this team yet‚ and I needed to work on my game and tryout next year. I was devastated; I could not believe it‚ I had thought I deserved to be on that team‚ but the coach did not. Without that day‚ I would not be here playing basketball on a scholarship for Wheeling Jesuit University. That day taught me so much. I came into that basketball tryout overconfident‚ like I had made the team already because I thought I was that good. In eighth grade I was the man in basketball. I could not be stopped
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Brittany Sanchez English 1301 161 Mr. J. Haske September 4‚ 2014 The Last Day I would think most people around the world would want to sense they lived their life with a purpose- that they made a difference‚ helped somebody‚ or accomplished something minor or substantial. All of those aspirations should lead to happiness and meaning‚ that’s what life should be about. It may be viewed by different perspectives of individuals‚ but
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Shane stivers English 093 The saddest day of my life The saddest day of my life was probably the day my grandpa passed away. Not only was he my grandfather‚ but he was my best friend‚ and with whom I shared the happiest moments of my life. Everything was great and I lived in a peaceful world. Until a horrible thing happened and everything changed. I was in another room when I heard my grandma yell for me. When I came into the room my grandpa was lying in the floor. I
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A Special Day Beep beep beep... the sound of my alarm clock went off. It was seven o’clock in the morning. I was still very sleepy. I didn’t want to wake up yet and was just rolling around in bed. I couldn’t go back to sleep now that I’m awake. I was laying in bed planning out my day. Today is a very special day for me and I want everything to be perfect. Today is my sweet 16 Birthday. I’m happy but worry at the same time. I wanted to go to school dress in the prettiest outfit and have the nicest
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Never Let Me Go- Humanity To what extent are the students shown as human in the novel? Desmond Tutu once said: “All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.” Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go takes place in a dystopian world‚ where mankind was able to create clones in order to use their vital organs for “normal” people who needed organ transplants. The narrator‚ Kathy H.‚ is a clone who grew up in Hailsham- a special school for clones in England. The story alternates between
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The entire structure of Mama Day is fitting to the telling of multiple love stories entertwined. Like the most heartfelt episode of Seinfeld ever Gloria Naylor doesn’t tell a love story‚ but rather lays out in detail the events of everyday life for all of the central characters. In the process the love stories of the characters are all told at once. The most obvious example is the relationship between George and Cocoa (arguably the main love story). Through the book we see them meet‚ fall
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The Remains of the Day Discuss the themes of loss and regret in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day. The story The remains of the day‚ by Kazuo Ishiguro is filled with both aspects of loss and regret. The term Loss is an amount that one suffers due to an event and the term regret means to feel sorry for actions that have been done. These two major themes can be both seen literal and figurative over the course of the novel. The book stresses importance on the past and all that could of
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But‚ What About Our Future? “That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” ― Jess C. Scott‚ The Other Side of Life This quotation is ironic to the plot presented in the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. The basic idea of the quote is that the more material items you obtain or desire‚ the more "plastic" you become. Although the clones in this novel are technically artificial‚ they appear‚ act‚ and think as humans showing their "realness"
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SPORTS QUOTES The following quote library is provided as a service by Josephson Institute and its Pursuing Victory With Honor sportsmanship initiative. For more information on our campaign and materials‚ go to www.JosephsonInstitute.org/sports. The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. – Martina Navratilova‚ tennis player If it is a cliché to say athletics build character as well as muscle‚ then I subscribe to the cliché. – Gerald Ford‚ 38th President Sports gives
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Alzheimer’s Day E.V. Ramakrishnan is a bilingual writer who has published poetry and criticism in English and Malayalam. He is the author of three books of poetry‚ publishing each after symmetrical intervals of fourteen years: Being Elsewhere in Myself (1980)‚ A Python in a Snake Park (1994) and Terms of Seeing: New and Selected Poems (2008). He is also the author of a landmark book of translations of modern Indian poetry. ‘Alzheimer’s Day’ highlights the pain and anguish of a man who could
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