Kevin Chisaki LA 280 OL1 – Feature Story Final Draft July 30‚ 2013 Off the Grid Clocks never seem to move faster when I stare at them. Everyday this summer has felt like clockwork. I wake up‚ go to work for eight hours‚ go back home‚ do homework‚ go to sleep and the cycle restarts. Today‚ however‚ is different. July 24th‚ 2013 is the day my old high school friends and I decided to hang out together and catch up on things. Every summer we decide on one day to go out and do something together
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Narrative/Personal Experience The Day Off It was a nice‚ hot‚ and sunny day in Studio City. At the time I was living in LA with my girlfriend‚ Ally. It was about 9 in the morning‚ when I awoke to the smell of bacon and eggs. She and I rarely were able to coordinate the same days off of work; it just happened that we were both off that day. Happily waking up that morning‚ I got strait in the shower not realizing I was still half asleep and forgot a towel. Not wanting to disrupt my girlfriend’s focus
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Julia Johnson In today’s society‚ there are many trade-offs for technological advances. Different people may argue whether or not these trade-offs are for better or worse. It is my belief that today’s technological advances are for the common good and can result in immeasurable blessings. My cousin‚ Jennifer‚ has been married for over eighteen years. Her lifelong dream was to become a mother. After trying for years to conceive with no luck‚ Jennifer and her husband eventually turned to in
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Plagiarism‚ a Deadly Plague The feeling of putting in an enormous amount of time into something can be viewed as your masterpiece can be cheerful and satisfying. What if‚ however‚ someone comes along and willingly tries to steal your work of art‚ ignorantly using it for another purpose‚ with the intention of not giving any credit to you? Would you call them a thief in spite of what they have done? In what way would you approach this situation? However‚ this “practice of claiming‚ or implying
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In the Divine Comedy‚ Dante goes through many circles of Hell. These circles symbolize the sins that the people in each circle have committed. Ironically‚ many people in modern day television shows‚ movies‚ or books commit most of these deadly sins. For example‚ the characters from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie have committed many of these sins. Augustus Gloop has committed the sin of gluttony‚ and Veruca Salt has committed the sin of greed. These characters‚ according to Dante‚ would
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Deadly Creation In today’s world it’s simple. If you do something bad or illegal our justice system will take action. You will either be sent to prison or‚ if bad enough‚ it will result in the death penalty. That’s not how it’s always been. As Sean Quinlan said “Physical and moral regeneration was one of the great aspirations of the French Revolution. Revolutionaries fashioned new cultural practices to emphasize collective rebirth and the individual citizen’s own break with a degenerate past.”
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Latin America must "step on the gas" in education for not following behind in relation to countries in the northern hemisphere‚ valued today in an interview with Efe in Montevideo Secretary General of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI)‚ the Brazilian Paulo Speller. At the head of the institution from January 2015‚ Uruguay is the eleventh stop on a tour Speller its member countries‚ which seeks contact with both their governments and their social organizations linked to education‚ innovation
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EXT. POOL - EVENING Across a public pool‚ sits a girl (Melody)--her legs propped up on a chaise longue. Around her lies dead leaves fallen from washed out trees in the background. The cloudy sky casts a dull gray light softening the shadows and highlights; the desaturated colors of the concrete parallels the bright vibrant blue of the swimming pool. Melody is wearing a gray cardigan with the sleeves pulled all the way down--as if to protect from the subtle yet constant cold. She sits silently and
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Nguyen‚ Paula Nguyen 1 9/10/12 Period 2 Zick Reflection on: Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension) Jenna Wortham/New York Times/Aug. 25‚ 2012 The article‚ “Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension)” by Jenna Wortham‚ from the New York Times‚ can be related to most people in our generation. Our generation is filled with new technology and doing things faster and more efficient. I would say the majority of teenagers have smart phones with texting and/or internet. I feel that most people have forgotten
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McClain 1 Kaitlyn McClain Professor Bates ADMJ 300 7 March 2015 Homework # 4 Deadly force is defined as the amount of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm to another person. In earlier years‚ deadly force was used by police in order to apprehend a suspect regardless of the crime committed or situation at hand. Due to many cases arising against police officers and their use of deadly force‚ the courts have put certain restrictions on it and have said only to use in situations where the
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