English 093 My First Car I finally saved up enough money to buy myself a car‚ so I set out to track it down. My journey started out on a spring day‚ when the trees started to grow leaves shading the sun over my house. First‚ I drove to the store to get a newspaper‚ for I had already spotted a potential lead a few weeks back. As I searched through the classified section‚ I had my fingers crossed. I immediately spotted it. Because I had saved a pile of cash through the winter‚ I could
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illustrates for us in his piece titled “My first Conk” how his first conking went. For those unfamiliar with the term conking is a procedure in which black males concoct a gel‚ using mainly household ingredients‚ then apply it to the hair in order to straighten it. The incorporation of lye in the gel is what causes the bearer to feel as though the scalp burns. Malcom was at first a devoted conker but through the years has come to regret his old habit. At first he explains how good the conk made him
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to ask you something important. Ok so you know how my birthday was last Sunday. Last year you let me get my first tattoo and it turned out cute and you barely know it’s there unless I show you. The year before I got my first tattoo I was tuning 15 and you let me get my nose pierced and i would still have it had it not been basketball season. I feel like you should let me get my next tattoo because for one that was my main things I wanted for my birthday and i’m going to pay for it. All you have to
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English 111 March 16‚ 2009 As my boyfriend and I walked along the crowded pier: we inhaled the smell of freshly cooked crabs‚ shrimp‚ and lobster that came from the little blue restaurant that sits right on the pier. I could tell that the pier was an old bridge by the cracked cement and the old yellow road markings. The silver rail that surrounded pier was also aged and rusted. After walking about a mile we meticulously lined our poles on the rusted railing. My pole was blue and silver with bells
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The first day is always the hardest. You go from being the leaders of the school‚ to the babies of the school. It was the first day and everybody was full of both excitement and fear. I looked around‚ I saw a bunch of crowded newbies all around me‚ anxiously awaiting the bell‚ at the start the only person I could recognise was Chiara. Chiara is one of my best friends; we went through primary school together. Gradually more and more people showed up‚ until I could barely move. A few of them
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Ung had felt a wild amount of emotions that had to do with the war in Cambodia. Distraught. Disbelieving. Disoriented. Confused‚ on how everything changed and ultimately a rebellion took over her life. In “First They Killed My Father”‚ Ung had her childhood stripped away from her‚ forcing her to work‚ adjust to wartime‚ and the consequences that come from war. During the war‚ Ung had to experience hunger and let this affect her daily intake of food. This was something Ung was not familiar with
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get a second chance to make a first impression.” (Will Rogers). First impressions stick‚ and they stick hard. There’s no way around it‚ they remain as a layer on identity. While within that identity there might exist a different person‚ that different person still holds onto the external layer of a first impression. First impressions truly are almost impossible to change. In a book‚ people use post-it notes to remember a specific point. In society‚ people use first impressions to remember a specific
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AP English III October 14‚ 2011 The Inside Counts In Malcolm X’s personal essay‚ “My First Conk”‚ Malcolm X describes a moment in his life where he changed his hairstyle. He altered his hair because he thought that the looks on the outside were more acceptable in society. Malcolm X was a young child when he got his first conk. He was looking up to the older black gentlemen in his town‚ and the majority of these men had conks. Conks gave the people of the town self-confidence and a sense
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I changed my mind about running the day my father made me run my first race. It was a hot summer day‚ and I was inside watching television with my siblings when my dad asked us if we all wanted to run a race with him. At first‚ I wasn’t too sure about it even though he said it was only a one mile race. But‚ in school‚ we already had to run a mile in gym‚ and I wasn’t very good. All of my siblings said "yes" to it‚ so I had to also. I had no other choice. So‚ after a few days of doing nothing
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this mostly with extreme violence. The book “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”‚ written by Luong Ung‚ is the author’s story of growing up during this time period. She was five years old when the Khmer Rouge came into power. As stated in the author’s note‚ “From 1975 to 1979‚ through execution‚ starvation‚ disease‚
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