Descriptive Essay: The Redwood Network

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The Redwood Network
In the towering redwood tree lived four friends,Todo the squirrel, Jullien the owl, Kim the koala, and the infamous bee named Pete. The four just graduated from redwood high school and were now ready to start their lives. Todo and Jullien planned on going to work with Jullien's dad at the leaf transportation company. Meanwhile Kim and Pete got accepted to Maple University starting in the fall. The four of them promised each other they would spend the whole summer making memories and would continue to keep in touch even after Pete and Kim moved to the maple tree to start college.
The four friends all received brand new iphones as their graduation gift from their parents. “Lets all get a facebook so we can communicate when we're not together!” The friday after graduation Jullien forced all his friends to
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The administration office told Pete “we are currently re-examining your application, we are not sure that you are the type of student we want attending our university”. After ending the phone call, Pete was very flustered and confused “how could they have seen my posting, how?!?!”. Petes friend Julian arrived and saw the unpleasant look on Pete’s face, “what's wrong Pete, are you okay?”. “No i’m not okay, last week i posted a comment about my campus tour guide and right now i received a call from the university saying my comment was inappropriate and i might not be allowed to attend their school” Pete told Julian. “Well Pete i'm not trying to be rude but what were you thinking, once you put something on social media almost anyone can see it” Julian explained. Pete did not know that everything put on social media is available to the entire world and once something is put online it is out there

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