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    No Old People

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    Modest Proposal Many people can agree with me when I say that we use a lot of our money on old people. Us Americans work hard for that money and we are just giving it up to help support the elders across the nation through Social Security and Medicare. What do we get in return for this noble act? Nothing‚ we get to watch the old people soak up our money and not give us anything back. So‚ I created a simple solution to this problem. Once a person hits the age of 62‚ we just end their life and see

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    The Old Guitarist

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    Symbolist ideals played a huge part and influenced Picasso’s painting The Old Guitarist. Symbolist artists preferred subjective and imaginative subjects; these subjects were usually adopted from the artist’s emotions‚ dreams and spirituality. Made in 1903‚ The Old Guitarist is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso. The painting depicts a hunched over old blind man with torn clothing playing a guitar on the street. At the time of The Old Guitarist’s creation a new movement called Expressionism emerged which

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    ¨You never know the worth of water until the well is dry¨ In the story Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. This message is left on the foot of Phoebe´s porch by a neighbor named Mrs. Partridge. What I think what Mrs. Partridge is trying to tell us is that you never really know what something is worth until you lose it. All though this applies to every character in the story‚ it mostly applies to Phoebe‚ she is facing feelings which are loneliness and fear because her mother has has disappeared .

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    My Summer Vacation

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    After a hard school year we have a wonderful time for our plesure and relaxing. One of the summer months i visited bright and hospitable country Vietnam !!! I was inspired of my travelling into another summer country ! Me and my family were in two cities Xo Chi Min and Nha Chang . The climate there for us were unaccustomed : very wet and hot ‚like in Turkish bath-house ! Vietnamese people are very kindfull ‚ pretty ‚ with sincere smiles !!! I was really defeated about there amazing patience and

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    The Old Breed

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    Assault Into Hell In chapter four‚ Assault into Hell‚ Sledge details the initial assault on Peleliu. H Hour is 0800; numerous 16" and 8" naval guns open fire from the band of warships brought along for the attack on Peleliu‚ along with smaller naval guns‚ airplanes‚ to pulverize the landing zone. Sledge watches in fascination while nearly collapsing with fear. The bombardment lifts moments before the amtracs hit the beach. Sledge and the other marines jump over the side of the amtrac and rush

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    The Old Cottage

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    The Old Cottage. The night was still. The tumbleweed lay flat on the frosting blades of grass. These were the signs of a changing season. ‘Smith Farm’ was engraved on the stone posts that led to the entrance of what seemed like a graveyard. The snow slowly fell from the starless night over the tin roof. The farm was bare‚ as the snow had smothered the barren paddocks. Life seemed like it was in hibernation. The cottage was old and made of rotting wood‚ which the paint had peeled off ages ago

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    Summer Workout Collapse

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    any place worth going. Most of my stories relate to working out‚ as I spend a great amount of time doing just that. This particular story all started on June third‚ right when summer workouts started. I walked into the gym and began my pre-workout stretch. I continued to repeat this same routine throughout the summer mornings: pre-workout stretch‚ workout‚ cross country practice‚ post-workout stretch. It was a never-ending cycle that I fell in love with. Until one particular day that I just

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    Well‚ summer reading is quite self-explanatory but maybe where you come from‚ you didn’t have to do it. Summer reading is basically where the county provides a list of books and depending on your Lexile score‚ a test we took at the end of the year‚ you would choose six books to read during the summer. Summer reading was for all students from kindergarten to 12th grade. In elementary and middle school I felt

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    All Summer In A Day

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    In the story All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury Humans have inhabited Venus and the sun only comes out every seven years for an hour. In the story the kids lock a fellow student in the closet because she believes the sun is going to appear that day. The teacher wasn’t in the room at the time‚ but she came back and asked if everyone was there. All of the students exclaimed yes. After that the sun came out for an hour. Which the sun comes out every seven years for an hour. All the kids go outside

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    Old People

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    Michael Bagen SPE 101 Speech 12/14/10 Outline I. Attention getter: Going to Wedding‚ old man hits car i. Credibility: Real life situations with older drivers‚ Dad is an EMT and talks to me about calls all the time ii. Topics: The facts of old drivers‚ real-life stories‚ solutions iii. Thesis: I want a federal law to be passed that forces any driver the age of 65 and older to be retested every 3 years to not only save their lives‚

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