It was June 15‚ and in two days I would be turning thirty. I was insecure about entering a new decade of my life and feared that my best years were now behind me. My daily routine included going to the gym for a workout before going to work. Every morning I would see my friend Nicholas at the gym. He was seventy-nine years old and in terrific shape. As I greeted Nicholas on this particular day‚ he noticed I wasn’t full of my usual vitality and asked if there was anything wrong. I told him I was
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Shannon Mancuso May 27‚ 2013 I close my eyes and try to visualize a place‚ but where? There a so many possibilities. I can imagine my work place and see and feel the commotion of living in a fire station‚ or I could imagine my home in Mayaguez. Where should I go? I think and my mind seems to wander‚ I hear my kids and I try to refocus. Wait‚ suddenly my mind goes back the house I grew up‚ closing my eyes I am there‚ all my senses seem to have come alive. Leaving my eyes closed I take it all in. The
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Once in a lifetime vacation in Jamaica. Since my husband and I got married in May of 2010‚ we did not have a honeymoon or a vacation. So my husband Ryan and I came to a decision that we are going to take this opportunity and spend lavishes on a combo vacation. This trip was once in a lifetime vacation in Jamaica‚ and we were very excited‚ I felt like a little kid waiting for my very first candy. Ryan and I went ahead and book our vacation at Sandals‚ in Montego Bay‚ Jamaica. There was so
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a suburb of Philadelphia... right? And what did "JTOP" even do? That question cannot be answered so easily. JTOP was a chance for bright kids who love learning…to explore. Every meeting‚ every task‚ every debate felt like a new adventure. One day Maggie came home from school and informed us of hearing about trepanation‚ the practice of cutting holes into one’s skull. This was creepy... yet fascinating. Why would anyone willfully drill a hole into his or her head? What would that be like? So
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Mountain News‚ proved otherwise and stated that Vowell has succeeded in creating a “humorous” historical context by writing “I can confidently say that Sarah Vowel’s Assassination Vacation is the most amusing book you’ll read this year about presidential assassinations” (Danbom). Sarah Vowel’s purpose of Assassination Vacation is to allow readers to have a look at both sides of history to shed light on the assassins‚ to reanimate moments lost to history‚ and to make her book more interesting by using
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town has already collapsed and turned into a developing-city. It is so sad that I can only recall my childhood days in my mind instead of visiting the small town. It was a small town with warm-hearted villagers. We were all friends and always share our foods and games. Mak Kwan had the most famous cooking while En. Chong could fly the kite highest. Hmm… I could still smell the curry in the air! My brother and I‚ we used to rush to Mak Kwan’s home and asked for curry when we smell it. Mak Kwan never
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Gatlinburg‚ Tennessee is a great place for vacation. I have visited there several times . While visiting there I learned alot. Although‚ there is quite a bit of information I still had to learn and I would like to share that information with you today. Gatlinburg is a mountain resort city in Sevier county‚ Tennessee‚ United States. The city is a popular vacation resort‚ as it rests on the border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park along U.S. Highway 441‚ which connects Gatlinburg to Cherokee
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precious in life. In “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury‚ it talks about a girl named Margot. She recently had moved to the fictional depiction of Venus‚ where almost everyday‚ it’s always constant downpour of rain. Bradbury shows us how this affects Margot by having her display the feelings of sadness and sorrow. As someone who had onced lived on Earth‚ she had always lived with the sun above her head. However once moving to Venus‚ Margot was forced to live every single day under the clouds. There
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As a child growing up friends are everything. Your best friend is the one you share all your secrets with and trust them not to tell anyone. They are the one who knows everything about you and stands by your side through everything. For some‚ best friends may change frequently‚ but that wasn’t the case of Michelle and I. That was the type of friend Michelle was. We had been friends since the first grade and shared everything. We never kept secrets from one another and more importantly‚ we never
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My Summer Break! My summer was great‚ I think this was the best one I ever had. The reason why that this year was the best summer ever was because I got to do everything that I wanted to do. I love my grandpa and my mom because I go to do everything that I wanted to do. Everything that I got to do was from them I got the money to go to Cedar Point from my mom and grandpa‚ and to go to the Luke Bryan concert. My summer was amazing and here is why. The first thing that I can think of that we did
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