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    Midnight Rising Book Review Before reading “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War” by Tony Horwitz I believed that Abraham Lincoln was the man whose policies and beliefs sparked the Civil war and the Abolition of slavery. I believed that because even though there are many abolitionists in the history books none or are as famous or as notable as President Lincoln. I had never heard the name John Brown or how he and his small gang of followers may have single…

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    . I would say that John Brown’s biggest influence for his radical abolitionist beliefs and for most of the decisions he made in life was his father. His father was also a pretty intense believer in anti-slavery himself, and growing up John admired his father greatly and grew to believe the same values as his father. John Browns father was an active abolitionist who had his eyes opened to how unfairly slaves were treated after attending multiple revival meeting and listening to a sermon by a man…

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    John Mckenna spoke of how he became interested in music. Then mentioned being in a band and doing gigs. Then that leads to playing at the 2nd Clinton augral which ended up on TV which was watched by his mom who dissaprove of his music. Needless to say his mother is not like with him. That was a very cool story to hear. The closest I have come to that is my first paid camera running gig. Eve White-Brown ‘s story was about dealing with a problem with her voice. She said that she could have…

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    there 's something hidden underneath the surface of the Mystery Shack and the Pines twins are about to figure out what it 's all about. Mabel and Dipper Pines are a pair of twelve year old mystery solving twins who are short and share thick light brown hair. Dipper, who has a constellation-shaped birthmark on his forehead hidden underneath his hair and light blue baseball cap, found a journal filled with information about Gravity Falls and all of the unknown supernatural beings and abandoned…

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    Adam Wyatt: A Short Story

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    Sirens could be heard while Adam Wyatt went in and out of consciousness. He looked up to see lights from the inside of the ambulance. He felt his body swaying left and right to the fast movement of the ride. He knew that if this was it, he would expect any minute to see his life flashing before his eyes. The oxygen mask the paramedics put on his face was starting to chafe but he couldn’t get his hand up to remove it. He wanted to cry but didn’t even have the strength for that. Adam could see…

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    It’s all Rainbows and Sunshine We are all spoiled, from the day we were born our parents have given us everything that a child could ever want and need. Growing up in a “normal” house with your average family was the dream. It is not until we start reaching our last years of high school and start heading off to college when we realize that life in itself is truly a blessing. Looking back on my childhood, making the basketball team or baseball team was never hard. School always came easy, and…

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    screaming at her with loud beeping. She woke up with a sigh knowing that school started in an hour. She got out of her warm bed and got dressed in an army green sweater, gray jeans, and pulled on some brown boots. She walked out of her room and into the bathroom. She combed out her softly curled chocolate brown hair, and applied some gold winged eyeliner over her icy blue eyes and she dragged her burgundy lipstick over her lips. She ran back to her room grabbing her phone before running down the…

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    for something while talking to herself really low for Meta to hard. Then two ladies that work at the front desk that knew her really will for getting in trouble in class and was send to the office all the time. One of the ladies was Ms. Brown that has light brown skin and long pretty black hair that’s always in a ponytail. The other one is Ms. Lopez that can speak two languages and who is always smiling at her when I come into the office. Ms. Lee walked over to her and squat down in front of her…

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    Rectangular painting, divided into top third roof and lower thirds is ground, the floor board. • Scene is set in daytime, in a building with brown pillars that has sheep with the wools being shaved. • The colours of the floor board and the sheep are consistently pale browns with their skin and shaved wool cream in colour; the rooftop of the building is dark, predominantly browns, with black lines between it for the right side of the roof top, and dark grey rectangular on the left side. • The…

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    Have you ever met a wild fierce crazy girl before at vista prep academy (VPA) probably you have,there everywhere at this school, but i'm unique beyond the rest of them. I have dark brown curly poofy long hair with light brown highlights which is hard to brush and takes and takes really long time to straighten.I have brown eyes and a little bit of blue at the top which is my birthmark.I have small nose and i'm 4.9 and usually have my nails painted a color that matches with my outfit along with a…

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