freshman year grades wasn’t so good , so I know I had to do way better than what I did the previous year. A couple challenges I had that year was getting along with my math teacher Mrs.katchler and my english teacher Mrs.Boyd. It wasn’t the fact that I didn’t want to listen, they just had a smart/nonchalant way about themselves. Mrs.Katchler and I finally started to get along throughout the year. Basketball that year was fun for my team and I, playing with the same people I played with my freshman
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excellent progress on his new home and was nearly half done in just a few short days. But then progress started to slow down. What was the problem? High above in a nearby tree, Connie Crow was also building a nest for her own soon-tobe growing family. She was really struggling to find good sticks to help build her nest until all of a sudden one day in the creek below, a pile of stick started to appear. She thought this was a little suspicious, so she just watched for a day to see where these sticks
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Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944, and went on trial for treason in 1956. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labor. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the resistance movement were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by “violence”. Even though the crimes he was unjustly
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after her death and the funeral. Everyone was getting settled back into the routine of everything, when one night everyone was asleep but me, and what I saw I couldn’t believe how she looked when I saw her, what she was doing, and what the experience meant to me I was amazed and thankful. A few months after my grandma had passed away and both my parents were back at home. Late one night, maybe around 10:30pm I had just turned off my television, I was getting comfortable in my bed and on my right side
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It was quite Monday in spring, a normal day but for me and my team it was a big day. It was the day we started training for the important race; the race decide which track team was the best in the city. My teammates are, George, Aron and Dylan. We have been working hard because we lost the championship last year it would be good for us to come out this year and win the championship. The teams that we are going against are good their coaches are pro coaches they know what they are doing that’s a
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sometimes head into the woods with his dog Wolf and his gun. One day he did just that. He got his cut and Wolf and they headed into the Catskill Mountains, he hunted squirrels, firing off his gun round after round. Several hours had passed Rip was getting tired so he lied down for a rest looking at the Hudson River. Night fall was fast approaching so he got up to go home, he was not looking forward to seeing his wife for fear of her mouth. While he was walking a short man with a beard wearing Dutch
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1980s; They brought in a new era. The Personal Computer allowed them to perform multiple tasks without a massive mainframe. Today, you could find them in just about every business and every home. Personal Computers aren’t really getting smarter. It’s the user that is getting more and more advanced. We take what we know about them and make them even better. Looking at the technological advancements of the computer over the years, it leaves you wondering where we’ll be in 20 or 30 years. Businesses
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seriously. I started out me in Hostos community college, after my first semester I really felt like giving up. Going to Hostos changed my view on wanting to go to college at all. I was really discouraged a good friend of mine told me about Monroe College and to go check it out. I took her up on her advice and signed up and enter Monroe College to start studying for my associate’s degree. Entering Monroe was one of the greatest things that has happened to me. I started to feel how important getting a career
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arrived home from her school soccer game, she rushed to finish all of the homework she was bombarded with, while not caring about how it turned out. She was shoving her dinner down her mouth as the sun started to set and it kept getting later in the night. She opened her math textbook and started studying for her substantial math test tomorrow which determines the majority of her grade. Now, it was eleven o'clock at night and pitch dark outside. Payton is delighted as she walks up to her bedroom
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Student Name: Tracey Thixton Course #: COMM 101 Topic: Sarah Palin General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose Statement: To inform the audience of the life and style of Sarah Palin and her career as a politician. INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: How did Sarah get as popular as she is today? Central Idea: Sarah Palin has become a successful Politician, Mother, Grandmother, and Wife by staying true to herself and her beliefs. Credibility: Have read biographies, watched TV
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