Descriptive Essay: Cheating In New Jersey

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As Halloween came to a close recently, which was a time full of colorful candy and bright costumes, four years ago that wasn’t the case in the New England region. It was a time where new channels flooded our homes with the news of the storm, Sandy, that would soon approach. Among the miles and miles of our country's coastline, and just living along a small beach town. The damage that soon would come to our shores, had the ability to create instrumental damages to individuals, communities, and companies. My father, Robert Delaney, thought the forecasters were exaggerating just like the preceding forecasters were for Irene, but evidently that wasn’t the case for Superstorm Sandy. This phenomenon in deeper sense caused a mark of uncertainty, which led to conflicts between my father and I, the question to leave the area for safety or the risk in endangering our lives.
Off the lengthy narrow lagoon that eventually opened in the dark blue currents of the Barnegat Bay, my family resides in Lacey Township, New Jersey. The narrow pathways were relaxing and subtle, but soon this body of water would take a turn in a dark mysterious path of the unknown.
Each second the mellow skies were contrasting into a gray and weary tone. The sky seemed to reflect the worries that were setting within my mother and I eyes. My eyes
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This struggle opened my eyes that age is just a number. As I was only fifteen and my father being forty- five years old, I was more so looking out for my family. The safer option that I made, even though might have been more expensive or time consuming. Never take the easy way out. The sense of understanding, we all learned from this lesson and we grew as a family together. Some conflicts can break relationships, in my case it grew my family stronger then ever and that I will always be daddy's little girl no matter what

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