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    being hated‚ don’t give way to hating And yet don’t look too good‚ nor talk too wise If you can dream and not make dreams your master If you can think and not make thought your aim If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap of fools Or watch the things you gave your life to broken And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools If you can make one heap of all

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    Short Story Rough Draft Natasha and her mother had never gotten along very well. They fought daily. The atmosphere in the house was always tense. It was no wonder that her mother was so sick. Everyone in the family knew of her condition. Well everyone but Natasha. A few months ago‚ Natasha was at a friend’s house and her mother had to go to the hospital. Apparently the stress from all the fighting over the years was making her sicker and sicker. When they had tried to tell Natasha‚

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    me time to emotionally prepare myself for the torture that I would later have to endure. I also did not mind looking out the window at the grey world around me. I was the last to be picked up in the mornings‚ so when the bus made an unexpected stop two blocks from my house I could not help but to look over towards the doors. A tall boy‚ who looked to be about my age‚ stepped onto the bus. He had brown hair just above shoulder length and blue-green eyes that were bright enough for me to notice from

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    Short Story There is one thing in my life that I cannot go a day without and that being my purse. My purse is much more important to me than a hauler of my things that gets carried along with me everywhere I go. It metaphorically carries my life in its silk lining. So on a frigid day in November while on vacation in New York‚ I made a horrible realization that I lost my purse. After realizing that I lost my purse I felt like a mother that just lost her child. All I could think about is that

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    Patricia Rosario English 126 AB1 Professor Milanes November 24‚ 2014 Formal Paper #3 draft Pressure for Success Children of immigrant parents are put under immense pressure to succeed in life. Success is expected in these children as a form of reward to their parents for their many physical and financial sacrifices. Because of these expectations‚ children begin to feel as disappointments and failures if they have not met the high goals set by their parents. Putting high standards and limitations

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    meeting all his aunts‚ uncles‚ grandparents‚ and cousins. I did not expect for the meeting to end up like this. Brandon‚ my boyfriend‚ and his younger cousin‚ Jake‚ picked me up at Packers Bay in the ski boat. It was a chilly morning and I was in shorts and tank top and had only my towel to keep me warm. The boys forgot where the houseboat was parked in the lake. We spent the next hour and half searching the entire area of Shasta Lake for their houseboat. “Brandon‚ just call your mom and ask where

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    • Walter talks about the missed business opportunity with Charlie Atkins. P.32 • Complains that he has nothing to pass on to Travis. “I have been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the livingroom -- and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live…” p. 34 • To Mama: “Do you know what this money means to me? Do you know what this money can do for us? Mama—Mama—I want so many things.” P. 73 • Mama: “Son‚ how come you talk so much ‘bout money?” Walter: “Because

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    him and prays that whenever the time comes‚ that she will be the first to go because she is weak and he is strong. Summary of “Little Red Riding Hood” This short story is the classic tale of a little girl in a red cloak going to take her ill grandmother some baked goods. This is the first known publication of Charles Perrault’s story. Little Red Riding Hood was loved by her mother and even more so by her grandmother‚ who made her a red hooded cloak to wear out and about. The little girl was on

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    ones. She would take hours just to get ready for school. Her hair was just like mine‚ long‚ black‚ and silky. She always wears some type of bow or flower pin in her hair. Her nose was kind of like a little button on her face‚ sort of like mine but more pleasing. But her eyes…..her eyes were so beautiful. They were like two big emeralds on her face. You could just get lost into her eyes for hours.”

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    Two Kinds vs. The Yellow Wallpaper Literature 210 After reading two very different pieces of literature one could come to the conclusion that there are many similarities and many differences between them. By comparing and contrasting the two short stories Two Kinds by Amy Tan‚ and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilmans we can better see how they are similar and different. Both authors of these short stories seemed to have created their stories a bit from their

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