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    BELONGING CREATIVE

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    The dead-ended street She stood in the middle of the street‚ where the wind washed on the sighing pavement with a hollow sound at midnight. Her empty eyes saw straight through the bleary neon lights flickering on and off the street signs.  She looked and saw nothing‚ gulping in cleansing‚ scouring draughts of air. Her hair whipped around her face‚ and the world was reduced to fragments and blurs‚ spots and smudges of something unreal. A train whistled through the air behind her‚ silent as a

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    I am going to write about a mistake I have made in the past. One mistake that I will never forget is the time I let my cousin and sister bully someone and didn’t stop them. A few years ago my sister and cousin started watching the hit ABC series ’Pretty Little Liars.’ They though it would be funny to send notes to one of there friends signed as ’A’ like the show. At first they just did notes in the girls locker but then it started to escalate. They went as far as cutting her hair during class and

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    The Borders on Our Backs

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    Angelica M. Moreira Garcia English 101 Due date: 02/13/2013 Activity 3: Comparison-Contrast (Revising Activities) 1. Of the statements that follow‚ which would not make effective thesis statements for comparison-contrast essays? Identify the problem(s) in the faulty statements and revise them accordingly. Although their classroom duties often overlap‚ teacher aides are not as equipped as teachers to handle disciplinary problems. This college provides more assistance to its students

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    All the Pretty Horses follows the journey of sixteen year old John Grady Cole and his friends chasing after a cowboy life about half a century too late. John Grady Cole‚ Lacey Rawlins and Jimmy Blevins learn a lot about reality and maturity in pursuing their romantic ideal. The horses throughout All the Pretty Horses symbolize the romanticized‚ honorable Old West‚ which is jeopardized by corruption but ultimately saved by John Grady Cole. There are multiple references to a special connection between

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    Things

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    being the “life of the party” | A | Always talks to strangers‚ about anything | A | Talks to all- all the time | A | Strangers don’t scare Tara | All A’s | 2. Are you more(a) realistic than speculative (b) speculative than realistic | A | I like things to be realistic and achievable | B | Optimistic | A | All about realistic | A | realistic | Half and Half | 3. Is it worse to(a) have your "head in the clouds" (b) be "in a rut | B | Being in a “rut” would be the worst. | B | Would rather dream

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    evidence to prove that border control has failed‚ three interpretations arose arguing specific reasons for why border control failed. The reason for why border control failed that is most plausible is Massey’s‚ which states that politicians and the media portray immigration as a bigger problem than it is‚ and that politicians do not fully understand the problem of immigration. This can be seen because through all of the laws‚ immigration reforms‚ and mostly the increase in border control‚ it has seized

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    that the tradition of the American cowboy has become an invented myth. All the Pretty Horses‚ by Cormac McCarthy explores the journey of John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins‚ who leave Texas and travel to Mexico where they acquire the cowboy lifestyle. The text could fit into the same category Hobsbawm describes but it also serves as a more realistic and honest description of the cowboy experience. In All the Pretty Horses‚ John Grady is a good example of a character that satisfies the role of

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    bodies leading towards the Mexican border. However‚ the Mexican American border is not the only relevant border in their story. The borders that the Wellton 26 face separate not only themselves‚ but humanity as a whole. History‚ economics‚ and the borders between this world and the possibility of the next are all borders that everyone will come to face in their lifetime; whether or not they are crossed is a different story. History is behind not only exact borders between countries‚ but it serves

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    USA-Mexico Border Wall

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    United States-Mexican Border Wall Immigrants founded the United States of America and ever since then there have been people from all over the world coming to America for a chance at a better life for themselves and their families. Immigrants from all over the world come‚ some legally and some illegally. A majority of these immigrants come from southern-border country Mexico. Everyday‚ the United States has hundreds of illegal immigrants come into the country. They cross over from the Rio Grande

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    Belonging Creative

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    It was a scorching day where the heat pierced through my skin and I found myself at home with my pet bird Fluffy‚ in wait for the arrival of my newborn brother. Fluffy is a grey cockatiel with yellow and red patches throughout her face‚ she enjoys her apples and coriander. She was really close to me until my younger brother came. I knew my life was going to drastically change having a younger sibling but I didn’t realise what it meant to have a sibling in the first place. I became fond of my baby

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