grandparents. After three hours of searching for my grandparents they finally found them. They were very disoriented and scared. My dad and uncle brought them back to my great grandparent's house. Everyone could not stop hugging them or stop crying tears of joy. We did not want to overwhelm them with questions, but they did tells us they had to fight for there lives because the water had got all the way in the attic, at that point my pawpaw used an ax to break him and my maw maw free of the rising water
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Langston Hughes, a poet, novelist, playwright, and short story writer, belonged to the group of black artists known as the Harlem Renaissance. His short story "Salvation," published as a chapter in his autobiographical work The Big Sea, and first published in 1940, relates an experience in a twelve-year-old boy's life. This event helped shape the boy's religious understanding far differently from what his Auntie Reed intended. "Salvation" begins with the narrator stating he was "saved from sin"
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I urgently run under the red lights illuminating “Emergency.” The ambulance sirens are cut off with the swing of the door. Amid the chaos and uniforms scrambles the triage nurse. Blowing dishevelled wisps of hair out of her eyes, she emits a voice worn down from fatigue, “Nurse, they need you in OR-3.” “I’m heading there now,” I state as I weave my way through the congested hallway, thick with the tangible complaints of patients. The sharp scent of antiseptic penetrates my nose as I secure my mask
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Christmas Eve Amera Andersen O Christmas Eve is such a treat Forget the malls and things I dread With Candy dreams and you my sweet The time has come to go to bed Forget the malls and things I dread As we lay down and close our eyes The time has come to go to bed Tomorrow brings a bright surprise As we lay down and close our eyes I reach for you and hold your hand Tomorrow brings a bright surprise It’s perfect now just as we planned I reach for you and hold your
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Life, Philosophy and Hamlet Hamlet is considered to be one of the most complex characters ever created. Basically, Hamlet is a play about growing up. At the start of the play Hamlet still believes life should be beautiful and perfect and people should be good and honest. He is shocked and angry when he discovers that many people are not good nor honest. He thinks life should have deep meaning but he can find no meaning at all. Trough the play he struggles to accept that life is painful and difficult
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Mrs. Louise Mallard, a woman with a heart condition, whose sister has arrived at her house to inform her of the death of her husband, Brently. Mrs. Mallard immediately bursts into tears crying into her sister's arms before retreating by herself to a vacant room. Once inside the room, Mrs. Mallard becomes overwhelmed with joy at the thought of the freedom she will now have. As Mrs. Mallard leaves the room, the front door is opened and Mr. Mallard unexpectedly walks in, unaware that he was thought to
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colorless nature of the city contrast harshly with the warmness inside the tumbledown pail home, along with the dazzling color of the factory interiors. This movie had different kinds of emotions such as laughs (every 30 seconds of the movie), tears of joy (when Charlie finds the golden ticket), mercy (the way Burton depicts the social misery of the Bucket's family is really emotive), amazement (the
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informs Biff about how Willy has changed since his abrupt arrival, he says to his mother he will try to calm him by looking for a business job. As soon as he lets Willy know he is going to apply for a “real” job Willy is distracted and overwhelmed with joy. Linda for once sees a sparkle in his eye while living in the present and then realizes that Biff gives him life. “I’m not worried, darling, because this morning he left in high spirits, it was like the old days! . . . Oh, that’s wonderful, Biff, you’ll
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a young man about to take on the world, I was going to be a father. I honestly don’t remember how I felt when she first told me. I think mostly I was just numb. I remember her sitting across from me in the passenger seat of my Volkswagen Beetle, tears streaming down her face, gasping for breath through her sobs. She was terrified. I was too, but I knew I had to get my act together and try to be strong for us both. I mean, I was the man, right? I stretched across to her seat and tried as best I could
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enjoy a lifetime of leading, sharing, and giving. I have seen him spend his Christmas Eves taking gifts of food and joy to indigent families. Often when his bank could not justify a loan to someone in need, my grandfather made the loan from his own pocket. He is a real-life Moonlight Graham, a man who has shown me that characters like Dr. Graham and Mr. Finch do much more than elicit tears and smiles from readers and movie watchers. Through him and others in my family I feel I have acquired the values
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