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A Place I Will Never Forget Essays and Term Papers
The Day I Will Never ForgetI have a lot of embarrassing moments. But none is an unforgettable as the one that happened as the one that happened to me three years ago. I was on my way home from school. My sister and our friends were with me too. We were waiting for the bus. It was a very hot and humid afternoon. There was a ...
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Silence the PastThe gun cracked violently as I pulled the trigger and shot three straight bullets into the target’s forehead. “Never miss,” I told myself. The shooting range was the best part of this dreadful job. I stared at the sign on the grey wall, “Mexico City Police Department: Precinct Nine,” ...
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Until All The Men Are Back“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and goes after the lost sheep until he finds it? “And, when he finds it, he puts it on his shoulders and goes home. “Then he calls [everyone] and says, ...
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My Friend T.W.T.W. Gerron and I met in the fifth grade when I first came to Cooper High School. We werent in the same home room, but we were friends from the get go. I met him on the soccer field my first morning. I will never forget it because he outran me to score the winning goal. When the bell rang, ...
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Civil War JournalDear Journal, August 2, 1863
With Dixie in my heart, today is the day that South Carolina recruited me for this war. I must soon be ready to go to the regiment I was assigned to. I am in the 3rd Infantry Regiment of South Carolina. I would rather have been in the cavalry since, the ...
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The Life Of A Jamestown ColonistAnne Williams was born in 1570. She traveled to Jamestown, Virginia with the first group of settlers to go there. She, her mother, and her two sisters were the first women and among one of the only peasant families to go on that first voyage to Jamestown. Here is her story as she remembers it. ...
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Holocaust Surviovor TestimonyThe Holocaust was a devastating event. It will be remembered forever. Statistics are important to learn just how many people perished as result of the Holocaust. But perhaps more shocking than statistics, are the words said by people who experienced the Holocaust first hand. It takes a ...
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The Stranger at my windowThis essay is based on a personal experience I had that changed my point of view about strangers. It made me realize that you really cannot trust anybody, especially a stranger at your window. This heart pounding experience was one that I will never forget, and one that will follow me as I travel ...
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Personal Writing: Spring Break 99The early morning fog had just begun to rise as we packed the already overloaded Suburban. Though my parents would never approve, we continued to stuff the trunk until only a small crack was left. With my coffee in my left hand and my D.J. / co-pilot on the right, I was ready to embark on what ...
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Personal Writing: Exchange Student In JapanIt was March 15, 1997. The time too early to remember. What was
clear however, was the fact that I was soon going to be on my own in a
country where I did not know the language or the people that I would be
meeting there and staying with. The adrenaline rushed through me as I
packed the last of ...
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New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag"They have a word down South to describe the way you feel when your packed into
a crowded dive at 1:00 AM, where the cigarette smoke is so thick it makes its
own weather; and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while some bad-ass
Jazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge ...
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Creative Writing: The Unforgettable ManBeing an orderly at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital was a fun job that
required a strong heart. The hospital was a great place for me to experience
the beauty of life and the unwanted death of humans. Throughout my year of
employment at the Community Hospital, I was able to enjoy my work by ...
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Personal Writing: My Dog SkippyWhen I was little I loved animals. Although most children have pets,
I could not convince my parents into allowing me to have one until my pre teens.
I could not have been happier the day my family went to the pound and I picked
out my dog Skippy. Skippy loved to run and he was loyal to me and ...
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Pride -- (war Essay) --The soldiers of my army were pounding at the walls of the enemy base, ramming into the thick stone and metal with tanks and bulldozers. There was little left on the interior of those walls, having been blown away by mortar shells or destroyed by howitzer fire. The few buildings that retained ...
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Phone Call To BobbieBootcamp seemed like eternity. It was December 25, 1996 Christmas day. There I was in the US Navys bootcamp standing in line with my division waiting to enter the galley. Why I had chosen to be in Great Lakes in the of dead winter I will never know. More than anything I wanted to hear my ...
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A Geological JourneyOn October 17, 1998, the UST Geology students met in the UST parking lot and around 7:00 a.m. in the morning, we left to start our day long field trip to Central Texas. Right after we left the parking lot, we saw Kirk, one of our classmates, and picked him up. He woke up late and almost missed ...
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The Cuban Missile CrisisThe Cuban Missile Crisis: Looking Down the Gun Barrel
Merin Cook Junior Division Research Paper
The Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the most documented events in history, so why has history gotten it so wrong? Titles like Maximum Danger and On the Brink of Doom represent common attitudes ...
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Heroes"I Venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime!"
Daniel Webster defines:
*Hero:
one renowned for exceptional courage and fortitude; a champion; an idol
A thesaurus goes a little further when it says: ...
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Samuel De ChamplainMy father, the chief of our village, made a deal with the Frenchman, , the chief of his people. My father accepted pots and axes and food in exchange for taking two frenchmen to the Huron Indians. One man, named Father la Forge, was a priest, we called him Blackrobe because he wore a black ...
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Heroes 2"I Venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime!"
Daniel Webster defines:
*Hero:
one renowned for exceptional courage and fortitude; a champion; an idol
A thesaurus goes a little further when it says: ...
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