The girl softball team had loaded first although they got put out they still was there for us. Team leader in the front of the bus and the rest filled in. The ride to the field was quite. No one talked at all during the trip to the baseball field. The bus was the place to prepare yourself. What I mean by that is the bus was for you to get your mind forced on the game of baseball. The bus was not the time to think about what you going to eat for dinner or the girl you talked
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The very first thing I smelt when I walked out of the meager airport was diesel. It was my first time out of the country and I didn’t know what I was going to expect. Was it everything people told me it was going to be? Was it depressing? Scary? Heart wrenching? Why yes‚ yes it was. However‚ it was an experience I will never forget. When I got to Ecuador‚ I didn’t know what I was going to expect. I walked onto this huge yellow bus that was going to take me to the humongous hotel where I would be
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One dark vague morning I awoke‚ to rays of sunlight beaming down on my face. I slowly begin to smile as thoughts flowed into me like a river. I jumped up with excitement as I realized we were going to Florida. I grabbed all my bags that I had packed the night before and laid them beside the door. "Ready‚ We should get going before it’s too late." My dad crackled. I smiled and thought to myself‚" I never have been more ready in my entire life!" Alright let’s get going then. I bolted to the car and
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teacher organized a cycling trip around Penang Island. So‚ I decided to join the cycling trip along with my 49 schoolmates’ and 2 teachers who will escort us. We gathered around 8 o’clock in the morning at the Tanjung Bungah. We were lucky because the weather was fine and sunny. The golden rays of the early morning sun brought much warmth and cheer. My friends and I was so excited and thrilled to wait for the trip to start. Before we start our journey‚ En.Hamdan‚ who is the trip organizer’s‚ gave us a
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July 31 through August 20‚ 2010- Trip to Santa Maria Going to Santa Maria best defines my personhood because my grandmother and grandfather both grew up there. When I visited‚ it felt as though I was seeing a whole new side of my grandparents and understanding what it was like for them growing up in such a small community. Connecting to my culture shaped my identity by experiencing things that my grandparents‚ and many family members before them‚ also experienced. I chose this event to be included
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wished‚ “if I at least had some flips on”. Until I realized it wouldn’t make a difference. It started as a nice time‚ a decent day. Then a scream. Then a cry. And back home for the evening...... the weekend. I was so excited. It was our first camping trip since last season. We go to Pueblo‚ Colorado‚ every other weekend. From the beginning of August till the end of September. We arrived around 10 o’clock Friday night. Everyone went to bed‚ so that we were well rested for the following day. We wake up
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In 1845‚ Frederick Douglass published his autobiography‚ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave. Through writing and word of mouth‚ Douglass achieved international fame. Despite all of this‚ the validity of the slave narrative genre has come into question. Skeptics and naysayers claim that this genre of writing is fantasized‚ and use Olaudah Equiano’s narrative as a prime example. Although The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano has questionable history validity;
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Captivity and Restoration: Around the time of the late 1600’s‚ it was extremely uncommon that an individual would encounter a professionally published piece of work written by a woman‚ let alone one that achieved notable fame. Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was one of the first to break that mold by advertising itself as a religious text. During the time of King Philip’s war‚ Native American inhabitants were launching attacks on colonists in present-day
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The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson reveals that the ghastly depiction of the Indian religion (or what Rowlandson perceives as a lack of religion) in the narrative is directly related to the ideologies of her Puritan upbringing. Furthermore‚ Rowlandson’s experiences in captivity and encounter with the new‚ or "Other" religion of the Indians cause her rethink‚ and question her past; her experiences do not however cause her to redirect her life or change her ideals
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The Impact of New England Puritan Captivity Narratives "I hope I can say in some measure‚ As David did‚ It is good for me that I have been afflicted." -Mary Rowlandson The mentality that existed amongst Puritans that sought to account for God ’s reasons for affliction by captivity was that it was His punishment. Thus their subsequent redemption was viewed as His mercy. They saw the many occurrences of captivities as a warning that all of New England
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