One day‚ the story says‚ America’s great essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson saw a farmer trying to pull a reluctant calf into a barn. The farmer had a rope halter on the calf and was pulling with all his strength‚ but the calf had all four hooves dug into the barnyard mud and wouldn’t budge. To be helpful‚ Emerson got behind the calf‚ put his shoulder to its rump‚ and began pushing with all his might while the farmer continued to pull at the other end. The calf only planted itself more firmly. As these
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One fall‚ in Alaska‚ four friends were preparing for their first day of school at Washington Middle School. Elated‚ they were packing their book bags and talking about their first day at middle school. The four friends were Billy‚ Bob‚ Jeff‚ and Tim. They have been everlasting friends since any of them could remember. They were talking about how they could impress everyone in Mrs. Kinley’s first hour class. Mrs. Jefferson‚ Billy’s mother‚ met with Mr. Brooks‚ the principle‚ Mr. Montana‚ the janitor
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Schools should make up snow days on Saturdays‚ because if you make up a snow day on a weekend you don’t have to take days out of summer vacation and Christmas break. There will not always be a snow day make up day so why make a big deal out of it? First of all‚ if you make up a snow day on Saturday you won’t have to miss part of summer vacation and Christmas break. To add on to that‚ Source #1 says‚ if you have a snow day and you have to make it up you could do it on a Saturday and not miss summer
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I was fully optimistic that the day would go well‚ but it did not fall in the plan that I believed it would. It was the same routine in a new environment. My first day at Larned High School started like every first day before me. The principal‚ Mr. Langdon‚ gathered all the students and welcomed us into a new school year. The speech as long but informational. It was a familiar speech that I had heard every first day of school. Unfortunately‚ this familiarity would end‚ and now I was stuck roaming
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As I wake up to the smell of fresh breakfast biscuits on a hot August morning‚ I get the sudden feeling of nervous butterflies in my stomach. Today was mine and Cassie’s first day at the Jefferson Davis School‚ a former whites-only school‚ who wanted us to join. No one really knows why‚ but Mama agreed. Mama came into my room to get me out of bed‚ then to Cassie’s. Both of us were extremely anxious and did not want to go‚ but Mama did not want to hear it‚ so we kept quiet and obeyed. After dressing
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Narrative Essay “My Worst Day” Someone might have said "Life has been tough for me because I have to face many disappointments in it." So do I‚ sometimes I thought that my life is indeed an ocean of endless problems and sadness‚ however‚ there is one of the sad moments that I have encountered is also may most interesting story in my life. Last weekend I had one‚ well not only one‚ two of my worse days in my life. I got sick and I felt very bad and sad.I was a little bit disappointed in myself
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Groundhog Day is a 1993 film starring Bill Murray and directed by Harold Ramis. The story follows a weatherman‚ Phil Connors‚ unhappy with his life as he reluctantly travels to Punxsutawney to cover a news story about Groundhog Day on February 2. After a storm hits (that Phil had wrongfully predicted would miss them) the news team are forced to stay in Punxsutawney for the night. When Phil wakes up he is surprised to see that it is February 2 again‚ and the day’s events follow exactly like they did
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College High School‚ has effectively marked my transition into adulthood. From the day in eighth I held that brown envelope in my hands that read “CONGRATULATIONS” to now when I hold the weight of responsibility and expectation on my shoulders‚ I knew this was the transition. The days I visited for open house and meeting‚ I was trembling‚scared; nervous. It was tearing apart my world taking this big step I wasn’t ready for‚ but I had gotten that far‚ so I held my breath and jumped. The day that school
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I went to St. Michael School from Kindergarten through Eighth grade‚ so when it came time to leave for high school‚ I was not excited for the change. St. Michael was especially small in regards to student population. We had just under three hundred students split between all nine grades. That left roughly twenty to thirty kids per class. I was extremely used too this small environment and not exactly looking forward to the terrors of high school towering over me nor the thought of being lost in the
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Today was the most unfortunate day in my life. How could these bad things happen to me all the time? The incident happened in the morning. Karl gave Ned and mearideinhiscartothebank. Ihadtodropbytogetsome money. When we arrived at the bank‚ I went straight to the counter. Just as I finished everything at the counter‚ two men wearing masks entered the bank. To my astonishment‚ a woman screamed and BANG‚ a guard fell on the floor. He was covered with blood from the waist down. All the customers
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