deep breathing and first light revelations I. prelude the grapefruit and lemon colored sunrise assures creation of angels and eulogies and obituaries and it guarantees life‚ it guarantees death something about seeing that the newspaper isn’t delivered by a teenage boy on a red bike‚ but rather a middle-aged man in a shoddy car is disappointing‚ to say the least the clouds and sweet morning air‚ the kind that feels like charcoal on skin and tastes like chemicals and ice shards lodged in your throat
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How the Universe Inspires Me Supergiants‚ the largest objects in the universe‚ with diameters more than ten thousand times larger than our sun‚ and up to a million times brighter. Supernovae‚ the most violent and powerful naturally occurring events in the universe‚ releasing up to an astounding 100*1044 joules of energy‚ a number we humans cannot even begin to visualize. Black holes‚ specks of matter with theoretically no volume‚ yet with a gravitational force so strong that not even light can escape
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baseball was never just a game for me; it was a lifestyle that I had fallen in love with. With that being said‚ the fundamentals of baseball had no immediate effect on me as a kid. However‚ as I have matured along with my love for baseball‚ I believe that the game my life has been centered around for nearly twelve years has shaped me into the person I am today.
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Winter Break Annotation Assignment: The Cruelest Miles 1. “Allan left behind a vivid description of mushing in a blizzard. On the final ninety-mile stretch to Nome during the sweepstakes‚ his team was enveloped in ‘air thick as smoke with whirling snow. Gritty as salt it was‚ and stinging like splinters of steel. It baked into my furs and into the coats of my dogs‚ until we were encased in snow crusts solid as ice. The din deafened me. I couldn’t hear‚ couldn’t see‚ couldn’t breathe. I felt as if
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Jack London is a well-renowned author with titles including White Fang and his most famous novel: The Call of the Wild. London gains his reputation with his style of writing which builds interest in the reader while relating what the characters are facing in the story. This style is also seen in his brilliant short story "To Build a Fire." In "To Build a Fire‚" London helps the reader to relate to the story by introducing themes that humanity must deal with at some point in its life; ignorance
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There are three main genres you notice while you read through chapter 1 of Kim. You read about the narrative‚ which is the sequence of events happening. You read the lyric which allows you notice the imagery going on. Lastly you read about the drama throughout the book by the dialogue between the characters introduced in chapter 1 of Kim. To begin with‚ the genre Narrative‚ is a stories sequence of events. Chapter 1 of Kim‚ starts off by telling you exactly who “Kim” is and where he lives. That then
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slaves to do there work in the fields so now they have to do all the work with cotton. I didn’t like how they treated us black people because we are all people just a different color don’t mean we had to be treated differently from the non-colored people. We should all have the same
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identity to make me the person I am. The most influential thing that has shaped me is my culture. One of the biggest pieces of my culture that has done this is my participation in sports. Out of the sports I play‚ high school soccer has shaped me the most. Soccer in high school shaped my identity by making me more social‚ a leader‚ and open minded about diversity. Soccer has guided me in many ways to become the person I am. Especially in high school‚ the sport has showed me how to be much more cooperative
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repeatedly against the system where many would run away for a short period of time before capture and punished. Anti-slavery grew as both side of colored whether black or white abolitionists created movements and defied the laws to help slaves to escape from their masters. David Walker‚ born free as a son of a slave published a pamphlet‚ Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World‚ where he wrote asking those of the world to search in history if any other race were ever treated differently as human
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random celebrity they look up to has the biggest influence on them. Hopefully these influences are positive. Influences play a major factor on people. People on average usually have many influences. For me‚ the people that influence me the most are my parents. Something else that has a big influence on me is hockey‚ and that is what I’m going to talk about here. Around fourth grade‚ I stopped playing football. I wasn’t the best player‚ I got knocked around a lot‚ and I never got playing time. I was a
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