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    Not too many people keep the friendships they made growing up or often end up moving away from family‚ thus causing loss to a supportive relationship. Perry Patetic in his excerpt discusses that having such an open and mobile society can cripple relationships. The author supports this claim by first generally referencing negative effects of being able to fly‚ drive‚ or potentially move long distance. Patetic continues by declaring that there are more downfalls to mobility than benefits. The author’s

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    Becoming the one who made it Have you ever seen a man in a suit and tie driving around in the car of your dreams accompanied by a woman who appears to have it all? That right there‚ is my constant reminder to strive to be worthy of that same recognition I have toward successful people. To be of importance to my community is the impeccable dream. Your success in the future greatly depends on how successful you become during college years. For that reason‚ this school year I have decided to put

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    "My First Time Away From Home" Leaving to go to college was my very first time away from home‚ and it took a lot of adjusting to a new surrounding. I didn’t have my mom right by my side anymore and I needed to become more independent on doing things on my own. Adjusting to a new city‚ community‚ and school was a challenge because I was used to being in my own city‚ with my old friends‚ at my old school. I often got homesick and wanted to go home‚ but I soon adjusted. At first when I originally

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    Just Walk On By

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    Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space 1. Why does staples characterize the woman he encounters in a paragraph 1 as a “victim”? One of the author’s purpose of characterizing the woman he encounters‚ is to share the reader a personal life experience in order to engage and catch the reader’s attention with this ironic and sarcastic situation. The author uses this type of language to transmit and inform the magnitude of racism at that time and how can affect an individual

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    Away

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    Away is a play written by the Australian playwright Michael Gow‚ published by Currency Press in 1986.[1] First performed by the Griffin Theatre Company in 1986‚ it tells the story of three internally conflicted families holidaying on the coast for Christmas‚ 1968. It has become one of the most widely produced Australian plays of all time and is part of the Higher School Certificate syllabi or general High School Curriculum in many states‚ including Western Australia‚ New South Wales‚ Queensland and

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    Teenagers are more likely to run away from home than an adolescent child. Many people think about running away just to leave there problems behind in turn they create new and more complicated problems. As a teen I ran away for a day it was not a long period of time before I ended up back at home. But since my parents were divorced I ended up moving from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to live with my mother. From there my life seemed to go downhill because my mother did not care what I did. To this

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    very well so the risk of using them is less than it used to be. Nuclear stations have several advantages over other ways to make electricity: they can run at full power for many months at a time they can make enormous amounts of power from a small amount of fuel. Just one station can provide enough power for a city Advantages- No greenhouse gases emitted‚ no SO2 emitted to increase acid rain‚ fewer deaths and injuries in uranium mining than coal mining‚ fuel reserves will last longer than fossil fuels

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    As a country full of diversity one can assume that we have learned cultural differences from other countries that we have interacted with. Frederick Jackson Turner discusses this idea in his excerpts from the “Turner Thesis” written on July 12‚ 1893. He touches on this idea when he speaks about how America adapted and learned from the cultures in which it conquered as the country moved in westward expansion. Such as when Americans learned from the Natives and began to use horseback for war tactics

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    My First Time Away From Home Leaving go to high school was my very first time away from home‚ and it took a lot of adjusting to a new surroundings. I didn’t have my mother or my grandmother right by my side anymore and I needed to become more independent on doing things on my own. Adjusting to a new city‚ community‚ and school was a challenge because I was used to being in my own city‚ with my old friends‚ at my old school. I often got homesick and wanted to go home‚ but I soon adjusted. Another

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    A Walk by Moonlight

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    H L V Derozio’s poem‚ ‘A Walk by Moonlight’ describes the stages of awakening of the senses as a casual walk with friends gives him an experience in which he becomes enriched as his deeper senses are stirred and it turns into something more than just an appreciation of a moon light walk. Where he becomes philosophical and begins to search for life’s meaning in everything around him at that moment as he progresses on a note of introspection and reflection. The poem begins with the poet recollecting

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