The subtle ringtone slowly pulled me out of my dream and dragged me into reality. “Hello” I answered softly‚ not wanting to wake my wife up. “Someone broke into Shawn’s house but Shawn woke up and was on his way down stairs when he saw the intruder coming up the stairs so Shawn tackled him and they fought until the intruder pulled a gun and shot him… He didn’t make it man” Cavan sobbingly described. “What about Linda and the kids‚ are they okay” I asked hoping for the best but preparing for the
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cried out as my knees buckled‚ causing me to collapse to the ground. Too weak to stand‚ I dragged myself towards a nearby car and crawled underneath it. Trying not to make a sound‚ I lay there tear spilling silently down my face. My breath‚ like a dragon’s fire‚ clouded the surrounding air. There was no escape. I listened to the smashing and shouting increase in volume‚ and held my breath
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Christian Rodriguez Script Analysis October 16‚ 2012 Edward Albee’s At Home At The Zoo/The American Dream When comparing the similarities between plays “At Home At The Zoo” and “The American Dream”‚ one main common theme would be a dysfunctional family. However‚ with both plays come two different types of dysfunctional structures and how each family reacts from it. Playwright Edward Albee wrote both plays and are both written as a satire on the traditional American family. Albee himself
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The first life lesson I learned was to never take anything for granted‚ especially life. It is a miracle that I was born because my mom had a rare bone cancer that almost took her life at the age of thirteen. She had a twenty percent chance of surviving‚ beat the odds‚ defied her experimental treatment and gave birth to me. There was an eighty percent chance that I would not be alive today and that makes me appreciate everything in life. Osteogenic sarcoma was the rare bone cancer my mom was diagnosed
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All I hear is parents screaming‚ teammates awaiting the time when we jog out onto the brick chip field‚ and our coach telling us where we are going to play and how he wants us to work our butts off trying to win. I smell the popcorn‚ nachos‚ pretzels‚ and mostly what I smell is sweat mixed with a dingy dirt. I’m thinking in my mind‚ “We all have to give it our all to win the game.” So I put on my dirt crusted‚ sweat smelling glove on and hustle out to the red brick chipped field. I’m playing
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My first ride on a roller coaster was a scary experience! I never had a thought of wanting to ride a roller coaster for different reasons. The reasons for that fear was the fear of heights and the thought of me falling off the ride or some type of malfunction causing the roller coaster to collapse. I would just watch other people get on the rides and listen to them scream their hearts out. One summer night‚ my friend called me and told me that the fair was in town for the weekend. She thought it
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Natasha Welch AP English Mrs.Meyer 2 February 2014 Are Zoos Internment Camps for Animals? Majority of people are familiar with the popular animation movie‚ Madagascar. The plot includes four spoiled zoo animals that escape to the wild and quickly find out that it’s not what they expected. Now this movie has quite the comedic take on a much bigger issue: whether the zoo is an internment camp for animals that should be shut down or not. Zoos are seen as a tourist attraction while the animals are
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the exhilarating sound of my first shot‚ and believe it or not I had actually hit something. It all started one morning in 1868 when I was home alone. I was only 8 years old‚ my father was dead and there was no one to hunt for the family. After an exciting experience as a young girl i went on to perform in carnivals and inspire other young girls to do great things. While sitting by the fireplace I noticed my father’s old Kentucky rifle just sitting on the mantle‚ in my head I put together that if
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Modern zoos all over the world have been trying to shift their focus from pure profit and entertainment to things like conservation‚ science‚ education‚ and recreation‚ which can be ethically justified as long as they guarantee the welfare of their animals. They engage in research‚ preserve biodiversity (genetic and species) that may be threatened or at times even extinct in the wild‚ and they provide much needed funding for research and conservation projects across the world. Only a number of zoos
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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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