Quiet Cool: A walk in the sun As my brother‚ Pat and walked in the woods on a bright sunny day in the summers of our youth as we so often did‚ we came accost a place that we called Quiet Cool. It was a circular crater with steep sides and a eerie silence all around. As we walked down the near vertical slopes of the crater we saw that the bottom had some sort of small stacked stone wall built bisecting the crater floor in two‚ we decided then and there that one side was mine and the other was his
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Chapter Three Review Complete the following cloze summary by filling in the appropriate word (or words). Chapter three begins with Changez directly addressing the American again. He comments on the American’s ______________ and then describes the way Old Anarkali becomes a pedestrian-only area in the evening. He then says that when he moved to New York‚ it had felt like coming home. He gives several ____________ why he had felt so comfortable. When he was
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right‚ you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself‚ and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe- This quote to me means that everything happens for a reason and it is sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. I think that this quote says that Everything that happens in one way or another has a direct impact on who you are. How you look at and react to everything that happens around you goes into defining who you
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“We have almost grown accustomed to it; was is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis‚ like influenza and dysentery.” (271) Paul had felt like that war was similar to the sickness. I feel like death from war is like sickness because no one knows whether they are going to die or not. When the recruits join war‚ they never know if they will survive or not. They are there to protect their country. Once the recruits join war‚ they are willing to die for their country. This is similar for diseases
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6.) “Most of this I ’ve told before‚ or at least hinted at‚ but what I have never told is the full truth. How I cracked. How at work one morning‚ standing on the pig line‚ I felt something break open in my chest. I don ’t know what it was. I ’ll never know. But it was real‚ I know that much‚ it was a physical rapture--a cracking-leaking-popping feeling. I remember dropping my water gun. Quickly‚ almost without thought‚ I took off my apron and walked out of the plant and drove home. It was midmorning
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inspiration of Okonkwo through Ikemefuna died when Ikemefuna left‚ but Christianity would be a new inspiration for Nwoye to find himself. My attention broke away from Nwoye when rough falling feet dismantled the silence. Nwoye’s light eyes diverted from the structure onto his ferocious father. Okonkwo was running on the other side of the path from where his biological
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Fools in April (Scene opens: Everyone is laying on the ground‚ as though they are dead‚ focus on Hypnos.) Hypnos (Narrating): “Wait! It’s not what it looks like! Let me show you what really happened.” (The entire play rewinds.) (Artemis and Poseidon are seated at a table in a restaurant. Hermes is disguised and lingering in the background.) Hypnos (Narrating): “It all began on the morning of the first day of April‚ when Artemis and Poseidon decided to go on a brunch date to celebrate spring.” Artemis:
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Having had two different forms‚ the creature knew what it had lost from one form and what it had gained from another but neither quite satisfied the quest it had made an integral part of its life. Pachooka took the droplet and placed it in the ebony crucible on the fire and watched as sparks began to throw themselves into the darkness of the cave‚ lighting up the shadowed corners. She picked up the satchel that she had rescued from the ignorant HobGoblin and shook it once again‚ like she had done
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nothing to me." He fires a projectile towards Borias. Unable to dodge he is hit with the full force the attack. "Borias!" Camille shrieks in terror as one of her closest companions is killed right in front of her. The ground cracks as the impact from Orbus’s attack clearly shook the earth. The fog clears up and Borias’s mangled body lies on the floor. He is motionless but both eyes are open‚ looking into the sky. He smiles for the last time and speaks softly. Camille hurries to his side. She knows
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see me‚ i hated myself hated my antiques‚ my clothes and my apartment. i had to do something so i called a friend of mom’s and left a message. it was our system of staying in touch. it always took mom a few days to get back to me‚ but when i heard from her‚ she sounded as always cheerful and causal though‚ as though we’d had lunch the day before. i told her i wanted to see her and suggested she drop by the apprtment but she wanted to go to a restaurant. she loved eating out‚ so we agreed to meet
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