anticipate for the clock to hit midnight. As much as I wanted to be with friends that night‚ I really just wanted to fast forward to the long awaited morning ahead of me. Visiting my brother in prison at the Texarkana‚ Arkansas Regional Correction Center. The old rusty doors of the prison awaited my family and I‚ slamming behind us as we entered. We nervously walked up the screechy stairs to the family visitation center. I felt a roller coaster of emotions. I was eager to see my brother‚ after spending
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The 1985 movie “Love is Never Silent” is set during the great depression and follows a young woman’s journey to find her own identity apart from being the only voice for her Deaf parents. Margaret Ryder was one of two hearing children born to her Deaf parents‚ Abel and Janice. Abel works on the printing press at a newspaper company while Janice is a seamstress. Tragedy strikes the family immediately in the film when Margaret’s younger brother Bradley unexpectedly dies. Margaret feels now more
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that at this rate they are not going to get the top three positions in the regional competition and to take measures on their diet and to concentrate on the running. Sam starts to drink less “Zeeper” drinks and do more self-training. The competition day finally arrives. James feels himself weak and tiring in the morning.
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NEVER GIVE UP The expression “Never give up” means to keep trying and never stop working for your goals. I agree with this statement. I think this statement is true because you can be whatever you want to be‚ you just have to set your mind to it and work for it. If you work hard enough‚ you can achieve your goals without a problem. You should commit to achieve your goals no matter how long it takes‚ even if it takes another 50 years of living until you achieve it. Everything takes time‚ you
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of this list to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church‚ which resulted in the Church holding the Diet of Worms. In this meeting‚ the Church insisted that Luther retract his 95 Theses‚ but Luther refused to be silenced by the Church‚ saying‚ “I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. God help me. Amen." (www.cmalliance.org) Because Luther refused to recant‚ Pope Leo excommunicated Martin Luther from the Catholic Church on January 3‚ 1521. This
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Winners never cheat and cheaters never win Winners never cheat and cheaters never win. Americans have grown up with this statement. It is as American as baseball or apple pie. It appears that over the years‚ winning has become everything and athletes will do whatever it takes to win. In order to achieve this goal‚ more and more professional athletes are turning to the use of performance enhancing drugs. "A performance enhancing drug is any substance that is taken for the sole purpose of enhancing
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“What Happened” is a memoir written by former First Lady of the United States‚ Senator‚ Secretary of State and Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton. In the book‚ she explains to the best of her ability what she thinks happened in the 2016 presidential election that cost her the election to Donald Trump. The book is divided into 6 chapters which all have a certain number of sub-chapters. In the first chapter‚ “Perseverance”‚ she explains what was going through her mind during the Inauguration
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What Happened to the Lost Colony? There are many theories on what happened to Roanoke the Lost Colony. That they went underground‚ settled at a different place‚ tried to go back home but there’s only one that could’ve happened to them. When John Smith left to go back to England and returned three years later with no people to come back to except for “CROATOAN” carved into a tree. I believe that the English used the buildings to make boats‚ that there was no war with the Native Americans‚ and that
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Twenty-three years and I have never really seen America. All I had ever seen has been the tall‚ magnificent buildings of New York City that have defined my existence. I’ve never once complained. Speeding through that bumpy road towards Ithaca NY was an unforgettable experience in itself. I was amazed by endless acres of presumably dead and useless land. It all seemed too gloomy. The trees looked ancient‚ as if they had been there since the dawn of time. The palette was of an eternal fall. The cows
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I can’t recall the day I first met my husband. I had seen him at work for a few weeks‚ and I was beyond intimidated. He strutted around the production floor of the food manufacturing plant where we both worked. He was a supervisor with a reputation for being hard and demanding‚ but his crew was loyal. He had a long goatee and even longer curly dark hair‚ which when not in a bun‚ fell past his waist. His hair had orange stripes from a hair bleaching gone wrong. When combined with his massive
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