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    They wearily slide into the back seat, when Estelle Louise closed the door the Sheriff says, “The driver of the semi was not seriously injured. He was out of the truck when the fire started. He said he lost control of his rig when it took off like a wild stallion. Estelle Louise, he takes full responsibility, for the accident and promises to set everything straight. He wanted you to have his business card and this.” He hands her the card along with a crumbed envelope. With nervous fingers, she

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    family is truly all about. One example would be that my grandparents still follow traditions of our ancestors, like preserving fruits and vegetables for example peaches, pears, and apples, and growing vibrant vegetable gardens. Another would be the wild life and vivid open space my grandparents had. Also, the stories, pictures, and history of our ancestors that were told and showed to us as children. These things, in general, are what is significant about my Grandparent 's home to me.

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    Lewis Carroll wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and a follow up novel “Through the Looking Glass”. Lewis was born on the 27th of January, 1832 under the name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He is most famous for his writing style of lyrical nonsense in his works. “In 1856 Carroll met Alice Liddell, the four-year-old daughter of the head of Christ Church. During the next few years Carroll often made up stories for Alice and her sisters. In July 1862, while on a picnic with the Liddell girls

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    Julie Otsuka’s novel When the Emperor was Divine leads the reader through the journey of one family that represents many as they are placed in an internment camp for the crime of being Japanese. Otsuka brings to light the persecution of Japanese-Americans through her use of symbols prominent throughout the book. Some of the most important being the symbol of stains, their family dog, and horses. Each has a double-meaning pointing towards the theme of widespread racism. Racism that led many Japanese-Americans

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    history class, weeks are spent reciting specific qualities of the personal lives of ancient presidents. The uselessness of this knowledge is ridiculously appalling. Additionally, schools should allow students free reign to look into the history of the Wild West rather than the vital health signs of their body, for instance. The problem is, the mandatory curriculum is taught for the success in tertiary education; forgetting the importance of success in life in general. Within nearly all careers, the worthless

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    Summary Of The Awakening

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    interrupted by the King of Ooo, who claims to have had planned it out, despite Finn's, Jake's and Marceline's skepticism, as well as Bonnibel's ire towards him. Just then, Marceline begins feeling ill and transforms into a deformed wolf-monster before falling to the

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    Louis had recently turned thirteen, so he was afraid of being alone forever. His pimpled face was one that the girls around us did not find attractive. My braces were almost as repelling as the cat graphic t-shirts my mom bought me. “Do you really think we will be old and single?” I asked Louis. I was wild with fear. I didn’t want to be alone forever. “No, you are cute. I think you will have a husband by the age of twenty.” Louis’s cheerful voice shouted next to my ear. “You kiddos are funny. Marriage

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    Scarface, Directed by Brian De Palma Tony Montana has taken just so much shit his whole life. He’s been oppressed and repressed and mocked and called a spic and turned on by his own country (Cuba) that he’s just not going to take any shit anymore. He’ll shoot someone just for pissing him off, which is almost admirable, or at the very least understandable. I’m not advocating violence; all I’m saying is that we all have our limits and if someone treated me the way Tony Montana had been treated his

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    continues in a somewhat secretive manner adding, “An they have conspired together, I will not say you shall see a masque; but if you do, then it was not for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on Black-Monday last at six o'clock i' the morning, falling out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four year, in the afternoon” (2.5.21-26). Lancelot shifts his attention between both Shylock and Jessica while speaking. When speaking about the masque, Lancelot should gesture in some way to Jessica, to try and

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    Church-Hopper Monologue

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    She says she just likes to sit in holy spaces. Me too now. This one is a beautiful boat-like room of dark wood and bright stained-glass panels of, it looks like, yup, the angel Lucifer, falling, falling, falling. Like me, I sigh. In every set of siblings, there is one angel, one

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