...The bar tender is totally gorge, I wish I was on a date, that would be totally inappropriate wouldn't it? Oh but his eyes, and smile, NO focus, this guy maybe the one, the one, considering I was set up by Janine, he probably isn’t no offence to her or him for that matter. I wonder what he looks like, tall, short, bald, ugh the bold ones are always so confronting, I would know, I married one of them, silly mistake that was. I hope he is tall, Im tall and its always so awkward having a short date, then you have to bend slightly to say hello, then stay at that height and it just looks like your slouching or in pain. God I hate dating….pfft no I don’t…I love it. OMG! Here he comes, Oh, not exactly what he looks like in his profile picture, but not bad looking. “Hi, yeah have a seat, thanks for coming, yeah I’m good thanks, and yourself? Great. So, um shall we order dinner? Yeah great hope you like seafood. So ah, what do you do for fun…Robert? Oh you play race car games, and how old are you, 40!? Yeah so, do you play a sport, no you don’t, no I don’t think race car rallies count, sorry, um what do you for a living? You live with your parents, yeah, Who me? No I don’t, I live in a house. Yeah oh sorry do you mind? Great...
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...Have you ever heard a friend, or perhaps a stranger, say, "Oh tennis? Pfft! What a joke! That ain't a sport! I would be the boss in that!" yea well….. They don’t think about the physical and mental stuff they got to have in that area. Yes, anyone can pick up a racket and hit a tennis ball, but it takes a dedicated and motivated someone to pick up a tennis racket and make it to the Top 20 or Top 10; and I'm not even talking about the Top 5 yet Tennis involves everything from your feet to your brain. If you think the physical side of tennis is challenging, that's only 10% of the match. Tennis involves a lot of strategy, hand-eye coordination, stamina, speed, flexibility, good ball sense, quick reflexes, precise footing, hours of practice and drills, hours of physical training, discipline, ability to play under a lot of pressure, consistency, strength, and analytical and problem solving ability. Tennis is a wonderful sport, whether you play competitively or not. Serena Williams has one of the best serves on the WTA circuit and to develop that serve, she would serve for hours on end. The same goes for Ana Ivanovic, who has always had a wobbly ball toss. Ivanovic beat Williams for the first time in five attempts, snapped the 17-time major champion’s 25-match winning streak and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time since 2008. “There is no secret,” Ivanovic said. “Every country has its own mentality, its own way to see things and to do things. We...
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...Don’t be a sap, Dad. These are just crappy knockoffs.” – Bart Simpson “Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there’s Magnetbox and Sorny.” – Homer Simpson Zombie Simpsons is a show on the FOX Network that’s been airing on Sundays at 8pm since roughly the year 2000. Like most half hour comedy shows, it has its ups and downs, but it’s usually blandly forgettable. Its viewership has been steadily declining for years, but new episodes still routinely draw between five and eight million viewers. It grinds out a steady profit one commercial break at a time, directly and indirectly employing a few hundred people, most of whom are neither rich nor famous. In all but one respect it is a middling, unexceptional television show . . . and there’s nothing wrong with that. It is the sacred right of everyone to veg out in front of a screen. On American television at any given time there are scripted and unscripted dramas and comedies, political gossip programs, science shows, pathetically fraudulent docu-dramas, movies, travel narratives, and game shows that pay varying levels of money for varying levels of contestant humiliation. These almost uncountable offerings are geared to appeal to every conceivable niche and demographic, and Zombie Simpsons has carved out its own cozy corner among them. The only thing that makes Zombie Simpsons exceptional is its illustrious predecessor, The Simpsons. That show is arguably the most renowned and celebrated program to ever...
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...workers was urgent and the government has begun coordinating the employment of women through campaigns and recruitment drives. Even though women’s main role was seen to be in the home looking after the children and managing family responsibilities, many women are now actively involved as nurses and other service duties. Mum also joined various voluntary organisations to help the war effort. Women were also being hired for men’s work! It’s crazy is it? I even read in the papers that because women were paid less than men people think that employers would continue to employ women in these jobs even when the men returned from the war. It won’t be long until women start running the entire country. Ha ha, A woman Prime Minister running Australia? Pfft, like that would...
