Sample College Essay #1 The sun sleeps as the desolate city streets await the morning rush hour. Driven by an inexplicable compulsion‚ I enter the building along with ten other swimmers‚ inching my way toward the cold‚ dark locker room of the Esplanada Park Pool. One by one‚ we slip into our still-damp drag suits and make a mad dash through the chill of the morning air‚ stopping only to grab pull-buoys and kickboards on our way to the pool. Nighttime temperatures in coastal California dip into the
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directions in the very opening it shows that this play is presented around the main character Michael and his nostalgic memories of the summer of 1936. Michaels monologue prepares us for the world we are about to enter. He explains that this is the summer his Uncle Jack‚ whom he had never before met‚ came home from Africa. He tells us that this is also the summer the family got their first wireless radio set. The set is less than reliable‚ but its effect on the household is dramatic. His mother and
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It was the summer of 2013‚ and I was going to be a senior in high school‚ and like every other summer for the past 4 years‚ I spent the majority of my summer training for football. I didn’t hate it or else I would have quit the team and done something else with my life‚ but at the same time I felt as if we were given no break from football. It felt like it was an all year long sport. To me football didn’t just show me how to run the ball‚ how to catch a ball‚ and how to tackle. Football also gave
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It was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill‚ a Washington‚ D.C.‚ suburb‚ got its first taste of an increasingly violent‚ insecure modern world. The quiet residential area‚ whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another’s cookout‚ was rocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd Ellison had been raped and murdered‚ his body dumped behind the local mall. While shaken residents organized a neighborhood watch program and clued detectives in
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and Roll • February 1997 – “Testing The Water” • Summer 1997 – April 1998 – “Phunk” • Summer 1998 – Fall 1998 – The Pinnacle of Perfection • 1999 – 2000 – Space Cadets Phish 2.0 • 12/31/02 – 12/31/03 – The Darkness • 12/31/03 – 8/15/04 – The Oxy Years Phish 3.0 • March 2009 – Summer 2009 – Welcome Back • Fall 2009 – 12/31/09 – Bringing Back the Jam • Summer 2010 – Fall 2010 – What is next? You’ll notice that there
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A Brief Encounter The poem “Summer Love” by Marilyn Chin written in 1994 uses descriptive emotional imagery through various tones to illustrate short lived relationships during the summer of a woman’s life. The situations and settings of the poem add to the theme of the poem as well as her use of figurative speech to describe the emotions she experiences during and from these relationships. The author Marilyn Chin has expressed several emotions within the poem through the use of descriptive
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would always think about what the Holy Bible said that particular thing and relate how situations how in my life were similar so I could overcome them. On the summer of 2007 a year after graduating from high school‚ I had so many things I wanted do‚ good paying jobs where I could work‚ places to travel by visiting different states. This summer was about hanging out and working before I would start to classes at college. I was excited to have a job where I wanted to work and make my own money‚ meeting
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Mzungu At age eleven‚ many kids spent their summers in camps‚ road tripping‚ and water parks‚ but not me. Almost every summer‚ my parents and I would travel internationally to either sight see or visit family. My dad‚ whom would make me research anything I wanted him to buy me and come up with a full presentation to show him‚ used the vacations to teach me about different cultures and life lessons. The summer of 2005 was one of the most eye opening three months I experienced. When my parents
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the water became unclean and unsanitary and if consumed by the settlers they would become ill with the disease and possibly die. Document E‚ shows us that in August through October of the year 1607‚ summer sickness killed half the colonist. In the year 1608‚ Smith reports “many dead‚ some sick”. The summer of the year 1609-1610‚ it says “disease returns‚ 100 at Jamestown “sickened and a half the number dies” With all that being said it’s safe to say that a big cause of the colonist death was disease
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“The Feasibility of Cucurbita Maxima (squash) as Additives in Baking Pancakes” Abstract Our group’s purpose in coming up with this study is to know if it is feasible to use a vegetable in baking pancakes which is squash. We already know that in baking pancakes‚ it is usually added with chocolates‚ peanuts‚ etc. But this time we want to use squash as additives in baking pancakes. In baking pancakes‚ we mixed the butter‚ granulated sugar‚ and brown sugar in a bowl. After they are mixed together
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