It was the day that most freshmen dread‚ cuts day. There were many of us trying out for the JV baseball team- more people than there were positions. I could see it‚ I would be starting catcher on the JV baseball team. I had made it passed the first two weeks of tryouts and I was so confident that I was going to make it. That was‚ until on that last day of tryouts when the two coaches pulled me out of a drill and told me they wanted to talk to me. My stomach sank like a rock. Was all of the hard work
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Jamestown. The first settlement of Jamestown occurred in May 14‚ 1607. A couple years later I arrived to Jamestown. Life in Jamestown can be very challenging‚ but nothing compared to how it was before. The first settlement of Jamestown was a failure. The first journey to Virginia was through 3 ships: The Susan Constant‚ the Godspeed and the Discovery. In the first settlement around 100 members traveled to Jamestown looking for silver and gold. Instead of finding silver and gold the first settlers found
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I awoke to the slamming of the front door‚ remembering that it was Sunday‚ my dad’s favorite day of the year‚ the first day of hunting season. I jump out of bed and stumble down the stairs waking everybody else in the house up. Looking out the window I see my dad pull away in his big red pickup truck with the sleeve of his orange hunting jacket hanging out the window. Hoping he brings home dinner‚ I start to make myself breakfast‚ I make my dad’s favorite; eggs with crispy bacon. As I’m cooking breakfast
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fire. The plane was literally sliced in two. I think the beastly enemy shot us down. Even though they shot us clean out of the sky‚ I wish to thank them and show some British manners to them because this island is beautiful. It has fruit‚ and the sights are more beautiful than anything back home. There are even pigs on the island that we could eat. Sadly‚ I thought myself alone until a booming noise thundered through the jungle. I was scared; I thought it was an earthquake‚ although I have never
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When Kevin first saw his first episode of Sesame Street ‚ the scene where Bert and Ernie were in the room welcoming their very special guest‚ he was blown away that they were actually speaking to him. He gained interested in how the puppets were made and who was playing them. After that he became very interested in Jim Henson. He watch his special that appear on TV and began to make his own puppets. The first puppet was made out of his father’s trench coat. His name was Moldy. After‚ creating
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in Thurmont‚ Maryland‚ near the Catoctin Mountain National Parks and Cunningham Falls State Park‚ I was always considered an outdoor kid. My parents got me interested in hunting and fishing at an early age. Hunting became my true passion since my first hunting experience at the age of nine. I have also continued my interest of the outdoors by learning to shoot competitively‚ I began to shoot trap at the age of 13. Through many practices and competitions‚ my shooting ability has greatly improved and
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I still remember when I first came to America. I was at Charlotte Douglas International airport‚ looking around the totally strange place which was full of strangers. All I could hear was strangers talking in a language that I didn’t understand a single word. At that moment‚ I realized that I was in America‚ the America. I remember how people describe America as the greatest country in the world and such. My heart started to beat faster and faster‚ it felt like my heart was going to explode. Suddenly
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them. It was just him and his mom. He could only take things that he would be able to carry himself. His clothes took up most of the space. He planned to bring His signed Kobe 9s and From now on‚ they lived in the streets of Chicago‚ Illinois. The first day of school was tomorrow and had to use his supplies from last year‚ and the year before‚ and the year before that. With all the bad things in his life‚ he still had one thing‚ football. He played defensive back and sometimes linebacker. He was 6
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English II poem summary Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? This poem starts with the description of the young lovers: the incomparably lovely virgin‚ Hero‚ dedicated to the service of the love goddess – she is "Venus’ nun"(line 45) -- and the handsome Leander. Both young people are described as having more than human beauty. Hero is so beautiful that the love-god Cupid mistakes her for that most beautiful of the goddesses‚ his mother Venus. Leander’s description is even more extreme
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First‚ Joe got the keys to his dad’s F-150 ‚ which was loaded with snow tires and a snow plow. Joe conglomerated the snow into one massive‚ 20 foot pile‚ far bigger than ever before. The in-run was as big as a two story house. Looking up to the in-run‚ the
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