looked as if Michelangelo had painted them himself. Her brown eyes were big and almond shaped with lashes so long they often tickled her eye lids. She was a rather short girl; about 5’1 with skinny gangly legs and arms‚ weighing no more than 90 pounds. She was meek and dainty‚ preferring to paint nails while talking about boys. I on the other hand acted like a boy. Growing up with the boys in the neighborhood I became a tomboy at heart. I had a short stature and short legs all equally defined
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Peculiar path In one of the coldest days of winter‚ I opened my eyes to this mysterious world in a private hospital located in the most entertaining city‚ Tehran. Since that day‚ my dreams and aspirations have been shaped in an odd manner in a conflict of values. I grew up in Iran in a traditional Persian family that was also influenced by western values. We were living in the middle of an Islamic Republic with a fundamentalist Islamic ideology that conflicted with my family values. “Our Family
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It was sooner‚ rather than later‚ that I had to carry things myself to gain advance my place in the world. After joining marching band my sophomore year‚ it seemed like everyone had a comment about how large my instrument‚ the synthesizer‚ was. While I only played the keyboard atop it‚ it was on a cart‚ that I had to push‚ containing the sound system for my instrument and speakers. “That thing is bigger than you are‚” teachers would remark in
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I knew he had disliked me because I wasn’t his daughter. He used to treat me bad. He used to hit me. It was just horrible. His daughter‚ Brittany used to hit me as well. I hated her for that. She tried to talk to me and touch me sexually. The fact about her being a lesbian never ran through my mind. She used to tell me that she only liked girls but‚ it didn’t understand what she had meant. When she told me that she had liked me like a “girlfriend”‚ I was
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English 1010 19 January 2012 Triumphs of the Nerds 3.14159265 or pi‚ e=mc2 is the language of nerds. Albert‚ Frank‚ George know this language all too well. Albert is a thin‚ pasty‚ white fellow with brown hair that was always combed over to one side of is head and big thick black glasses. Albert always thought that he was the smartest only because he had the same first name as Albert Einstein. George was the complete opposite of Albert. He was a rather large fourteen year old boy with uncontrollable
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Tragic Accident It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day‚ and don’t think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself‚ until I was faced with the shock‚ and undeniable truth of my cousin’s death. I don’t think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news. I woke up on what I thought was going to be a wonderful Thursday off from work. I had the coffee brewing
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they sounded and they will be locked up for eternity. Wait! What if I never get out of here. What if this is my death spot. What happens if I never get to see my family again. What about my mom‚ is she okay? Is she safe? (Door creeps open) Voice 2: "Hey‚ I’m not hear to harm you. I don’t know about my father any more. Here’s some of your food you can eat. I don’t want you to starve." ( Door Closes slowly) Voice 1: " I have a plan to help you escape. You have to trust
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It was 5 am on a Thursday; everything was turning out to be just another day at the beginning of the summer. All of a sudden I was shaken awake. I was slow to open my eyes so I was not aware of what was happening yet. I was unaware that my life was about to change forever. I finally opened my eyes and was very startled to see the face of a man that I had never seen before me talking to me and directing me to get out of bed. I did what I was told and noticed that there was another large man standing
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“Vroom‚ Vroom‚ Vroom!” All I could hear was the sound of the car engine. I had been awakened at 5:30 a.m. thinking I was standing on the center of a highway‚ but really it was the fully loaded car. Today was the day I’ve been waiting for all year long. I felt nervous and scared‚ but at the same time I was jumping up and down higher than a frog could jump. I was only eight years old the summer of going into fourth grade. I had no idea what to expect. I didn’t know if I was going to like it‚ love it
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what the world was about. I couldn’t have been more wrong. My life changed forever on a random‚ seemingly normal afternoon. My secure sense of how things were‚ and how I expected things to continue‚ was shattered. All it took was one moment; in one instant‚ everything changed. Dr. Judith Rich refers to this as a “Sputnik moment.’ She defines a sputnik moment as‚ “events that jar our sense of reality.” These moments can be large or small‚ and they change the way one feels about reality. My sputnik
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