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Conceived sometime between New Year’s Day and Valentine’s Day my mother, Angela Butler, went into labor with me on October 4th; a day before my birthday and two days before hers. My mother’s pregnancy was uneventful; she didn’t have any serious complications. During her pregnancy her need for several vitamins increased, because she was now sharing nutrients with me, her baby. Prenatal vitamins provided her with supplements for the deficiencies in her diet as well reduced the risk of some birth…

High school was a place where I had the freedom to be myself. As freshman year came to an end me and crystal were unbreakable. I had my first girlfriend I had to ask crystal for permission on dating this girl name Selena; Crystal had been dating one of my good friends Salvador. Crystal and me had created a small community we called WP A.K.A Wolf Pack. Sophomore and junior year was amazing partying going out and our WP had gotten so big I felt like the king of…

grade, copying words over and over again trying to learn how to spell them. Then, I definitely remember in third grade starting to write in cursive and learning how the sign my name. After third grade, writing in cursive became foreign to me. All I remember is knowing how to write my name in cursive so I can sign my name on things in…

Chivalry lives inside everyone today just as it did during the middle ages. Not only was chivalry alive in the middle ages, but it is also alive today. In Marie De France’s lay Bisclavret a knight, troubled with the effects of being a werewolf, is tricked by his wife and lead to his demise. When his king comes across the werewolf, Bisclavret, he is struck by the wolf’s actions of plea toward him and takes him under his care. Now a part of the knighthood once again Bisclavret never leaves King…

factory to support us. I did not know it at the time, but I did not live in the safest town. In my first grade class, nearly every student received a little yellow paper card for lunch. I had no idea what that card meant at the time, but one day, my name was called out to receive one. I ran outside to my mom who was waiting to pick me up from school, and yelled “I got my card today, mom!” She told me years later that she was so embarrassed, but she could not help but laugh due to my excitement.…

To know about Victorian women, you would have to know first what the Victorian Era was, right? Well, the Victorian Era was the name of the reign by Alexandria Victoria, who was better known as Queen Victoria. During her reign as queen, which took place in the United Kingdom for nearly 64 years, it was a time of many changes and improvements within the U.K. These changes included political, scientific, industrial, military, and especially cultural alterations. This all happened between May of…

As people, we all are born equal and free, only sex made the difference between men and women. By the time goes, things and have changed as some circumstances lead men to established factors that make it possible to identify individual according to some characters. For example, one of the important factors in life that characterize an individual, a group or a family is “Social class”. Social class is a group of individuals who are characterized by their way of life, their behavior, their…

elementary school. I still felt like the “black sheep” for a multitude of reasons, such as my family was poorer than most of the other families at the school. I did not have the “popular” shoes or backpacks; I had what we could afford. As I grew older in middle school, things got exponentially worse in being the “black sheep”. I grew to like different music than what was popular with my peers.…

so happy that it was. The only reason I was going was because my Dad got the boys’ varsity basketball job at the school and he didn't want me going to Ramapo for high school so he started me at EC early. Over the summer I got into the middle school and I was forced to. I went to this basketball summer camp called Fast Break with one of my friends from Wyckoff. Luckily for, me she knew someone from Eastern Christian and she was there. We started talking, and we became friends. It made…

The supernatural compared to the third world countries are both misunderstood by the society. Therefore they are being mistreated economically and socially. The super naturals are being expressed by magical realism. Both stories include magical elements to express treatment conveyed to the real world and the third world economy. Magical realism is the style of painting literature in which fantastic or imaginary are often unsettling images depicted to express the brutality. By combining fantasy…