Dear Editor‚ Have you ever been left by yourself surrounded by happy couples on that one day that we all dread? Single Awareness Day or otherwise known as Valentine’s Day is that day of the year filled with flowers‚ chocolate or stuffed bunnies with a heart shaped on their belly. It may sound wonderful and delightful‚ but YOU ARE WRONG! Valentine’s Day is that day‚ where girls are extra cautious (if they aren’t already) about their appearances. Not eating for a week‚ for an exchange of slim bodies
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Chloe’ Coure 10/6/11 3rd hour The Day My Niece Was Born It was a regular cool autumn day‚ I was at home with my little sister. Time passed‚ and my mom finally got home from work. A few minutes later‚ she received a phone stating that my oldest sister Ciara is in labor. When I found out‚ I was shocked and excited at the same time. I hurried up and got dressed we got in the car and rushed to the hospital. When we arrived we went to the room she was being held in‚ she took epidural so she
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power‚ and the power of passion. The 20th and 21st century’s have illustrated clearly the deadly potential of power‚ and not just to the possessor of the power but also to those over whom it is exercised. The poem’s ’Fire and Ice’ and ’The Day They Came For Our House’ by Robert Frost and Don Mattera respectively‚ perfectly convey the idea of the destructive nature of power‚ the poems are both concerned with Mortality of Age. The ideal readers of these poems are people old enough to understand how harsh
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April 14‚ 1865. "The Day Lincoln Was Shot" begins at 7am. April 14‚ and closes at 7am.‚ April 15th‚ 1865. This book opens with President Lincoln getting out of bed worried about a dream in which he saw himself dead. The author begins by saying‚ "This is a book about a day‚ a place and a murder." He starts it all describing the morning of Friday‚ April 14‚ 1865. He describes Lincoln as an old frail man who doesn’t have much energy for anything. An example he wrote about was when Lincoln came
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Some argue that the day Lincoln was shot was the most dramatic thing to ever happen to this country. April 14‚ 1865 was the day‚ Ford Theater was the place‚ and John Wilkes Booth was the perpetrator. Jim Bishop‚ appropriately titled "The Day Lincoln Was Shot"‚ has eloquently put the account of this event into writing. This story is a well-researched moment-to-moment account of the last 24 hours of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Jim Bishop narrates these last tragic hours through records and personal accounts
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Knowledge is power Knowledge is Power‚ but knowledge does not always come with power. Knowledge is “the state of awareness or understanding gained from experience or study…learning specific information about something. This means a person has the resourcefulness to obtain and criticize useful and informative information in order to become well informed citizens who can make intelligent decisions based upon their understanding and awareness of everyday situations. Does this make them powerful? Is
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The Importance of politics in our everyday life can’t be measured by a literal scale but it happens to be needing a thorough analysis to discuss. Though we can say that politics is important in our lives because it somehow affects our society balance. As society changes because of politics‚ people consider and reconsider how to deal with their own judgement in everyday scale due to consequences given by the politicians that commands their city or municipality. It is an unfortunate common view that
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therapeutic for the patients‚ causing some to slip further down into insanity. Author Nelly Bly conveys this in her piece‚ “Ten Days in a Mad-House‚” by putting herself inside of a mental institution and faking insanity to show the corruptness of the American mental institutions. Nelly Bly was a writer in the nineteenth century who was held back in her writing career because she was a female. To break free of this barrier she had to produce something that
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Once the juice arrived in the boiling house‚ it was contained in clarifying vats and lime was added. It was then boiled in cast iron "coppers" of diminishing size. The furiously hot liquid would be skimmed and ladled into the next smaller copper until it reached just the right consistency and was diverted to a wooden trough leading to wooden flats where it was allowed to cool. The slaves who mastered the boiling stage of the refining process were some of the most highly valued workers on a plantation
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Anne Bradstreet was a woman of the Puritan period (1612-1672) where‚ women were expected to do the household chores and take care of the children. She wanted to express her feelings‚ thoughts‚ concern‚ and emotions of her life by writing in the form of poems. Her poems consisted of settlement‚ family‚ home life‚ surroundings‚ nature‚ role of women and religious belief. She believed that anything that caused pain to her was by Gods will. Her poems talk about the people close to her life. Anne Bradstreet’s
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