...One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies This book is about Ruby Milliken and how her mother has died and is now living in California. She moved out to live with her dad, Whip Logan he’s a famous movie actor. Ruby didn’t want to move to California because she would leave her boyfriend Ray behind and her best friend Lizzie. When Ruby gets to his house it looks like a big mansion to her. Then when she finds her room and it looks just like her dream room. There was also a guy living there too named Max. Max was fun and Ruby and him would talk about a lot of things with him and one day Max told her he was in love with a person named Rip. After being there awhile there was a knock on the door and when they answered it it was famous movie actor Cameron Diaz. Cameron had came over to ask for some vanilla extract for a birthday cake for Drew Barrymore. Cameron also gave Whip a kiss on the cheek and Ruby asked herself this weird question, “Is Cameron Diaz going to be my stepmother?”. Almost everyday Ruby writes a letter to her mom even though she has passed away. Lizzie and Ruby would write back and forth whenever they have the chance to and then there’s...
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...Many Americans live the supposed American Dream of having a nice car, big house, well paying job, and have a secure family. In the renowned novel The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler he captures those Americans who live invisible in America that work so hard to suffer from the psychological effects of poverty. In The Working Poor Shipler goes on to explain these myths. Shipler states that the American Myth “still supposes that any individual from the humblest origins can climb to well-being” It is just that the individuals in this novel are scattered along this spectrum of polar opposites, that each person’s life is the mixed product of bad choices and bad fortune, of roads taken and roads cut off. The debate on welfare...
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...“Friendship at this stage”. I’m hoping for romance, but it’s too difficult to call it at this stage.” “You know you can arrange flowers over the internet or even over the phone these days.” “I want to send a book with the flowers.” Harry reached over and took the copy of Midnight’s Broken Toll off the dashboard and opened it before I could stop her. “Dear Ruth, I hope you enjoy my book. Tobie.” She started to laugh. “I don’t think that is going to spark a storm of lustful romantic emotion unless Ruth is a librarian. The only thing you left out was telling her the date you wanted your book back.” Attempting to remove the book from Harry’s hands, I said, “Thanks for the insight.” Harry, pulling her hands away from me, read from the back cover, “A brilliant retelling of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream set in the current epidemic of social media manipulation. As Russia manipulates the Trump 2016 election, individual lives and loves are also manipulated and mutilated as the AI algorithms prove to be every bit as comedically unreliable as Shakespeare’s original Puck.” Looking directly at me, “Who reads this pretentious crap anyway?” I held out my open hand, and after a few moments, she handed the book back to me. I couldn’t let that one go without commenting, “It has been quite a popular book, as it turns out.” “Always fucking Shakespeare. We did Hamlet at school, and fuck me, it was just like the Lion King except without any of the exciting bits.” “So, Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1601,...
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...Character Study Physical Appearance Marie Elliot was the kind of student teachers might call promising or eccentric or offensive. Promising for her uncanny ability with facts and numbers, eccentric for the way she often looked out the window for a moment too long or carried a different age-yellowed book each day, and offensive for just about everything else. Every person in the world was balanced at birth; built a skill for every a flaw, an asset for every enemy. Marie was no exception. Lacking any desire or drive, she had precariously avoided all homework assignments, despite her prodigiously impressive intellect. Or rather, one might assume, because of it. On one sun-bathed autumn afternoon, Marie sauntered into sixth period calculus,...
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...SPEAK ENGLISH LIKE AN AMERICAN YOU ALREADY SPEAK ENGLISH... NOW SPEAK IT EVEN BETTER! DELUXE BOOK & CD SET A M Y GILLETT Copyright © 2004 by Language Success Press All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher. First Edition ISBN 0-9725300-3-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2004102958 Visit our website: www.languagesuccesspress.com Bulk discounts are available. For information, please contact: Language Success Press 2232 S. Main Street #345 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 USA E-mail: sales@languagesuccesspress.com Fax: (303) 484-2004 (USA) Printed in the United States of America The author is very grateful to the following people for their collaboration and advice while preparing this book and CD set: Vijay Banta, Jacqueline Gillett, Thomas Gillett, Marcy Carreras, John McDermott, Natasha McDermott, Cat McGrath, Patrick O'Connell. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amy Gillett has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in Stamford, Connecticut and in Prague, Czech Republic. Her essays and humor writing have appeared in many publications, including MAD Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Family Circle. Amy majored in Slavic Languages and Literature at Stanford University and holds a Master's degree from Stanford in Russian and Eastern European Studies. Amy has studied and worked abroad in many countries...
