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    The Hatchling Turtles is a story about both the journey of a turtle coming home to lay her eggs on the beach and the hatching of her eggs. The turtles instinctively know to come home to their own original ancestral hatchling site during the month of February to lay their eggs. Now‚ it is time for this turtle to return to her beach on Bimini Island to lay her own eggs. Before she reaches the shores‚ she will overcome various obstacles during her travels to reach her final destination determined

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    owner in town. All he did was yell and scream. His family wasn’t‚ they were owed by a nice lady in a little house by her farm. That is where his wife and two kids are and they plow and seed her farm and they are treated well unlike me. This is a story on how Tryon and his family try to get free and save the rest of their town’s people and never look back. The fields get hotter as the days gets longer‚ and working is not what I want to be doing. My slave owner can do whatever he wants to do with

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    Missing: Madison Smith. I read this sentence a couple more times. My stomach was a melting pot. I looked under that missing persons flyer and found two more missing persons flyers‚ Maisy Johnson and David Peterson‚ my siblings. As I was staring at the papers I heard the front door fly open and my mom step into the house. I scrambled to shove the sheets under the bed again and grabbed the purse I had gone in her room to get. I went out of the room and tried to be as nonchalant as possible. “Are you

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    “Friends‚ let us meet at the windmill. I have something to tell you all‚” said Benjamin outraged. All the animals followed him. Some because they knew what he was going to say‚ others because they were confused. “I have lived a lot longer than most of you standing here today‚ but I cannot stand by and watch this anymore. We no longer live on a free farm. I think we have all known that for a very long time‚ but we have all been so intimidated by Napoleon that no one has stood up to him. That is

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    Most Improve Award‚” but I got neither. My mother said those students were at least two years older than me‚ so they had more time to practice more than I did. I did not really understand what my mother meant until I read chapter one of the book‚ “Outliers” written by Malcom Gladwell. The first chapter of the book introduced me to the “Matthew Effect.” This effect is a phenomenon

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    The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book starts she is ten years old‚ she lives in the Polish town of Buczacz with her four brothers‚ Moshe‚ Zachary‚ Bunio‚ and Herzl‚ and her mother and father . The holocaust experience began subtly at first when the Russians began to occupy Buczacz. When her brother Moshe was killed at a " Boys School" in Russia and her father was gathered up by German authorities‚ the reality of the whole situation quickly became

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    these few words would change the face of professional basketball forever. Lebron James was born on December 30‚ 1984 in Akron‚ Ohio to a 16-year-old mother‚ Gloria Marie James. Right away it was easy to notice that Lebron James was definitely an outlier. Lebron James rise to success was the epitome to Gladwell’s ideas of the 10‚000 hour rule and the idea of accumulative advantage. The year 1993 was one of the most important years in Lebrons life. His mother and him were just about to get kicked

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    How did he become successful enough to walk this carpet? The truth is that he earned his way on the walkway for celebrities because he made a prominent identity for himself. Furthermore‚ Bill Gates rise to success is explained in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. It is also explained that a person’s identity is developed due to the key opportunities and talents that are acquired over a lifetime. Opportunities are the key factor to success‚ which in turn build an identity for the person who takes the chance

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    positive effects Dancehall music might have on our young people‚ it has become more a pathway for moral degradation with our young people. Dancehall is a “style of Jamaican popular music that had its genesis in the political disturbance of the late 1970′s ad became Jamaica’s dominant music in the 1980′s and 90′s”‚ ( C.J.Cooper) “Jamaican dancehall culture is commonly disparaged as a homophobic‚ homicidal‚ misogynist discourse that reduces both men and women to bare essentials: skeletal remain” (Cooper

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    As the sun began to set‚ the reflection of the sun’s orange glow glistened throughout the river. Most of the animals in the area had gone back to their home‚ preparing for nightfall. Coming out of the brushes was Lennie‚ who had been tired from escaping his life on the ranch. Lennie dipped his head into the river and took a giant gulp of water. As he took his head out‚ he began to cry. “ I done a bad thing. Now George won’t let me tend no rabbits. He gon’ give me hell for doin’ another bad thing

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