I had just finished my freshman year of high school‚ now playing on my school’s summer baseball team. It was a perfect summer night on the baseball field; playing against one of the teams I disliked the most‚ Ava. It was always a close game playing them; they had good players who always played hard. Going into the 7th inning the game was tied‚ three to three. I came up to the plate wanting to help my team win the game. As the pitch came in my eyes lit up‚ it was a fastball right down the middle.
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Rivera‚ Alexandra August 29‚ 2012 Summer Reading-“Catching Fire’’ The book”Catching Fire” is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen‚who won the Hunger Games‚and she is going to have to go in the Hunger Games all over again.The author for this book is Suzanne Collins‚and the type of this book is fiction and suspense. The main character
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In the second installment of The Hunger Games Series‚ Catching Fire‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ the theme of the government overstepping their bounds is prominent. President Snow’s character is a focal point into letting the audience see the power he has and how it has affected his decision making and actions. The setting of government enforced Panem and the harsh punishments to rule breakers shows the unnecessary harshness of the government. The plot development relates to the theme of an overactive government
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Summary Gates of fire is a story about Xeones‚ a Greek boy who is a survivor of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. After awhile of living in his village it is over ran by Argives ‚ Xeones then wonders the countryside with two friends and spends his early years as an outlaw. Until one day he is captured enslaved by the Spartans ‚ where they keep him with the other slaves called Helots. He is then paired with Alexandros‚ the son of a high ranking Spartan officer‚ who
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camper ready as my brother unloads the four-wheelers. Once everything is ready‚ the first thing we always do is go cut firewood. The campfire is always the main event here. No matter what we are up there to do‚ we always have to have a relaxing fire. We all gather our chairs and strategically
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This excerpt from ”To Build A Fire” is about a man trekking through Yukon territory with his dog. The man has no supplies‚ is alone‚ and is trying to make it to a camp by sundown. Before the main character left‚ an old-timer from the trail told him it was bad to walk through alone after negative fifty degrees. The man ignores the advice the other man gave him. As a result of this‚ he walks the trail anyway in negative one-hundred degree weather and dies from hypothermia. The actions of this man show
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played by children of all ages. Some start playing for Pop Warner leagues as early as six years old. More children are playing the high impact sport; which requires aggressive hitting and tackling. This puts them at risks of several injuries‚ including injuries to the brain. Children should not be permitted to play football before their brain fully develops; in order to reduce the risks of permanent damages to their brain. The risks associated with playing football can be severe for an under developed
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Bradstreet was very upset and angry at the beginning of the story when all of her stuff burnt in the flames because she lost everything. Nothing came out of the fire the same‚ not even herself. She was devastated about this because she watched all the stuff she worked for‚ all the stuff she bought‚ all the gifts she was given‚ all of it went down in flames. She started blaming people‚ one of those people were god. She was asking god‚ why did this have to happen to me. I didn’t do anything wrong to
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There are role playing games‚ action games‚ strategy games‚ puzzles‚ simulations and a few more. One type of mobile game that is becoming popular today is Role-Playing game (RPG). It can be translated into mobile phones giving importance on storytelling. Much like the text-based role playing games of before‚ the current crop of mobile phone role playing games have put more emphasis on how the story unfolds and develops as you progress deeper and deeper into the game. In most role-playing games‚ you play
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During class‚ we have had several discussions about courage‚ specifically as one of the major themes of Gates of Fire. In our discussions‚ we have mentioned that there are‚ in fact‚ different types of courage. We mentioned courage in men‚ in women‚ and false courage or pseudoandreia; this idea of different types or grades of courage lead me to this page about developing courage: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/02/08/developing-manly-courage/ The website outlines four distinct types of (manly)
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