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    " We Real Cool " " We Real Cool " is about seven African - American high school dropouts who want everybody else to think they are cool. These teenagers explain how they stayed out late playing pool‚ sinning and drinking. Though they think they have everybody else fooled‚ they know themselves that the destructive behavior that they are taking part in will lead too their death. In " We Real Cool "‚ Gwendolyn Brooks uses denotation and

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    Do you have a favorite sport? My favorite sport is running track. The reason why it’s my favorite sport is because I love running. Running takes my mind off of things like my mind goes blank of all the crap that is going on I only think about the miles I run and how fast I run them. I started running when I was in 9th grade because I broke my wrist in collar bone. We were doing this tuck and roll exercise and I did it right the first time but the second time I didn’t roll and hit my collar bone

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    time since late March‚ frost dusted the grass‚ turning it an icy green. Although I was wearing three layers of clothing‚ each thicker than the previous‚ every breath I took sent shivers running down my spine. How I would survive two miles of this wearing only a singlet and short-shorts was beyond me. Running had only become a part of my life since the start of the school year. Hesitantly‚ I joined as a way to stay in shape for basketball

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    described by Carl Young because he saw similarities between pieces of literature. There are several archetypes in most stories and many stories may have some of the same archetypes. This is evidently true in the movie Cool Hand Luke and also in the book “The Catcher in the Rye”. Luke‚ in Cool Hand Luke‚ and Holden‚ in The Catcher in the Rye‚ exhibit similar archetypal features such as the Christ-Figure‚ the Anti-hero and their experience of the road of trails. Luke and Holden can both be compared to

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    paid for it (otherwise‚ it’s a hobby). That’s the conclusion reached by David Rosen author of What’s That Job and How the Hell Do I Get It?: The Inside Scoop on More Than 50 Cool Jobs from People Who Actually Have Them. Rosen believes “coolness” is subjective. Everyone interviewed in his book thought they had a cool job‚ but that doesn’t mean they wanted any of the other 49 jobs he wrote about. “The mediators were fascinated by solving disputes and helping people get along. Designing jewelry

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    wedding‚ this time wearing a formal dress I picked out myself and a pair of high heels to match. I’m dancing to LMFAO with my cousins in a beautiful banquet hall‚ complete with a fireplace in the center to warm the hearts of the guests and a courtyard to cool off in after shuffling the night away. I secretly await the polka‚ swing‚ or even waltz that will bring me back into the arms of my father. I am seventeen years old at Sharp Top Cove in Jasper‚ Georgia‚ listening to a camp speaker talk about how

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    Being an adult‚ I look back into my teenager years and fresh years of being a young adult unto now. I have always viewed life deeper than most that are my age. I wouldn’t when I was younger I was confused‚ but I always did what my friends thought was cool to do. But when it came to my thinking and my emotions‚ I loved deeper and had a great deal of compassion for people. I knew and was taught since God loved people in spite of the bad things that we do. I did too. I would look pass what they might say

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    can play with his friends above the surface during the months of July to October‚ and when one is playing above the surface‚ the other one stays on the Earth. The two children agreed with these conditions. When Amihan is playing‚ the people receive cool air because she just plays with her dolls and do not cause so much damage‚ but when Habagat is playing with his friends‚ the Bagyos‚ the people experience a rainy season. And because Habagat is a very playful boy‚ he cannot contain his urge to run

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    people drive past they also feel angry just looking at you. However‚ we still sit‚ and nothing happens‚ and therefore we have nothing to do but sit. There is usually something you can do while you wait‚ even if you don’t have any playing cards or cool games on you phone to help you pass the time. Most of time you can only do fun things when your actually driving which is not exactly helpful when 99% of the class here are going to only start driving in three or four years. So here are a few fun

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    my grandmother gave me money everyday to walk down to the candy store. When my parents would meet their friends in the bars‚ some of the other kids would walk with me to buy the candy. I bought a lot of candy cigarettes because I thought they were cool. All of the children there were really nice and friendly. They all wanted to teach me Spanish and they liked for my mom and I to speak English with them. Several nights there‚ we went to a country house with our friends. The men cooked dinner‚

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