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    holding his feeling in for quite some time maybe even before the time the play began. The degree of shock rises even more for the audience and even the characters of Catherine and Rodolfo as Eddie kissed Rodolfo. ‘Eddie pins his arms laughing’ the laughter from Eddie may be from his drunken state and that he thinks what he is about to do is funny and a joke or he may be laughing

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    Life is full of unexpected incidents. Some anticipated stories do not happen the way we have always wanted. Some days‚ nights‚ ways and fights keep repeating in our life. However‚ it can be pretty funny to look back to the past where many embarrassing moments occur in our days and nights‚ leaving an abiding memory that cannot be possibly forgotten. The same goes to me as I’m one of the creatures created by God. Scientists call me Homosapien but the world would rather address me as a human being

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    only feel trapped‚ but they are also not happy on the inside. They do not allow themselves to have fun occasionally‚ nor does Nurse Ratched allow it. McMurphy‚ the main character and newest patient‚ notices this and attempts to make jokes but no laughter comes out of it. “There is something strange about a place where the men won’t let themselves loose and laugh‚ something strange about the way they all knuckle under to that smiling flour-faced old mother there with the too-red lipstick and the too-big

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    Important Place

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    An important place. Chris English 123 August 20‚ 2013 2 As a child the most important place to me was the block in my neighborhood I grew up on. It was a particularly long and very wide street with several pairs of incredibly tall palm trees spread throughout both sidewalks. There was no shortage of playmates; almost every other home on the block had children around my age I could play with. There was also an older generation of teenagers that hung around together. I also had other

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    last thing he saw. I turned away. These people were barbaric. As we passed my mother ordered the driver to stop and I opened the door and found myself looking at St. Marys of Bethlehem‚ I had always wanted to come here. As I entered I could hear laughter‚ I turned round the corner and found myself staring at dancing peasant. At first I was extremely confused‚ and then I saw the people poking them. Anger boiled in my stomach‚ people were provoking the poor people by hitting them with sharp sticks

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    were jumping off buildings and burning to death. That specific event is not something to joke about because it can be very hurtful to family and friends. Humorists are usually pretty funny for most people. Humor is meant to be amusing and produce laughter by using messages many people can relate too. Comedians make fun of serious topics to add humor to it and turn it into a joke. In the United States‚ we the people have freedom of speech and comedians can speak their own opinions. However‚ if you

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    Atavism

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    Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type. In biology‚ an atavism is an evolutionary throwback‚ such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations before.Atavisms can occur in several ways. In the social sciences‚ atavism is a cultural tendency—for example‚ people in the modern day reverting to the ways of thinking and acting of a past/former time.The word atavism is derived from the Latin atavus. An atavus is a great-great-great-grandfather or‚ more generally‚ an ancestor.

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    Helping people is a responsibility of every citizen‚ I believe. And I used to help everyone I could. I enjoyed the feeling I got when I reversed a stranger’s awful day and turned it into something good. I’ve learned better since then. Don’t get me wrong; I still agree with and practice the concept‚ but I’m much more adept at it now that I have gained experience. Even though I was the rescuer‚ it seemed like I always had to pay a personal price for being kind to people. After suffering much heartache

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    I can’t do this anymore. I thought‚ trying to focus on writing down my math homework and zone out the laughter surrounding me. I know- melodramatic eighth graders‚ everyone hates ’em. But I’m different- I swear. You just don’t know the whole story. It started when I walked into this wretched class. The worst thing in the history of bad things ever happening to people happened- I tripped. I know‚ oh the horror! But that’s not just it. I tripped. On my TIED shoelaces. And fell. And people stared

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    embaresing moment

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    An Embarrassing Experience The small embarrassing moments in life are the ones that make us laugh and cry. I have done countless embarrassing things in my life‚ and when I look back I have to laugh because most of them are extremely foolish acts by me that back fired on me. I was a member of my school drama club. At the end of the year‚ we were going to present a play based on a famous book called Jane Eyre. I was to play the part of the main male character‚ Mr. Rochester. Our play was going to

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