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    When most people think of their Grandma‚ they think of a sweet‚ loving‚ good-time‚ lady-like woman. However‚ Grandma Dowdel‚ in A Long Way from Chicago‚ is no average grandma. In this book‚ Joey and Mary Alice Dowdel journey from Chicago to their Grandma Dowdel’s for a week every summer from 1929-1935. They experience new things every summer and learn that their grandmother is anything but normal. Grandma Dowdel does not always follow the rules of the law or society‚ but her grandchildren learn

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    as many immigrants would migrate here. Some came for the better economic opportunity while some came for the better change. Without speaking a hint of English‚ their life would soon be reshaped as their life will unravel soon. In the monograph The Long Way Home by David Laskin‚ he shared the lives of a dozen immigrants in their point of view. Laskin‚ a graduate from Harvard college is an American writer. In his book‚ Laskin detailed the hardships that they had to withstand. From trying to find their

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    individual on the planet must grapple with this moral confusion in an attempt to find unique solutions to everyday dilemmas. In Affleck’s drama Gone Baby Gone‚ two very notable philosophies collide head on‚ and the protagonist must choose between the two to find the solution that he feels is ‘right.’ In Affleck’s brilliantly rendered drama Gone Baby Gone‚ a young girl is abducted from her mother‚ in a blue collar area of Boston‚ Massachusetts. Patrick Kenzie and his girlfriend are private investigators

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    I’ve come a long way in high school‚ and have grown and developed extensively. Physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally I have blossomed over the past three to four years into the person I am today. These changes have been brought about in many ways. The most significant reason that I have changed is my passion for fitness and weight lifting. I’ve been influenced by sports I’ve done‚ and coaches I’ve had. My relationships with family‚ friends‚ and girlfriends has also helped mold me into who I

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    Gone but Not Forgotten

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    ribbon at the front door‚ and the people in black. I had to tell my cousin Valerie what was going on. Everyone was focused in their own pain to notice the confusion in the young ones. I tried to explain what was going on the best way possible; I had to break it to her in a way she would understand being only ten years of age. This was a very difficult situation for me; I didn’t think that I was mature enough at fifteen to have the right words in this case. At first she fell in shock.All of her feelings

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    Gone with the Wind

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    GONE WITH THE WIND The book (Gone with the Wind) is written‚ with a simple linear plot that lasts about eight years. The events that took place were during the civil war‚ which changed the lives of everyone in the south. Scarlet was a seductive woman that made poor decisions throughout the novel. There was a land of cavallies and cotton fields called the Old South. A civilization gone with the wind (page 3 of the novel) the love of money

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    Gone Fishing

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    GONE FISHING We have all heard the saying “Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day‚ But teach a man to fish‚ and you will feed him for a lifetime”. Now imagine if feeding the man wasn’t why the man went fishing in the first place. What if men taught men to fish not only because it delivered a satisfying fullness to their bellies‚ but because they knew that it also meant they would get to enjoy a emotionally fulfilling unexplained feeling they had all once felt. Beneath the obvious

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    Once Gone

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    Once gone‚ forever Gone In a life time‚ a person can and will experience a diverse range of fears‚ from small to life changing fears. In the novels it is no different‚ the characters themselves could be ruled by their or they can overcome their fears. In the novel Love in the time Cholera‚ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ aging is a deeply rooted fear in the characters’ lives that to some extent influences their decisions which causes them to be more aware of the dangers in their surroundings. Aging

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    The Dead and the Gone

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    Quinn Perry Mrs. Laureen Batchelor American Literature II April 7‚2013 The Dead and the Gone Life can offer many dark and twisted challenges to an individual. A life can change from a single decision; and‚ perhaps a part of life‚ becomes accepting one’s own decisions…right and wrong. In The Dead and The Gone ‚by Susan Pfeffer‚ seventeen-year-old Alex Morales faces loss‚ remorse‚ and death when an asteroid collides with the moon and chaos erupts in urban New York City. Assuming both of

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    married John Robert Marsh. After ten years of writing her 1000 page novel that takes place in the Civil War era‚ Gone With the Wind was published in 1936. Receiving the 1937 Pulitzer Prize‚ Gone With the Wind became one of the best-selling novels of all time. But Mitchell wasn’t as fond of the uprising popularity of her work and she eventually fell ill from exhaustion. Even though Gone With the Wind was her only novel‚ Margaret continued to write nonfiction. In 1949‚ Margaret was hit by a car while

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