Leia couldn’t have her best pilot just waiting. She finds him sitting next to the bed of the ex-stormtrooper‚ Finn‚ daily and often more than once. Some days it’s early in the morning‚ before the base is even nearing the end of its night cycle‚ or late at night. She knows he’s not sleeping. He nevers says it‚ never mentions a why. But she knows the signs‚ she’s seen them in her soldiers before and in herself. She knows what he’s been through‚ what he’s going through. She doesn’t blame him‚ she’s
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Never Trust a Lady Victor Canning Everyone thought that Horace Denby was a good‚ honest citizen. He was about fifty years old and unmarried‚ and he lived with a housekeeper who worried over his health. In fact he was unusually very well and happy‚ except for attacks of hay fever in summer. He made locks and was successful enough at his business to have two helpers. Yes‚ Horace Denby was good and respectable-but not completely honest. Fifteen years ago‚ Horace had served his first and only sentence
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February 2‚ 2011 A day I will never forget is the last football game of my eighth grade year. We the Saint Jo Panthers were undefeated‚ and we were playing the Wild Cats‚ who also were undefeated. The game started out slow with neither team scoring their first three positions. The Wild Cats drew first blood with a long touchdown. They went for the two-point conversion‚ since I knew what play they were running by the way they lined up‚ a quarterback draw‚ fake‚ pass. I was able to stop them. The
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It has been said that life can never be carried out and truly lived to its fullest unless there has been some sort of suffering and pain. Mistakes are to be learned from‚ and a hard past can only result in a stronger present. Though many might find themselves alone in their misery the truth is they are not‚ everyone has struggles. We all have our ups and downs‚ but it is how we react to them that truly matters. Life is life and no matter what‚ giving up on lifelong dreams and aspirations because
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Winners never cheat and cheaters never win Winners never cheat and cheaters never win. Americans have grown up with this statement. It is as American as baseball or apple pie. It appears that over the years‚ winning has become everything and athletes will do whatever it takes to win. In order to achieve this goal‚ more and more professional athletes are turning to the use of performance enhancing drugs. "A performance enhancing drug is any substance that is taken for the sole purpose of enhancing
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A memorable speech does not define nor exhaust its possibilities. Do you agree? In your answer‚ you must make reference to the language‚ content‚ construction and context of Faith Bandler’s Faith‚ Hope and Reconciliation‚ 1999 speech and ONE other speech of your own choosing. Memorable speeches have a capacity for reinterpretation within changing contexts‚ and are hence open in their possibilities. Their endurance stems from this flexibility via their use of rhetorical devices to address universal
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The poem “where shall we go” is written by Vernon Scannell. This poem is mainly based on a love relationship‚ which doesn’t go to plan. Throughout the poem it shows that love can end up in many ways‚ but looking closely at the content of love in this poem it doesn’t go smoothly. The see is set in a local pub bar where a man is waiting impatiently on his girlfriend to arrive‚ but he knows himself that she is going to be late. The mood all through the poem is down beat and this poem also has a regular
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their theory is still relevant. Pop culture seems to have corrupted the minds of individuals today because it makes its audience feel that engaging in deviant behavior is morally acceptable. Being that the artists convey their visions through their work‚ and the vehicle that they use to express themselves is through pop culture‚ their intent can be overshadowed by their desire to appeal to the masses. In James Harold’s article‚”A Moral Never-Never Land:Identify with Tony Soprano”‚ he analyzes Plato’s
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“I’m never going to give you up”. This is how Rick Astley feels about his lover who he wrote the song about. He loves this person with all his heart. There is no one else in the entire world who he cares this much about. Mr. Astley sung the song with his deep and booming voice as a love song comparable to Romeo’s attempt during the balcony scene of their play. His wish for love is never more heartfelt than during the chorus of his complicated love song. The subtle symbols of objects standing in the
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You are never too old to do anything People that think that elderly people are too old to do the things which the younger generation are quite capable to do are guilty of both; lack of conviction and uncertainty. Long-standing people are just as capable as we are of fulfilling their dreams and living the way that they want to live due to them being more experienced than us in life for which they know more than the younger generation. Undoubtedly‚ there will be differing opinions from their family
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