Light rain started to sprinkle as George scampered through his front door. “I’m so tired!” George said, who had just gotten home from a two hour soccer practice. Sore all over, he just wanted to go to bed. However, as George entered his bedroom, he tripped over his heavy math textbook. “Ugh!!!” he exclaimed as he stumbled over other school supplies. George turned the light on to discover his room a mess (more than usual), his backpack lying open on the floor, and all his school materials scattered
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The Cay was about that there was a man named Timothy, a little boy named Phillip, Phillip’s parents, and a cat named Stew Cat. It was getting dark and they had just been finishing dinner. They went outside to check if the blackout curtains were working because they didn’t want any light to shine on the sand. They were scared to live there because they thought that people were going to come on boats. Phillip and his mother were going to leave. Phillip and his mother are going to leave because Phillip’s
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From the moment we found him in that cardboard box stuck in the rain, we knew we would love him for forever. Alexander William Theodore Moreau was not only a son, but a role model; he would inspire us each and every day. Alexander absorbed the world like a sponge; he saw, he danced, he sang, he created, worked, changed, but most importantly he loved and lived with purpose. Alexander was on the football, soccer, track, and swim team and was also valedictorian in his senior year. Alex was known
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Buddy Day Buddy day is a public participation event, to bring awareness to the issue of child abuse, mentally ill and disable people in our community and the role we all have in keeping our children safe. Buddy day has proven itself as an initiative that benefits a wide range of individuals, groups and schools in our community. Schools have been enthusiastic about the benefits to children, and individuals have gained a great sense of purpose through their involvement. What I did on buddy day for
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and Beyond ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Ernest Hemingway. "Cat in the Rain" (1925) Homework: Read the story. While reading, please note down at least three points of wonder. Pinpoint the exact sentence that puzzles you and phrase a question. Task 1: Individually Summary and composition: 1. Divide the text
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found myself torn between what I thought of as morally right and logically correct. The major argument being, is it morally ok to feed unwanted kittens to snakes? As I write this paper, I periodically glance at the picture I have of my fluffy grey cat Henry. Henry passed away when he had to be relocated to my aunt’s ranch, our house flooded in 2009 and our new condo didn’t allow pets. Now Henry had a cozy life with the Schettlers and on the ranch. Yet my aunt claims to this day, that he died of
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A close brush with death It was raining cats and dogs. Fortunately we were in a car and my uncle, who was driving, had the situation under control. We passed slowly by an oil-palm estate. The driving rain made visibility poor. So my uncle drove very carefully. He had all the lights on. So did the other drivers. I could make out little blobs of light on the other cars through the white sheet of rain. Overhead, black clouds hovered ominously. It felt as though they were about to fall on
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devices include: Rhyme Repetition Alliteration Onomatopoeia “In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.” -- Marianne Moore RHYME Rhymes are words that end with the same sound. (Hat, cat and bat rhyme.) Rhyming sounds don’t have to be spelled the same way. (Cloud and allowed rhyme.) Rhyme is the most common sound device in poetry. RHYMING PATTERNS Poets can choose from a variety of different rhyming patterns: AABB –
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given how a person reacts to certain events. Take for instance a thunderstorm; all five senses can help someone know that a storm is coming. A person can see storm clouds forming, hear the sound of thunder, smell the rain ahead, feel the temperature change, and even taste the rain falling. The ability to retain this information is what helps enable the senses (Sensory System, 2011). Retention and repetition help the body sense that something will happen by learning to relate these interactions
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Even as I leave, I know there is the funeral. Even as I climb into our cheap convertible, and the rain comes down and the roof goes up, I know. You have been a good friend, even though our lives are so busy now we are sometimes like strangers. You have been a good friend, and now your dad is dead. The road is long and windy and wet. The Wicklow hills call from the far coast, and in between the car is stuffy and hot to keep the windshield fog off, and I shuffle to get comfortable and try not (for
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