Raymod’s Diary Entry: Dear Diary‚ Today was tryouts for the Franklin High School boys’ basketball team. I am a sophomore this year‚ I am proud that I made it this far. This year will be my first year trying out for a basketball team. I am nervous‚ what if I am not good enough for a team? There was only 2 other white kids there at the tryouts. During the drills I think I did pretty well‚ but when we started doing ball handling drills…. I think that’s where I messed up. Some boy that was smaller
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On the diary entry on 2 January ‚ 1944 anne stated that she was turning over pages in her diary. Of those pages she said she came across letters dealing with the subject mummy. Anne was shocked and wondered “Anne is it really you mentioned hate”? She sat there and thought about it and how it came about that I should have been so brimful of rage. Really so filled with such a thing as hate that i had to confide it all in you. She talked about trying to understand the anne of a year ago and excuse
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It was October of 1917‚ I was eighteen at the time and Jordan was sixteen‚ when I met Gatsby. In those times my family was doing really well financially and life was simple. When I wore clothing the color white was always my favorite. On the day I met Gatsby in fact I was wearing white and he was wearing his uniform. We hung out for a while and I could see in his eyes that he wanted more than friendship. It took a while for me to start having feelings‚ but it was to late. He was enlisted and left
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The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. The 150‚000-square-mile area‚ encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico‚ has little rainfall‚ light soil‚ and high winds‚ a potentially destructive combination. When drought struck from 1934 to 1937‚ the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor‚ so the winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled
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June‚ 1541 A bunch of Spanish soldiers knocked on my little hut’s door to tell me about Hernando de Soto’s new expedition to the place called La Florida to get riches beyond any others and hundreds of slaves. If I go‚ I could be able to move back in with you‚ have an adventure‚ and be able to pay for our food. I had no other option but to join the soldier. I walked on a bay where there was a tall man‚ compared to me‚ and he talked about the task of what we are about to do. He was very generous and
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Hello Mother and Father how are you doing? I haven’t been doing too well in the trenches. As you know I have been assisting the French in the trenches for nearly two years. The trenches are horrendous; I never thought I would be more petrified at the horrific conditions than the actual war. Every day we face rats‚ hundreds of millions of rats‚ scurrying through the trenches. Since we don’t have a proper waste disposal system‚ the rats eat the trash that lay on the floor and the soldiers who have
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The day was vivid and clear. Snow had fallen through the night‚ and when Nikk emerged it was gently and silently. The Menagerie had shed from this perfect realm‚ this white pristine world if not for just a moment‚ and as Nikk stood in the snow she felt a hint of magic as she had when she was a child in Pavek; in Russian. She allowed herself a small‚ stolen moment and leaned her head back to the blackened skeletons of the sleeping trees and brilliant blue skies. Her brown eyes closed‚ and for the
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My Dear Elizabeth. The legion along with I have reached the field near Ypres‚ Belgium. It has been too long since I have seen you. The moment we stepped on forsaken land‚ the world blew up in flames and we all had to start our duty to our country. Some have continued to serve‚ and some have not. A comrade I met at the main camp perished as the first shell hit the ground along with countless others. When we came to relieve the New Zealand and Australian troops we saw a glimpse into out future. We
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Dear diary‚ My parents are not happy with me. I went to school and there’s just a matter of time until something goes wrong. It will obviously go wrong where I hate to go‚ Mrs. Hawthorne’s art class. The bad things started when Mrs. Hawthorne won’t help me. I got steaming mad and I broke her potters wheel into three pieces I felt really sorry but she didn’t believe me. I could feel every one laughing and smiling at me. When mrs. Hawthorne got mad she stormed out of the classroom. The boys started
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Dear Diary‚ This week has been so busy that I ‘aven’t been able to write. I suppose life is alrite over ‘ere but it gets kinda lonely. Curley’s borin’ and jus’ sits on his ass all day and all the guys are jus’ crazy bastards. They don’t talk to me‚ turn there noses down at me they do. Think I’m a tart just ‘cause I’m pretty and I’m a gal’‚ the only one on the god damn ranch! I’m the only one ‘ere who knows how to have fun. I met Curley when I was about sixteen. I had run away a year before and
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