I walked in the doors and looked around at the blazing lights and large crowds. I walked up the large set of stairs in the dingy room where we were to get ready. I striped down to my shorts and walked onto the large scale to test my weight before the match. I weighed in at just 97 pounds. The matches went by weight‚ from smallest to largest‚ and were displayed on the clean wall by a projector mounted high in the gym ceiling. I was in the third set of matches‚ and could barely stand because of all
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He’d never felt so alive. The dance studio that he’d spent most of his time in as a wide eyed five year old in his first pair of tap shoes was akin to his home. In fact‚ it felt more like home than his actual home‚ where his dad often teased him about his ’prancing around the stage like a bloody pony’ but he knew that his dad preferred him doing this - his passion - than on the streets at ten o’clock at night smoking glue or sniffing weed. He’d never try those. For one‚ his mother would probably
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Outline On The History Of Halloween SPECIFIC PURPOSE: At the end of my speech‚ my audience should understand three important points of the history of Halloween. THESIS STATEMENT: The three most important points of Halloween can be summed up by looking at its origins‚ how it came to include jack-o-lanterns and bobbing for apples‚ and how it is celebrated today in the 21st century with
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A Halloween party Halloween is celebrated on 31st October; according to scholars it’s a feast to celebrate the memory of the dead. Halloween falls on the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows’ Day. It is celebrated on 1st November in honor of the saints (both known and unknown). October is a time for scaring and being scared. It is a time for Halloween parties. A great Halloween party needs great decorations‚ great costumes‚ and great food. Decorations are an important feature
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I lay face-up on the treatment table. It’s about midday and it’s warm inside. We are the only two in the office. He is professional and he is not interested in me in the slightest. He doesn’t speak much. I catch his eye and smile politely. He smiles back....an embarrassed/ uncomfortable smile. He’s about to insert needles into my ankle. I sit up‚ facing him. My legs‚ together‚ dangle off the edge of the table. I’m wearing blue shorts. I place my hands on either knee and slowly move my legs apart
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for their daughter for a long time. Estevan was an English teacher who lived in Guatemala with his wife and child‚ up until fifteen years ago. The reason for the sudden move was far harsher than Aurora would’ve liked. The letter continues with the story of how the government had persecuted their family because they had been part of a teachers union. The next part of this letter began to turn Aurora’s stomach. Their three year old child had been taken from them by kidnappers. This child’s name was
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Nice People‚ by Henry Cuyler Bunner‚ is republished from his volume‚ Short Sixes‚ by permission of its publishers‚ Charles Scribner’s Sons. The Buller-Podington Compact‚ by Frank Richard Stockton‚ is from his volume‚ Afield and Afloat‚ and is republished by permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons. _Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff_‚ by Bret Harte‚ is from the collection of his stories entitled Openings in the Old Trail‚ and is republished by permission of the Houghton Mifflin
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Prolugue I’m Charlette‚ but most people call me Charle. This is my story. The story about a girl‚ just a girl. No magically fairies or wizards‚ no queens or kings and nothing different from the world you live in now‚ yet some people might find this fassinating for reasons unknown. I’m a normal girl‚ well as normal as a 14 year old girl gets. My brown eyes and brown hair blend with a crowd and my average height and weight don’t stand out. I don’t really work to hard with my grades‚ so they are
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BELONGING STORY(2) Coughing violently‚ I passed the glass pipe along to the young man beside me‚ who took a long drag before handing it on the next in the circle. I could feel the foul-tasting smoke tear down my throat and withstood the urge to vomit. The entire room was overflowing with a fetid haze; it grated against the back of my throat as though it were sandpaper. I fought to maintain my composure and appearance of serenity‚ but if anyone looked close enough they would easily be able to distinguish
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Geyser: definition. A geyser is a hot spring that periodically erupts‚ throwing water into the air accompanied by steam. The word geyser comes from Geysir‚ the name of an erupting spring at Haukadalur‚ Iceland; that name‚ in turn‚ comes from the Icelandic verb geysa‚ "to gush" or “to spout”‚ the verb itself from Old Norse. How it works. Generally all geyser field sites are located near active volcanic areas‚ and the geyser effect is due to the proximity of magma. Surface water works its way down
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