helter-skelter to answer the ringing phone. “Hello‚ this is Alexa Goodville Mackenzie. May I know who I am speaking to?” I questioned. “Hi Miss Goodville. This is Rodger Kenyons from the department of human resources speaking. I have heard a lot about you.” A familiar voice sprung up. “Good things‚ I presume” I said. “Exceptional” He said. “Things were rather happy in my life till my cousin‚ Aldous disappeared. We were the only ones living in the house after both our parents died in an accident…
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Lost in an Upside-Down House I knew Wonderworks would be exhilarating‚ but I had no idea how exhilarating it would truly be. It was mid-day in 2009 and my family had traveled to the Wonderworks attraction. The day had been extremely fun thus far‚ but the day quickly went from fun to scary. I was climbing on the climbing wall‚ and was all smiles. “Yay! I’m having so much fun today! Thank you mom and dad!” I screamed out‚ expecting to hear the usual‚ “you’re welcome‚” response‚ but concerned‚ I
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For the sake of anonymity I’ll keep some names private‚ and call myself Beowulf. My story happened around two years ago‚ I was 26 years old when my family and I had noticed that my grandmother was starting to forget our names‚ couldn’t recall certain events‚ and at times seemed in a daze and lost from her state of mind‚ completely forgetting where she was in that moment. This was followed by her stumbling around the house and falling a few times. One time it got to the point where she fell down
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Though everyone dreams of riding off into the sunset in a convertible and throwing caution in the wind‚ you can only be James Dean for so long. The truth is that behaving responsibly adds meaning to our lives and allows us to develop character‚ forge meaningful relationships‚ and get ahead in the work world. Remember that pet turtle who died because you forgot to feed him? Let’s not let that happen again. If you want to learn how to be responsible‚ just follow along. omeone is hesitant to
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her feet. Seem like she fell off after that. She never worked cause unc paid everything. He still sent money but she would spend it on weed‚ then it was that dope. No one judged her. She and big Vic snorted and smoked together. Everybody had their own demons and we had close nit family. Nomatter what the situation was we held each other down. So while my nanny got her shit together amy mom picked up the slack‚ her being Vic’s god mom and all it was her responsibility and it was nothing since Vic
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Aaron knew that changing his statement maybe wasn’t the wisest decision but he was scared. When he first wrote his statement‚ describing that Kasim deserved everything he had coming and that he was proud of what he had done as well as enraged that Vic pulled him off the homophobe‚ the plan was to try to get the worst sentence he could imagine. After what happened with Katie‚ with punching Robert he deserved everything that was coming for him. But he was scared; who could blame him when the last time
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lights were so bright that Emily could distinguish them from her bedroom window one hundred yards away. She was seven years old and much too curious about these strange objects to go back to sleep. She squinted at the garden‚ listened carefully to the high-pitched beeps‚ and took a deep breath. Shoving her feet into slippers‚ she thought about the thousands of possible explanations behind their appearance. Five minutes later‚ she was skipping across the backyard‚ hardly able to contain her excitement
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" "It was made to look like he was sleeping‚" Gwaine added‚ eyeing the warlock with a barely beheld twinkle. "Could no one have told me this sooner?" Merlin was entirely indignant‚ grimacing at how he’d relished every moment of being back in his own bed last night. Several ways of torturing Maxwell flashed through Merlin’s head. Maybe he’d include Gwaine and Percival‚ too‚ since he could see just how amused the knights were. "I slept in that bed." "So did I‚" said Gwaine with a now much more conspicuous
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It was a quiet Monday morning‚ I was getting ready for another day at school. I had walked downstairs to hear Mother and Father talking about something that I didn’t understand. They were talking about something with the African American students. I never really understood why we all didn’t go to the same school‚ they’re just like us. I had finally gotten to school‚ i was a little late but Mrs. McCarthy didn’t care. She was a close friend of my Mother and Father’s. I was going to take a seat but
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injury should come to the people of the town because he was not brave enough to obey the summons of the Griffin. So‚ pale and frightened‚ he started off. 1.Gather a large number of fractured fairy tales for students to explore. Use books from your own collection along with those from the school and/or public library. Keep these books out during the entire unit for students to read independently and to refer to as models during the writing lessons. To generate the greatest interest‚ provide a wide
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