the summer my family and I went to Silver Dollar City. We’ve been there many times before but this day was different from the rest. It was the first time I have ever rode a roller coaster. I am very afraid of heights which is why I’ve never rode one before this summer. Some time in the middle of the summer‚ my family and I went to Silver Dollar City. I decided that today was the day that i would finally face my fears and ride my first roller coaster. My older sister‚ older brother‚ and my dad and I
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Comment on Canto X: Canto X of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno starts with Virgil and Dante on their way to the sixth circle. The sixth circle is where the tombs of those who believe that the soul dies with the body are put. We call them Epicureans. Dante then meets two Epicureans. The first one‚ Farinata degli Uberti notices Dante because of his accent. Farinata asks who his ancestors are and finds out that they were his enemies. The conversation goes on until another Epicurean appears‚ Cavalcante
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First time moving I loved to play in the backyard of our little suburban house on 842‚ Tiablanca rd. In the front yard‚ the grass was cut neat and cleome flowers hid most the mold at the base of the house. On the porch‚ there was an old rocking chair with the paint mostly peeled off and that’s where my Mom would sit in the mornings because it had a great vantage point of the street so she could watch as my brothers waited for the bus. There were Wooden panels that lined the windows in front and they
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Today is the day I go on my first trail drive. My job is to work the night shifts. I guess you could say I’m a "nighthawk". My crew and I are headed to Central Kansas with about seventy head of cattle. We are traveling along the Chisolm Trail. My buddy ‚Bengi‚ said‚ "This is not gonna be a short‚easy drive." I sure hope my first drive turns out successfully. This morning was really easy for me. I woke up early and ate biscuits and gravy. Yum! It was so delicious. Our cook has really good taste
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boosted my confidence. I did something never anticipated to do. It was the day that I had been contemplating for weeks. It was finally my first softball game as an Outlaw‚ and I was as nervous as long-tailed dog in a room full of rocking chairs. I was determined to defeat the rival team as the pitcher. I wasn’t feeling very confident in the first few innings of the game. Then‚ it hit me. Something snapped inside of me that made me so furious that we were losing. What happened next blew my mind
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I was 7 years old I got my first dirt bike little did I know this was gonna lead to some pain. When I was 9 years old I was minding my own business riding my dirt bike when I hit a tree stump and flew off into a barbwire fence. I stood up and my arm hurt so bad and I tried to lift it up but it fell straight back down. I had to get home so I had to walk to get to my house. I walked in the house and said “mom there’s something wrong with my arm.” She looked at it and told my dad we would have to go
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111-N03 05 September 2009 My First Son’s Birth I have dreamed of having children for as long as I can remember. I was almost eleven when my brother was born‚ so I got to experience watching him grow up. At the age of seventeen‚ I got married. After two years‚ my husband and I decided to start a family together. I knew that having a child would change my life‚ I just didn’t know how much. The birth of my first son has created a more intense bond between my husband and I‚ started me on a new
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W1T Literacy Narrative Draft 1 English is not my first language. In fact‚ I didn’t learn it well enough to have a conversation until I was about 10 years old. I remember the embarrassment of being new to a country I called home after living in Mexico for years. Things changed quickly the first day of 8th grade. I remember being energetically greeted by a slender athletic man in his fifties in a muggy summer morning. The hum of the air conditioning as welcome sound as we found our seats in this room
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In my freshman and sophomore year I lived in South Korea‚ and attended Osan American High school. For two years at Osan I played on the varsity soccer team‚ we often had to travel far for the games‚ but there is still one game that I can not dismiss from my memory. Our first away game was a very emotional road trip for our new team‚ a group of girls just getting to know each other’s strengths and weakness‚ on and off the field‚ the game was an hour away from our school on a friday and we were pumped
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When I first arrived to Richmond Early College High School‚ I anticipated an academic career characterized by hard work‚ nightly homework assignments‚ and incredible doses of stress that a middle school classroom could not synthesize. Although I actually landed my first college class in the second semester of my ninth grade year (ACA‚ which was required for all newbies and taken simultaneously by all 50 of us)‚ I found myself still shaken. I looked forwarded to the challenges of a college experience
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