I woke this morning just like every morning sprawled out on my old mattress on the floor. As I began to wake to what seemed like an ordinary hot summer day. As I was getting changed there was a loud urgent bang on the door of the little tin hut at the edge of the lake I called home. This was unusual as I live alone and don’t usually get any visitors apart from the odd lost hiker. I finished getting changed and opened to door to meet them. “Please I need your help!” a distressed teenager pleaded
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Sherice Gayden September 25‚ 2012 UNIV 112- Personal Narrative Never a Place to Call Home After walking into Piccadilly’s‚ we were seated in the center booth against the wall where you had a view of the whole room. We were each given plates and access to the buffet after giving our drink orders. After we all sit down and are waiting we are approached by a lady and her two sons; she turns to my grandfather and says hello. This is not a unfamiliar happening to me‚ having random people come up
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“Saturday Climbing” by W.D. Valgardson Study Questions Before reading the story and working on the study questions‚ read the handout entitled “An Introduction to Rock Climbing.” 1. Valgardson opens the story by placing one of the main characters‚ Barry‚ in a predicament. Why is he in that predicament? Find all of the words/phrases that describe how Barry feels in this first section. He got himself into that predicament because he was looking for an activity to do with his daughter that
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Personal Narrative Yet another Thanksgiving‚ and I was stuck in my uncle’s basement watching the Redskins face off the Dallas Cowboys. Michael Jordan‚ Serena Williams‚ and various other famous athletes all grinned at me from their respective Wheaties boxes‚ seemingly mocking my pain. My uncle collected them and‚ for some reason‚ had decided the bright orange boxes would be a great decorative addition to the basement wall behind the television. I remember once‚ when I was younger‚ I was searching
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SYNOPSIS OF STAIR CLIMBING ROBOT Abstract: The goal of our project was to design a robot that would climb starirs in a skillfull‚ calculated and efficient manner. Climbing a set of stairs is not a new challenge for robots‚ in fact it is often a common obstacle used by designers to showcase the robot’s skills. Their function as modeled after human movement. The smaller scaled robots‚ such as mine‚ usually use the bruete force method and are not able to successfully climb stairs. In the present
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opinions and views on different ideologies or concepts about life and our surroundings. In the case of bisexuality‚ our cultures dictate whether or not we will accept it freely or with a little opposition. This is most evident in the movie Brokeback Mountain which stirred the movie industry because of its new take on how love can be depicted. But the relationship that the two main characters couldn’t just be limited to the relationship per se because I believe there is more to their union. The movie
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Ice. About fifteen years ago I was climbing Mount Everest and lost my footing and fell a good ways down the mountain‚ my leg was broken I couldn’t move I tried to get up and walk but I would just fall right back down. This story is about how my Nervous System and my body itself saved my life. I was sitting on top of Mount Everest for what had been three days now. I was cold scared and had little food‚ I was doing my best to stay warm but I wouldn’t do it alone my body had to help out. My body
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Personal Narrative I was the second and final child born into the family before my parents got divorced when I was five. As the baby I wish I could say that I was treated that way‚ but I was not. I was the girl that reminded my father of my mother and was frequently ignored‚ while my brother was the pride and joy and could do no wrong. This being said it played a big part in my neuroticism personality trait as a young child. I was very quiet and withdrawn from my family and considered a loner. In
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David Laughery Shane Fliger College Composition February 14‚ 2013 Personal Narrative Like most‚ my Fifth grade year was supposed to be awesome; it was the last year before I was finally able to go to Ben Franklin‚ the giant School whose football and baseball fields I had played on for years‚ just waiting for the time I could show I was good enough to play for their City Championship teams. But when I look back on that year that had so much promise‚ it didn’t go as I had thought‚ and ended
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“The American Climbing the Ranks of ISIS” is a very well written piece by Graeme Wood which explores the journey of a young rebellious white American from a military family into a terrorist organization. The author tells a story of Yahya Abu Hasan (born as John Georgelas)‚ a man originating from a Greek-America military family‚ and how events throughout his life landed him into a top rank of ISIS. The most intriguing element of the story is the author’s sterling ability to draw a connection between
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