy orange and brown leaves gently floated down from the towering trees. The golden yellow school bus came to a quick halt. About five kids stood up and got off. Then, the bus started to move again. My stop was next, but it took about five minutes from this stop to get there. The bus was empty except for me and the driver, Mrs Wendy. It had a strong smell of body odor. I unzipped my backpack and grabbed a small, pink bottle of perfume and spritzed

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    In the novel Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy, being tough or intelligent (usually both) is the norm for the characters, whether they be protagonists or antagonists. Following the discovery of the Umayyad Revolutionary Council, a terrorist organization headed by a mysterious man referred to as “the Emir”, Campus operatives Jack Ryan, Jr., Dominic Caruso, and Brian Caruso are hard pressed to find him, dead or alive. Although culturally-nuanced-and-trivially-unimportant matters, such as music, hardly come

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    The Secret Life of Bees, takes place during the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina. Lily Owens is a 14 year old girl who carries the senseless burden of killing her mother. She destroys herself believing that she killed her mother and can't come to peace with the accident she caused that caused her mother to die. Later in the book she comes to find out that her mother abandoned T. Ray and her. She is now at a different conundrum and believes her mother should be hoping she’ll forgive her instead

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    My Favorite Friend

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    A friend is someone who you can always count on and almost like family, maybe like the brother or sister you never had. An ally is almost the same thing, except an ally may be older and someone you may be able to trust or lean on more because they have more experience. Everyone should have an ally or friend in their lives at all times. I have many people in my life that love and support me but no one can beat the way Danny treated me during this hard time. Danny has been my tumbling coach since I

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