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    Novia was feeling sick to her stomach with such boiling rage and self pity, she was different from everyone else at school and she didn’t need reminded about it. It was a problem she faced every day but back at her old home there was people who accepted it, but now she has to go through the whole process again! Mr and Mrs Stevenson decided to move to Ohio from New York with their three kids Novia, Braxton and their newborn Piper. Novia thought living in New York was hard already especially…

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    innocent boys into murderous savages while stranded on an isolated island. These boys are no older than 14, but everyone, no matter how young, has an inner beast. Some people, like the boys in the novel, allow that beast inside to temporarily come out when they feel there will be no punishment. In William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies, facepaint is symbolic of chaos and evil that erupts because of the loss of morality while being concealed behind the self-assuring “masks” of society. The…

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    weren’t expect anything; then all the sudden the lifeguard was playing around with us and put us in the way of building where the waves come out. The waves kept coming out full force. I went so high and would get higher, then when that one gigantic wave came I was finished, I wiped out. Drowning and choking with water, laughing all together still being taken out by waves I realized that I wasn't in my tube anymore. My short self was trying to dodge the incredible waves, trying to find my tube,…

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    North Richmond Street was not a noisy neighborhood which the siblings and friends enjoy playing around old houses and one of the boys had a desire for love of the neighbor. North Richmond Street was a quiet dead end street until the kids were release from the Christian Brothers’ school. Also on that street, there was an abandoned two alarm house that was far away and lonely from the neighbor’s houses. The rest of the house on that street were aware of the ok living within each other, they…

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    That entire introduction was too serious and adult to have actually come out of my head. Right now, I should be more concerned about boys, grades, new ways to style my hair and the fact that I sit here writing an essay on a Friday night instead of hanging out at a football game. Sadly, I just can’t muster any interest for the latter two of my list, and I don’t know if that means I gained maturity at a quicker rate…

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    1.What is autobiography? Fiction? Non-fiction? Argue that autobiography is both fiction and nonfiction. An autobiography is a story told and written by the author, in their own words. Fiction is a story that is somewhat untrue. It can be untrue because of the characters and/or events. Nonfiction is somewhat a true story, it has real characters and events that may have taken place. 2.Barry suggests we collide with demons on a daily basis, suggesting projects don’t even begin because of certain…

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    half-dead man was lying on the stretcher. With the help of constables and people around, he was brought down the building. People had crammed the place, every inch of the stairs was taken up by the neighbors. Even at midnight it seemed that a night out was planned by all at the same time. Lying helplessly on the stretcher, he moved his hands over his body. He knew something was wrong since he never felt anything like that. The pain was getting unbearable with every passing moment. With great…

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    Putting her right foot out, she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then she opened her eyes and she was safe on the other side. 'I wasn't as old as I thought,' she said. But she sat down to rest. She spread her skirts on the bank around her and folded her hands over her knees. Up above her was a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe. She did not dare to close her eyes,…

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    this grief and sadness. As the girls play on the team, it's really the feelings of the team that come out as well as the phenomenal story. And it is the coach who wrote a personal letter to a sports writer at ABC News, and through unbelievable circumstances, that writer got the letter. He came to Iowa City and did a documentary story, and HBO/ESPN did a documentary on this story, and when that came out, everybody went flocking to Iowa City because they all wanted to do this…

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    but I quite never know how to answer the question because not a lot of stuff are special to me, but the things that are usually mean a lot to me. I don 't actually tell people one of my special memories because it 's not something you tell people out of no where, because it 's not either good or bad, and people usually think “Something special should mean something good”.One of the things that are special to me is when I went to Mexico. One of the reasons that Mexico has a special place in my…

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