An Athlete’s Home Home is where the heart is. If this is true then‚ my heart belongs to a special place. Not just any place‚ but a place where the chalk line connects the grass to the dirt‚ where three bases signify my safety‚ and a green fence is my brick wall. When I pull around the corner my view fist goes to the baseball field not the softball field‚ but that’s what makes it so unique and special in its own way. It’s sort of like a home‚ with a fence for a wall and trees for the roof. Different
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Many came there to serve the terror stricken inmates of the house. The brass-helmeted men of the fire brigade at once started their work. They took out their hose pipes and directed water towards the flames. It was after an. hour’s hard labour that the fire began to die out: At last it was extinguished. The building now presented a ghastly appearance. It was all charred and in ruins. The valuable furniture and costly items of the house lay scattered on the road. The scouts formed a cordon round
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have for the game is indescribable‚ if by chance I could never play again‚ my soul would be a hollow lifeless shadow. From the Separating White Line I glance up at the scoreboard; the clock reads 15 seconds left in the fourth quarter. My team is down by 4 points; we have to score a three-pointer and have no time-outs left. I yell out the play for a three-pointer and a two-pointer‚ now the perfectly spherical ball is put in my hands. Taking a short glance to the clock I saw time was running out. The
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In the book‚ House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ Esperanza the main character faces a lot of conflicts throughout the book. However‚ I think the one that caused the greatest change in her was the external conflict of what society and men expect of her and other woman. She found out that love was nothing like she thought it would be‚ and that woman are thought of as objects and not people. In the first part of the book Esperanza was confused about what love was. As the book went on she
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Ideal Vacation My family had always looked forward to leaving the valley during the torrid summer months. You see I never really had an actual vacation‚ since my father had been gone for eight long‚ dreadful years. He was sent away to a prison thousands of miles away‚ in Florida‚ when I was only six years old. My loving mother talked about ancient vacations we took‚ but I was too young to remember. My father was back home and he was as healthy as a young doctor. It was now summer of 2010‚ and I
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we had everyone on the island‚ we then made weird conversation with unknown relatives and mysterious friends of the family‚most only stayed for a day‚but the party happened the day after they left the 4th of July. All the people that were still there my sister ‚brother‚mom‚dad‚aunt‚uncle‚grandparents and myself.On that day we had planned dinner‚then we would sit by the fire and after it got dark fireworks.We ate lunch that was uneventful and delicious‚ after a while we ate a great steak dinner and
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"The Doll’s House" by Katherine Mansfield is the characterization of Kezia as she travels in her innocence through the symbolic world of experience. Kezia is essential to the plot because she represents a taboo‚ offering opposition to common ways of thinking. Through the portrayal of Kezia‚ as she interacts as the symbolic eccentric‚ Mansfield emphasizes the powers and blind justification of conformity within a society.<br><br>The story commences with the arrival of the doll’s house sent to the Burnell
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Walking on Sugar “Travis‚ This is so romantic‚” I subtlety joked as we stepped off the porch of our beach house. My mom told me stories of how my dad proposed to her on the beach many years ago‚ “It was just Beautiful” ‚ she use to say‚ but beautiful was an understatement. It was breath taking really just to be in this elegant atmosphere‚ a dream like scene I never wanted to end. The sand looked clean like sugar spread out for miles‚ As it squished between our toes and made our claves ache
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activities like hunting‚ fishing‚ and hiking‚ the Frio River has created my best summer memories. I have enjoyed countless summers burning my skin under the hot southern sun. Tradition calls my family to Frio County each summer‚ along with hundreds more families looking to escape their daily lives. Driving in‚ cell phone reception dies and people get the chance to look up and see the wondrous nature provided by the Texas Hill Country. My first view of the river makes me breathless. Shallow water washes
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Examining my personality‚ it is immediately apparent that the color that describes me best would have to be of a blue hue. Many aspects of myself‚ from my quiet nature and mellow outlook on life‚ to my desire for knowledge and creative drive‚ are‚ in my mind‚ tinted with a cool blue. Out of all of the blue hued Crayola colors‚ however‚ I find that I most associate myself with the color periwinkle. The name of this Crayon fascinated me when I first discovered it as a child in my 96-color Crayola
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