Taylor Gernhart Gernhart 1 English Composition ENG 121 14 May 2013 Narrative Essay #1 I awaken‚ my feet cold under the sheets . The room is strangely quiet as I slip out of bed and realize the sea of white snow. I hurry to get dressed and start bolting for the back door of our beautiful‚ city home in Tualatin. Today I will walk through my snow-covered yard as if I am swimming through the ocean.I stopped at the door that faced Nelson Street aligned with beautiful fall colored
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Title: Examination Day Author: Henry Sleasar Text type: Short Story The short story Examination Day written by Henry Sleasar‚ is a story about young children being tested by the government to get knowledge of how smart the kids are. The government keep control of the kids and all the families. The government summon every kid that turns twelve‚ to come into their head quarters for an exam to prove how clever the kids are. The government summons a twelve year old boy in for his exam. The boy
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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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Tyson 1 Bria Tyson Professor Snyder ENGL 101 30 October‚ 2013 A Day at the Beach I love the smooth warm sand rubbing on my feet. The scent of fresh air‚ almost like a new ocean breeze freshener. Walking my on the warm sand looking out at the ocean soothes my soul. The beach is a time of fun‚ relaxation‚ and a place to release stress. When walking the boardwalk‚ I remember the smell of French fries. The sound of laughter and children playing filled my heart with excitement. Walking
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Valentine’s Day Valentines Day is a day to express your love‚ and to celebrate the spirit of love. Every year‚ the fourteenth day of the month of February has millions across the world presenting their loved ones with candy‚ flowers‚ chocolates and other lovely gifts. In many countries‚ restaurants and eateries are seen to be filled with couples who are eager to celebrate their relationship and the joy of their togetherness through delicious cuisines. There hardly seems to be a young man
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Personal Essay Something so tragic couldn’t have happened on the best day of my life‚ "My Graduation Day." The day itself had actually been going very well indeed‚ and a seemingly endless surge of excitement had me going crazy! Things were going perfectly how I imagined it‚ I have been waiting for this day for 12 long years and just knowing the fact that it was here just drove me insane. The morning started out when I woke up and had a wonderful breakfast waiting for me out on the table with my
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this team yet‚ and I needed to work on my game and tryout next year. I was devastated; I could not believe it‚ I had thought I deserved to be on that team‚ but the coach did not. Without that day‚ I would not be here playing basketball on a scholarship for Wheeling Jesuit University. That day taught me so much. I came into that basketball tryout overconfident‚ like I had made the team already because I thought I was that good. In eighth grade I was the man in basketball. I could not be stopped
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A day at the beach As a child‚ I would often relish those fun-filled‚ joyous family outings. Along with my irritating little sister and adoring parents‚ we would speed off in the car ready to create a new adventure and take a plenty of pictures to add to the collection in the family album. An experience that stands out most to me now as a young adult was a time when we went to the beach when I was about eight years old. Ecstatic‚ and jumping around like a frog in early spring‚ I was excited. Today
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women were being violated in the means of privacy. This is also used to evoke an emotion that in no way is abortion a right to privacy‚ which is seen in the portion of the article titled “Dissenting Opinion”. The word choice is seen multiple times throughout the article and can evoke two different kinds of emotions as well. On one hand‚ the word choice is used to really hit home to you in the way that a person’s right to choose what they do with their body was at stake‚ and on the other hand‚ you
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D-Day Silas Hanegraaf The commendable victory of the D-day invasion was due to an important location; this location neutralized the Nazi army because the Allied powers had many supplies stored in Great Britain to prepare for the attack. D-day proved to be one of the most powerful invasions in history since it was a monolithic turning point of World War II. D-day proved to be important because of the outstanding overtaking of Omaha Beach and the massive death toll that occurred on that monumental
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