Tom’s Lament. Old Tom limped down the street in the warm rain. He was heading for the bar on the corner of Henderson Boulevard where he regularly went for an ice cold brew on hot summer afternoons. Come to think of it‚ he didn’t so much drink his beer‚ as sit in the corner nursing the same glass for hours at a time watching those perfectly round chilled droplets hit the mahogany countertop. A young sporting type‚ who looked remarkably similar to his youngest boy‚ approached him and offered him
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The Most Significant Experience which Made Me Who I am today. Life is an opportunity. It is a cycle of most valuable and treasured memories that even a ninety year old and a crippled person will not be able to erase and forget. It is an endless road that is full of laughter‚ sweat‚ tearful and most of all loneliness. The land was extremely barren for my eyes. The blue angry waves of the sea made me feel so anxious to paddle my daddy’s canoe to collect sea urchins and sea cucumbers‚ that I
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Mount Elenor I was laboring up the Sierra Buttes trail‚ my pace devouring the miles‚ when I first met Elenor. I’ve been hiking the trail every Labor Day weekend with my family‚ for over 7 years; I know how challenging the trail is‚ I’ve seen a number of hikers turn back without even making it half way. I was astounded when I happened upon Elenor inching her way up the trail. I thought there was no way she could make it to the top‚ she’s simply too old. Elenor proved me to be incredibly wrong‚ to
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Name: Professor Name: English 101 September 24th‚ 2012 The memories of my hometown Have you ever asked yourself if you could ever choose‚ which place in this world do you want to be at most? I have. The warmest memories‚ and the peacefully joys I experience when I am there will always have a special place in my heart. From time to time the richness of culture‚ the variety of food‚ and the most beautiful traditions have been specified signatures itself‚ and yet have never fallen
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life. The video also seems to downplay the other two victims who suffered the ultimate price: their lives. When one takes all these into account‚ Reggie got off really light. I remember watching this video for the first time in high school‚ and the fear message was incredibly effective. I remember how uncomfortable it was for me and everyone around me after we saw Jacqui’s post accident picture. Her scarred face seems like something out of a Hollywood monster story‚ rather than the once beautiful
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Experience is Life’s Ultimate Sculptor The morning was young and the barn was alive. Horses were neighing‚ dogs were barking‚ the goat was bleating‚ and cats appeared out of every nook and cranny that you could see. All were awaiting their morning meals. I grew up on a small farm in Pennsylvania. During the fourteen years of living in Pennsylvania‚ my experiences have taught me many important life skills and morals that will forever guide my life. When people think of farms‚ people normally
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The Greatest Invention of the Twentieth Century: Pros and Cons Can anyone imagine his life without internet? Nowadays‚ internet is the most important and effective way of communication. It is available for everyone at any time and place. It was invented for military purposes in1969. However‚ at this time it constitutes a vital necessity without which many of our activities seem impossible. This precious invention has been changing the face of the world in different domains: communication between
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Day Gone Wrong Waking up during winter break on a rather chilly morning‚ twenty degrees and it was precisely 9:00 a.m. and I was more than ready to drive to Quincy‚ Illinois‚ hop on an airplane‚ and head to my hometown Klamath Falls‚ Oregon. When I got to the airport I thought to myself what a phenomenal day this will be. I thought wrong. I was faced with the challenges of bad weather‚ delays‚ and the reality that my brother was becoming detached from the family; this day became a day where everything
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Since I had started school and writing composition‚ I have had experiences that either was good or bad. But at the end these experience helped me through my next and future years of school and college. One of the incidents that most marked my writing experience was in sophomore year. The prompt was doing a resume for college‚ and I actually did or tried my best‚ but then again the result wasn’t so good. The resume was almost completely marked by red writings‚ of my grammar. All though the professor
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As Bernard M. Baruch once said‚ “Be who you are and say what you feel‚ because those who mind don’t matter‚ and those who matter don’t mind.” I was unaware that my opinion of myself was more meaningful than my peer’s opinion. I had a rough time figuring out who I was and who I wanted to be in my first few years of high school. The first chance I got to poke the popular bubble was taken‚ giving me one shot to embed myself into an exotic‚ unknown social group. What I didn’t know was that this social
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