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    Before you are shipped to basic military training, you have to process through the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS). This is where they examine you for any health defects or abnormalities that would disqualify you from service. While waiting in line to be checked by the doctor, a guy asked, “Hey man where you from?”. I answered, “East Atlanta.”. Then there was this loud bang that sounded like someone slamming an iron pot against a car door followed by a man yelling, “Who in the fuck…

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    drugs. Mom somehow summoned the bravery to kick him out of our house when I was in the fourth grade. It was easy - he refused to put his name on the deed. How could he prove he wasn’t squatting? Fast forward to February of my senior year. While waiting for my mother to come home from the bank, there’s a knock on the door. An officer. Informing my my mother’s been in a car crash. A phone call in study hall the next day. She’s okay, somewhat. She wasn’t wearing her seatbelt, and her airbags…

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    When he is with his friends riding around into different towns he lets loose and enjoys the time with his friends. I feel like I am the same way when I have time to just hang out with my friends on the weekends. But there is Abby one of Dan’s three friends who I think I am alike in some ways. She likes to express herself in her art work which a lot of people don’t necessarily do and even though I am not good at art nor do I do much of art I think that I…

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    home towns that are not around us as a couple as often. There are not any secrets between us because we have discussed every topic possible, including future plans. Considering he has graduated and I am still in school, we only see each other on the weekends since he lives in Indianapolis. In this stage, I used the “secret test” to figure out what I should do after I graduate. I told him I was considering looking for jobs in Indianapolis, New Orleans, and Chicago, to see what his response would…

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    leisure applying weekend pricing rule. Any passenger that was travelling during the weekdays was considered to be a business passenger, therefore, had to pay a higher ticket price (Alves and Barbot, 2009). Moreover, other evidence shows that airlines offer a series of what is called "bins" or "buckets", where it includes different characteristics of travel arrangement such as class, ability to refund, advance ticket purchase, restrictions on minimum and maximum of trip duration and or weekend…

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    sources in the next hour, I would only have two sources left for the night and the English paper to work on. It could be manageable. But wait, I also had to complete my SAT work for the week, write a thank you note to the college I toured over the weekend, figure out my summer job, and remember to text my Nana happy…

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    Many people are born wishing one day they would earn a trophy or medal for doing something they enjoy doing the most. While some people show off their medals and or trophy, others keep it a secret. They never tell anyone about it, and it is hard for everyone else to figure it out. I am not that type of person, because every time I do something not everyone can do, I like to people so they can know all about my accomplishment. In this particular situation, I won a trophy for being the most…

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    A great ending to the story was when McBride is at school waiting for his mother to pick him up but she never arrives. McBride then begins to panic because as a young lost boy, who cant find his mother is a big deal. McBride writes “ They were a motley crew of girls and boys, ragged, with wild hairdos and unkempt…

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    Writing Assignment 2: The Mumps Glen was a normal guy. He was a handsome young man with his whole life ahead of him. Glen loved to party all night on the weekends. However, one unfortunate night would change his life for the next few days. After a few drinks in, he met this girl named Beth. Beth was known for being with numerous guys, but that didn 't bother Glen. That night, Glen and Beth engaged in an intense makeout session. Little did Glen know, that Beth had the mumps. Glen was unaware…

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    the owner of a café where Meursault frequently eats lunch, attributes ‎Meursault’s ‎killing of the Arab to bad luck. Marie’s reveals that Meursault’s plan to marry her. ‎The ‎prosecutor stresses that Marie and Meursault’s relationship began the weekend after the funeral ‎and ‎that they go to see a comedy movie at the theater that day. Raymond testifies that it is by ‎chance that ‎Meursault becomes involved in his dispute with his mistress’s brother. Meursault refutes to return to the ‎beach with…

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