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...Entrapment. Scene starts with a young feline looking girl with a vintage rose complexion and strawberry blonde hair called Katie. She is sat towards the end of her bed, legs crossed, her hands tucked into her sleeves. She is leant over looking very defensive and indecisive. She looks straight at the camera expressing no emotion or enthusiasm then her eyes dart away quickly staring blankly at her sleeves ensuring no skin is shown. Sighing quietly, she takes a deep breath and begins to speak. Um, okay, everything was once so perfect. I mean, I had family, friends, especially my best friend, I enjoyed school and partying on weekends, getting high and crashing in a field. Hm yeah it was good. Although things aren’t so good once I entered my room. I hate my room, four white walls, so fuckin’ boring. I’m trapped within this room, I need that key. I wake up every morning underneath these salmon covers, sore neck from my one pillow. I always wake up before Emily too, lay listening to the muttering under her breath whilst she sleeps. Watching the room break out from itself, cracking through its own walls. Katie stares blankly at the four walls of her room scanning every inch effortlessly as if she has done it a thousand times before. Her eyes come to a sudden stand still as she looks at the collage of pictures she has arranged evenly next to each other on one of the walls. She nervously begins to speak again. It’s always dark in my room, I dunno, I like the darkness I suppose but...
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...Back in the barn house the late night stayed quiet. A gleaming moon had already peaked from the midnight sky. The distant sound of howls from coyotes ripped through the air. Even so the animals on the barn stayed quiet. A small pup from the barn wandered outside its crate; a look of disgust was written all over its face. Soon enough the pup had already approached a still body covered in the hay, its curiosity grew stronger. The pup finally stood in front of the body only to shriek suddenly and rush back to its crate sniffling. In the bunk house, activity was very limited and talking seemed to be forbidden. George took a slight sip of his drink and rested his head once again. Candy side-eyed him cautiously, to make he was alright. “Why..? Don’t it smell lika dead rat in her?” George said while managing to crinkle his nose. Candy said, “Ion know, I s’pose it do smell a bit foul. Dontcha think Slim?!” Slim said, “Now that I thinka ‘bout it, I s’pose it do smell like sumthin died…Oh gosh! When Curley was runnin’ ta go find Lennie, I ges, nobody thought ta throw out Culey’s wife alright.” Slim’s face was now turning frustrated. George said, “Well ken somebody put er out, the room smells foul, darn.” Candy said, “Yea dump that tart’s body in tha woods, will ya?!” Slim said, “Mmmm…I’d rather not, nun personnel jus’ tryna enjoy ma drink. Candy called Slim to the side of the room and insisted that he go bury Curley’s wife. Candy said, “Please Slim, ya ain’t even gotta touch ‘er...
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...Listen up by Sierra A. Slinger "This world is so fucked up, son." Crap. He's awake, and that means you're probably in trouble. You close the front door quietly behind you, and move slowly towards the living room, pausing at the door. He's sitting in the armchair, the one that isn't facing you, and you can only see one of his arms hanging over the side. You hesitate because you don't really have enough gut to go any further. You were really late, and you thought for sure that he'd be asleep, because sane people were usually in bed by eleven, and it's 2 a.m. But no, the asshole had to sit around and wait up for you, probably drinking himself to all hell, and, yeah, that's alcohol you can smell in the air, which is great, just great. You guess it's pretty sad, though, because you can see two untouched boxes of pizza on the table, and there's Hitch, your favorite movie of all time, sitting right there on top of them. He probably planned out a whole evening of bonding, and suddenly you feel like the worst son on the entire planet, because you actually kind of are. You are the worst, it's you. Crap. "Shit, sorry, dad, I meant to get home sooner, but Daniel set all his clocks back four hours, because he's an jerk, and he said he wanted to know what it would be like to live in Hawaii, or some place. Okay, I forget what he said exactly, not like it matters, because all that comes out of his mouth most of the time is the most refined brand of diarrhea, which comes...
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...Men and Animals Chapter One: Date: Saturday, September 29th, 2019 Place: Bee’s Apartment Time: 7:35 p.m Maybe I am a little like Sekai-ichi’s main character, Takano Masumune. Everyone I dated made me a little cold in the heart. The more they got serious about me, the more I became cold to them. Also, we both like cats. We both are near-sighted. We both love to read. (But I’m not an editor-in-chief like he is.) And we both are still in love with someone after high school. Okay. Maybe I am a lot like Takano. But just not only in personality. I lay on the couch with my cat lying on my stomach and was purring away. I was petting her gently as possible while I was reading the Sekai-ichi Hatuskoi manga. This volume was back on Ritsu’s point of view. The last one was on Takano’s. He was explaining everything that happens between him and Ritsu. He was really mean to Ritsu then, but I like it how he slowly began to fall for Ritsu’s loving smile. Or was it just him in general? I closed the book and remember the page I was on. It’s been so long since I read the series. I took off my glasses and pinch the bridge of my nose then rubbing my eyes. I have been working my ass off since I graduated from the Early College High School to become an E4 in the Air Force. I was seventeen years old when I enlisted, but I really couldn’t do anything while I was still in high school working on college courses. But I did work on getting at least a 4.0 in my GPA or whatever it was I...
