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    My Best Christmas Ever

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    memory is of age two. I found something that looked like the spring inside of a ballpoint pen‚ only the ends were straight and long. I stretched the spring‚ wrapped it around my middle finger‚ and stuck both ends in an electrical socket. It was my first experiment. The spring turned red-hot‚ burned into my finger and disintegrated. I still have the scar. In looking at my chart astrologically‚ this probably took place approximately a month and a half before I turned three. Natally I have Cancer rising

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    During my childhood days‚ my mother used to read children stories like Jack and the Beanstalk‚ and The Ugly Duckling before I go to bed. I also loved reading fairy tales written by German authors like Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm Brothers. Some of which are even made into motion pictures such as Cinderella‚ Snow White and the Seven Dwarves‚ and the Little Mermaid. I even dreamed to live luxuriously someday like the kings and queens did in the story. But that’s far in reality. All these stories

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    Snake thing

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    In the first and second panel on page 85 in Maus‚ the reader can see the normal layout of a strip‚ but in panels’ three to four‚ things start to get interesting. First of all‚ we see a frame within a frame such that when the reader reads the third panel‚ his eyes will skim over the illustrations on the fourth panel to read the next narrative block. It goes from “I saw them…”‚ and then we look at the illustrations‚ to “They hanged there one full week”. The illustration in the fourth panel is probably

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    The Things They Carried

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    Spring Book Review In The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien tells the tale of not about war‚ but rather about war’s effect on one’s mentality. Ultimately‚ this novel is built on a foundation of the items that the soldiers of the Vietnam War carried. Whether it was the way Jimmy Cross uses the pebble to escape from his duties as a soldier or when Norman Bowker realizes that courage comes form within‚ not from receiving a Silver Star; O’Brien uses baggage as a symbol throughout the book to teach

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    The Best Game Ever Made

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    school. I had been conditioning for months leading up to tryouts for the baseball team so I was in the best shape of my life and I was confident. The past three years before that I was put on the JV team because the coaches didn’t like my “attitude”‚ so my senior year I was determined to get a starting spot on the varsity team no matter what. During tryouts the coaches would always look at me like I didn’t belong and would whisper things amongst themselves just quiet enough so I couldn’t hear. I knew

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    Olivia Lohmann Honors English Final Draft Racism: The Ever Raging Conflict A few years ago‚ my fellow seventh graders and I were standing around‚ waiting for the bell to ring. We weren’t doing much of anything aside from chattering back and forth with each other. A third grade class happened to walk by my grade with their teacher‚ all in single file line. While the little kids passed us‚ one of the seventh graders said “hello” to all of the tiny people

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    have you ever wondered

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    Have you ever wondered; what would you do if someday you win the lottery? Well‚ I have always thought about it and the idea of having millions of dollars in my bank account just make me think about one thing; building my dream house. First‚ I have to pick the perfect place to build my masterpiece. It has to be a place with the perfect climate‚ perfect landscape‚ and perfect people. I was raised in Honduras‚ and one day I visited Roatan which is an island in the northern part of the country. I was amazed

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    like me may find it hard to do some extra-curricular tasks and be involved to other organizations actively participating in school-related activities and all; I do not consider joining and participating to some ORG or clubs important. What I value the most is to complete all my enrolled units‚ attend all my subjects and be a normal student‚ I suppose‚ most of students here in Bicol University also thinks the same. One rainy morning last December 2011‚ the news broke out about the Typhoon Sendong

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    Never Ever Give Up

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    Never ever give up In our whole life‚ most things would not go as our wish. We sometimes feel frustrated and unwilling to try again after the failure; we feel like a total loser; we feel like‚ that we have been abandoned by the lucky goddess long time ago. And the thought of giving up might grab the chance and creep into our mind‚ trying to weaken our will to go on. But if we stop there‚ it won’t lead to success. Therefore‚ you always keep going on your way and never abandon your targets. In my opinion

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    “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul….. And sings the tune without the words….. And never stops….at all…. And sweetest… in the Gale….is heard… And sore must be the storm That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm I’ve heard it in the chillest land… And on the strangest Sea Yet‚ never‚ in Extremity It asked a crumb …. of Me Dickinson defines hope by comparing it to a bird (a metaphor) .

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