future. A future I will no longer have. Pamphlets line the walls‚ offering various solutions to make-believe problems. She sits in her La-Z-Boy desk chair‚ ripping apart at the seams from old age. To clarify‚I’m referring to the ancient counselor‚ not the chair. “I have brought you here because I have some concerns regarding a particular party over the previous weekend. Do you have any idea what I’m talking about?” I know exactly what she’s talking about. One night ruined my whole life. I will never have
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In June of 2016‚ during and intense basketball practice‚ I injured my knee. Our team participated in a rebounding drill‚ and I pushed myself to do my absolute best to get every rebound. On one of my turns‚ I jumped up for the ball‚ and when I landed terrible pain shot through my knee. I somehow hobbled over to the sideline‚ but finishing practice obviously seemed out of the question. The next day‚ my knee became very swollen and every time I tried walking‚ pain would shoot through my knee. My mom
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started when my stepdad declared he had a surprise for me and he gave me a box and I replied what is It and he said just open It and I was really excited to see what It is so I opened It and it was a gun I was really nervous because I have never shot a gun before but my step dad said if I follow the directions it would be ok. So the next day we went to the store to get some clays so that I could practice because I have never shot want one. So we got a box of clays and my stepdad said that we could
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I wake up… excited as can be. Today was the day we started to drive to Rhode Island. I was happy about it because i had to spend time with my family and see many different sights. I was also excited about it because it was the first time i have been four states away from mine. We were in our car. For the first 15 minutes I felt a rush. Then it was just driving. We hit many different locations such as plymouth rock and the world’s biggest stanley cup. These locations were the coolest things i have
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time to be studying religion because it is so complex. Religion I believe is very important in today’s world. Being able to know many things about religion is good just because you have to understand why people are doing what they are doing. It is also important because religion is everywhere we look today and being able to understand it will help. Throughout my whole life I personally didn’t have a really good understanding of what I really believed. Everyone has many different beliefs and different
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I just wanted to say you were right about everything. Ever since you left things have gotten worse. We all just thought that you were crazy or just wanted attention. We were all foolish to not listen to you. Now‚ I am on a train to God knows where writing this letter to you. What you said was true. Moths after you left the Nazis ordered that all Jews wear the Star of David. It was extremely embarrassing. They had singled us out just for being Jewish. I didn’t let it get to me as I continued my studies
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I Swear I Saw This is a record as visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig quotes in his own book ‘...you feel impelled to write in your fieldwork diary a few hours or days after a diary entry.’ This is a combination of fieldwork notebooks that also have a series of sketches in them which constitute Taussig’s impressions kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. The book tees off from a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006‚as well as its caption‚ “I swear I saw this” Taussig has always
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Gee I wish I were a man “ is insulting to women. Men are not better than women. The creator of the poster proposes to say that men are more admirable than women. For an ad to imply that women believe that men are better is a whole other scenario. Women believe men are superior because men are the leaders in the world. Women are not seen in high powerful positions as much men are; therefore‚ the ad makes women believe that men are estimable than themselves. For feminists‚ the ad would enrage them
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The day I first learned to ride on a snowboard was a monumental moment for me. Days of falling on my ass turned to weeks‚ into months‚ until finally I did it! Feelings of adrenaline pumped through my 9 year old body as I carefully made my way down the mountain. Snow and wind nipp the top of my exposed pale nose as I pick up confidence and speed. I let out a howl of joy as I conquer the cruel mounds of snow and ice. Making a quick turn on my board sends me flying to the ground in a knot of tangled
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said he was going to bring them in because we couldn’t. So then we jumped out of bed to check our bikes to make sure there wasn’t any damage to them. We just left our bikes outside because the sun was out and would dry them for us. So to start the day was bad because our bikes had water everywhere. So after checking them me and my brother went back to our room to go back to sleep. We were about to fall back to sleep and our mom came back in our room yelling again. She
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