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    Immigrant: A Short Story

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    creaks to assure you that someone had just crossed the road. Additionally, the scents from just going outside in the backyard was so different from the musty smell in the streets. Finally, something I’d never forget, the soothing beach water with small hidden fish that would sense you coming by just wiggling your toes in the greenish water. Obviously the water wasn’t so clean, but that didn’t matter, the mountains and blue skies made you forget all of your surroundings only to make you feel safe…

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    The Canterbury Tales Essay

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    The Strength of Words and the Lessons You Learn During the pilgrimage to Canterbury, 24 tales were told from all different types of people, from the poorest in the city to the richest. In the Canterbury Tales, a famous tale is heard from a Nun’s Priest about a widowed wife left with two daughters to live graciously with what God had given them. One-night Chanticleer: the noblest chicken on their farm, is awoken by a dream, a nightmare of being eaten by a fox. He is called crazy and thought to…

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    flexible hours, although you will still have to deal with people on occasion, or at least in a more limited fashion. Sell stuff on Facebook/ Craigslist/ ebay/ Amazon If you have stuff lying around that you don 't use you always sell it for a few extra bucks. But if you really want to make a go of this you can flip items you find at Goodwill or yard sales to turn it into an actual business. You can even take it step further and sell items for other people on consignment. You are probably…

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    bed appreciating the array of star wars posters and memories plastered on my walls. There were only a few weeks until I started university and reach one step closer to reaching my dream of being an astrophysicist. I answered "Coming!" and began to make my way downstairs, as I was walking down the stairs something in the atmosphere felt different, as if something had changed and I couldn 't quite put my finger on it. Regardless, I kept walking to the kitchen where I was greeted by both of my…

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    Let’s take a closer look at shopping. A pretty simple idea, right? Go to a store find what you need then buy it. Well it is not quite that simple. On the surface it may appear this way, but subconsciously it is much more complicated. Why do we pick the store we shop at, why do we buy what we buy? Are the stores we shop at aware of this? To try and shed some light on this I did two social observations in the men 's athletic apparel section. One at Dick’s Sporting Goods and the other at Wal-Mart.…

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    slippers; she makes her way to the bathroom connected to the bedroom. Happiness will brush her teeth while thinking of one thing that she liked about herself, “Your hair looks softer today, how nice,” she thought. Happiness tends to tell herself one thing that she liked about herself in the mirror every morning just to give herself a little more confidence. She will hum a tune as she walks downstairs. She’ll make…

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    the capture of yourself in a photo that you took and shared to the social media. In this case this selfie had been shared to the media but instead of only one person they are three. That made this selfie a little different from the majority of them. However, they took it a step further. They recognize was an experience that they shared together, and not was appropriate to leave out important people that contribute to that moment. Important people that can make the different of how the world is…

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    Kaden 's room. The same one I woke up in. I am livid at this point, beyond pist."You stupid inconsiderate bastered, your a lying no goo sack of shit! What happened to devoting your life to making me trust you! Just FYI locking me in a room to keep me from doing something is not a good way to gain my trust you mother fucking ass-wipe!" I yell at the closed door than lean my forehead against it exasperated. "I hate you" I say to myself. Shortly after the words leave my lips the door is yanked…

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    lawyer and signed Gabriel Agreste’s contract. “Are you decent?” Adrien inquired in a shy voice as he knocked on her dressing room door. “Ummm, yeah,”…

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    especially my coach. I let fear control me, and it is something that I am ashamed of. Once I got out of that terrible situation, I told myself that I was never going to allow myself to paralyzed by my fear. It has not been easy. I’ve learned that you can fall in love with your fear. I was in love with my fear, I was comfortable, and secure. It became a bad relationship, and the only way to help myself was to break up with it. Breaking up with my fear has been liberating, and freeing. I find…

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