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...Ward College Teacher Training College LINGUISTICS Teacher: Lic. Sebastián Amado Paper Nº2: Essay on Pragmatics Date: 17-11-11 Students: Bruno, Fabiana García, Verónica Vocal, María Laura PRAGMATICS APPLIED TO EVERYDAY LANGUAGE Introduction Chapter 1: Deixis and distance 1. Person deixis 2. Spatial deixis 3. Temporal deixis Chapter 2: Reference and inference 1. Referring expression 2. Inference 3. Co-text 4. Anaphoric reference Chapter 3: Presupposition and entailment 1. Types of presupposition 2. Entailments Chapter 4: Cooperation and implicature 1. The cooperative principle 2. Hedges 3. Conversational implicatures 4. Generalized conversational implicatures 5. Scalar implicatures 6. Particularized conversational implicatures 7. Conventional implicatures Chapter 5: Speech acts and events 1. Speech act classification 2. Felicity conditions 3. Speech events Chapter 6: Politeness and interaction 1. Politeness 2. Face wants 3. Say something: off and on record 4. Positive and negative politeness Chapter 7: Conversation and preference structure 1. Conversation analysis 2. Pauses, overlaps, and backchannels Chapter 8: Discourse and culture 1. Discourse analysis Chapter 9: Identification and application Conclusion Bibliography ...
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...She's Dating The Gangster Color coding † Athena Dizon (17) † Kenji delos Reyes (18-19) † Lucas Lazaro (18) † Athena Abigail Tizon (18) † Sara Jung (17) † Jigs Bala (18-19) † Kirby Araneta (18-19) † Grace Matic (18-19) † Nathan Dizon (20) † Carlo Paez (15) † Athena's parents † Kenji's family † others Prologue love is happiness... love is smiling when you hear that person's voice... love is the butterflies in your tummy no matter how many times you see that person... love is when you look at them and smile for no reason... love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly... love is painful.. love is hard... love is sacrifice.. love is sadness.. “Can I live without the happiness? Can I live with that sadness? I don't know...I don't know anything anymore” I remembered that once I fell in love with a Gangster. I don't know how and when it happened. But I do remember saying that "I have fallen for this one of a kind stupid gangster. Oh wait, let me correct that. I LOVED this stupid gangster.. I gave him happiness while he gave me suicide in return. I know, It sucks. But I never regretted loving him in the first place, well… maybe I did." I also remembered loving everything about him ncluding his flaws.. Friends told me that we met in a very spontaneous way.. And then everything happened so fast.. But... Who's this gangster?? I know two gangsters but.. Which one am I dating? Chapter ONE You wanna know...
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...SG She's Dating The Gangster Color coding † Athena Dizon (17) † Kenji delos Reyes (18-19) † Lucas Lazaro (18) † Athena Abigail Tizon (18) † Sara Jung (17) † Jigs Bala (18-19) † Kirby Araneta (18-19) † Grace Matic (18-19) † Nathan Dizon (20) † Carlo Paez (15) † Athena's parents † Kenji's family † others Prologue love is happiness... love is smiling when you hear that person's voice... love is the butterflies in your tummy no matter how many times you see that person... love is when you look at them and smile for no reason... love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly... love is painful.. love is hard... love is sacrifice.. love is sadness.. “Can I live without the happiness? Can I live with that sadness? I don't know...I don't know anything anymore” I remembered that once I fell in love with a Gangster. I don't know how and when it happened. But I do remember saying that "I have fallen for this one of a kind stupid gangster. Oh wait, let me correct that. I LOVED this stupid gangster.. I gave him happiness while he gave me suicide in return. I know, It sucks. But I never regretted loving him in the first place, well… maybe I did." I also remembered loving everything about him ncluding his flaws.. Friends told me that we met in a very spontaneous way.. And then everything happened so fast.. But... Who's this gangster?? I know two gangsters but.. Which one am I dating? Chapter ONE You wanna...
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...She's Dating The Gangster Color coding † Athena Dizon (17) † Kenji delos Reyes (18-19) † Lucas Lazaro (18) † Athena Abigail Tizon (18) † Sara Jung (17) † Jigs Bala (18-19) † Kirby Araneta (18-19) † Grace Matic (18-19) † Nathan Dizon (20) † Carlo Paez (15) † Athena's parents † Kenji's family † others Prologue love is happiness... love is smiling when you hear that person's voice... love is the butterflies in your tummy no matter how many times you see that person... love is when you look at them and smile for no reason... love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly... love is painful.. love is hard... love is sacrifice.. love is sadness.. “Can I live without the happiness? Can I live with that sadness? I don't know...I don't know anything anymore” I remembered that once I fell in love with a Gangster. I don't know how and when it happened. But I do remember saying that "I have fallen for this one of a kind stupid gangster. Oh wait, let me correct that. I LOVED this stupid gangster.. I gave him happiness while he gave me suicide in return. I know, It sucks. But I never regretted loving him in the first place, well… maybe I did." I also remembered loving everything about him ncluding his flaws.. Friends told me that we met in a very spontaneous way.. And then everything happened so fast.. But... Who's this gangster?? I know two gangsters but.. Which one am I dating? Chapter ONE You wanna know...
