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    Lifes dreams may never be as easy to obtain as one might think. Through the characters of Curley's Wife, Lennie, and George, they show how a dream can be unreachable because of obstacles outside of your control. Just working hard and persevering won't always help you achieve your greatest dream. Through the characters of Curley's Wife, Lennie, and George Steinbeck shows that issues outside the control of an individual often limit the achievement of an individual’s dreams. In Of Mice and Men by…

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    Gas Planets Assignment

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    assignment on gas planets. My teacher asked us to make a travel brochure on a gas planet. The expectation was that we needed to have overall brochure planet information, a life support system (hotel design), an alien drawing with a description, travel time, and a good effort and design. This assignment related to other assignments we had been given because we were previously learning about the solar system.The point of this assignment was to get a better understanding of the gas planets and to…

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    Period of Change Through the time that I had in my life, from being a little kid who viewed life as a recurring cycle of events that is going to school five days a week and having fun during the weekend and meet friends, to that young adult I am today who has to take responsibilities and make choices and manage my own time and do my own work by myself while my siblings are away from me as I was the only kid in the house. Through the period of time which was like two or three years ago till now,…

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    With the first month of the New Year slowly fading, the time is passing with a swiftness that is both anticipated and undesired. The past year’s triumphs and blessings were received with gratitude, but oftentimes shaded with drab shadows that hang over my existence. At times, I wallowed in its sweet anguish like a pig left to wallow in its own feces, and sunk further into self-examination. Too often, I passed the weeks under a dark cloud, wondering if or when the golden light of the sun might…

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    ball drop. There’s a huge clock that everyone is eyeballing keeping track of the time. Then, Everyone starts counting down… ...10, 9, 8, 7, Our protagonists Jared Lively looks over to his love interest Audrey Hepp,. …6, 5, 4, 3, 2 Everyone is screaming on tables, and spilling their drinks. People are going wild. Just before the clocks strikes midnight and people yell “HAPPY NEW YEARS”, the party freezes, time stops. The narrator then introduces Jared Lively. He likes chewing bubblegum,…

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    hamstring from to replace my ACL was burning. The nerve block that had been given to me prior to the surgery didn’t work on the underside of my leg, leaving me with unbearable pain. I’ve done an ACL repair before but it wasn’t the same feeling the second time around. I’ve been home lying in bed melting away from civilization and there’s nothing I can do about it. For someone who…

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    the most trying times of his life as he spent more time on this book than many of his other works. After falling on hard times Dick let his home become a place for addicts and was eventually burgled. Later in his life Dick…

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    noticed my mood had changed from this morning. I explained to her why I was upset and she told me not to worry about it because I had another chance to take the exam. Everything she told me went in one ear and out the other because I had worked so hard just to find out I failed. Failure isn’t an option for me, so I had to study even harder especially since math isn’t my best subject. My teacher told me that she’d take me to retake the entrance exam in a couple of months but I was discouraged at…

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    Gatlocke: A Short Story

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    ”Keep crying, Rexy,” Gatlocke breathed. It wasn’t difficult to with dirt from their earlier scuffle falling into his eyes, with a hard cybernetic hand pushing and pulling hard on his hair, with a cock fucking his face like he were a worthless cumbucket fucktoy, with Gatlocke taking his damned sweet time opening Rex’s slacks and reaching into his boxers. By the time fingers wrapped around his wet, aching dick— twirling languid circles around the sensitive head, fuuuck— the sob that escaped…

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    the things you’re able to remember? Just like anything our brain is a muscle that needs to be put to practice. Some of us may have short term memory while others have long term memory. None of this is set in stone. One’s memory capacity can grow over time, should you practice the right exercises. I personally do not have the best memory for certain areas but a great one for others. Throughout my lifetime I have realized I do not necessarily have the sharpest memory myself. There are a lot of…

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