As I walk outside with my cup of coffee in one hand and my new book in the other I flap the book up and down in the air attempting to wave at the new neighbor that just moved in across the street. Her name is Sarah. Her job recently transferred her here a few months ago from Texas. She waves back as she rushes to put her three kids into the minivan to take them to school and then make her way to work. I settled down into the comfy black wicker chair accented with forest green pillows and place my
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in various ways. First of all is about greeting , Americans really like to greet each other even if one does not know each other before. When American walk pass the stranger, it is ok for them to say “hi” or “have a nice day” In Thailand, most Thais are shy, we usually do not talk to the stranger. Last year ago, I hung out with Vivi , my American friend. While we were walking pass a road sweeper, she smiled and said “have a nice day” to him. He walked away from us immediately. Vivi asked me
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All around me is empty space as I fixate my gaze at the starry sky and feel the icy ground underneath my feet. Honestly, I have always felt like my feet have been dug into the ground with my subconsciousness, not allowing me to take a step out of the reality that has been facing me. Here in my space, the ticket I had somehow managed to grab in my palms taking me to that point, I felt content just there in that pretty little empty space. Pluto, no longer considered a planet in our solar system, is
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In a long way gone, Ishmael Beah’s motivation in life is to find his family. Until then, he has to escape the war and survive day to day. Furthermore, Ishmael has hope that his family is alive. After the rebels attack Mattru Jong, Ishmael and his friends wander for days in hunger and silence. While their hunger became fierce, they are forced to return to Mattru Jong to look for money and provisions in Khalilou house. They found nothing but a destroyed house and Ishmael’s tiny bag of money, which
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Crabbendam Lake is by the ends of my feet, my head laid on my bookbag. No clouds surround the sun, so my eyes are closed. I’m moving my pupils around to get different colors. Towards the bottom, there's a pool of green and if I relax my eyelids enough, I can cut the center blue. Moving my eyes towards the back, the orange turns into a dark red until it's black and all the colors are gone. The lake was clear, and you could see the algae shooting up. Pinecones and twigs had been surrounded by the algae
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I am on call tonight and was called in at around eleven PM. My mother was still asleep when I left the apartment. The radio began to blare… “We have an approximately sixty-year-old male, around two-hundred and seventy-five pounds, found on I-94. It was a head-on collision, only two people were involved. The other driver, about forty-five years old female, was ejected out of the car and is dead. Suspected cause of death was blunt head trauma. The name of the deceased victim has not been identified
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happening again. The sound of my heart is filling my ears and I can feel that horrible ball of unease in the pit of my stomach. I cant move. They're stopping me. I'm straining to push free but the pull downwards is stronger. I'm fighting against it. Consciousness, I'm getting closer to consciousness. But not before….. I wake to my own violent scream. I scan my surroundings and wipe the beads of sweat that line my forehead. Home. Safe in my bed, but I certainly wasn't safe from my devious friends. I shudder
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was famous for describing the atmosphere in L.A., which is why I think the story takes place in L.A. It takes place in the poor part of L.A for the reason that the main character on page 13 “walks in the bedroom and sits on the edge of the bed and looks down at his cheap shoes”. They cannot afford good shoes, so the story takes place in the poor area. That is also why it seems to me that Charles is the main character in this short story. I ponder this is something he has experienced and then have
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Cadets) my squadron is 1846 Southall squadron. I go there every Monday and Thursday from 7:10PM to 9:35PM but they ask people to be their early so the register is done fast. Do you agree with these timings? We learn different skills and activities to benefit and prepare us, on our future careers either in civilian life or on the military life. I started attending Air Cadets because I was bored and I didn’t like the extracurricular activities being provided by the school so I expanded my search to
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on the East Side. They wouldn’t walk by themselves or they will get jumped on by the Socs, or the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, and the rich West-side kids. One evidence from the book that shows us that Ponyboy had a wide imagination are on pages 1-2, and it reads, “I had a long walk home and no company, but usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors….I mean, my second-oldest brother, Soda, who
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