As I walked down the hallway‚ it seemed endless. I could not feel my feet hitting the ground‚ nor notice anyone around me. I just walked. The smell of the place was intoxicating. It reminded me of insulin or disinfectant spray. I entered her room; it was dark. The sound of beeping machines echoed in my ears. I walked to her bed. She was sleeping soundly. Her body was frail and looked as if she was bone covered with skin. She was weak and tired. The cancer had been eating away at her‚ slowly
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always like this though‚ I was embarassed of my naturality. I dreamt of waking up with straight waves and hair that didn’t frizz up at the slightest percentage of humidity. I was that girl that would stay awake until 2AM to straighten my hair for school the next day‚ only to come face first with 8 hours of discomfort from having to avoid any sort of water. You speak to me with a little spit in your mouth and I’ll run away faster than you can imagine just to avoid having my hair disobey me more than
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The Day I met my Hero. I had always been the girl to throw money on useless things. At that time I didn’t care about anything except brands and designers. My parents were obviously worried about me as I had no aims‚ goals‚ role models or hero in life as I thought I already had everything and anything I wanted. And as I had just started my last year in high school my parents wanted me to actually graduate with good marks and go to university‚ which seemed useless to me. But that all changed when
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HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION MY SUMMER VACATION STARTED ON APRIL 13. DURING HOLIDAYS‚ I WAS READING STORY BOOKS AND I SAW SO MANY CINEMAS. THEN I WENT TO DIFFERENT CLASSES TO ENHANCE MY KNOWLEDGE SKILLS DURING HOLIDAYS. ON MAY 1 WE STARTED OUR JOURNEY WITH MY FAMILY TO KOLKATA. IN KOLKATA I SAW SO MANY PLACES LIKE VICTORIA MEMORIAL‚ JAINT TEMPLE‚ UNDERGROUND METRO RAIL‚ SUNDER BANS ETC.. I STAYED FOR THREE DAYS IN KOLKATA. THE FOURTH DAY I LEFT FOR NEW JALPAIGURI. FROM THERE I WENT TO DARJEELING
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How I Spent My Holidays Holidays come in a period where people have leisure time. In most places‚ it is called summer time. It comes after working periods‚ i.e. the time students go to school or people go to work. Last holiday my family and I except my dad had gone to Jamine. The journey was a long and stressful one. It took 9 hours to reach our destination. We went to Jamine from my country. In the airport there were no services in our phones so we decided to buy a sim card. After
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Last winter‚ with my family I had gone to Shimla for holidays. That was a very memorable moment for me. It was a three day vacation in Shimla. With my parents‚ my brother and one of my cousin had gone. It was winter of December and we went northwards to north it became cold. It was very enjoyable in the toy train and was very exciting. The roads were wide and the train was slow. The hills were beautiful. We were going up in the Himalayas. Below it was lush green‚ with some terrace cultivation and
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Blueprint 1 A Blueprint for Coming of Age Blueprint 2 The short story How I Met my Husband is a story about a fifteen year old girl who has a coming of age experience while working for a doctor and his wife. The author‚ Alice Munro utilizes several literary techniques to convey a very relatable theme‚ that of young idealized romance and the ironies we learn about
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on how they treat it. Think of this box symbolically as representing the tradition which these townspeople do not really understand and no longer has any current meaning‚ yet they are unwilling to give it up simply because it has become a town tradition. No one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. Oddly enough‚ the people are extremely loyal to this box but do not care at all that they now use slips of paper rather than wood chips. The lottery can be compared
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Alice Munro published “How I Met My Husband” in her book Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974). Told from the first-person point of view‚ the story layers the voice of the fifteen-year-old Edie‚ working as a “hired girl” in the house of the comparatively wealthy Peebles family‚ with that of the adult Edie‚ now happily married and wiser than she was as a teenager. Edie’s voice is colloquial and friendly‚ keenly aware of its audience. In this way‚ the story celebrates the art of storytelling
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Race and My Community 1 All of my experiences and opinions on cultural diversity are derived from living my entire life in Bourbonnais‚ Illinois which is a culturally diverse town with approximately 30‚000 residents. According to the U.S. Census Bureau my community is made up of about 50% Caucasian‚ 41% African-American 0.27% Native American‚ 0.32% Asian‚ 0.03% Pacific Islander‚ and 1.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latinos of any race makes up 9.25% of the population. (U.S. Census
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