Friendship The short story “After twenty years” is a classical story written by O. Henry. The story is about the two characters that were actually best of friends. They grew up in New York until lost sight of each other. One of them leave the place and tried to live in West to make easy money‚ thus he ended up being a criminal in Chicago while the other man felt that his place in his hometown is better and he ended up as a policeman. The two friends made a promise that after twenty years both of them will
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English 11 Mr. Pham March 3rd‚ 2011 MY LIFE In 10 years They say in one’s life we all make choices‚ but in the end‚ our choices make us. You’re about to embark with me unto the long‚ curvy road of my life‚ and Watch upon it as it unfolds through my eyes. This is my life as I see it will be ten years from now. I have most of it planned out already. This is my story. Right now I am a junior in high school‚ barely contemplating about how my life will be like until now. I have a lot of
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My hopes and fears for the next 10 years Being rather pessimistic‚ I would like to start off with my fears. I guess my most immediate fear is the approaching SPM examination. Though I have always been conscientious and am often among the top five students in class‚ I’m a bit worried about not doing well enough to enter sixth form. This would mean that my parents would have to spend more money to send me to a private college. Even if I do enter sixth form‚ I worry about scoring brilliantly in the
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My Life During World War Two By: Shantel Calderon World War Two was a rough time for millions of innocent human beings‚ especially those of the Jewish religion. It all started in 1939 when the Axis Powers-made up of Adolf Hitler from Nazi Germany‚ Benito Mussolini of Italy and Tojo Hideki of Japan. Unfortunately‚ my family was Jewish and we were all shipped off to a concentration camp or an extermination camp‚ all of which were contaminated with some of the deadliest diseases‚ a lack of food
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of my parents left Mexico to start a new life in the United States to live the “American Dream.” The pressures of conforming to society quickly sunk in and before they knew it‚ their entire life was dedicated in raising their six kids and working nonstop for forty years. Throughout all those years of being in the US‚ not once did they decide to continue school to at least get their GED. Having a mother who only went to the sixth grade and a father who dropped out of high school freshman year to work
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fAfter 1000 years At the beginning of the last century‚ near the end of his tragically short life‚ James Elroy Flecker addressed these words "to a poet a thousand years hence": I care not if you bridge the seas‚ Or ride secure the cruel sky‚ Or build consummate palaces Of metal or of masonry. Well‚ we may not have bridged the seas‚ but millions now ride secure the cruel sky. And how astonished Flecker would have been to know that‚ a mere half-century after his death‚ men were preparing
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27 August 2013 10 Years long gone The alarm sounds I open my eyes excited to start a new day. I roll my covers back and inhale filling my lungs with the aroma of bacon‚ my mouth waters as I realize that my sweet wife has risen early to make me breakfast. I stand‚ but not too fast as I despise the feeling of being dizzy. I slip on my fuzzy slippers that my daughter got me for Christmas the previous year‚ and drowsily stumble to the bathroom. I shed my robe and rotate the handles
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8th grade your teachers‚ friends‚ and family all congratulate you for finishing this school year. You have finished the year with good grades and maybe made new friends‚ just like every other kid in the school. Is this how you want to be remembered‚ by being like everyone else? A legacy is how you will be remembered by for what you did in your life. The legacy you leave will leave a huge impact to your life and to others. At the end of 8th grade‚ I want to remembered for thinking outside the box‚
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greatly. Not only did she feel a sense of incredible loss‚ but also an overbearing guilt. She didn ’t fully believe that he was dead. "My sonmy precious childit isn ’t true!" (459). She felt like she let her son down by not being there for him. "Don ’t forget me! You are forgetting me‚ you know you are!" (459). While spending a day out with her husband years after the death of their son‚ the mother is overcome with the memory of her boy. She had a hallucination that "she was hushing and holding
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would flood each year and bring new life and rich grain. The Nile’s flooding was expected and left rich new deposits of mud for new crops‚ making irrigation easy to plan. A basic irrigation system allowed the floodwaters to flow gently into each field‚ cleansing and renewing the earth each year. Egyptian people would then look to nature to explain the unexplainable. Egyptian gods were depicted as wise‚ caring‚ predictable‚ and forgiving‚ just as the Nile was predictable and life sustaining. The
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