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    Becoming the one who made it Have you ever seen a man in a suit and tie driving around in the car of your dreams accompanied by a woman who appears to have it all? That right there‚ is my constant reminder to strive to be worthy of that same recognition I have toward successful people. To be of importance to my community is the impeccable dream. Your success in the future greatly depends on how successful you become during college years. For that reason‚ this school year I have decided to put

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    "My First Time Away From Home" Leaving to go to college was my very first time away from home‚ and it took a lot of adjusting to a new surrounding. I didn’t have my mom right by my side anymore and I needed to become more independent on doing things on my own. Adjusting to a new city‚ community‚ and school was a challenge because I was used to being in my own city‚ with my old friends‚ at my old school. I often got homesick and wanted to go home‚ but I soon adjusted. At first when I originally

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    Away is a play written by the Australian playwright Michael Gow‚ published by Currency Press in 1986.[1] First performed by the Griffin Theatre Company in 1986‚ it tells the story of three internally conflicted families holidaying on the coast for Christmas‚ 1968. It has become one of the most widely produced Australian plays of all time and is part of the Higher School Certificate syllabi or general High School Curriculum in many states‚ including Western Australia‚ New South Wales‚ Queensland and

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    different books all with different themes and different meanings. One style she liked to write about a lot was of the ritualistic nature‚ and about very bone chilling stories that she would come up with. Some examples of this are the books “The Haunting”‚ “The Witch”‚ “The Possibility of Evil”‚ etc. all written by Shirley Jackson herself. One story in particular that uses a sense of ritualistic nature is the short story “The Lottery” also written by Shirley Jackson. This story is about a village that

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    Win Some and Lose Some One hour away. Sloan‚ Iowa. Winna Vegas Casino. We like to say it’s a fun way to get away from college life‚ hang out with friends‚ and attempt to add a little extra to the pocket books. Many kids attending Buena Vista University have made at least one trip to the Winna Vegas Casino. This casino is 70 miles from Storm Lake and the age requirement to gain admittance is only eighteen. As an alternative to drinking or the bar scene‚ individuals view gambling as a relaxing and

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    Teenagers are more likely to run away from home than an adolescent child. Many people think about running away just to leave there problems behind in turn they create new and more complicated problems. As a teen I ran away for a day it was not a long period of time before I ended up back at home. But since my parents were divorced I ended up moving from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to live with my mother. From there my life seemed to go downhill because my mother did not care what I did. To this

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    very well so the risk of using them is less than it used to be. Nuclear stations have several advantages over other ways to make electricity: they can run at full power for many months at a time they can make enormous amounts of power from a small amount of fuel. Just one station can provide enough power for a city Advantages- No greenhouse gases emitted‚ no SO2 emitted to increase acid rain‚ fewer deaths and injuries in uranium mining than coal mining‚ fuel reserves will last longer than fossil fuels

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    Lottery Is Good

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    State lotteries have been around for awhile to help build up state revenue. In such things as scratch off instant tickets or daily number drawings. To some these things are evil‚ but to some others who’s lives aren’t the greatest‚ it’s a shimmer of hope that most people don’t have. Now the thing about the lottery is a lot of people don’t win‚ but those few that do could be put into a nice situation that they’ve never been in before. This is the land of freedom and opportunity‚ isn’t that we are giving

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    My First Time Away From Home Leaving go to high school was my very first time away from home‚ and it took a lot of adjusting to a new surroundings. I didn’t have my mother or my grandmother right by my side anymore and I needed to become more independent on doing things on my own. Adjusting to a new city‚ community‚ and school was a challenge because I was used to being in my own city‚ with my old friends‚ at my old school. I often got homesick and wanted to go home‚ but I soon adjusted. Another

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    A Walk by Moonlight

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    H L V Derozio’s poem‚ ‘A Walk by Moonlight’ describes the stages of awakening of the senses as a casual walk with friends gives him an experience in which he becomes enriched as his deeper senses are stirred and it turns into something more than just an appreciation of a moon light walk. Where he becomes philosophical and begins to search for life’s meaning in everything around him at that moment as he progresses on a note of introspection and reflection. The poem begins with the poet recollecting

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