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...country. I was having a lot of dreams, and though I would have a big success in my new university; however the things was not going to the right that I was thinking. I was a student in the program of the Respiratory Therapy, and I finished my first year courses. After I finished my courses, I became vanity, blindness, and relaxation. Last fall semester, I backed to university, I cannot follower the courses anymore, and I failed. Because the courses open once each year, I cannot take any courses in university on the winter. That was the end of the world to me, I lost myself, and I had stayed at home for 4 months. Fortunately, I have a wonderful family, and they rise me up. The new beginning is come to me, I back to school and take the BBA program. I did read the book of “The fifth agreement”, and I recollect my story. Then I have understood more things of the life. People always say failure could make you clear. I think so, I made a big mistake and waste my two years, but for now, I am growing up. The five agreements that, Don Migule Ruiz, Don Joe Ruiz, and Janet Mills, share their life experience from the book. I am a confuse people and I try to learn how to be a success in the future, “You are programmed to be you, whatever you are, and it makes no difference to the program what your mind thinks you are”(4). After read the book, I think life should be learning, trying, failed, rising up, and keep going. I will keep going, and try to come true my dreams by my harder working. ...
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...Club IT part one Amber Woodie XBIS/219 March 30, 2013 Robin Canale Club IT part one Introduction Club IT is a very popular nightclub that is filled with fun and energy. Club IT is owned and operated by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada. They both graduated college with Business administration degrees in 2000 that’s when they both decided that they would open up there dream nightclub. Ruben and Lisa are both very passionate about music, Ruben plays the drums and Lisa plays jazz violin. The club that Ruben and Lisa opened also has food and beverages along with many different types of music like hip-hop, techno, R&B, and they also have a live band. Ruben and Lisa are concerned about the clubs information management which seems to be struggling a little bit. The mission of Club IT The mission statement states: “We, Ruben and Lisa offer you live music, DJ’s, dance space, and refreshments that suit lifestyle. You are our friends and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT” (Wiley higher education 2011). In the mission statement Ruben and Lisa are trying to make all customers feel welcome and hope that they enjoy themselves. Club IT clientele The clientele that Club IT is trying to attract is clientele of all ages, single, married, young, old, students, anyone who wants to come out and have a great time. The average age for Club IT is more of a younger crowd like 20’s, but they would love to attract more customers of all different...
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...Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by STEPHEN chbosky Published by: POCKET BOOKS, Simon and Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright 1999 by Stephen Chbosky BOOK JACKET INFORMATION standing on the fringes of life ... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks Of Being A WALLFLOWER This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, andThe Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known asgrowingup. visit us on the world wide web _inghttpwhststwwwlessimonsayscom_wh _inghttpwhststwwwmtvcom_wh stephenchboskygrew...
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...Prologue Ako nga Pala si Natasha Julie Ann Cameron.. haba ng name ko noh? Ashie for short, apelyedo ko po ang Cameron :DD NBSB ako, dahil naniniwala ako na sagabal lang sa pag-aaral ang mga lalaki,. I hate guys except for my kuya, blame my father he left us without a trail, iniwan niya kami nila mommy, what is LOve? -for me epal, darating kung saka di pa ako handa. well, kahit NBSB ako may mga manliligaw parin ako, hihihi. pero no luck na ata ngayon, kasi dati pa yun na mga manliligaw... nag sawa na sa kakahintay. kaya ayon, wala na, pero okay lang.. **/if you want to read it on your mobile fone copy paste niyo na lang ‘toh sa notepad. :D sa ibang phone nababasa ‘toh as it. I mean as MC word talaga pero yung iba ebook so you need to cpy paste this pa sa notepad and then saka niyo isend sa cp niyo.. kung myphone gamit niyo you’re lucky enough. copy paste mo lang ‘toh sa notepad and send mo sa cp mo. okay na! kung nokia naman gamit mo, N70 na o-open siya as note.. I don’t know sa ibang model….AT! hindi ko na rin poi to na edit TT^TT, so sorry sa mga wrong spelling,wrong grammar.etc. hope u understand. thanks! :*** Chapter 1 "Natasha! bumaba kana dito kakain na" - mommy "coming right up mom"- me pag baba ko, hmm, mas safe ng idescribe na si mommy ang nag handa ng food namin kahit hindi, >:) "good morning Kuya" –me lagi ko siya ginegreet, kahit di niya ako ginegreet. close kami pero di niya lang type mang bati pag umaga. :D 1 year agwat namin, kaya close. "Ashie...
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...Bree Scarboro An Evening of Indian Insight and Encouragement A Response to Poetry Reading by Susan Deer Cloud Professor Diana, English 328 November 21, 2011 Susan Deer Cloud is a Native American literature writer of Blackfoot, Mohawk, and Seneca heritage, and considers the very act of writing ceremonial. She was born and grew up in the Catskill Mountains and the area is inspiration for her writing. She has earned her B.A. in General Literature & Creative Writing and M.A. in English Literature & Creative Writing from Binghamton University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has taught as a lecturer at Binghamton University, Broome Community College, and Holyoke Community College. She has authored five books for which she has won competitions and received various awards—including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (most recent in March of 2011), as well as grants and honorable mentions for her work. Susan Deer Cloud’s artistic goal is “getting out the voices of sister and brother writers (especially indigenous writers)” (Susan Deer Cloud). During our class visit with Susan Deer Cloud and at her poetry reading on November 7, she mentioned Akwe:kon which is a Mohawk word meaning, "all of us." She says that “we are all a part of this and are here together sending out energy and when we speak our breath mingles with other people's breath and other voices” (Deer Cloud...
