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    when they broke apart. “I know that you have people looking out for you, but I won’t be one of them.” “I’ll do my best,” Alex laughed a little as she smoothed down the wrinkles that she caused in his jacket. “Take care of yourself too. You won’t have me keeping you out of trouble.” That made James laugh, an actual laugh that started in his stomach. Alex joined in and wiped the tears off her cheeks. She looked up at him and the way that he was looking at her almost broke her heart. Those eyes…

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    The necessity of driving is generally taken for granted in America. We do it every day, as we have for many generations. The technology used in transportation has steadily improved, from horses and buggies to the modern car. Therefore, it is logical that fewer and fewer people would have the skills needed to operate older, ‘outdated’ models. This includes stickshifts. Very few Americans have the ability to drive a manual transmission. It is not terribly difficult to learn, and the benefits are…

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    Later when he is back looking in the box, and reading more letters, his father comes in and sees him, and becomes upset, but then realizes that he must tell Christopher the truth, and he does. Once Christopher realizes that his father has lied to him it affects him mentally: “I…

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    (Romantic). From the early 2000s to present day, films have taken a raunchier turn to get audiences back, by playing with the age differences of couples to become more male-centric. Audiences are tired of the same conventions and the typical good-looking…

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    a student with a score not successful in writing with 5, but fruitful on the other bands and overall. First of all the process of learning English depend on each person, some of them are good in listening however in speaking are unfavourable or backwards. On the other hand many people believe in the fact of we born with the ability of learn new language or skills, even though according to some studies and Archibald (who is mentioned before) the process of learning just depend on the time implied…

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    I was looking back on my childhood. As an adult, thinking back on my young life, I realized how messed up it was. Memories of fights and death filled my mind. I found myself fixated on the day my mother died and the following two days. That Sunday the doctor’s wheeled my fragile-looking mother into the surgery room. The head surgeon was a tall, fairly good-looking, young man. He looked at me, a twelve-year-old girl, and said, “We’ll do whatever we can. And if something bad happens, well, it…

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    and get put into the background as I started to realize minor flaws in an organization which I feel could overall create a big setback. Flaws in the payroll process and the new employee training threatened to put this organization on a fast track backward and away from its great mission. To put them back on track, I came up with simple and applicable solutions that help fix the problem. With the update of their manual payroll collection method to a more advance technological method and the…

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    be hard to pick out those aspects. It is then that the true meaning of the book may be missed. That is why sometimes people come away from a book with very different meanings from what they read. This is usually due to what lens a person may be looking through when they are reading and trying to digest this book. When reading, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” the injustice done to the Lacks family is largely due to the god-likeness of the doctors at the time coupled with the racist nature…

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    Tim Jones: A Short Story

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    his bus driver to stop being such a dawdling individual. It was of upmost important that he make it to the city on time today, he had a major business meeting with the other board members of his company and had therefore decided to adopt a smart looking business suit, with tan shoes and a deep blue jacket which complimented his rather stocky form. Finally, he thought as his bus arrived at the train station, sprinting off after making a final check of his watch. It read 7:05. Tim raced past the…

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    The Hobbit Scene Analysis

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    facial expression changes to one in disbelief what he just wanted to do while taking his sword back down. The music accompanies this progress as the first theme of the movie that was played in Bags End is being played again. Bilbo Baggins then goes backwards making a sound with his feet, which Gollum can hear. The camera perspective changes to an eye line match close up on Gollum’s face changing from sad to fierce together with him roaring. Bilbo is then shown from a low angle mid-shot…

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