I realized that I had stopped‚ finally. After looking around‚ I saw an old‚ shabby building being illuminated by the moonlight. I took the opportunity and sat against it‚ resting my legs for the first time in days. Nobody knew what time it was‚ all of the clocks were broken. Watches were for the rich‚ and if you stole one‚ it was always stolen again. And again and again and again and again and again until someone dies‚ as this world is a cruel reality for us. We are human‚ are we not? Even though
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The sound of my phone wakes us all too early that afternoon. My eyes are barely open as I crawl across the floor and fumble through my satchel finally upending the entire bag and spreading the contents over the floor. “Shit babe‚ whatever it is can wait‚ come back over here.” “It’s probably Zeek or Roman. I forgot to tell them we were back‚” What I thought was voice mail is actually a text and when I open it up I knew I was going to have a lot of explaining to do. I’d been in Minors Fork for less
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Shiro dropped the cheery disposition. “I’m sorry.” The Black Dog relaxed. “No‚ I’m glad you’re alive.” “Same goes to you.” “So how up to date are you?” Really‚ Shiro knew pretty much everything about what’s happened. That was exactly why he was able to make such a flawlessly timed entrance‚ naturally. Was it all entirely intentional? Maybe. Who knows? “You haven’t changed at all‚ you clown...” Kuroh actually smiled this time. Maybe. In truth‚ Shiro had been working behind the scenes
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Scary: Its dark and so silent that I could hear a penny drop. However‚ there’s screeching every few minutes. I can feel a person staring at me but there isn’t anyone there. The lights flicker and I hear a woman scream down stairs. Echoing in the dead silent house in less than a minute. I feel this warmness rush through me and my heart rate has accelerated. My breathing is heavy and I am trying to quietly move down stairs. I feel my hand become saturated with something goopy. My eyes widen as there
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So‚ there’s a man crawling through the desert. He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel‚ had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand‚ got lost‚ hit a big rock‚ and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near‚ so his cell phone was useless. He had no family‚ his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident‚ and his few friends had no idea he was out here. He stayed with the car for a day or so‚ but
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Although sociology is a recently developed field of study‚ the advancement of the study is progressing rapidly. Sociological theories are ways sociologists explain society and its mega structure. The structural conflict and structural consensus theories are inevitable chapters of sociology. With some similarities‚ these two theories have different ideologies and ways of explaining the society. In this essay‚ the similarities and differences will be compared and contrasted. Functionalism‚ the structural
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EIGHTH GRADE SUGGESTED SUMMER READING BRAGG MIDDLE SCHOOL Gardendale‚ Alabama 2011-2012 FICTION Austen‚ Jane. Pride and Prejudice. In early 19th-century England‚ a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. AR 27.0/Level 12.0. Classic Fiction. Avi. Crispin: the Cross of Lead. Falsely accused of theft and murder‚ an orphaned peasant boy in 14th-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life
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Final Project January 19‚ 2010 By Robert Reightler For Undergraduate Program Kaplan University Instructor: “HU345-01: R. Dean Davenport‚ Ph.D.‚ J.D.” Global Warming Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? 2 Global Warming is the hottest topic of the global environmental movement in the last decade. While warming trends have affected weather patterns causing drought conditions‚ polar icecap meltdown‚ and severe storm cycles like those that spawned hurricane Katrina in 2005‚ scientists
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Fiction Books Reading fiction is fun and also necessary. It opens your mind to a new place where everything is different from your daily routine. Fiction books can actually make you feel like you already lived that situation‚ like you felt the good and the bad‚ the sorrow‚ the happiness‚ the people and places. It makes you fly away from your stressing routine and get into a magic world. An example of a series of fiction books is Harry Potter‚ written by J.K Rowling. It is a series of seven fantasy
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In “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien uses fiction to create his own war story. His feelings and experiences are expressed through less than true events. Why did O’Brien feel compelled to add fiction to his story? It’s important to know that war is a very sensitive topic. He could have heard about events while he was serving that may have not affected him directly. The fact that these things may have not happened to him creates a disconnection to the audience. People aren’t entertained
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