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    Speech On Self-Driving

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    cars, but it still applies here!) Imagine how fun and amazing it 'd be to fly around on a hoverboard instead of riding a bicycle or walking. Do you get tired of walking to check your mailbox each day because it 's not fun? With a hoverboard, there 's no need to feel hatred when you can have fun riding one to your mailbox! Your neighbors will be awestruck by your Tony Hawk hoverboard skills and then probably laugh at you when you do a McFly and fall. What about driving to school or work? Forget…

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    What does the word nigger mean? A question that no one would expect a nine year old to ask another person. A phrase that could cause anyone, not just a nine year old, a whole world of trouble. What led me to ask not only my childhood best friend, but also his mom, what the word “nigger” meant, was when we were in his front yard while a black mailman delivered mail in our neighborhood. One day I walked over to my friend Nick’s house, I rang the doorbell and nick opened the door. He let me inside…

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    Morris Narrative

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    Grace. INT. HALLWAY - DAY Later. Morris walks down the hallway towards the front door. He holds in his hand two wrapped objects. SANDY Where are you going? MORRIS I’m going to the m-mailbox...relax. Morris opens up the door and slams it shut behind him. EXT. DRIVEWAY - DAY Morris puts a letter in the mailbox. He quickly turns around walking…

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    Nowadays people have different ways of coping with changes in their life. Some people are able to adapt others are not. A person unable to adapt might become a loner. The term loner means a person who prefers not communicating with others. Two stories in which both protagonists are loners is in "A Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. The protagonist, Krebs in "A Soldiers Home" faces the challenge of coming back home from war with all the trauma he had…

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    Direct mail is something that allows you to reach a large number of people who are going to see your advert no matter what. People enjoy receiving mail and are always curious about what appears in their mailbox. A physical piece of mail is many times more enticing than an email ad. Today, people are so keen on cleaning out their email inboxes that it's rare that anything will come through that they didn't ask for. They don't want spam - even if the email…

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    "Hey Ed, do you think the school would sponsor our softball team?" "Let me get back with you." A few days later a note arrived in my school mailbox from Ed Carey, the Dean of Students at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, stating my request had been approved and to go to the business office to pick up my check. I walked upstairs to the business office, informed the administrator I was there to pick up the check, which he had waiting on his desk. Before he handed it over to me he asked,…

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    Withal, Mrs. Fisher didn’t listen to him all of the time. In fact, she didn’t listen to Paul when there was Paul when he told them about the mailbox issue with his brother, Erik. This event later happened in the novel. In addition, in the text it states, “I followed slowly, angry at mom for calling attention to my eyesight. She wanted a tour of the place because she’s nosy and want to see…

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    Lauren Ball English 2020 Dr. Hayley Haugen November 30, 2016 A Monumental Work for Its Time Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll House has been around for one hundred years. It has been performed on stages around the world and still is to this day. I propose that this literary work be kept in the college English curriculum. College students should study plays such as A Doll House so that students can learn about sacrifice, the roles of men and women in the time period, and finding independence along…

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    Field Supervisor Report

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    This is to report the attitude of a field supervisor, Mr. Rogger Bucheli, because I don’t want a field supervisor, who would, out of his own negligence, put me into trouble at the site where I work. On one Friday/Saturday early morning—3:25am (02/11/2017), Rogger Bucheli came to the Central RV Storage where I work and called me on the phone. When I answered the call, he asked me if I was at work. I told him that I was not at work. He asked me where I was that I was supposed to be at work. I told…

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    Personal Narrative: Emma

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    I had been waiting for this moment for about two weeks, and now it's here and I am nothing but thrilled to have this opportunity. We started loading up the van and the next thing I know we’re on the road. When we had gotten to the building that we were staying at we all got out and stretched. We all grabbed our things and sat on a bench right outside the door while we had waited for Marcy to finish so we could get to our room. As Marcy rang the bell several times and no one answer so we knew…

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