Tom’s Lament. Old Tom limped down the street in the warm rain. He was heading for the bar on the corner of Henderson Boulevard where he regularly went for an ice cold brew on hot summer afternoons. Come to think of it‚ he didn’t so much drink his beer‚ as sit in the corner nursing the same glass for hours at a time watching those perfectly round chilled droplets hit the mahogany countertop. A young sporting type‚ who looked remarkably similar to his youngest boy‚ approached him and offered him
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Tracy’s good friend. Every Thursday‚ from that first day back in April‚ when Aingeal and I were first introduced‚ till the end of the year‚ the four of us (Jen‚ Tracy‚ Aingeal‚ and I) would meet at Old Country Buffet after classes to sit and talk about all aspects of our lives. We became so close that the four of us could not part. We adopted the funny name “The Pretty Eyes Club” simply because we all had pretty eyes; it was fun how we acted so exclusive. We also had a special place that even in
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Can you think of a time when you were feeling down and everyone else is having a good time? The best think you can do is cheer someone else up. That sometimes makes me feel better. Not to long ago I wasn’t cheerful around my friends. I was just having a bad day. Neither was my friend Mark. We both were on the same team for badminton in gym. Our other good friend Wade was cheating on us. So that was making Mark mad. I had to cheer Mark up to cheer myself up. Mark was mad as a bee gets when humans
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Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie is an inspiring book about how people should value the precious time everyone has to live.Tuesdays with Morrie is the a story of a professor Morrie‚ his former student Mitch‚ and their final “class” with each other as Morrie is in the final stages of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Mitch taped their discussions together and transferred them into the book while also throwing in college memories of Morrie and himself. While transferring this‚ he lastly put in other important
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how to handle a computer‚ I’d like to say I know more than your average bear. Many things are possible with a computer‚ like watching videos or listening to live streams. Every week or so a group of my friends speak about random topics‚ this particular week the gang decided to speak about religion. A topic I consider slightly taboo to discuss in large groups‚ a day I will never forget. Their conversation remained civil the entire time but there was one segment of this hour and a half long stream
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Eloisa Vasquez ENG102 Ms:Margaret-paterson Final assay. People should use their time to be volunteer. There many people in this world that waste their time in many activities that are unnecessary‚ such as going out or just having fun anywhere. People don’t think that they can use their time in more us full activities‚ activities that can help other people. Such as been a volunteer in any church hospital or any organization that can help many people who needed. Why people should be a volunteer
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have given 240 hours to undergo and pursue this training that will help us to acquire knowledge and skills that will serve as a tool to face the challenges of life in the future. It will set our mind of what does a real world of accounting is all about. Others think that accounting matters only on numbers or quantitative information; however‚ it also matters or related in decision making and business operations. It also somewhat related to the development of our skills in communication‚ leadership
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debate on whether we should live with parents after getting married. And we’ll start from Rice stating her views. R:I think we should live with our parents after getting married mainly for three reasons as following: 1. Living together with our parents enables us to take better care of the elders. Paying back what parents have given us is always an important part of our traditional virtue. The older our parents grow‚ the more they need to be cared about. It’s a responsibility to make them feel
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What You Need to Know About Rickets Rickets was once viewed as a public health problem that required urgent care. It was known to have largely fallen off of the public’s radar until recently. Many researchers are calling attention to a revival of rickets. But what is Rickets and why is there a resurge of incidents being seen? Rickets is the softening and weakening of bones in children also known as Osteomalacia in adults‚ usually because of a vitamin D deficiency or genetic condition. Vitamin
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The Truth About Prostitution Prostitution. It is a powerful word‚ which‚ with just four syllables‚ breeds uneasiness. I have gone almost my entire life without understanding what lies behind it. We live in a society where pop culture and the media give us strong suggestions as to how we should see the world around us‚ and they have not been kind to the concept of prostitution. Hollywood has shown us that prostitutes are the foul-mouths in fishnets roaming the streets of Memphis in the movie
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