Evelyn Yang Amy Wilkinson Writing 1 12 December 2013 Adventure is Out There! 1. “I’m gonna sell you on New York!” “Start spreading the news: I’m leaving today; I want to be a part of it: New York, New York!” – Frank Sinatra, “New York, New York” I don’t remember when I first heard this song, but it finally stuck with me when I heard it in Friends With Benefits, you know the scene where Jamie takes Dylan to Times Square to be a part of a flash mob while she’s trying to sell New York to him
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He wakes up everyday still thinking about his wife and daughter, yet it has been five years already. Because how can one forget two African Union soldiers walking in through the small metal doorway each holding a rifle on the night of his fifteenth wedding anniversary? Asad sure can’t. The two men quickly walks into the one-roomed home for Asad, his wife, and their 12 year old daughter. They murmur for Asad to sit aside and not make a sound. He knows well enough that if he were to make a sound, both
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Figurative Language versus Literal Language Shirl Lofton Professor Robert Bass Critical Thinking PHI 210 Date: October 21, 2011 It was the summer of 1971; I was in Lynch Kentucky spending the summer with my grandparents. My grandparent’s house is surrounded by mountains and had a ditch on the side of the house with running water and an apple tree in the front yard. Grandma and I were sitting on the pouch drinking homemade lemonade, as it was very hot outside. The water current
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the first time. I remember it even though it was long time ago. I remember getting up really early due to the long ride to place where we was going to hunt. It took us approximately an hour to get to our destination. Once we arrived I remember thinking, that we was in the middle of nowhere and I hoped we did not get lost. As a young man you automatically think that you are gonna kill a deer and go home in no time at all. I was bad wrong the first day we did not see a deer at all. I was disappointed
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Brady was talking to Brittany when the voices started again. One moment he was discussing the weather with her and the next he could barely understand her because the voices were so loud. This time the voices were telling him that he was useless and that Brittany deserved better. He argued with them that he was perfect for her. Then the next thing he knew Brittany was flirting with another guy and hanging all over him. Brady started screaming at her to stop, but it was as if she could not hear him
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may find themselves difficult to introduce rules to the preschoolers because they have not yet developed a logical-thinking mind. However, it is unavoidable for the preschoolers to go through every stage of their cognitive development. Thus, it is impossible to change their characters to follow rules (Fox & Riconscente, 2008). One of the best solutions to this problem is to figure out the effective ways of guiding the preschoolers to follow rules, based on their cognitive development at their current
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the store, we three girls had to put ourselves into a mind of a sociologist; and how they would “judge the book by its cover.” But realistically the shocking part is that they don’t, instead they use their sociological imagination to broaden their thinking mentality, to find other ways to live. Who ever said that there only is one certain way to live and that is the correct way? I realized that as Meghedi, Ani and I were walking the normal or decent looking shoppers were keeping a good amount of distance
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street in Bessemer, Alabama with my grandmother seeing smoke in the air and smelling the grilling of BBQ. I’m thinking to my self “is that the lady barbecuing outside in front of the place where they play bingo again?” In my head I’m also thinking about my parents telling me “son don’t ever get food from somebody cooking on the street”. But I would always say “there is so many people out there getting the food” and they would reply “so if everybody is jumping off a cliff, are you going to do that
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roller coaster, like with all the colored binders you had to take to each class, being tardy that is a big one and also not getting lost. If you survive all of this on your first day in junior high then you can survive anything! I’m laying in my bed thinking of all the things I’m going to need throughout my day tomorrow and all the sudden... I can’t go to sleep no matter how hard I try! I am filled with all this emotion. I want to start crying. I have all these questions. I feel as though I could be
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This might seem shocking,but I promise it is true.I know it is true because it happened to me.Can’t believe this happened to me.Out of all the people in this world,guess it was fate.At the age of 19 years old,I had to make a life decision. My parents went on a vacation and left me home alone.While watching tv I heard the doorbell ring.I opened the door but nobody was there,except a phone. It was a iphone and it had no lock on it.After I opened it there was a picture of a girl.She had a pretty blue
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