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    Everybody wants to have the perfect wife, house, children and they would have done anything to get what they wanted. The picture perfect house was the white picket fences and the dog in the front yard. This society is a generic society that a lot of people are dreaming for, the society is coming back little by little in modern day society. Girls are still not fully on the same pedestal a man is but they…

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    My Virgil Monologue

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    Let me start at the beginning. As I alluded to earlier, I’ve come to understand part of the reason we stayed together for so long was due to my intense need for validation, to love myself through investing in and loving external sources. For the majority of my life, I was told to find identity and peace through God. I’m certain I told you how much I struggled with this. You came along at the exact time period I started doubting religion, and so you filled the void religion had left. Recently, I…

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    Heroes are typically make believe characters who save the world. Who is the hero that saves your world? A hero in my world would be someone who is selfless, mature and a protector. This is why, one of my best friends, Mary Camille is my hero. Mary only cares about others and not herself. Whenever I need advice she's the one that'll I'll listen to. Not only did she save me, but she shaped me into the person I am today. Just these three little qualities can have such an impact on my life and lead…

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    always experience the nice warm day and the nice breeze in the evening from the beautiful beaches. Outside his house there was always a nice expensive car by house with tinted windows. In that car was Agent oo7 and director Adams. They always wore black tuxedoes. The reason they were there because Agent oo7 had a son, which was Andres. Andres has always been a foster kid and was able to be adopted by a lady. Every day Adam always messed with Andres…

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    Will Terry’s Father’s PTSD Affect Terry and who he is as a Person? In the story, Stop the Sun, the main character, Terry, has a father who has fought in the Vietnam War. That event in which Terry’s father took place in, changed him. Terry’s father developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from his experience in Vietnam. Terry wants to know more about his father’s PTSD, but will Terry’s father’s PTSD affect Terry and who he is as a person? Terry is still a boy depending on his parents to…

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    Chapters 24-29: Claire, Day’s wife, took care of Robert and Simon and her very own children. She and Day argue over their girls’ names. It wasn’t the best time to discuss this topic, for Walter was in a very stubborn mood. Claire keeps calm, however, and knows that Walter is just frustrated with his work. The squad was already under a lot of pressure after having the whole city trust that they would identify Jack the Ripper, but then here came the Harvest Man, another criminal that would take…

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    Rough Draft Short Story

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    Sitting on my empty desk is a white envelope. The handwriting scrawled across it is all too familiar, my father’s. The printing is capitalized, big and boxy. It fills me with a sense of panic and stops me in my tracks, even though I know what lies inside. I’ve read the letter hundreds of times, and scanned meticulously through each photo. Searching to see what went wrong. Everything about the envelope is ordinary; except nothing about the circumstance is. Written to Children’s hospital, and the…

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    In Master Harold ...and the boys, Sam invites hally and willie to imagine lives transformed by courageously hopeful vision, but while willie eventually embraces that vision, the play ends sadly when hally condemns himself to hopeless cynicism when he repeatedly rejects this invitation and uses his imagination to defend himself against hope and to bruise others with his cynical pictures of a broken world. In "Master Harold"...and the boys we see Sam’s imagination and his strive to spread his…

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    “The smugglers have abandoned us. We’re alone in the middle of the ocean, a boatful of starving, wailing people and three scared sailors. This is it, I think. It can’t get worse than this” I’m standing in the middle of a cyclone there is debris from the boat flying everywhere I’m on the floor scared for my life. I look across and see Bibi struggling to get towards me “Get down,” I scream Bibi finally drops to the floor. So together we start crawling towards the door that leads you inside the…

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    Entry 1 I'm on my way to petrified forest national park. While im there im going to go geocaching, backpacking, and horseback riding. I’m also going to visit Painted Desert Inn and Rainbow Forest Museum. I hope i'll get to visit the Agate house and Newspaper Rock. Entry 2 I’ve just arrived and i'm very excited. I'm ready to start my adventure but I can't because it's 3:00 am. But i can’t sleep i'm too excited. We’re going to go to our first stop at 8:30 am. So i only have to wait 5 hours and…

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