September 2013 Syndrome X and the Silverback Gorillas That’s when it happened. Nothing made Dad suffer more than my syndrome being triggered. I’d stop looking people in the eye‚ and become detached‚ spacy. If there was something to chew on I’d chew on it‚ didn’t matter if it was my nails or the drawstring from the hood on my sweatshirt. Sometimes I tasted blood‚ I chewed so much‚ or if it wasn’t blood‚ something salty. What really got Dad was my silence‚ how I could go for days‚ weeks‚ as long
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stuck with me throughout my life. Never judge a book by its cover. It’s a great saying because as I got older it became more and more relevant to my life. Yet‚ besides in my life‚ it is also very relevant in this poetry essay. I say this because the two animals that we are dealing with can easily be judged. A bear and a gorilla‚ not the most two happy go lucky animals. Although‚ you must take the time to actually understand them first. Now‚ the reason I chose the gorilla as my animal is because I feel
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Teenage Pregnancy is one of the most alarming issues in our world today. Each year‚ over seven hundred and fifty thousand teenage girls become pregnant. Despite the fact that the teen birth rate is slowly falling‚ there are still an estimated one million teen pregnancies in the United States‚just the United States alone. Teenage pregnancy maybe very common nowadays but there are many causes and effects of it. The very first and main cause of teenage pregnancy is peer pressure. D uring adolescence
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Coraghessan Boyle wrote the short story‚ “The Love of My Life” at the start of his college education. Boyle is a creative short story writer. He went to the University of Southern California since 1978 and “his work included 19 books of fiction‚ that have been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages (“Science of Sex”). “The Love of My Life” is a short story about a boy named Jeremy and his girlfriend China. Jeremy and China are highschool
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82-81 fourth quarter 2.2 seconds on the clock this is where it begins‚ two people‚ one story. It begins with two boys. One Josh Rominger the other Spencer Wilson. Spencer and Josh both grew up sharing the same love of basketball. Not knowing it yet but they’re lives would end up intertwining. They grew up only forty minutes away from each other. Both of the boys played for organized team and both lead them in scoring. One day while Spencer was shooting baskets‚ his parents noticed a lump in his
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“True Love” The poem “True Love” is William Shakespeare’s sonnet number 116. It belongs to the poet’s first series of sonnets addressed to certain Mr. W.H.‚ a young man possessing excellent physical charm. Love‚ as was customary‚ is the theme dealt with in the poem. The inaugurating line “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” immediately sets forth what the poem is going to tell us. In certain anthologies the poem appears under the title “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”. The poem
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species of animal that is at risk of extinction. Do you ever wonder what kind of animals that are endangered? There are multiple of animals that are endangered and one of them is the Western Lowland Gorilla. The Western Lowland Gorilla is found in Africa (Earth’s Friends). The Western lowland gorilla is one of the most recognized wild animals around the world (Earths Friends). This incredible subspecies is native to Africa; however‚ they can be found worldwide in zoo exhibits (Earth’s Friends). It
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For the Love of Suzanne by Kristi Hudecek- Ashwill 1: Summarize: Suzanne is a young woman madly in love with her high school sweetheart. They married right after graduation and Beau had changed. He beat her each time he came home from work‚ she would cover it up from her friends at work. However‚ she could not cover it up the night she told him she was pregnant. He took at her accusing her of cheating and then stormed out. Suzanne woke the next morning with ever attention of leaving for her parents
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Nothing could sound more out of the ordinary than the title of Zack McDermott’s memoir: Gorilla and the Bird. Who could relate to the relationship between a looming‚ hairy‚ bipolar‚ gorilla of a man and a resilient‚ witty‚ selfless bird of a mother? How could an audience understand the pain and confusion that accompanies the diagnosis of bipolar disorder? Despite countless unusual life experiences‚ McDermott weaves the tapestry of his own life while incorporating collective threads from every reader
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The overall intention of this ad is to inform readers about the dangers of deforestation in the environment. The ad creates a sympathetic persona. Having the beheaded gorilla on the tree‚ this advertisement quickly persuades the viewer to express sympathy for the wildlife damaged and agree with the company’s message. The beheaded gorilla and her child laying in their natural habitat is a powerful‚ saddening‚ and upsetting image. The company wants their viewers to feel as if they could prevent situations
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