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    first day of school

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    My palms were sweaty‚ my legs were sore‚ and my arms were heavy. Fear started taking over. I was walking into my first school. I was afraid how I would do. It was a big building with a large compound wall.  I forced up a weak smile as I left my parent. I took a deep breath and started walking towards the main entrance. As a small child I could not feel stable at the sight of the building. I thought to myself‚ why were so many people around me. Most of them were running around‚ zooming past me like

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    The First: A true story

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    of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World’s Fair‚ Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind‚ and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders‚ of which nine were confirmed‚ his actual body count could be as high as 200. May 16‚ 1861‚ to Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodate Page Price‚ both of whom were descended from the first European

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    the people? Do they actually have ghettos here? The first place he went was the gas station. When he got to the store he went in to buy some food. He was astonished at all the different types of candy like; sour patch kids‚ Hersey bars‚ and Milky ways. All of a sudden the doors burst open. A man with a deep voice in a black mask came through the doors. The man started shooting at the air aimlessly. Scotty was fascinated that already on his first day in America

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    The Decameron

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    The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is a novel written in the thirteenth century after the Black Plague. The book consists of 100 tales told over the span of 10 days by seven ladies and three gentlemen. These ten people all are from Florence‚ and they get together‚ having the idea to escape the Plague. They go from country house to country house to live in luxury and leave their anxieties in the city. Their plan was that each day one of them would be queen or king. The first day was under the rule

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    Decameron Day 7 2

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    DecameronDay 7‚ Novel 2 Rubric Peronella hides her lover in a tub when her husband returns home unexpectedly. Her husband has sold the tub‚ but she tells him that she herself has already sold it to a man who is inspecting it from the inside to see whether it is sound. Leaping forth from the tub‚ the man gets the husband to scrape it out and carry it back to his house for him. P. 490 Peronella “lowly condition” p.491 “charming and beautiful girl” p.491 Giannello “sprightly young gallant” p.491

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    The First day Reflective Essay “The First Day”‚ by Edward P. Jones is pretty simple story to read. It is not complicated if only reader understand the concept of how adults who don’t have ability to read or write have to get through their lives harder than ones who have that kind of ability. Author want to give reader an idea how a girl feel when she find that her mother struggled in placing her daughter in a school only because she cannot do what other people normally can do. But that doesn’t stop

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    wrestled the car for control. Sweat and blood poured down her beautiful face and she wiped the sleeves of her uniform to clear it. Just last night‚ she promised herself that she will keep the crispiness of her brand new police uniform at least on her first day in the job. All her plans‚ of course‚ went down the drain when World War 3 started that morning. The pickup truck following them stopped at the entrance of the alleyway‚ surprised by the young cop’s maneuver and is unable to follow. She smiled coldly

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    First Day of High School

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    My First Day of High School The beeping of my alarm clock sounded like a countdown. The first day of high school was only two hours away. I was excited‚ but a lot more nervous. I got out of bed‚ got ready‚ and then was on my way to the bus stop. All I could think of are the stories I heard about high school being so horrible with all the strict teachers‚ the really hard tests‚ and of course being a freshman doesn’t help either. The bus ride to the school was only ten minutes‚ but it seemed a lot

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    in Moscow early the following day I thought I might as well turn in. I was just about to go and get my bed-linen when I saw the attendant coming along collecting the tickets. So I opened my bag to get mine ready for him. I got my ticket and gave it to the attendant. She read the ticket very carefully then surprisingly looked at me and said that I had set on the wrong train. This train was bound for Murmansk. I was shocked at this. I must be in Moscow next day and my plans went to smash. The

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    My First Day at Au

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    Most people’s first day at college is the most stressful day of their lives because they don’t know what to expect or they just don’t want to go through an embarrassing situation‚ but for me it was the most exciting day of my life. First‚ I met new people who shared my interests‚ second it was a whole new experience for me in which success depended on me‚ and third it was the first day that I started studying something that I really liked. Finally I won’t forget it very easily because lots of things

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