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and brother Brandon. I live in a smaller, light blue house with 159 acres of land. While my brother Brandon and I were getting off the bus, I saw my dad outside in the front yard picking up sticks and twigs. As the bus drove away my dad came up to me and Brandon and asked if we could help with picking up the front and back yard before he was going to mow the lawn. So Brandon and I hurried up inside and put all our school stuff in our rooms, and got changed into more relaxed clothes knowing we…

Maggie, Dee being the oldest of them both is very successful in life being a part of the black power movement. Maggie being the young, shy and lame has gotten seriously burnt in a fire when she was a baby. One day Mama Johnson was sitting out in the yard with Maggie, then Dee shows up with a man known as hakim-a-barber. Mama Johnson invites them for dinner when Dee goes looking for a quilt her grandmother made that has a piece of living history. After having taking all of what Dee wants, Mama…

A great memory of mine would have to be my first football game this year against Massabesic. The reason I’m choosing this memory is because that was my best performance all year. I threw for 177 yards, 9 for 12, 83% completions, two touchdown passes, and a win! Every year for the 8th graders you play for a rival trophy, Massabesic has had it for 3 or 4 years but we practiced hard for that game. We had a night game that night and it was decently cold. I brought my hand warmer, my gloves, arm…

Racism takes many forms,like the purity and goodness of innocent people is destroyed by people that have a different perspective of them. The innocence of people is destroyed by evil. In this novel the innocent people are social outcasts due to the color of their skin and the racist stereotypes around them, while evil slowly destroys a person because they are not the same race. In To kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses metaphors to disguise symbols throughout the novel. Some of those symbols are…

in the winter depending on where you live you have a sledding hill in your back yard and a great place to run and jump down and land in the snow it is the greatest thing and when you hit the snow it feels like you just hit a cloud, but the down side is it is harder to play games in your yard like if you are going to play like capture the flag so when you can trip easier and not juke as well like you could in a flat yard. If you find a house with 3 bedrooms and 3…

In the book “Triumph” Jerry Schaap talks about the 1936 Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Germany just as Adolf Hitler rose to power and Jesse Owens. Jesse Owens was a track runner and one of, if not the best athlete of the 1930’s. America had amazing athletes, but Jesse Owens was the most outstanding. Jesse had accomplishments throughout his career both as a student and as a professional. The triumph and accomplishments Jesses Owens acquired at the 1936 Olympic Games was almost identical to…

Bengals Are A Serious Threat To Win The Super Bowl Four games, four wins, one turnover for Andy Dalton. The Bengals have dominated through their first four games. Yesterday, Andy Dalton played another terrific game. He finished with 321 passing yards and one touchdown, but what really sticks out to me, is the fact that Dalton still has only turned the ball over once this season. This is the first time in his career that he hasn’t committed more than one turnover over a span of four games.…

Then I repeat. “TORNADO, TORNADO, TORNADO!” I look over into my neighbor's yard and see a slight pathway. I jump onto some bricks and almost lose my balance but stay on. Then once again I repeat. “TORNADO, TORNADO, TORNADO!” I make my way around house to house careful not to fall into any of the yards. I yell the message in each yard hoping people will understand. I find myself in Kenna’s yard. I pound on the door until someone opens it and yanks me inside. “Are you crazy?” Kenna yelled…

Quote: Melinda acknowledges that there is a massive difference between her yard and that of her neighbours’, she says,”Our yard is a mess. All our neighbours have these great magazine-cover yards with flowers that match their shutters and expensive white rocks that border fresh mounds of mulch. Ours has green bushes that just cover the front windows, and lots of dead leaves”(165). Evidence:This…

were blown out after running the 26 miles 385 yards. I walked slowly over to the tent for food and rest after I completed the race. At the time of 2:49 in the afternoon I was resting under the tent as two bombs were placed about 210 yards away ready to detonate any second. The first bomb exploded near the finish line, then less than 12 seconds later the other bomb exploded only 210 yards away. These bombs made a gory mess throughout the last 210 yards of the race. Both bombs killed 3 people…