through my bedroom. As I wiped the grit from last night’s sleep from the corners of my eyes‚ the bright light hit them. I slung my arm like an elephant trunk on top of the alarm to find the snooze button. I heard a faint voice in the background calling my name. "Kayla‚ are you up?" echoed down the stairs in the deep male voice of my dad. While stretching my hands and feet to the four posts of the bed‚I hesitantly answered "Yes" as my eyes opened after several watery blinks. I crawled out from underneath
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excited for no reason and the brown kelpie pup will start dashing about‚ tripping everyone up and she’ll go out to the vegetable patch and pick all the green tomatoes from the vines and notice how the oldest girl is close to tears because she was happy here‚ and how the youngest girl is beaming because she wasn’t. And the first thing she’ll put on the trailer will be the bottling-set she never unpacked from Grovedale‚ and when the loaded ute bumps down the drive past the blackberry canes with their
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"I am Todd Hewitt‚" he thinks to himself‚ "and I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one months time exactly." This is the phrase he was taught to repeat in his head when his Noise turned red and his thoughts needed to be calmed. The only problem is‚ his thoughts aren’t only his‚ but for the whole world. Ever since the settlers were infected by an alien germ that mutated the brain‚ no one on New World could have secrets since their thoughts
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The Pomegranate Most people have a favorite fruit they enjoy to eat from time to time. I love bananas‚ and oranges‚ but my favorite is a little something more exotic... It’s the Pomegranate. My Dad used to bring us Pomegranates as a rare treat when I was younger. My Mom would put the seeds into a bowl and sprinkle sugar on top. The origins of this delicious colorful fruit date back to ancient middle east. The Pomegranate thrives in dry and arid climates and is frost resistant. This fruit is grown
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Wells “I Want” Essay October 9th‚ 2012 Word Count: 542 I Want Super Powers I am a normal human being. I go to school. I go to work. I have my hobbies and my activities‚ but a part of me wants more. No longer do I want to stay bound to this Earth by gravity. No longer do I want this normal‚ average strength. No longer do I want to stand by and watch the world slip away into more bleakness and despair. I want super powers. How many times a day‚ do you wish that you had super powers? I know it
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‘People should never go to war’‚ discuss. ‘People shouldn’t go to war’ this statement is important as it is a contradicting point in the bible and is a question asked by many people as it addresses several moral issues for Christians. Christians who think that we should never go to war and agree with the statement have several arguments to support their beliefs. They would tend to quote things from the most well known laws in the bible‚ the 10 commandments. If I were to say how can you justify
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Medical Assistant By Stefanie Oliver I learned a lot in these past four weeks about the career I am going for and what it takes to get there. I learned about the qualifications and education that I need to become a medical assistant. I also learned what the responsibilities are in a medical assistant field. I am going to do everything it takes to make sure I put my all into it to become the best medical assistant I can be. The medical assistant term is between a receptionist and nurse and
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English 101-33 Descriptive Essay A Park By The Memory Lane As I was growing up I had the fortune to travel different countries and being away from the home country for educational purposes since 2010‚ I also got to experience a lots of different cultures‚ environment and places. It’s really confusing for me if someone asks me to describe the most pleasant place in my list out of all these places I have ever been. After giving it much thought I finally made my decision. The most pleasant place in my diary
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Boat: Symbolism in Never Let Me Go Most people have dreams of becoming astronauts‚ doctors or painters but Hailsham students grow up knowing that they won’t get to live a normal life. They will donate organs until they die. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go is about a dystopian society in Great Britain. It breeds cloned children for organ donations. Ishiguro uses a unique style of storytelling in which the protagonist Kathy narrates her memories of childhood at Hailsham to Adulthood and becoming
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In Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro‚ the main character‚ Kathy‚ and the rest of the characters are raised in Hailsham‚ a very special type of school. The kids who are raised at Hailsham do not have any parents because they are clones. Essentially‚ the teachers or the guardians‚ as they are called in the book‚ are their parents. Yet‚ the guardians raise the kids in a very particular way. The guardians are not affectionate towards the children‚ as most parents would be‚ and they raise them in an extremely
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