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(No refusal of call) This story takes place in the Beautiful city of Pittsburgh where leaves glide through the breeze, birds chirp at the crack of dawn and where people walked the streets. Lived a kid named cody who goes to the new middle school North Pitt to start off his 8th grade year. Cody was getting ready for school like how he does every morning. Get dressed eat breakfast brush his teeth and get on the bus. On his way to school he was thinking I can't wait today is soccer sign-ups. When…

“Look, the people are waving at us,” Charles said to the pilot. Almost unconsciously, the pilot rocked the wings back and forth in a wave. Nneeeaaaoo. As the F-15E STRIKE EAGLE dipped lower over the Kurdish Villages in Northern Iraq, smiling faces and waving people stared back up at Charles through the viewfinder. Nneeeaaaoo. He thought, These are real people that could actually be killed. The thought made him even more determined to protect them. Nneeeaaaoo. He remembered a time when a…

“When I left that icy prison I’d no idea where north and south were but I did have two very strong convictions. One was that good novels must be a poetic transposition of reality, and the other was that mankind’s immediate future lay in socialism” (qtd. in Bloom 11). This is the essence of Gárcia Márquez. A man of hard principles and passionate imagination, he was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Columbia. His childhood years were marked by his relationships with his grandparents and his…

Plot Twist I really wanted to go to Baba and tell him that we had to leave Kabul. Of course it was that or Hassan and Ali leaving Kabul. But I had to do what I had to do, we could not be here together, it was not right. It had to be the perfect time, also when Ali and Hassan were gone. So that day I had waited till they had to go to get food from the market. Than that was the moment I had done something I never had done before, I lied and black mailed my brother ,the person that fed from…

Change commonly associates with every aspect of life. Often noticed in our surroundings and in the people and creatures we encounter, but may not be as significant for every scenario, whether the change involves someone’s personality, health, or the environment. Five years ago, a countless number of people were not the person they are today due to the different experiences they encountered, which assisted them in shedding their aged skin, revealing the new persona they have acquired. Some events…

The Crow in the Woods The Crow in the Woods by John Updike is unlike any other story I have read before. The author does an odd but wonderful job in describing in detail the thoughts and surroundings of an average married man. This story meets course goal number seven as it enhances the students’ understanding of the value of holistic thinking in making informed judgments and in applying values as they become increasingly conscious of what is at stake if we fail to understand the relationship…

The boys were savages. They bit and tore at each other, but yet they still managed fun. Except for a few boys. Those boys were trying their hardest to stay civil, and who needs fun when your biggest worry is trying to survive. Among those boys was Piggy, a chubby boy who crashed on the island with all the other boys. He was smart and gave good ideas, and yet he did not change into a savage like the other boys. Piggy changed as a person through the relationships of others and through himself.…

Seinfeld and Non Action: the Philosophy of Nothing One of the best Kanye West tweets is “I want to publicly apologize to Seinfeld, I used to think it was a show about nothing but then I realized it’s a show about everything”. Jerry Seinfeld and Laozi hold plenty of similarities. This paper will identify the similarities between Seinfeld and Daoism theoretically, with examples from the show to back it up. It will also explore how western culture has unknowingly embraced some Daoist concepts,…

It all started on a nice summer day everything started off so great. Me and my cousins were outside throwing football, baseball and riding bikes all day long. We went inside to eat lunch, when we were at the table eating. My cousin Alex asked me to race him after we got done eating. We went outside and lined up our bikes where we were going to race. My mom came outside and told us not to race because someone is going to get hurt, I kinda just shook her off and we raced anyways. At the starting…

The deepest discussed moral questions are about life, innocence, and experience. Experience can improve everyone's life when they learn from innocence to experience. Sometimes experience helps to improve life, but It also can destroy the future by mistake we make in the past, and it's always stayed in our mind as a right or wrong memory. Being an adult is not easy for everyone. Some people learn and get experience from their mistakes, and some people make mistakes over and over again, and they…