medical bills. I ended up working as a waitress at a local restaurant. Every day I worked right after school until closing time. My grades begin to slip as I spent all my precious studying time waiting tables. I had to quit school activities and personal hobbies such as academic decathlon and dancing to work. The chemotherapy was successful because he has been in remission for five years now. Entering college‚ I decided to quit working at a restaurant and adjust back to focusing on school. Through
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My mother called me and my siblings to the living room because she had some big news. It was big alright‚ we were MOVING. The thing is‚ it was HALLOWEEN! We all went back to our rooms and started packing. Once we had everything packed we started loading it onto the U-haul. Once we had everything in the U-haul we got on the interstate and off to Richmond Hill we went. It took us an hour but we made it. When we arrived‚ we couldn’t find the house. We passed house after house‚ neighborhood after
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In Independance‚ Indianapolis March 1‚ 1847 I began the journey to Oregon with a couple of my good acquaintances Jermaine‚ Jesus‚ Chester‚ and Max. Everything we brought was written in our group list. As we started to head off we were accompanied by a group of girls in Illinois‚ they were also traveling to Oregon‚ they wanted help passing Cheyenne territory up ahead. We agree to escort them but they had to pay half of the fee for the wagon master. Their names were Edmel‚ Alaysa‚ Cheyenne‚ Arianna
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First of all I would like to clarify that I do not intend to nor do I claim the boy is innocent. I’d like to bring to the table that the boy screamed “I’m going to kill you.” How many of us yell something like that to our parents? The phrase “I’m going to kill you” is said then the father ends up dead the same night just a couple hours later. I doubt that is a coincidence. The older gentleman who lives
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Spring Break rolled around‚ same as always. My so-called friends ran off to get drunk or high or whatever it was they did down in Florida. I‚ like a sane person‚ went home and studied because I wanted an actual job instead of slinging fries for the rest of my life and getting a beer gut. Or I tried to study. You don’t skip three grades‚ get a 2400 on your SAT‚ and get into Princeton at sixteen if you’re stupid. But sitting in my old bedroom on the twin bed I’d finally outgrown‚ listening to the TV
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Sunday‚ March 19‚ 2017 is a day I will never forget. A friend and I were at Rhino Coffee Downtown having some girl time and playing catch up. As I was sipping on my glass of prosecco‚ owner Andrew Crawford walked in and we spoke. After our initial greeting‚ he uttered five words that shattered my world‚ "They aren’t any oysters this year". I IMMEDIATELY knew what he was talking about. There was no question about it. Andrew had just burst my Shreveport Derby Day bubble by letting me know that I wouldn’t
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I found that it was easy to remember and record my dreams. I remembered ten out the fourteen dreams that I had. I recorded them immediately after I woke up in my phone. I did not have to struggle to remember information from the dream. 2. Yes‚ I do consider myself to be in relatively good health. No‚ I am not sleep deprived. Sleep helps your brain function properly. Sleep deficiency alters activity in some parts of the brain. Sleep plays an important role in your physical health. Sleep deficiency
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Never Take a Chance The CDC reports that from 2005-2009‚ there were an average of 3‚533 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. Swimming is a summertime activity that many people enjoy. Swimming can be very relaxing‚ therapeutic‚ and entirely enjoyable. Sometimes though‚ there are terrible mishaps involved with swimming. Maybe someone slips and bursts open their head; maybe someone accidentally inhales water into their lungs
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Plague is a sad word that triggers calamity and heaps of dead. Now that I have returned to my old town I can see real consequences of the Red Death. Such ghoulish image was able to decimate the whole population of Prince Prospero’s former kingdom. Although the vermin started before‚ the castle was secured in order to safeguard the Prince and his entourage from the bleak illness. After several months‚ he threw a fancy mascarade ball for which all the rooms of his house were decorated. There were seven
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Ever since I was young fishing has been a very easy thing for me to do‚ off the dock I could spend all day catching sunfish and perch. Nowadays it seems like no matter what lake I go to‚ or what lure I use‚ I always catch fish. Lately I have been trying new ways to catch fish instead of my typical routine‚ which was starting to get boring and rather easy. Earlier this year I was driving around at my cabin and I saw a river that looked very good for fishing so I decided to go down it the next;
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