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My Friend April

One quiet summer afternoon I lay gazing into the big, blue sky watching the clouds form into immense moving objects that catch my eye for a second. I saw everything from birds to alligators and occasionally a car or bus. While staring at the sky in a world of my own I heard a clamor coming from ...

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Narrative Of The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

RICHARD F. PETERSON The key to the criticism of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man has been the personality of Stephen Dedalus and Joyce's own attitude or from that personality. 1 While the title clearly claims a special genius for Stephen--that of the artist--and modifies that genius by ...

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The Playmaker's Play

Anthony Moreno Ms. Menking English 1301 – 15 28 January 2011 Narrative Essay: the Playmaker’s Play Good work ethics and a positive attitude are crucial for an athlete because many times opportunities present themselves when one least expects them. On the twenty-eighth of August, of 2008, at ...

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Sisters Revenge

Sisters Revenge The sun hovered across the sky this July morning. It was summer time in Los Angeles, and everyone was out and about. Some people were at the mall. Others were at the movies. Most went to the pool to take a dip. It was the time to just go to the beach and have some fun in the ...

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Netherlands and United States Drug Policies

NETHERLANDS AND UNITED STATES CONCERNING DRUGS The Netherlands and the United States seem to be at opposite polls when it comes to their drug policy. "Dutch pragmatism with regard to drugs policy, an approach that deviates sharply from the worldwide war on drugs energetically promoted by the ...

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The Downy Woodpecker

Habitat Downies take home in the United States and southern Canada. They have been recorded at elevations of up to 9,000 feet. The downies are not deep-forested birds, preferring deciduous trees. Open woodlands, river groves, orchards, swamps, farmland, and suburban backyards are all favorite ...

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Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)

Faced with the task of writing a paper on a specific act of courage my initial reaction was that of total uncertainty. Later that evening, as I lay in my bed watching television I pondered what topic to do for the paper. Then the sportscaster on the news began an interview with Jim Abbott a ...

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Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp

Kylie Reuter Mrs. Coudron English Hour 4 3 February 2010 Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp Do you have memories of days at summer camp? Holocaust prisoners had memories from camp too, but not the kind you want to remember with your best friend the next summer. The Holocaust lasted from ...

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Fashion In The 1920s

When speaking of 1920's fashion, the first image that comes to mind is oftentimes the fringed flapper dresses and feathered headbands that were commonly worn by flapper girls during that era. However, that was not the only fad of the day. The 1920's had its share of trends as well as classics, a ...

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Effects Of Working Shifts

This analytical report is a study on the effects that working shifts, an unsteady work schedule, has on employees. This report will also include a brief history of shift work, some reasons for working shifts, categories of shifts, physical and psychological problems associated with shift work, ...

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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of “ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. that book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There were things which he streched, but mainly he told the truth. That ain' nothing. I never ...

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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful Dead

Jerome John Garcia was born in 1942, in San Francisco's Mission District. His father, a spanish immigrant named Jose "Joe" Garcia, had been a jazz clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties, and he named his new son after his favorite Broadway composer, Jerome Kern. In the spring of ...

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Ethan Frome: Fantasy Is An Escape From Winter

Ethan Frome, the title character of Edith Wharton's tragic novel, lives in his own world of silence, where he replaces his scarcity of words with images and fantasies. There is striking symbolism in the imagery, predominantly that of winter which connotes frigidity, detachment, bleakness and ...

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Spy Games - Creative Essay

Being an international spy is no walk in the park. Death can be waiting for you around the corner or around the world. However when you're only 17 years old, death is the furthest thing from your mind. So here we were on a hot summers day playing international espionage. Of course to six of us ...

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The Life And Work Of Ronald Dahl

September 13, 1916, was the day Harald and Sofie Dahl, two Norwegian immigrants living in Wales, had their first son, a boy they named Roald. Even before birth Roald was supposed to be endowed with great sense of beauty, courtesy of his father. Harald Dahl, a thriving ship broker in Cardiff, ...

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Venomous Creatures Of The West Pacific

The terms venom and poison are often used interchangeably. Although both venomous and poisonous animals have potentially dangerous toxins in their bodies, the way that toxin is delivered differs. Venomous animals have an active delivery system and may use their toxin for protection or to help ...

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Hands: Paranoia

Pierce English 102 b Jan. 28, 1997 It seems that in all three of these works there is a sense of paranoia. In "Hands" a man is fearful of what might happen if he continues to do as he has done in the past, touch people. A terrible fear of what a small touch could lead to. In the story ...

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Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer was born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. In 1944 she met civil rights activists who encouraged blacks to register to vote. She became active in helping. She also worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which fought racial segregation and ...

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Gays: A Struggle For Acceptance

"When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference, that reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudice." - John Shelby ...

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The Office Of Tomorrow

In an increasing number of companies, traditional office space is giving way to community areas and empty chairs as employees work from home, from their cars or from virtually anywhere. Advanced technologies and progressive HR strategies make these alternative offices possible. Imagine it's 2 ...

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