trip‚ and the Queen was great! When Lindsay woke up the next morning‚ she was a senior in High School. She looked in the mirror and saw herself all grown up. Where had the time gone? Who is this stunning‚ tall blonde looking in the mirror at me? I’m still little‚ or so she thought. Twelve years after Lindsay was in Homecoming‚ she was once again introduced to it. Lindsay was a five foot nine-inch senior on the Norfork Lady Panthers starting line up‚ and boy did she love basketball! When that whistle
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walked down the stairs‚ and I saw something on the table. Confused at what it was‚ I walked closer. It was a shiny‚ small‚ white slip of paper. When I got closer‚ I realized it was a ticket to the Bulls game. My head exploded like a balloon. My face lit up like a light bulb because of how happy I was. I never went to a Bulls game before and I was really excited. I liked the Bulls a lot and I had a lot of Bulls clothing except I never really watched any of the games and I didn’t know many players. Either
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A World Outside of my own. It was an early‚ frigid‚ spring‚ Friday morning in April of 2000. Cincinnati is known for its unexpected weather patterns. Just the day before‚ it was warm and almost felt like summer. My mother‚ my father‚ and I were on our way to the airport‚ to visit Germany for Spring Break. This was my first time to leave the country‚ and I had anticipated this trip for the last two weeks. So many questions were dancing around in my mind. What are the people like? Do the stars look
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life‚ I grew up in a Caucasian community - a privileged suburb area where everyone around me was a different race than I am. As a child‚ I never wondered how it shaped who I was as a person. I never thought about race‚ I never thought that my upbringing in this neighborhood would change others perceptions of me. I knew that I was black. I did not know that people expected my race to be my personality. A recent death in the family leads me to a gathering in which I would have to meet up with family
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Narrative Essay I love my family and I love my friends‚ but some friends should NEVER be brought home. I have a lot of family members. I also have a lot of friends. But sometimes I wish I never brought home some of my friends. There’s this one friend in particular that had me convinced that she was trying to take over my life. I cried almost every night‚ worried that my family would disown me and adopt this friend. I guess I wouldn’t actually call her a friend where as an acquaintance or maybe even
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Similarities and Differences between Narratives and Descriptive Essays TRACY GARRETT ENG 121 English Composition 1 Amanda Price April 22‚ 2014 Similarities and Differences between Narratives and Descriptive Essays Every story is an individual which means you cannot always make a choice on a generalization of descriptive and narrative stories. Narratives give you a straight to the point feeling while the descriptive give you a more vivid detailed visual. The similarities
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Imagine living in a place in which there isn’t security and at any moment you could be shot the in the head and lay there cold blooded having blood run down your spine giving everyone the chills. In the book “If I Grow Up” there are many spine chilling events which cause a lot of suspense. There are many scenes like the one mentioned where any character in the book could be killed at any moment due to gang violence. There are many key points which will be developed like a synopsis‚ an evaluation
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English 1a Narrative/Descriptive Paragraph Fearful Encounter I had never truly experienced fear‚ until I was chased by a Doberman on crack. When‚ I was seven years old my family and I lived in a three apartment duplex in Reno‚ Nevada. One hot summer day‚ I was playing outside in the backyard with my younger sister Emily and my friend Josie. We were kicking dirt clods around the yard with unbridled enthusiasm‚ when Emily suddenly stops. With her curly redhead cocked to the side‚ she tells
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How to Write a Descriptive Essay More than many other types of essays‚ descriptive essays strive to create a deeply involved and vivid experience for the reader. Great descriptive essays achieve this affect not through facts and statistics but by using detailed observations and descriptions. What do you want to describe? As you get started on your descriptive essay‚ it’s important for you to identify exactly what you want to describe. Often‚ a descriptive essay will focus on portraying one of the
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Descriptive essay is a genre of essay which is used to describe a certain subject: a person‚ a thing‚ a place‚ a memory‚ experience‚ situation... A good descriptive essay should make the readers feel like they are present in the scene. As other essays‚ a descriptive essay usually has three parts: introduction‚ body paragraphs and conclusion. In the first part: introduction‚ the writer must have a sentence to introduce the subject with many kinds of techniques. Besides‚ there should be some more
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