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...GIRLFRIEND FOR HIRE. INTRO Teka ahm ano…. pano ko ba sisimulan to? Sige, ganito na lang siguro..magpapakilala na lang muna ako huh?! Ang arte kasi, bakit kelangang may intro pang nalalaman tong author na to.. pede namang diretso na agad sa story line! -__- Hmp! Pero wala akong magagawa, kelangang sumunod at baka ichugi na nya agad ako dito sa story..tungkol pa naman sakin to.. pag nachugi ako, edi tapos narin ang kwento db?! Parang tanga lang..hehe..kaya eto na, sisimulan ko na..inip na kayo eh.. . . . Ako nga pala si Nami Shanaia San Jose. 17 years old, 1st year college student, SCHOLAR. (haha, ang yabang ko no? totoo naman kc eh! ) Working student ako. Nakikitira lang ako sa auntie ko. Wala na kasi akong mga magulang. Well enough of that boring introduction about myself, masyado ng common tong ganito.. Kaya pumunta na tayo sa interesting fact about me.. . . Lahat na ata ng weird na trabaho napasukan ko na. Ewan ko ba kung bakit ang wiweird ng mga trabahong napasukan ko.O___O? Isipin niyo naman,.. Naging taga alaga ako ng pusang may diabetes (SOSYAL NA PUSA,SHET NO?), . Naging taga tanggal ng pulgas ng aso ng kapitbahay namin(ANDAME KO NGANG KAGAT NUN!), . Naging mascot na sausage na nakatayo maghapon sa harapan ng isang restaurant na wala ng ginawa kung hindi sabihing “Masarap ako, tikman niyo!” (ah, ah ayoko ng maalala na ginawa ko yan! Muntik na akong lapain ng aso dahil akala nga niya sausage ako! T.T), . Naging waitress din ako sa isang restaurant na ang mga waitress...
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...Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 THE BESTSELLING NOVELS OF TOM CLANCY THE TEETH OF THE TIGER A new generation--Jack Ryan, Jr.--takes over in Tom Clancy's extraordinary, and extraordinarily prescient, novel. "INCREDIBLY ADDICTIVE." --Daily Mail (London) RED RABBIT Tom Clancy returns to Jack Ryan's early days-- in an engrossing novel of global political drama . . . "A WILD, SATISFYING RIDE." --New York Daily News THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON A clash of world powers. President Jack Ryan's trial by fire. "HEART-STOPPING ACTION . . . CLANCY STILL REIGNS." --The Washington Post RAINBOW SIX John Clark is used to doing the CIA's dirty work. Now he's taking on the world . . . "ACTION-PACKED." --The New York Times Book Review EXECUTIVE ORDERS A devastating terrorist act leaves Jack Ryan as President of the United States . . . "UNDOUBTEDLY CLANCY'S BEST YET." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution DEBT OF HONOR It begins with the murder of an American woman in the back streets of Tokyo. It ends in war . . . "A SHOCKER." --Entertainment...
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...Unlucky Cupid ➶ Prologue ★★★ She is smart, HE's intelligent. She's gorgeous, HE's sizzling hot. She's popular, HE has huge resemblance to a world-wide known teen-age superstar. She's snob but somehow nice, while HE is the gentleman every girl will die for. Will rivalry cross their fate? Or Love will play their lives? He was always mistaken for the popular singer, whom She really hates. Will Her high school life end up just like those typical one's? Or will He make the best or even worst out of it? ➶ Chapter 1: Interference /KATHERINE'S PERSPECTIVE First day of school, sigh. Simula na naman ito ng hectic schedule, little time, less fun, and whatsoever bothersome school works. Pero first day of school sometimes is not that bad, kasi usually pupunta ka lang sa unahan at magpapakilala. Orientations, introductions, chit-chats - yeah, that's pretty much it. Kaya on second thought, I'm going to enjoy this first day lalo na dahil makikita ko na ang aking mga hmm, how should I describe my friends? Loud speaker-like? Loquacious? Nah, pero siguro ganyan nga sila - love ko naman. Ew, korni ko.I guess back na kami sa routine namin. Si Lindsay, medyo brat, madaldal (as I've said), okay naman pag dating sa academics, mabait, at sabihin na nating medyo war-freak. Di sya close sa parents nya gawa ng wala lagi sa bahay nila. So ayun, siguro yun ang dahilan kung bakit parang naging "Play Girl" itong si Lindsay, in other way. Hindi naman talaga. Pero all in all she's one of a kind...
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