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    I believe that hard work pays off, almost every time. Last winter, I joined my local select basketball team, Ballard select. I didn’t have to try out, the coach just saw me play and asked me to join the team. After a few months of playing with Ballard, I became very committed and grew very close to my teammates. Finally spring came, and so did try outs. My coach Taylor, and the founder of Ballard Select, Sara, had told us only eight of the twelve girls on the team were going to make the team…

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    Christopher Reeve, Superman, once said “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” This shows that anyone who keeps going can be a hero, not just the people with the title and the cape. Reeve is saying that in order to be a hero all you have to do is persevere and endure overwhelming obstacles and do your best to reach the top. Reeve may have been a hero playing Superman in the movies, but in real life became a hero after…

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    Exactly 7,368,680,380 people live on Earth right now and increasing by the second; and out of all these wonderful people, I would choose Jesse Pinkman to be a role model for everyone on Earth. This flawless person has been selected for three main reasons: his famous quotes, his amazing lifestyle, and his tremendous influence on people of all ages. To begin, Pinkman has made some robust quotes which will not be forgotten. His quotes make one think about our daily lives and I think that Pinkman’s…

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    Casey Case Study

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    Casey is a man who lived a very active life prior to a tragic accident in 1995. Although he was autistic, he felt like he lived an average life. According to Casey, he had a very widespread group of friends and was quite the social butterfly. Going through many different girls and going out a lot, he had an active dating life. He was an auto fanatic, with a certain interest in car audio. He was looking into a career in electronics. Emotionally, he was a blunt and outspoken person. Casey’s life…

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    Skull and Bones Alley was a creepy place at night. On any day you can the cries of the souls of the children crying for help and forgiveness for coming and disturbing the spirits. But on the week of December 21 the spirits come to take souls of the disturbing children or people, hoping the ally would let them go. All around the alley you can see the skeletons of the body’s lost souls. As they were heading to the alley a little child screen came out, “AHHHHHHHHHH!” Super loud that it was like…

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    “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never want to let go of those memories,” was once quoted by Haruki Murakami. Last year I set a goal, I wanted to be on the Owasso Varsity Pom Team. In order to be on that team I had to have my right split. I began to stretch everyday for the past year. I would hold the split for 2 minutes hoping for it to get lower. I watched YouTube videos on how to get your splits and increase your flexibility. I got my splits a couple of months before my…

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    4:50 AM April 18, 1906. John was working another seventeen hour day for the fourth night in a row. This case has kept his whole team on their feet. John, having a full head of hair coming out of law school, is not known for losing clumps of it at a time. He started losing his hair along with his sanity. The only thing that keeps his mind at ease is his wife, Alice, and his newly-born daughter, Ethel. John has missed the past three family dinners, he knows it upsets Alice, but he hopes she…

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    Jayson: A Short Story

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    The story begins with my friend and I being numbskulls, running around town with summer clothes on a rainy day. We were not prepared for the rain that day, T-shirts and wearing shorts. We were going to my house to get somewhat dry and drop off our backpacks, when tanner thought it would be a fun idea to roam around hughson in the rain than sit in my warm house. After we dropped off our backpacks, we went to the rhapsody park to get some of our friends to see if they wanted to join us or not.…

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    Now the keep is just another relic of a bygone era.’ With an amused expression, he adds, ‘There’s a lot of that going around in this town.’ ‘I’m beginning to get that impression.’ I peer into the distance, waiting for the next flash of lightning. ‘Anyone still live there?’ ‘Not for a century. We open up the great hall for festivals every now and then, but day to day, hardly anyone sets foot inside besides the town guard.’ I smile before I can stop myself. ‘Town guard?’ ‘Yes, they like to run…

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    It’s Allison here, and I sure hope you like what you see! I have a lot to offer the right guy, and to qualify as being the right guy, you must only lack inhibition and have a creative side! I’m 21 years old, 5’6”, and I have yet to meet a guy who doesn’t go wild over the twins. At a 34D, the girls get me almost anything I want, when used correctly, of course! Do I embrace my assets? You betcha! Confidence is sexy, but it’s far too often mistaken for arrogance, which could not be further from the…

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