My memory significant location was at my grandparents' house. Their old, chipped, painted white house sits about one hundred feet from the road, and it's surrounded by trees and a green lawn. It also has an electric fence set up for the cows that they used to have. I have many vivid memories of driving my old, little, blue four-wheeler through the tall weeds and grass of the field with thorns occasional hitting me. I also remember playing our makeshift games of baseball in the front yard with my
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General Carpentry What would this world do without a carpenter? This world wouldn’t have any building if it wasn’t for the carpenters. The carpenters build the schools, businesses, houses, prisons, etc. What is carpentry? Carpentry is the craft of taking wood to construct and maintain buildings, furniture, and any other objects. In carpentry a carpenter must have numerous requirements to become one. A carpenter has many different job duties, work conditions, and pay wages. In the art of carpentry
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remaining money. However, when Ms. Dutton discharged from the NH she demanded her checking account turned back over to her. He gave her the checks and had his name removed from the account. However, he received the following bank statement at his house. When they opened up the statement, no bills were paid and several checks were written out to people Mr. and Mrs. Dutton had never heard of
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In the novel The Assault, by Harry Mulisch, a young boy named Anton, endures a traumatic event. His house is set ablaze, and all of his immediate family is killed. As the novel follows Anton through the course of his life, he receives multiple explanations about the night of the incident. These explanations both simple and complex. In order for an explanation to be complex, the descriptions of the event need to be incredibly detailed, and the reasoning behind each action are required to be quite
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engineer. He had met Nancy, an American, known as Cita, in Johannesburg when they were both divorced. They’d joined their families, and, in 1964, they had their only child together, Elizabeth, raised in Nova Scotia, where Derek ran a steel mill. The house on Holcomb Rock Road, which they’d bought a few years earlier for retirement, was modest, but it had a tennis court, a swimming pool, and a view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Nancy dubbed the place Loose Chippings, after a British phrase for scattered
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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” – Joe from “The Princess Diaries” (and Eleanor Roosevelt) I have been spending seven weeks at Camp Tevya each summer since the summer before eighth grade. My mom had gotten a job as the Head of Arts and Crafts, and she brought my sisters and me with her to camp. I have never been one of those people who are always loud and bouncing around with all seventy of their friends, so it was a bit of culture shock going to camp for the first time.
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The Three Little Pigs Rewrite Once upon a time there was a wolf who loved doing good things for people. The only thing he loved more was his mother. One day she sat him down and told him that it’s time for him to move out and find a house and family for himself. So he packed up his stuff and moved out, but first he made sure to say goodbye to his mother, his father, and his grandma and grandpa. Somewhere else in the world the same thing was happening to 3 little piggies who are brothers. Their
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Thanks to the book Evicted, written by Matthew Desmond, we can now understand the struggle people experience when they become evicted and what consequences result from eviction. Some of us have been fortunate enough to have never experienced eviction before, but in this book, Desmond with great detail takes us inside the character’s life whom become evicted. In the beginning of the book, a small quote instantly catches the readers’ attention which reads: “I wish the rent was heaven sent.” And within
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Writing Prompt:Flesh and blood so cheap The story talks about what started the triangle fire so most likely, a cutter flicked a hot ash or tossed a live cigarette butt into a scrap bin. Whatever the cause, survivors said the first sign of trouble was smoke pouring from beneath a cutting table. The firefighter came to help and one of the people got the hose with him but it wasn’t connected to the standpipe so the water didn't came. A lot of other things happen and some hours later a lot of other
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Mutated City by: Marlice K. It was a regular day in Chicago. No wind, clear skies, traffic. Clementine was sitting on her couch watching her T.V. Another boring day, she thought to herself, As boring as studying for an exam. Clementine had dark chestnut hair, brown eyes, tanned skin, and glasses. She wore light blue jeans and a gray t-shirt. After several minutes past, she switched to the news channel. There was something interesting. ‘Breaking news. Astronaut Foot has discovered a new planet in
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