Sitting at my desk at home‚ a crushing feeling crept up on me. I didn’t know what to think. I’m not going to make it‚ am I. It was already midway through junior year of high school‚ and having just calculated my GPA requirements for many of the colleges I had wanted to go to‚ I realized that my grades were not even close to what I expected them to be. I guess I had been in denial for so long that I let them slip this far. How could I have let this happen? Where was my mind when I needed to study
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Essay 1: Descriptive Essay of a Beautiful Friend of Mine Helen Keller once said that “the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched‚ they must be felt with the heart”. How is that even possible when you know someone that has been with you since the day you have met them‚ the person that considers you a friend but you consider them as something more than just friend sometimes‚ just sometimes. Having mixed feelings about someone that you know makes you sit and stare
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My first Car Enc1101 March 11‚ 2012 Descriptive essay My first car was my first most prized possession. I’d named her‚ tested her out on interstates‚ and took good care of her like she was one of my children. She had mirror tinted windows and was deep ocean blue that gleamed in the summer sun‚ she was flawless. I will never forget my first out of town drive to Tallahassee- smoothest‚ fastest ride ever! Had it not been for the scenery I would’ve felt like I was driving in a race. I remember
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Descriptive Essay As I walked through the cold‚ lonely streets of Aberdeen‚ I decided to take a shortcut home. Making a sharp right‚ I was headed down an alleyway‚ which was dark and sinister. Mist was slowly rising upward from the ground‚ which appeared yellowish from the reflection of one sole‚ dim‚ flickering light‚ almost at the point of burning out. The only sounds of the night came from my own feet dragging over many pebbles and stone on the cement. The breeze was very bitter and piercing
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Katheryn White Dr. A. A. Bowers‚ Jr. WRT 1010: College Composition 1 27 October 2010 Relaxing Imagine yourself sitting in the sand as you would be sitting on a soft blanket in the grass. The sand grains warm your body like your sitting in a sauna‚ as the piercing sun reflects its boiling rays on the sand and your body. The glowing sun is directly above you; its rays feel like you’re inside an oven that you are yearning to get out of but the cool breeze of the ocean wind is keeping you wanting
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Five Paragraph Essay Women today are facing some of the same problems that those women of the 1800’s tried to overcome. Equality for women! Many women today find themselves in the position to make career changes due to family shifts‚ a lack of education‚ or a failing economy. Many women during the 20th century left behind their careers to be married and raise children. But in the 1970s divorce rates reached an all time high‚ leaving women to raise children on their own and go back into the
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Cynthia Morris – Descriptive Essay There is a quote that says: Mothers are angels who teach their children how to fly. Indeed my mother was an angel who in my younger years I thought was sent here to torture me especially when I wanted to hang out with my friends instead of doing chores or homework. My mother was the pillar of strength‚ love‚ and compassion. Mothers may be misunderstood but that doesn’t mean they don’t care or know better. My earliest memories of my mother‚ was her pretty
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CHAPTER TWO DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 1. A frequency distribution is a tabular summary of data showing the a. fraction of items in several classes b. percentage of items in several classes c. relative percentage of items in several classes d. number of items in several classes Answer: d 2. A frequency distribution is a. a tabular summary of a set of data showing the relative frequency b. a graphical form of
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on Campus Eight states have now been granted permission to carry guns around college campuses‚ but does that mean it is safe? Even when some students feel safer with a gun‚ it could actually cause more harm than good. Javier Auyero‚ a professor of Latin American sociology at University of Texas‚ Austin‚ says campus-goers will actually be faced with riskier environments if given permission to freely carry a gun around campus. It would certainly not be convenient for the allowance of campus carry
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The first main sociological question in the "Fraternities and Rape on Campus" study performed by Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer was‚ "What characteristics do fraternities have that make them prone to objectification of women and more likely to commit gang rape on college campuses and why fraternities encourage the sexual coercion of women. According to Martin and Hummer (1989: 459)‚ "fraternities are vitally concerned more than anything else with masculinity (cf. Kanin 1967)."
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