Her sequestered rebellion began with advice murmured during our car rides home. “Make sure you ask your partner’s friends about their ethics before you say your vows‚” she said on numerous occasions. “You don’t want to be surprised by any prejudices.” It didn’t take long for me to recognize that my mother was directing her advice to herself at me as if ensuring its credibility. Later‚ she tested hesitant remarks in our car rides home. She’d mention that she wouldn’t be fixing dinner for my dad that
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The Last Ride Together by Robert Browning Robert Browning’s poetry is regarded as the finest love poetry. His poems deal with the emotions of love. His philosophy of love is an important part of his philosophy of life. “The Last Ride Together” by Robert Browning is a monologue (a long speech) of a rejected lover exploring the end of a love affair. The title suggests the last ride that the lover has spent with his beloved. However‚ the poet wants to convey through the narrator that rather than feeling
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Phan 1 Scott Phan Mrs. Davis English 8H‚ Period 3 15 November‚ 2014 Paul Revere’s True Midnight Ride On the evening of April 18‚ 1775‚ Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington‚ Massachusetts‚ to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. By now‚ most of the Massachusetts Patriot leaders had taken refuge in outlying communities‚ fearing arrest by British officials
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getting ready to ride the Titan‚ an adrenaline pumping roller coaster ride at Six Flags. It was easily the scariest ride at the park‚ in my opinion‚ with its enormous peaks‚ its deep descents‚ and double helix like turns was enough to make me sick. The ride began. Ascending up in the car on the canary yellow track‚ into the humidity filled‚ bright sky‚ the people observing from below resembled little army ants . The aerial view of Dallas was breathtaking‚ as I reached the peak of the ride and looked
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The Meal Ticket By Leslie Davis My call to write came at an early age. At the time I was far too young to understand how my camp letters home would someday prove to be one of my earliest and truest forms of self-expression. Camp Desoto was a month long girls camp situated high in the Rocky Mountains of Tennessee. On a hot June Saturday in 1973‚ with me riding alone in the back seat‚ my parents took the three hour drive up from Atlanta to drop me off for the summer. Other than holiday
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POV’s and Traffic Tickets There are quite a few soldiers in Oahu‚ Hawaii that own POV’s (Personally Owned Vehicles)‚ but many do not know the risk behind owning such dangerous tools. Yes‚ a POV is typically used as a form of transportation‚ but more reckless behavior tends to be the trend among younger soldiers. Reckless behavior such as texting and driving‚ drinking and driving‚ eating and driving‚ sleeping and driving‚ not wearing seatbelts‚ but the most dangerous of these behaviors is racing
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“The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” is a well-written poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow telling the tale of Paul Revere’s bravery before the battles of Lexington and Concord. Though a lot of the poem is accurate‚ parts of it are missing details‚ or the details have been changed‚ to make Revere look like more of a hero. At the beginning of the poem‚ Longfellow talks about how Paul Revere was standing on the opposite shore of the old North Church‚ ready to ride. However‚ what he failed to mention
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Purpose: To persuade the audience to ride bikes to local areas instead of driving Claim: policy Organization pattern: Problem-cause-solution Thesis: Why One Should Ride A Bike Instead of Drive Speech Outline I. Introduction a. You’re sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic already late for god knows what‚ the over bearing smell of car exhaust is literally killing you and overall you feel trapped. Not to mention you’re a little overweight and all you want is Jimmy Johns. You then look out your
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And the Lake Tahoe ride was wonderful‚ something all able-bodied should try to experience once. Circling the lake in a ride billed as America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride was incredible. We began in the chill of 6:30 am‚ with spectacular sun angles on mountain and water‚ and ended 8 hours later in the warm afternoon after climbing Nevada’s Spooner Summit. At the finish line there was applause from hundreds of spectators and earlier finishers. And if this was going to be my last ride of any consequence
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get from the poem‚ “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem‚ “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere‚”. It was written in 1860. Mr. Longfellow‚ while getting some details right‚ he gets some parts wrong. There are many reasons that make the poem incorrect‚ three of those ways are that Paul Revere never saw the lanterns signal‚ that Paul Revere was captured‚ and that Mr. Revere never made it. Some may claim that the Poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere‚” is very credible
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