Race day‚ those words may not mean much to an ordinary bystander‚ but those words now light something inside of me that I once never knew existed. Waking up with butterflies in my stomach‚ I had my first cross country meet. After months of intense training‚ it was time to display our fitness to the competition. The meet was at our home course‚ it had rained the night before and I swear I still remember the exact smell of the morning air. A combination of grass & mud‚ almost as if they were blended
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“You need to leave‚ it’s his time‚” says the doctor. Shreveport‚ Louisiana‚ innocent six year old me strolling away from the hospital room which I watch my grandfather unhurriedly lose his life in. As I walk away in desperation of wanting to see my grandfather one last time I turn my head back to see his wrinkly‚ run down face and he cracks his last smile at me and attempts to lift his limp arm to wave and be strong for me‚ the door closes. When the doctors closed the doors my mouth felt dry‚ my
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Treasure Island In the novel Treasure Island‚ a few themes are present that were also in our previous novels such as Fifth Business‚ Wuthering Heights‚ and Hamlet. All the novels demonstrate an element of good and evil‚ also in each there is a bold hero that defies the odds and goes on a journey that tests him both emotionally and physically. These elements are proved by the characters actions‚ thought and how they handle intricate situations. The theme of good and evil is present in both real
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lived on Orcas Island for ten years‚ and now I am free. The island‚ though beautiful‚ felt tiny and far away from everywhere important. A majority of my days in high school I willed myself through classes by filling notebooks with drawings of space stations and birds. The only two activities that I really enjoyed were Art Club‚ which I did for three years‚ and Yearbook Club‚ which I did for two. These activities were the only real sense of accomplishment during my time on the island. A terrible high
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I’m suppose to be giving a short speach about the places of interest in Penang Island.Please help to correct any mistakes or give any of your ideas to make this more interesting . There are many interesting places in Penang Island.My family and I visited several of the interesting places there during the last school holidays.First we went to the Gurney Drive.The Gurney Drive is most famous for its hawker stalls offering a mouth-watering varieties of Penang specialties such as hokkien mee‚ asam
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institution‚ where challenges to subjectivity arise through spatial restriction‚ extreme control or mental illness‚ and invariably lead to visual chaos and narrative disorder. These traits seem universal to the American institution film – the ‘institution film’ being‚ for the purposes of this paper‚ one in which the institution is central to narrative organisation. Indeed‚ such patterns of transgression appear regularly throughout the genre’s well-established history‚ being conspicuous in high-security
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It was 4:00 A.M. The school was going to Catalina Island for a 4-day trip. I woke up and went to school. Everything was packed‚ however I had to eat some Airborne®. I ate it and arrived to school. I said goodbye to my parents and they left. “Now‚ where is my group?” I told myself. “Oh never mind‚ there they are!” “Nathan!” said my best friend Stanley. “You ready for the trip?” “You know I am‚” I replied. We found our group‚ which contained 16 people‚ including me. Stanley was my tent partner
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loud and loves GOD. I had some close friends on the van and some that were not close. As I sat in the third row of the van by the window I felt pain enter my stomach like I have never felt before. The urge to use the restroom and I am not talking about number one. I repeatedly asked Sam how much longer we had until the next stop at a restroom. His response was just a couple more miles. I continued to squeeze my bottom cheeks together hoping and praying my stomachache would go away. Unfortunately
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PART I ESSAY Origin of Essay History of essay as a literature form has begun in 1580 when Michel de Montaigne has published the book “Les Essais”. In French term “essais” means “try” or “experience”. It was a book written because of boredom; it did not have a distinct structure or plan‚ and consisted of individual chapters‚ formally unrelated to each other. Montaigne suggested his literary tests in form of initial essay‚ highlighting their subjective‚ relative‚ and inconclusive sides. In fact
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Treasure Island In the very first sentence of the novel‚ Jim tells us that he is recounting the story of Treasure Island because Squire Trelawney‚ Dr. Livesey‚ and other gentlemen have asked him to write it down. Stevenson’s choice of Jim as a narrator is noteworthy and unexpected‚ since the adult men have greater life experience‚ education‚ and verbal skills than this young boy has‚ and would seem to be able to bring more perspective to the narrative.
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