I knew I wouldn’t make it to the top of the murky‚ warm and brown waters. I could feel the oxygen being released quickly from my lungs and bubbles swiftly skimming my skin as I slowly reached the bottom of the lake. I heard the faint cries for help and loud splashing as my sight becomes blurred. I felt someone’s hands grab mine and pull me onto the grainy dusty dirt. My vision comes back and I feel everyone’s eyes on me. They all immediately start laughing at me as I stood up and brushed the dirt
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Looking for Alaska 1.) Discuss a major conflict in the text. -One night‚ Alaska Young (the protagonist) becomes very depressed due to her forgetting that it was the anniversary of her mother’s death. She decides to leave campus in the middle of the night. To make matters worse‚ she has been drinking alcohol beforehand. This results to her dying in a terrible car crash. The book centers around her‚ before and after the crash. 2.) Explain the significance of the book’s title. -Following Alaska’s death
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Can knowledge be a burden rather than a benefit Is ignorance bliss or is knowledge power? This question is one that everyone must ask and answer for themselves. One can live an ignorant life full of happiness‚ yes‚ but also full of seclusion and lies or choose to become enlightened and live a possibly more difficult life that has a more positive impact on society. Knowledge brings society forward and inspires perseverance; through this its benefits outweigh its costs. There are enumerable events
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9-1-1 Call Dispatcher- Jefferson County 911 Patti- Yes uh I am a teacher at columbine high school and there is a student here with a gun that just shot out of a window. Dispatcher- Has anyone been injured ma’am. Patti- I am not sure‚ I hear shots outside of the library were I am and a crowd of students are also here with me. Dispatcher-Okay‚ tell the student to get under the tables ma’am. Patti– STUDENTS UNDER THE TABLES!!!!! HEADS DOWN UNDER THE TABLES KIDS!!!!!!! We are trying
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Binta Barry 3/29/2013 The poem that I have chosen to do my analysis on is Embrace. The poem is by Billie Collins. Billy Collins was born in Born in New York City in 1941. Collins is an author of several poetry books. He has won several awards for his accomplishments in poetry. The poem Embrace has to do with the main character feelings ‚ different feelings that he encounter in his life that lead me to believe those feelings were feelings of loneliness and sadness. The poem starts out talking
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FATHER‚ I LOVE YOU Oh my God! What a horrible life! No mother‚ have a father but deaf and cannot speak and a poor life. He is unfair to me! Why did He did this to me? But‚ after I had through the hardest moment in my life‚ I knew that having a deaf father is better than no father at all. Now I know that I must be careful in what I’m saying. As the wise saying ‘look before you leap’. Now‚ although I had regret for my bad action‚ I cannot repeat the time. What I can do is just repent and apologize
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My Childhood‚ My Future I was seven years old when I started to hear the explosions. Soldiers came to each house to search for weapons. As a child living in Baghdad living through a war adversely affected me. The city was very dangerous‚ so my parents decided to move to another town where all my family gathered together in one big house. My family and I were very frightened by what had happened and what would happen in Baghdad. After a while‚ when the violence subsided‚ we returned
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When creating my personal development plan I found many advantages and disadvantages that could occur. Even though I know the best ways that I learn and know what I need to do to improve my personal development plan to make it the most effective it could possibly be. There are many advantages of the personal development plan. Once creating the personal development plan you can always go back and change it‚ add improvements or completely change the aspects of the plan to apply to certain events
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Human Relations management Questions 1. What basic mistakes did Joanne make? Joanne basic mistakes are changing everyone’s duty on a busy day and at the last minute and not doing a test run ahead of time to see how everything will work out. 2. Why do you think she did not foresee what happened? She does not foresee what happens because she is busy with customers and had high hopes about her new plan. 3. How could she have avoided the reaction of Ellen’s and Michelle’s assistants
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8 Things Remarkably Successful People Do The most successful people in business work differently. See what they do--and why it works. Jeff Haden I’m fortunate to know a number of remarkably successful people. I’ve described how these people share a set of specific perspectives and beliefs. They also share a number of habits: 1. They don’t create back-up plans. Back-up plans can help you sleep easier at night. Back-up plans can also create an easy out when times get tough. You’ll work a lot harder
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