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    Jeannette's Diary

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    ENTRY 1 After days of travelling‚ I have finally arrived at France. I have found France to be much more pleasant than Thornfield; here‚ I have no commitments and am free to do whatever I please. However‚ acting on impulse has always been one of my greatest flaws. Last night‚ when I attended ________’s dinner party‚ I came across a fair young lady‚ __________. I struck up a conversation with her and found her to be similar to other ladies. Upon first glance‚ she seemed to be charming and smart‚

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    Basketball Diaries

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    Coach always says that offense sells tickets but‚ defense always wins games. I always wondered what she meant by that until we played our 1st game and‚ I experienced what it would feel like if we would not have played any defense. They grabbed offensive board after offensive board and never once did we box out. The other team looked like all-stars playing against us but never once did we all stop to think about what our coach told us until halftime. We all went in the locker room and contemplated

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    Journal entry 3 I escaped to the North my first time‚ I underground a railroad that i think should be called the "upperground railroad‚" and I honors "those good men and women for their noble daring‚ and applaud them for willingly subjecting themselves to bloody persecution‚" but i am also adamantly opposed to anyone revealing the means whereby slaves escape. I was in need of money to escape‚ so I proposed to Hugh Auld that he "hire his time." They were great people for helping me‚ but one day

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    Reflective Diary

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    I am writing this essay in-order to reflect upon the experiences‚ that I have experienced during the 7 months that I have been studying the Work based live case study module (2509) and how these experiences have impacted upon my approach towards my communication‚ team working‚ problem solving skills and other factors which were endemic within the module. After completing the first year module New enterprise journey‚ which is the module prior to Work based live case study. I expected the work based

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    Cricket Diary

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    India prevail over Pakistan in a nail biter The 3rd and the last one-day international between India and Pakistan played on 6th January‚ 2013 in New Delhi finally gave the Indian supporters a reason to celebrate. In a low scoring game‚ India(167 all out) beat Pakistan(157 all out) by 10 runs to prevent a white wash in the 3 match series. Pakistan defeated India in the previous two ODIs and were all set to clean sweep the series. India won the toss and decided to bat first but the poor batting

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    Travel Diary

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    International Oratory Programme in Brunei Darussalam Our trip started on 20th of April 2013‚ fun fact - the day of universal appreciation of marijuana (not that I’m trying to encourage you students out there). We went straight away to Bintulu with a total of 14-hour long road trip and a few pit stops to catch a breath from the humid air and cramped space in bus for which we stayed a night at SM Teknik Bintulu with a great given hospitality. Next day‚ we were told to wake up earlier than 5:00

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    Gawains Diary

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    What a perfect time to return home in Camelot. Even though i do not have a permanent residence in which i can call my home‚ King Arthur’s castle is the one place i can rely to be welcomed and treated as family. I refuse to complain‚ however after spending much of the year surveying the kingdom‚ i have grown quite tired. Only after arriving at the gigantic stone walls protecting the closest family i have‚ do i realize how much i missed being here. Upon entering‚ i am greeted with yells and shouts

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    Union Pacific Railroad was authorized to construct a transcontinental railroad with substantial financial support from the federal government‚ officers and directors of the company devised a plan to make an immediate profit from its construction by fraud. The vehicle for this fraud was a company called Credit Mobilier of America. The method was to have Credit Mobilier‚ which was entirely controlled by the same people‚ bill the Union Pacific for the costs of constructing the railroad. There was no

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    Anne's Diary Analysis

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    Anne matures and develops through the course of the diary in many ways. In the beginning she behaved in a spoiled manor. She barely helped do any work‚ argued with her mother‚ and she thought every boy liked her. During her time in hiding she started to do work like cleaning and preparing food‚ she became less argumentative‚ less talkative and did not joke about everything. She began to enjoy and appreciate sweets like cake rather than take them for granted like before they went into hiding.

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    It was almost halloween‚ Just a few days away back in 2015‚ when we decided to go to the haunted railroad. Like any other person would do around halloween to pay a ridiculous amount for people to scare you when you can do it for free‚ buts that’s not the point. It was my mom‚ dad‚ two family friends; Ben‚ Joe‚ and of course I was there too. Well‚ my aunt Lucy and her partner Laura were supposed to go but they were too scared to go‚ so they just stood in the car and waited for us to come out. I

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