all the blinking and flashing lights from all the carnival rides just a couple feed away from me. While listening to the thousands of people cheer the fireworks on. The beautiful town known as Clear Lake is the town I am talking about. Some people may think differently but the 4th of July in Clear Lake‚ IA is one of the best place on earth. It’s just something about this town on the 4th of July makes me happy. The day started out a little different than most‚ I stayed at my best friend’s house.
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ESSAY This essay will describe a problem faced by a character in two short stories‚ Lucky Lips by Paul Jennings and It Used To Be Green Once by Patricia Grace. In Lucky Lips Marcus’s problem is the fact that he has never been kissed by a girl. In It Used To Be Green Once the problem is the car. This essay will describe the problem‚ how they (the characters) tried to solve their problem and the outcome or consequences of their actions. The first story Lucky Lips addresses the problem of Marcus‚
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Introduction "Loon Lake" is an important American novel in it’s portrayal of the Great Depression of 30’s ; a passionate‚ young New Jersey man leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds‚ on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains‚ is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny‚ leading him from the side of a railroad track to a magical place called "Loon Lake". It is a haunting story of dreams and desires. The novel traces the journeys of a young man
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humid Saturday morning as they prepared for an extraordinary adventure at Lake Yosemite. Each player greets Dr. Boggs‚ also thanking him for taking his time off from work in the health center to take them to the lake. Dr. Boggs‚ feeling warm-hearted and comforted‚ appreciated the well-mannered basketball players and cannot wait to get out in the lake. “I have brought my boat out here today so you guys can get the full lake experience‚ but I need to go over some safety procedures. I also need to explain
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against criticizing the government itself. Nadine Gortimer is a white South African women who‚ during the 1980’s was not in favor of the government’s discrimination against black South Africans. In response towards this‚ she writes a short story titled "Once upon a Time" to serve as her own way of criticizing the rules. In this story Gortimer illustrates a word in which two different groups of people are separated and have strong discomforts about one another. The three main characters that Gortimer describes
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Spring Lake Park Splintering wind crashes over our rosy cheeks as we speed down Darby Ln. Splitting into different roads to see who could get to the park faster. I can feel the freshly paved roads pass under me as I briskly turn into the park. A rush flows through my body when I see that no one is here. “I’ve done it again‚” I breath out as I mark my point. So I perch on the lone bench that is surrounded by the ever-changing trees and close my eyes. The distant whisper of birds chirping as they
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In Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time”‚ Gordimer discusses the consequences of the family’s actions due to paranoia of the outside world. In the extract‚ Gordimer paints a picture of how the couple had taken extreme measures‚ erecting physical barriers around them to protect themselves from the purported dangers of their external environment‚ until they are unaware about the dangers that these barriers pose to themselves. Hence‚ the extract underlines the dangers that prejudice poses for oneself
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eccentric necromancer with a weakness for humanity. Justice had been his last attempt-to do nothing which was not just. But it had ended in failure" (White‚ OAFK 634). The "he" in this passage refers to King Arthur‚ the main character in T.H. White’s The Once and Future King and Book of Merlyn‚ who failed in his attempt to unite England due to the mistakes made by him and those close to him. Arthur‚ betrayed by those close to him‚ not properly educated on the greedy‚ selfish‚ and violent heart of man‚ failed
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make things happen.” Usually‚ leadership is thought as the act of giving orders. Many leaders believe that they need only to order people around to successfully lead. In the battle of IA Drag Moore demonstrates that to be a leader one must do much more than this‚ it requires planning‚ communication‚ and working together with your team. If you teach soldiers to do what is right‚ keep your composure and lead by example‚ troops‚ will behave well‚ despite the frustrations and temptations that are caused
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olfactory experiences as well. The pleasing scents of the bakeries‚ breweries‚ and restaurants more than compensate for the occasional ruptured garbage bag.
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