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    “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry whose mother allows him to go explore the bay. He meets a group of local boys and ends up swimming them. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through an underwater tunnel. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else and leave Jerry alone. Upset and lonely, Jerry swims around by himself and decides to find the tunnel that the boys were swimming through. When exploring the tunnel…

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    Pat Tillman Role Model

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    Kobe runs up and down the court like a cheetah, dribbling the ball, shooting threes, taking layups, practically playing with the other team. The crowd is cheering louder than a plane taking off the runway, and all eyes are on Kobe. Then, all of a sudden, he feels a searing pain in his thigh. He just tore his hamstring, and he knew it immediately. He fell to the floor, tears starting to run down his face. The coach ran to him, and asked him if he could play through the injury. Kobe couldn’t…

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    5g Male Research Paper

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    5g Male As men, none of us want to feel ashamed and embarrassed in front of their partner. Every man desires to maintain their stamina, strength, energy and most important their performance on bed. They always want to look years younger with the same passion and endurance. Nobody can deny the fact that as men get older, they most significant changes in their body are prostate health and impotence. Men are more concerned about their health and well-being. Well, in today’s post, I would like to…

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    A fifty year old man huddles in an old pickup truck, his ankles are wrapped in old socks and rags that can be seen scattered throughout the truck. There is a half used role of duct tape that he uses to attach a pen to his gnarled hand while he writes. Words and incoherent sentences are scrawled across pages and pages of a yellow legal pad. All of the letters that he writes are directed to the NFL about problems that they have ignored, pushed aside out of greed for money. A light flickers in the…

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    In Calvino’s “The Adventure of a Nearsighted Man” the protagonist is a man named Amilcare Carruga who goes from seeing the world in uninteresting blurs to being captivated by the world around him once he can see it clearly. Upon gaining a new curiosity for life as a result of getting new glasses, Amilcare breaks through psychological defenses he had set up in order to protect himself from his fear of facing the past. Gaining the courage to return to his childhood city due to his new lenses,…

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    The character of Dexter in Winter Dreams The main character in the short story “Winter Dreams” written by F Scott Fitzgerald, is a fourteen-year-old boy named Dexter. Dexter is kind of a nut case when winter comes around He goes into an intense and emotional melancholy." It appears that winter severely affects Green’s psych; it makes him "tremble," "repeat foolish sentences" and "command imaginary audiences." In winter, he fantasizes – primarily about golf games, which he plays "over the…

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    It's January 2, 1994; the air is freezing as he breathes it in, and the sun seems to have forgotten to come out this morning. As the snow whirls around the frigid air under the dark sky, the 21 year old lawyer, Sean finally reaches the door of the airport. Sean, who has spent the last week in France for a vacation before the holidays, is exhausted and longing to be home with his family back in Chicago, Illinois. Sean got to the baggage and security lines around 6:30 this morning, completely…

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    Neil Gaiman, there is an ordinary boy. In the beginning he finds himself at the end of the lane he lives at. Someone stole his family car and killed themselves in it. He meets a new friend named Lettie Hempstock during that time and she has an ordinary pond in front of her house. The pond is magical and the Boy soon realizes that later on in the story. Soon, the lonely boy you hardly know about will become something you never thought he could be. Lettie and the Boy start to make a magical…

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    Roger marched into the store with his head held high. It’s his birthday and nobody could break him now. Roger pauses and gives attention to the King Size Cookies n’ Cream Hershey bar on the shelf, his hand extends into his pocket before he realizes he has no money, or not any real money at least. Roger pulls out the fraudulent money, and glances at it, he notices he has three, one dollar bills, and 2 quarters, after staring at it he puts it back into his pocket. At the register, the lady’s name…

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    time, cultures all around the world have come to understand that without clear guidance on the journey to manhood, males have a difficult time transiting boy to man. Thus, rites of passage were presented in nearly every culture as an important ritual. For ancient Spartans, becoming a soldier was the only way one could be acknowledged as a man. The boy would be sent out with only a knife to kill slaves, called helots, without being identified and must return. After successfully…

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