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    home. Of course, her situation changes after time, and her support and empowerment is found, but in the beginning, Precious’s life is a ball of repetition. Wake up, say nothing at school, get emotionally/physically/sexually abused by her mother, daydream, go to sleep, repeat. While it may be easy to think that she should just leave, that girls in her situation should simply go, without any support this task becomes nearly…

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    make an incision in the shape of a square when the horrid smell of burning, human flesh reached my nose. This wasn’t the first time I had experienced this smell, but every time I encountered this scent, it brought an utmost disgust to me. I began to daydream again as it didn’t seem like anything special was happening at the time when all of a sudden, the loud noise of a saw jerked me back to reality,…

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    College is the ticket to a better future. However, it does not come free. People have to work hard if they want to get in, and that is the way it has always been. Recently, though, people have been arguing that college should be free. It sounds great, but is this fantasy even possible? College should not be free. Think about this: if college was free, who would pay for it? The government would end up with this burden, and free college for every citizen would cost a lot of money. Making…

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    Sometimes people just lose it and do crazy things with the most dumbest reason and don't even think about the outcome like, How would you feel after you done it, Why would you do it, What happens next, What if I get caught, What will happen after I get caught?Well that happens with a narrator in the short story Tell Tell Heart. He killed a man for just the way he stared at him with his blind eye the narrator said “The old man’s eye discarded me” he also said that he was planning to kill the…

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    books for chemistry, and ran up to the 5th floor all before the instructor, Professor Jason, started his next lesson on the structure of proteins-- oh great, something that was sure to put me back to sleep. Instead of falling asleep I started to daydream about what I was going to do when I go back to Maine to see my family and friends. Professor Jason never seemed to notice that I wasn’t paying attention, then again, there is over 60 adults in my class all trying to get by to make a living in…

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    A Monomaniac is a person who has a burning passion and obsession for one certain leisure pursuit that devotes all of his or her time performing. In “The Oval Portrait,” by Edgar Allan Poe, the maiden is of rarest beauty full of happiness, and the painter who is evil who obsesses with his painting. Yet, the painter has been passionate and obsessive of his painting. Nevertheless, the maiden of rarest beauty compares to the fawn; therefore, the young maiden is affectionate and values everything…

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    In the book Death of a Salesmen it follows a father and husband, Willy Loman, on the last days of his life. He is a traveling salesmen who has recently been layed off, and who is realising that he has not succeeded in the American Dream. His kids, Biff and Happy constantly argue with him, and both struggle money wise. It s believed that he wasted his life on his career because he, started having mental issues due to the stress of his job, was constantly complaining about the work and his boss…

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    In the article, Revenge of the Geeks by Alexandra Robinson, there are a lot of allusions to stars and their popularity in school, and how some of the biggest stars today were some of the least popular people in high school, and being different and embracing how different you may be will lead you to success someday. The author uses three different techniques to get her point across, one being the tone or her attitude toward the subject. “Taylor Swift’s classmates left the lunch table as soon as…

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    A Brave New World, is a book about a world that takes place in 2540 A.D. in our time; but the book uses the date 632 A.F. after Henry Ford built the Model-T. The setting is in London, England. It is a world that the is ruled under one “government” or World State where there is a cast system in place. The caste system is separated as such Alphas, Betas, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Additionally, world state has taken over the fertilization process over were by they take the ovaries out of the…

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    them even more unexplainable is the concept of daydreaming. A daydream is “a pleasant dreamlike fantasy indulged in while awake” (www.thefreedictionary). For most people dreams are pleasant, and sometimes can seem very real. Now imagine if those dreams you have on occasion during your sleep becomes your reality. Your life is in a perpetual dream, which seems to simply repeat and never end. But, unlike the pleasant fantasies of daydreams, your reality is scary. Everywhere, you go you can see…

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