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    Personal Narrative Essay

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    My fingers stretch out trying to feel the warmth of the morning burst. Sitting on my lap was my sister with two front teeth missing, a grin on a face, and the eyes of a giant broccoli. My mom was making bacon and egg and the smell threatened me to getting up. All of a sudden the phone rang while I was eating my breakfast half awake and half asleep. I dragged myself to the phone and on the phone was my girlfriend, Abella, who was asking if we could go to the mall together. I stuffed all my bacon…

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    Sound of Thunder” shows, the main character Eckels who, is slightly reckless and is shown throughout the story. For example, Eckels went off the path even though Travis explained in depth to not. The theme of the story is reckless small decisions can have unpredictable consequences, Eckels went off the path because he wasn’t thinking, Travis explained the importance of staying on the path, and after going back to their present time the aftermath of Eckels mistake caused Deutscher and realized…

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    from what they want to eat for lunch to whom he/she will marry. Some will seem insignificant, while others will have the capacity to change the course of one’s life. As seen in the story, Eckels and Travis are faced with a plethora of decisions. All of these decisions is what, in the end, leads to Travis shooting Eckels. In the short story “A Sound of Thunder,” Ray Bradbury’s uses vivid setting descriptions and conflicting character attributes between the protagonist and the antagonist to…

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    process and was sentenced to be guilty, the next step will be carrying out the sentencing order. This phase of the criminal justice process is called the corrections phase (Travis & Edwards, 2015). There were various components in this corrections phase. This phase includes incarceration, probation, parole and community corrections (Travis & Edwards, 2015). All this components differ from one and another. If a suspect is being sentenced to spend times behind the bar, they belong to the…

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    The Choice Symbolism

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    The 2016 film The Choice, directed by Ross Katz, reveals that choices made in life can affect an individual for the rest of their life, whether they are big or small. The main characters Gabby and Travis, have an interesting connection and somehow resemble one another through many symbols to develop a strong love for each other. Through the use of visual emphasis, context, and repetition, Ross Katz, uses the seashell wind chime as a charged symbol in The Choice, because life can be so fragile…

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    Mud Bog Case Study

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    Mud Bog Travis, Joe and randy share the cost of a house in the country with 200 acres. They all love to go mudding. Travis has a ram 3500 cummins turbo diesel that has a 6 inch lift and maxxis all terrain tires with beadlocks. Joe has a jeep wrangler rubicon with a 4 inch lift and super swampers. Randy drives a chevy duramax turbo diesel and a 6 inch lift with super swampers. These three friends love to go mudding and they do whenever they can on their 200 acres. But this time it was going to…

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    After the Youngers move into their new home many changes occur with the family, financially and emotionally. There are many characters in the book and that brings a lot of changes. As we know, the Youngers moved into their new home bypassing everything that Mr. Linder from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. Mr. Linder came to their old apartment to let them know that the people living at Clybourne Park were kind of bothered that they were going to move in. This caused lots of problems…

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    the border between Texas and Mexico (Berkin 314). Unfortunately, Mexicans wanted renegotiation of the treaty, threatening war. On April 22, 1846, Mexico announced that its territory had been invaded and declared war. American soldier William Barret Travis instructs in his letter “Commandancy of the Alamo” that Texans – and all Americans – should fight for their independence from Mexicans to…

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    people free. At 25 years old, he escaped from his master's farm, but about a month after, he returned back to his master and said “The Holy Spirit” is the reason for his return. Although Joseph Travis, a farmer, was a kind person, him and his family were Nats first victim. They caught him next to Travis’ farm. He claimed that his mind was restless and observant, and wa devoted to fasting and praying. Turner began to talk to 4 slaves about “killing all whites”. He said that god gave him a…

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    Men: Can You Trust Them? In the novel Saving Grace, the author Lee Smith traces the spiritual journey of a young girl named Florida Grace Shepherd, or simply Grace. She is the eleventh child born to her father, Reverend Virgil Shepherd and his third wife, Fannie Flowers. Grace’s mother called her the ‘worrywart child’ (Smith 3). She loved her parents, but she did not like Jesus because He made them travel all the time, “And I actually hated Him when He made us take up traveling in His name,…

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