shared with our best friends. In the olden days where computers and modern gadgets are not yet the craze‚ my friends and I enjoy strolling in the streets‚ public parks or plazas. We swim in creeks and rivers‚ catch fish and play in the water with so much fun and laughter. We also enjoy bathing in the rain‚ running bare like wild children in the streets. We make paper boats and have a boat race in canals after a rain. During summer vacations and fiestas were celebrated in every village‚ we attend
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It had been about five years since we were last here. As we drove the two miles down on North Main Street towards an Osterville restaurant‚ I observed a distressing sign (or actually MANY signs). The high-end houses and estates-NOT beach houses or bungalows- were up for sale. The number of FOR SALE signs (16 of them!) in just two miles was very unusual for this area and for its type of residents; full time residence homes with expensive lush green yards and some with wrought iron security fencing
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(This is a short story composed by a student in 2009‚ as a prequel to "By the Waters of Babylon") In The Beginning Before It All Went Down I just got to my apartment from the grocery store and I was fumbling through my keys looking for the one that says 1408. That key happened to be my apartment key. I had a magnificent view from my window since I lived on the fourteenth flour of the Manhattan building. This also happened to be the top floor. I checked my mail box next to my door that said
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is the national bird of India‚ and therefore an eloquent emblem of Indian culture. This explains the peacock henna-tattoo spreading its lines over her palms. The poetess thus is caught in the spiritual pulse of her tradition. The colours leave the streets and float above as balloons. Dummies in shop-fronts tilt and stare with their Western perms. The dummies mirror the
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities The Conditions for City Diversity analysis Part two of Death and Life explains several conditions for city diversity based on the observations of different American cities and discusses in depth the four factors that Jacobs believe are critical for the development of a city. The basis for generating diversity lies in these conditions‚ and cannot be secludedly achieved by planning and designing. This part lays out the foundation and is the basis for
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Homeless Veteran Essay We have many homeless veterans on the streets today. None of them deserve to be homeless for what they have done for this country. They gave their lives for our freedom. They are diligent‚ intrepid‚ and Incessant men and women. They spent their life in hard training‚ days and nights of hard work‚ the work they did was arduous. They were superfluous for what they have done for us. The did not have to go away from their family/friends. They chose to do that. They gave years
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lead to more responsibility and trust. The second point that one can learn from this book is that if you do not take initiative and go above and beyond what is asked of you‚ you are less likely to succeed. The book talks about a man that walks the streets looking for work‚ but when he is hired he is unwilling to do what is asked of him. This results to people not hiring him because his lack of initiative. If you expect to succeed with that type of attitude in this society‚ then you are in the wrong
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Analysis Save as many as you ruin Sometimes our life can be unkind‚ with all its difficult choices and we are going to make mistakes for the rest of our lives. Some mistakes that we cannot forget. Some that we are going to regret. But at some point in our life‚ we will get a chance to make up for our past. That chance‚ is a chance given to Gerard‚ the main character‚ in Simon Van Booy’s short story Save as many as you ruin. The story focuses on Gerard’s’ life‚ and takes a look on his mind. How
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This passage taken from the novel Brick Lane by Monica Ali depicts the journey and feelings of the persona‚ Nazneen in her navigation of the streets of London. Using the setting of the novel‚ mood and various literary devices‚ the author‚ Ali‚ is able to convey to readers the subject matter of the extract‚ which is the loneliness and confusion faced by the persona. The setting of the extract plays a major role in the understanding of the passage as a whole. The passage is set in London‚ England
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(12) A proper job will turn up. That’s what I’m praying for every day (21) Parts of Brooklyn…are just like Ireland. They’re full of Irish (23) She wondered if that could be true (24) The same friends and neighbours‚ the same routines in the same streets (27) It’ll kill me when she goes (28) The rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar (30) Giving up any real prospect of leaving this house herself and having her own house‚ with her own family (30) Some people are nice‚ she said‚ and
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