It is what some might call the witching hour‚ when The Mafia returns home. He unlocks the door‚ steps over the threshold‚ then freezes in his tracks. She’s sitting there across the floor in her plush arm chair that faces the door. From this distance he can see the anticipation in her wiggling‚ sagging jowls. How long has she in her frail‚ pathetic state waited for him? “Why do you hurt people?” she asks. She’s trying to be strong‚ there’s a resoluteness in her voice. A long pause follows before
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As I slide my hands into my marching band gloves‚ I notice details that I ignored during the 4 years I was in Eastern Regional High School. The gloves are white and made of cotton. First‚ I focus on my wrist. A Velcro strap‚ surrounding my wrist‚ fastens the opening. As I stroke the palms of my gloves‚ I notice the fabric has tiny bumps to create friction and allow for a secure grip. The fabric covering the back of my hands has a soft‚ smooth texture. Next‚ my eyes move up to my fingers. I recall
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different types of marching bands. Speech Purpose: To Inform Specific Speech Purpose: To inform others that there are different types of marching bands‚ and that all have different styles and require different techniques. Introduction Attention-getter: When you think of a marching band‚ what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Do you think of a pep band that you see in the stands during a football game? Or do you think of a military band marching in a parade? A marching band is a group of
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I awoke one morning feeling like it would be the greatest day of my life‚ but little did I know that everything would change within the blink of an eye. It all began when I decided to go to the park to practice some soccer. I thought that I was prepared for everything; however‚ as soon as I shot my first goal‚ a helicopter came in from out of nowhere. It appeared that it were going to land right on top of me. My first instinct was to run‚ but I was so scared that it was as if my feet were glued
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Johnny Tremain Pride Essay Pride is an emotion that has two meanings. With a negative meaning‚ pride is an exaggerated sense of personal status or accomplishments. With a positive meaning‚ pride is a pleased sense of attachment toward one’s own or another’s choices and actions. Johnny Tremain is known to be an extremely prideful person. Johnny has both positive and negative prideful traits that affect him throughout his life. His pride played a large role in his accident‚ and benefited him and other
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the best and the worst days of my life but I would go through it all over again if given the chance. There were times when Paul would get so frustrated with the front ensemble that he would just leave without saying when he would be back or not and whenever he did that it was a bit of a saddening realization. It wasn’t just Paul that got mad like this Adam got just as mad and when Dietrich would get mad like that‚ it was time to duck and cover. What all of this made me realize though was that practicing
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Johnny Cade‚ “the little Dark puppy that was kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers‚” as Ponyboy‚ Johnny’s friend‚ states in page eleven. In the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ by Susan Eloise Hinton‚ Johnny Cade is a character who goes through resilient phases in his life. Some phases are on how he created his inflection points‚ his inflection points‚ and the ramifications. Johnny is doubtless the first one‚ and one to have the most‚ to have a tremendous crisis then the other characters
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The movie Johnny Tremain helped me gain more knowledge about the American Revolution from a different perspective. Johnny Tremain is a work of historical fiction‚ combining real people and events like Paul Revere‚ Sons of Liberty‚ and the Boston Tea Party‚ and fictional ones like Jonathan Tremain‚ Priscilla Lapham‚ and Ephraim Lapham. The fictional characters‚ although these people did not historically exist‚ gave me a personal insight to the actual events that occurred such as the Boston Tea Party
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Characters in the book “Johnny Tremain” are Dynamic‚ there are also a few static characters‚ Static is a character which personality doesn’t change much and the opposite for dynamic‚ A dynamic character would be Johnny Tremain‚ two static characters would be Mr. Lapham and Rab. Static is a character which personality doesn’t change much and the opposite for dynamic. Johnny Tremain is a Dynamic character. In the beginning of the book he never would think before he talked for example when he offered to fix
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Do you know any heros? Like firemen‚ policemen anyone that helps in a way. Well Johnny is like that a hero he did many things to make himself a hero he was like a leader in the gang cause every one liked him and they look up to him but there is one thing that they don’t look up to him on is fighting that’s another reason why he’s a hero he was not a fighter he said to them fighting is know good. Because of these qualities‚ Jonny deserves the title of best hero. Jonny was a boy in the Outsiders
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