basketball team fully confident that I would make it. I had been on the basketball team ever since fourth grade. However, I had just moved to a new school and I was not aware of how well my teammates were. It would be hard to develop chemistry with them, but I knew that I would become accustomed to them. Ather the first and second days of tryouts I was sure that I was one of the best players on the team. However, on the next day, I had found out that I had been cut from the team. I was in shock! I could not
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My website is http://www.loc.gov/index.html. This site is very interesting. It has many choices archive choices such as: American Memory, Prints & Photographs, Historic Newspapers, Performing Arts, and Veterans History. Each division is split into subdivisions and many of them are very interesting. The ones I found most interesting were the War/Military and the Sports Recreation sections. There are specialty sections for librarians and publishers. The first picture shows the north wall of Fort
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grateful to say, has been filled with many loving people I can call my friends. Perhaps one of the best friends I’ve ever had would be one Mr. Isaiah Fennel. Isaiah was a complicated person to understand but if I had to describe the first things to come to mind while thinking of him I would say he is argumentative, stubborn, and loyal to a fault. To begin with, Isaiah was and is to this day one of the most argumentative people I have ever met. He could argue about anything with anyone for no reason other
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Magic Waters It was a bright, sunny day. Everyone gathered at the college swimming pool parking lot. The laughter of the excited children filled the air, and the excitement continued on throughout the car ride. There was loud singing and outlandish conversations for two hours with the best of friends. After what felt like forever, the sun was beating down on my skin. Cool water was splashing all around me. Swimming, splashing, waiting, talking was what we did all day long. Friends, slides, water, waves…
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Every body have some special day in their life. I have many special days in my life, but that day best of the best day of my life. It was day when I won green card. I never ever win any lottery in my life. However, when I received letter for the interview I was so excited. I will remember this day all my life. I arrived in Polish at about six o’clock in the morning. It was beautiful sunny morning but I didn’t feel that because I was so nerves. I walked to the American embassy and just
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Kenneth Blake Ms. Bowles Intro to College Writing 1310 All Is Fair In Love And Glue At a very young age my father used to always tell me “Ken, justice isn’t just.” In my younger years I just assumed that this was just another drunken quote coming from an intoxicated man so I paid the phrase no attention whatsoever. Maybe if I had believed him back in my younger years then I wouldn’t have been so hurt when I found out how true his words really are. As the weather slowly but surely changes from
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point of thinking about why people die at random times of the day. I have had a total of five deaths of family and friends in my 20 years of life. They have all been within a few years of each other but the first death there was a larger gap in between until the next death. The first death I experience was my Grandma’s best friend Kim, then my Grandma’s Sister Carol, then my great great grandpa, then my father and last but not lease my friend who was like a younger brother to me. Some of these had
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This is the beginning of 8th grade now, first day at school and everything was good and I was happy but my friend who had been dating Henry was not in a good mood when I was talking to her, she said that Henry left her for someone else. This someone else was my friend Sarah. I'm not mad at anyone I don't blame Sarah for stealing my best friends boyfriend in fact I thank her, Henry was not the healthiest kid mentally, he had a lot of problems and it was too much for lily to handle. A couple weeks
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We Can Be Lovers Too In this day and age it seems that there is no romance left in our society. Sex is easily accessible with things like Internet porn and social media chatting, that we (as men) no longer have to try to attract a girl to us. The effort of romanticism is gone. The new generations of young men do not know what it means to show affection, romance or love. There still is some hope for romance and chivalry. Despite all of the social media distractions the young men in our society have
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of Norwegian 7th graders said they had been bullied the past month. I was part of these 8%. Even though bullying in my opinion is one of the worst things that can happen to a person, I have later on been able to make the best out of it; I now think more about how I treat others, and how I wish appear to others. The 5th grade through the 7th grade were the hardest three years of my life. After I quit the soccer team, what I then called friends didn’t want to hang out with me anymore. Eventually,
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