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    being confrontational with various complications and being able to make decisions, whether they be right or wrong. Through an assortment of techniques, these proposals are explored in the novel I am Malala authored by Malala Yousafzai and the poem The Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost. In I am Malala, we explore how Malala starts off as an insignificant individual, then slowly going on her journey debating with difficulties along the way. The nature of journeys can start from the smallest…

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    An average American commuter would spend about 42 hours on the road per year due to the overcrowding of roads. It is said that this amount of time wasted on roads would only increase as the economy progresses. As more and more people continue to commute, whether it is to go to work or to go to school, the possibility of dangerous events occurring on the road may rise. Therefore, commuters are in need of automobiles that are reliable and efficient enough to get them to their destination in a…

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    Last summer I had plans to meet my friend for brunch downtown. I parked my car and began to walk to the cafe. As I was rushing to get to her, I made eye contact with a homeless man on the sidewalk. I smiled at him and noticed he was saying something to me. I approached him and told him I couldn’t hear him because of the backhoe that was right behind him. With a not-so-toothy grin he said good morning to me and asked how my day was going. I don’t think he was expecting me to start a conversation…

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    The book title is call “Until They Bring The Streetcars Back”, this book is by Stanley Gordon West. This story is set in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1949. Cal Gant is a senior at Central High School. One day, he and his entire study hall class obtains a 7th hour detention period, where he is introduced to Gretchen Luttermann when she sits behind him and says to herself that her father will beat her. After this, Cal starts to learn more about Gretchen and how her life is a living hell. This lead to…

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    Symbolism In The Road

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    In The Road is a quote that reads “No list of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of beauty and grace such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you” (McCarthy 46) The boy mentioned and the man are the main characters of the novel. In reading, the story it is apparent that the boy and the man have a very dependent…

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    In the book The Worst Hard Time,created by Timothy Egan,talks about stories from different people who lived in a Dust Bowl.The story sets with a description of the setting and takes place after the Great depression has happened.His goal in this book was to inform the readers on how the Dust Bowl affected many people and uses stories to describe how the Dust Bowl was like.The author also describes the book as a horrible place to live in by describing the ferocious storms how it and affected many…

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    Texas museum trip Texas was in bold letters as my family went down the highway with music playing on the radio. My sisters were fast asleep and there I was wide awake excited to see where we were heading. Wide-eyed and curious I looked out the window at the passing buildings and people walking down the sidewalks. Tiredly my dad checked us into a hotel and into the hotel room we went resting for a while. My sister desi and I played games for a while then we layed about for a bit worn out from…

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    “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but no human heart, oh no, its curved like a road through the mountains” (Williams). The previous quote was recited by a man named Tennessee Williams, who taught that a lot can be learned about a person from a single quote such as their values or maybe in the values of the society in which they live. Tennessee Williams was man who was taken from his urban home and landed on the streets of St. Louis where he became a playwright…

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    Hill Walk Outline

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    Deep in the roaming hills of Pennsylvania, miles from any old dusty road lays the most beautiful scenery imaginable hidden from any hiking or motor trail. a) The journey starts at a small quant trailer park on the side of a hill. b) In the gully below sandwiched between the hill of the park and the naked hill across lays a tiny stream which slowly grows for miles. c) The streams turns into a small creek with shallow water but lays deep in the earth as washed out hill sides ambush and retreat…

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    Short tracks and long tracks have many similarities, but also differences, so here is the one that will fit you the best. The two different types of sleds can have the same motor in them, it is all where you want to ride it. You can get most of the same options but some options you can't get on the other sled. All of the sleds you can get are mostly the same things. You can get the same motors for the two sleds. When you are storing them you don't need more storage for the long tracks, you…

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