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...Dalton Sherman Video Amber. D, Coomer EDUC 503 November 11, 2012 Dr. William Gillum INTRODUCTION Teaching can be described as a noble profession, maybe the noblest of them all. It as David Haselkorn said “Teaching is the essential profession, one that makes all other professions possible” (1996) Those words seem to have gotten lost in light of recent attacks upon teachers union and in general teachers themselves. As most often times it has been said that those that can do and those that cannot teach, which in itself is a stab at those that do teach. While the nobility of teaching can be debated, the degree in toughness in which the teaching profession has risen cannot. Teaching is one of the most important jobs in any society and often one of the most thankless as well. BELIEVE When those days of thanklessness are too broad to bear, all one needs to do to be given inspiration is to watch the video of the speech, given by 5th grade student Dalton Sherman at the Dallas Independent Teachers Conference in 2008 (2008) In the speech, then eleven year old, Dalton Sherman gives the back to school kickoff address to some 20,000 teachers. Sherman inspires his crowd, saying, "I can do anything, be anything, create anything, dream anything, become anything" (Sherman, 2008),such powerful words, coming from such a young mind. Reiterating that as student, he has the power and ability to have faith, not only in his own abilities, but has faith in the abilities of all those that have...
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...the world’s finest ales, some of which have been brewed for centuries in that country’s monasteries. As Jeff Lebesch, an American electrical engineer, cruised around that country on his fat-tired mountain bike, he wondered if he could produce such high-quality beers back home in Colorado. After acquiring the special strain of yeast used to brew Belgian-style ales, Lebesch returned home and began to experiment in his Colorado basement. When his beers earned thumbs up from friends, Lebesch decided to market them. The New Belgium Brewing Company (NBB) opened for business in 1991 as a tiny basement operation in Lebesch’s home in Fort Collins. Lebesch’s wife, Kim Jordan, became the firm’s marketing director. They named their first brew Fat Tire Amber...
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...Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s Imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental. The Penguin Putnam Inc. World Wide Web site address is http://www.penguinputnam.com To Charles Coulter, my father and a very talented gentleman. Thank you for the genes you passed on to me. And the support that never wavered. All my love Also by Catherine Coulter THE COVE THE NIGHTINGALE LEGACY THE WYNDHAM LEGACY LORD OF FALCON RIDGE LORD OF RAVEN’S PEAK LORD OF HAWKFELL ISLAND THE HEIRESS BRIDE THE HELLION BRIDE THE SHERBROOKE BRIDE SEASON IN THE SUN BEYOND EDEN IMPULSE FALSE PRETENSES SECRET SONG EARTH SONG FIRE SONG ROSEHAVEN Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html in hardcover from G. P. Putnam’s Sons 1 NEARB ALTIMORE, MARYLAND MARCH 1822 Slaughter County Course: Saturday Races, last race, one-half mile HE WAS GOINGto lose. He didn’t want to lose, dammit, particularly to Jessie Warfield, that obnoxious brat. He could feel Rialto just behind him, hooves pounding firm and steady on the black dirt, head stretched long, muscles hard and bunched. He looked over his left shoulder. Rialto was coming on faster than a man escaping from a woman’s bedchamber before her husband came through...
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...Alex Flinn A Kiss in Time For Joyce Sweeney. Thanks for everything! Contents Part I Talia ix Chapter 1 If I hear one more syllable about spindles, I shall… 1 Chapter 2 Tomorrow is my sixteenth birthday. I do not suppose it… 7 Chapter 3 Free of the encumbrance that is Lady Brooke, I fairly… 17 Part II Jack 25 Chapter 1 What they don’t tell you about Europe is how completely… 27 Chapter 2 “Good thing we got food first,” Travis says on the… 33 Chapter 3 When I was a kid, back when my family was… 39 Chapter 4 It’s a castle. Not a modern-looking one like Buckingham Palace,… 45 Chapter 5 I stare at her. I’ve never seen a human being… 49 Chapter 6 She’s awake! It really is like Snow White! Holy crap!… 55 Chapter 7 Things get a little crazy then. There’s Travis at the… 63 Part III Jack and Talia 71 Chapter 1: Talia 73 Chapter 2: Jack 84 Chapter 3: Jack 94 Chapter 4: Talia 101 Chapter 5: Jack 105 Chapter 6: Talia 111 Chapter 7: Jack 131 Chapter 8: Talia 147 Chapter 9: Jack 151 Chapter 10: Talia 156 Chapter 11: Jack 169 Chapter 12: Talia 176 Chapter 13: Jack 183 Chapter 14: Talia 188 Chapter 15: Jack 194 Chapter 16: Talia 200 Chapter 17: Jack 208 Chapter 18: Talia 213 Chapter 19: Jack 220 Chapter 20: Talia 225 Chapter 21: Jack 235 Chapter 22: Talia 241 Chapter 23: Jack 251 Chapter 24: Talia 258 Chapter 25: Jack 266 Chapter 26: Talia 271 Chapter 27: Jack 273 Chapter 28: Talia 278 Chapter 29: Jack ...
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