The bell that signaled the end of the day at Woodworth Boys College finally rang. Mark sighed with relief, brushing his long messy hair out of his eyes as he grabbed his books and his bag from his desk. Mark shook his head in annoyance as his hair once again fell onto his dark Pakistani face. His hair was unkempt and dirty, but it's not like his family could afford for him to get a haircut. No, all the money went into getting Mark the best education that his parents could provide. Provided they
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year with her siblings. She had 6 brothers and siters, Darlene-18 years old, Karen-17 years old, Dennis-16 years old, Thomas-14 years old, Roxanne-12 years old, and Robert-7 years old when she was born. In 1958, they moved to 7233 2nd Ave, south, Richfield, Minnesota. She still to this day remembers having fun in Kindergarten. After Kindergarten, she went to a catholic school, she was afraid of the nuns because they were very strict. She also remembers Robert, youngest of her 6 siblings eating soap
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Joplin is one of them. Scott Joplin had a very hard time throughout his 49 years, this is his story. Scott Joplin was born on November 24th 1868, Bowie Texas. His mother’s name was Florence Givens. Scott’s dad’s name was Giles Joplin. He had five siblings; Monroe, Robert, William, Myrtle, and Ossie. Scott Joplin’s occupation was a pianist on a show called Ragtime. It was very hard for Scott to play in front of people since he was originally a slave. He went to college at George R. Smith college
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My great-grandmother, Louise Garnett was born September 7, 1887, in Bellville, Austin County, Texas, the daughter of former slaves Charlie Garnett and Jane Travick (Wade). Louise grew up in the Ives Creek Community where she labored doing farm work on the family property her maternal grandparents, Frank & Mary Travick purchased in 1871. Family members affectionately called her "Mickey" a nickname given to her by her favorite Uncle and Aunt, Mark & Martha (Travick) Slater. Louise attended Pleasant
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My great-grandmother, Louise Garnett was born September 7, 1887, in Bellville, Austin County, Texas, the daughter of former slaves Charlie Garnett and Jane Travick (Wade). Louise grew up in the Ives Creek Community where she labored doing farm work on the family property her maternal grandparents, Frank & Mary Travick purchased in 1871. Family members affectionately called her "Mickey" a nickname given to her by her favorite Uncle and Aunt, Mark & Martha (Travick) Slater. Louise attended Pleasant
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Babysitting is fun sometimes. I enjoy watching other people's kid that are not close to me. You tend to get along better with them. My friend and I watch these two boys name Jackson and Carter. They are fun to hang out with. They just moved into a brand new house. Not everything is set up yet. At least their tv was. When I was there a couple of nights ago, we made homemade macaroni and cheese. It was really cheesy. They ran out of milk, so my friend's mom drop some off for us. That was really nice
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Who is your role model is it your mom, your dad, or a famous person? My role model is Bobby Bones, and I have some reasons why. He has a morning podcast called the Bobby Bones Show. He is my role model because he helps people, he is a positive person, and he started this thing called Pimpin Joy. Last year, a woman called the show asking Bobby what she could do for Christmas because she didn’t have the money to pay for presents for her son. Bobby then turned around and bought her the presents since
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Having a twin when you are a kid compared to now almost being an adult is very different. When you are a kid you know that you have a brother and its like oh that cool, I have someone to hang out with all the time. But what you don't realize is that they are more than just a brother, they are the closet person you have on this planet we call earth. Thats where growing up plays a role because you start to grow away from each other a little bit, You might not play together as much as you did when
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his 3 youngest kids spent the remaining time of the 16-17 school year in South Carolina. Unfortunately when it was time to return the kids for the 2017/18 school year Mr Quirple chose not to return the kids while his reasoning were his concerns of abuse that may be going on while the kids were home with Mr. & Mrs. Quirple in Phoenixville. Mrs Quirple went to the judge in Bucks County that oversaw her custody case and he ordered Mr. Walters via
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The theme of “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers is that family is very important and you should always support them because they will unconditionally support you. Lemon teaches this lesson to Greg throughout the story, and Lemon himself illustrates how important family, his treasure, is. At the start of the story, Greg Ridley was dismissive of his father’s constant lectures. Greg knew what his father was going to say before he said it(Pg. 19, C. 1, Para. 3), which illustrates that
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