Title: Examination Day Author: Henry Sleasar Text type: Short Story The short story Examination Day written by Henry Sleasar‚ is a story about young children being tested by the government to get knowledge of how smart the kids are. The government keep control of the kids and all the families. The government summon every kid that turns twelve‚ to come into their head quarters for an exam to prove how clever the kids are. The government summons a twelve year old boy in for his exam. The boy
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It was a hot‚ oppressive day and my friends and I decided that it was a virtuous day to go to the beach. I could see the Sun optimistic yellow pellet‚ blistering in the sky as we were on our way to the Newport Beach in Rhode Island. The open-air temperature was progressively starting to plunge down and the traffic lanes were starting to get narrower which was a sign that we were close to the beach. We parked our car into the parking spot and started walking across the black asphalt‚ which emanated
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Today was the most unfortunate day in my life. How could these bad things happen to me all the time? The incident happened in the morning. Karl gave Ned and mearideinhiscartothebank. Ihadtodropbytogetsome money. When we arrived at the bank‚ I went straight to the counter. Just as I finished everything at the counter‚ two men wearing masks entered the bank. To my astonishment‚ a woman screamed and BANG‚ a guard fell on the floor. He was covered with blood from the waist down. All the customers
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I wish I could rewind back to my childhood… The time I have spent in (school name) is quite unforgettable. My parents had decided to enroll me in (school name) in a small village with a unique motive. (School name) is a place where one can discover the wonders of village kids and how these kids grow their senses into an extraordinary realm. That has been an inspiration and I feel I am executing and documenting my life positively in a creative way. I hope I am always able to go on this way. I spent
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Life gives a person too much to remember. But each one of us has a memory that stays firmly in our heart. Now‚ I want to tell about a moment that I always remember until today. I can still remember the day it like it was yesterday. The morning sun shone brightly on my eyelids. I rolled on to the right side of my bed. Wondering about the time‚ I stretched my arm to grasp a round alarm clock that used to woke me up every morning. I forced my eyes to wide open‚ focused them on the ugly round clock’s
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Today the 15th of august is a golden day engraved in history where India is going to celebrate its 67th Independence day .On the night of August 14‚ 1947‚ Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru rose to make a maiden speech in New Delhi‚ “When the world sleeps‚India will wake to life and freedom.” In 1947‚ India became free from the bondage of British rule. Now‚ India is the largest democratic country in the world. The country’s strength is to find‚ “Unity in diversity”. Today we remember the great leaders who
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Jennifer Glasper English 3036 Monday‚ March 6‚ 2012 Professor: E. Chou Malgudi Days‚ R. K Narayan The tasks take one short story by Narayan that you have read and show that it has literary traits it has in common with other short stories by Narayan. In most of these short stories we can see that the theme is an important idea of the author. The themes that are seen throughout most of the stories written by R.K. Narayan are adversities‚ difficulties and overcoming those difficulties
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Sierra G History 11/8/12 Election Day was November 6th‚ 2012! I wasn’t ready but I was ready. I was sitting in the living room with my mom and little brothers. We were flipping from Fox 13 to CNN. I was getting nervous and so were my brothers. I was on the edge of the couch‚ I kept closing my eyes and slickly opening them back up and biting my nails. It was a close race though. Thank the lord Obama won!!! Barack Obama: 50% with 303 electoral votes Mitt Romney: 48% with 206 electoral votes
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Ethical Decision Making Today much of our time is spent on making decisions which often are not taken by us. Whether to go to college or to buy a house or not or to switch from one job to another etc. are all examples of decisions that we have to make in our day to day life. So‚ what is the role of ethics in making these decisions? First of all‚ what does ethics‚ even mean? As per a dictionary definition‚ ethics refers to the morals associated with decisions or actions that we make in our daily
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As the Independence Day is approaching‚ I am continuously haunted by a question i.e. are we truly free and independent? We have gained freedom from the British rule but what have we done with our independence? It has been 63 years since we have gained independence. We are a free nation now. But still after so many years‚ the question remains the same. We proudly claim that we are independent from a foreign rule but we are still not free from jealousy‚ intolerance and hatred towards our fellow countrymen
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