Silver Dollar City. We’ve been there many times before but this day was different from the rest. It was the first time I have ever rode a roller coaster. I am very afraid of heights which is why I’ve never rode one before this summer. Some time in the middle of the summer‚ my family and I went to Silver Dollar City. I decided that today was the day that i would finally face my fears and ride my first roller coaster. My older sister‚ older brother‚ and my dad and I rode roller coasters all day that day
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Today is the day I go on my first trail drive. My job is to work the night shifts. I guess you could say I’m a "nighthawk". My crew and I are headed to Central Kansas with about seventy head of cattle. We are traveling along the Chisolm Trail. My buddy ‚Bengi‚ said‚ "This is not gonna be a short‚easy drive." I sure hope my first drive turns out successfully. This morning was really easy for me. I woke up early and ate biscuits and gravy. Yum! It was so delicious. Our cook has really good taste
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The World’s Most Famous Photograph Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve McCurry which appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of a young woman with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera. It has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa and has been called "the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa". The image became "emblematic" of "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp" deserving of the compassion
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First time moving I loved to play in the backyard of our little suburban house on 842‚ Tiablanca rd. In the front yard‚ the grass was cut neat and cleome flowers hid most the mold at the base of the house. On the porch‚ there was an old rocking chair with the paint mostly peeled off and that’s where my Mom would sit in the mornings because it had a great vantage point of the street so she could watch as my brothers waited for the bus. There were Wooden panels that lined the windows in front and they
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These two English Translations of the Russian poem by Andrei Voznesenky are about a girl being rejected for the first time. The young girl’s feelings of hurt and rejection are described in terms of coldness throughout the poem. “The first ice of human hurt”. The theme that is put across from the poem is of growing up‚ and the experience of loosing someone for the first time. Both of these poems are very similar‚ but they have both been translated in two different styles. This helps to alter the meaning
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getting ready for a basketball game. When I was ready T.Green picked me up. T.Green was my dad homeboy. We drove to the gym‚for the game. “You ready‚”T.Green said to me.”Yeah I said. I felt bold this game. The game started and I was the point guard. In first quarter something tragic happened. I went to the basketball and ran into someone. The kid was bleeding. The kid was crying like a newborn baby. But I didn’t care. I was to focus on my tooth‚it felt weird. The ref told me to wash my mouth out‚so I went
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The movie ‘Girl Interrupted’ is a story of a nineteen year old girl (Suzanna) in the 1960’s who‚ after being suspected of trying to commit suicide‚ gets sent away to the Mental Institution (Claymoore) for a short ‘resting period.’ Her psychiatrist had suggested to her that the affair with one of her parents’ friends‚ along with her misconception that chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka is anything other than a suicide attempt‚ could be signs that she may be suffering from ‘borderline
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My first cognitive distortion is that I always tend to overgeneralize everything about my appearance. I personally think that I have bad skin genetically‚ I have really huge pores and I feel like my face is naturally oily which I hate! When I wear makeup it makes the oiliness even worst! Secondly I don’t like my weight at all! None of my clothes fit me the way I want too and my arms are still fat and don’t proportion with the rest of my body now that I have lost weight. I wish I wasn’t as skinny
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sixth grade where i found myself fascinated with doing hair and the products and the foods that could improve your hair and skin and I wanted to learn more. By my freshman year in high school‚ I already knew what I wanted to focus on: cosmetology. My first cosmetology competition was Skills USA. I was chosen to compete in the 90 degree hair cut event. Once I arrived at the school for the competition‚ I noticed all types of different academies; academies from construction to culinary. I walked into the
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As I arose from my deep‚ comforting sleep‚ I was greeted by the bone chilling air of the Pacific. As I lay flat on my back staring at the moldy‚ white ceiling‚ I‚ heard a distant noise. As my ears slowly started to focus in‚ all I could hear was “This is not a drill! I repeat this is not a drill!” Scrambling to find my pants I suddenly realize‚ that i’m the only one left in my Barracks. It looks as if they had left for the raid without me‚ or maybe an early birthday surprise party? With all of these
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