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    intention to discipline without causing physical harm. The body part that is mostly spanked is the buttocks, but also the face, the palm and the back of the hand as well. Objectives typically used for spanking includes but not limited to canes, belts, paddles and shoes. In the United States, 74% of parents of children age 17 years and younger use spanking as a discipline technique (Kazdin & Benjet, 2003). Most parents spank their children because…

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    the River, and Sheila Mant” the author W.D. Wetherell is able to portray Sheila Mant as an oblivious, uncaring, and narcissistic young lady using indirect characterization. By simply adding little details about Shelia such as “There was an extra paddle near the bow, but Shelia made no move to pick it.” the author is able to imple that Sheila is a self-centered person, seeing as she also leaves the narrator to do all of the work while she simply talks. The author also implies that Shelia is a an…

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    Reganne Flannery grew up in a family being the oldest child with two younger, very annoying, brothers. On September 26, 2001, Reganne was born, and ever since then, she has tried to be a role model for her younger brothers. By age six she was taught the game of basketball by her father and has loved it ever since. She started out playing on wreck teams, which turned into travel teams, then AAU teams, now playing high school. Since Reganne loved basketball she tried to teach it to her brothers.…

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    When Kamehameha was born in 1758, Halley's Comet appeared over the Hawaiian skies. Legend prophesied that a light in the sky with feathers like a bird would signal the birth of a great chief. Kamehameha would grow up to be a strong ruler who succeeds by eliminating all the rival chiefs. Warring clans saw him as a potential threat because Alapa´inui feared he would take away his throne, so Kamehameha had the equivalent of a price on his head from the day he was born. For this reason, the child…

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    how our life jackets work. We then got to the canoes. I decided to go alone because the manager said that if you ride alone, you’ll go faster. I took the paddle and sat down. Then, my aunt pushed my canoe into the lake and I was off into the lake. I could already feel the blood rushing through my body and my heart beating faster. I swung the paddle in and out of the water and slowly started to pick up speed, until a loud CRASH! My canoe slammed into my cousin’s paddleboat. “Hey watch it!” She…

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    didn’t tantalize me even a bit as a single tear made its way down my wind-chapped cheek. Not even two miles out to sea, and our boat motor began grunting and steaming. Without the fuel powered engine, we were forced to paddle with the broken off edges of our wooden raft. The paddles were extremely cumbersome to hold and maneuver. Consequently, they soon made our hands and upper arms sore, yet it was too late to turn back. Slowly the cheap wire holding the raft came unraveled, which allowed the…

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    there, as she got to the beach she saw the beach was really packed. After like an hour later tanning she got up and she was listening to music as she looked straight down the beach towards the ocean there was a husband and a wife trying to get on the paddle boat.…

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    California so I guess you can say that we have a very little connection from that. The main thing that I think is so cool that John W. Young enjoys is that he likes to wind surf; although I may not wind surf, I love to be in the water, to surf, swim, and paddle.…

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    Passage #3 PEEEEL & Anchor Statement Upon booking the wrong course for swimming, the narrator immerses the reader in her consistently problematic experience. By integrating dialog when she reveals that “[She] can only swim with a snorkel” this adds an immersive factor into the writer’s shared experience because the reader is given insight into the author’s personal thoughts on the realization of her lack of ability to swim proficiently. Furthermore, the awkward adventurer expresses her…

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    Slide 1: The first highlight of my summer was going to Isla Mujeres and Tulum in Mexico as my family and I’s yearly trip to somewhere in the world. I went with my mom Mari, my dad Humberto, my sister Anais, and I Celine. We have been to Isla Mujeres many many times before so we always try to do our same traditions that we have been doing since the beginning such as going to the Turtle Farm and getting there on golf cart and then buying rotisserie chicken and beans, soup, and spaghetti in bags…

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