JORGE One night in Jamaica‚ a warm breeze rustled the trees‚ they seemed to whisper to him. As night fell‚ he watched the sun set and tried to count the stars. Jorge sat watching as the stars appeared in the sky. He couldn’t count‚ so high and decided and closed his eyes. Jorge leaned his head back into his palms and sighed. He was sprawled out on the cool grass. He patted his dog beside him. It would soon be time for dinner and he must go in and help his grandmother prepare the family meal
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ico “WAKE UP!” Screamed my brother in to my ear. “Owwww” I said But soon realized we were going to MEXICO! First we had to drive to Omaha to get on our airplane it took about 1 hour 30 minutes just to get there. Then it took the plane 8 hours to get to Cancun. When we got their it had just stopped raining. The first thing I saw once we left the airport was a…….PALM TREE! It was like 6:00 A.M. so I was tired we went to our hotel and slept for 4 hours. Then my dad said “wake up it time to see the
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My life begins here in Brownsville‚ Texas. However‚ I was only there from the beginning when I was a newborn before going back to Matamoros‚ Tamaulipas where my family had their own house. My mom wanted to have me in the U.S. because people had told her that there were far more opportunities over here. Technically‚ these two cities have become my two homes. I do miss Matamoros‚ Tamaulipas because that’s where I spend most of my childhood until I was seven years old. Then we had to return back to
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One day‚ in June‚ I was at tumbling class. It was about 80 degrees and sunny. It smells like sweat‚ but I’m used to it. An old‚ dingy and torn apart gym. A drop of sweat comes down my face and I got an idea. A dumb idea. Everything was going great until something vile happened‚ something that I will never forget. I was in line waiting for my turn‚ and I decided to go off to the side and practice one of my own tricks. Then BOOM‚ I broke my arm‚ I couldn’t explain how fast it went. My coach came
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Why do people want to live in a perfect world? Everyone wants to live in their own fantasy world because that is where all their dreams are able to come true. No one wants a world of grief and sorrow. Life should be lived to its fullest. It should not be wasted. It should be embraced. When we are faced with agony‚ we must either make a choice between accepting it or hiding from it. In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams‚ the author mainly focuses on Blanche Dubois‚ a woman who
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"Are you sure you’ll be fine without me?" Mabel asked‚ twiddling her numbs nervously as she sat on her bed in the room she shared with her brother in the Mystery Shack. Mabel was preparing to leave for a fun day with her friends‚ Candy and Grenda‚ as she planned to spend this summer more focused on friends and family more so than romance. In response to her question‚ Dipper gave a small nod‚ and coughed in between. Dipper gave her a weak smile‚ his voice cracked awkwardly even more than usual because
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Questions 1. In what ways did the speaker liken himself to a cloud? 2. Where was the speaker at the beginning of the poem? How does he feel? 3. How were the daffodils? 4. What were the daffodils compared to in the second stanza? Explain the comparison. 5. Were the waves happier than the daffodils? 6. What does the phrase “a poet could not but be gay” mean? 7. What is the “jocund company”? What kind of “wealth” is mentioned here? What does “show” in this context refer to
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For the sake of anonymity I’ll keep some names private‚ and call myself Beowulf. My story happened around two years ago‚ I was 26 years old when my family and I had noticed that my grandmother was starting to forget our names‚ couldn’t recall certain events‚ and at times seemed in a daze and lost from her state of mind‚ completely forgetting where she was in that moment. This was followed by her stumbling around the house and falling a few times. One time it got to the point where she fell down
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It may have been rough in the wild‚ but no one disrespected my solitude. And they’re the ones that leave the front door open for so long! Sometimes I think they want me to run out. But alas‚ every time I bolt out the door I hear a chorus of “JB!!!”s. I try and hide in the neighbor’s bushes‚ but somehow they always find me‚ and I am un-willfully carried back inside. Life inside has gotten quite boring. I already found all the sunny spots the during the first few weeks of indoor existence‚ and
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Howardsville‚ a quaint little city‚ nestled in the foothills of the Putney Mountains located forty miles southwest of Charleston‚ West Virginia‚ had its own dark history. Having lived his entire life in the two–story house on the outskirts of town‚ Ernest Cassidy was familiar with the myths‚ legends‚ and lies about his city and was always quick to defend it. The mysteries began years earlier when Dr. Ronald Hackney; a surgeon at General Hospital in Charleston came up missing. One morning‚ he didn’t
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