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- 13821: The Hurt of Others
- The Hurt of Others "Good morning class," said Mrs. Elmers. "This year we have two new students joining us, Colin and Fred." I looked over and saw another student with his head down. I assumed it was Fred. At lunch I met up with Fred. I introduced myself and we started hanging out together. We started doing things after school and on weekends. But then I started to realize that Fred did different things then I did. I started making new friends and lost touch with Fred. Fred was a different person then most. He always did things different. He seemed to be turning to the Devil, getting into drugs and acquiring himself a few bad ... we departed we, promised we would get together over the summer. I called him once or twice, but we were unable to get together. When I entered grade ten, I found I was making more new friends, forgetting about Fred. Later I had found Fred had buried himself with crime, getting into a lot of trouble. One day I saw Fred sitting on a bench by himself. I approached him ...
- 13822: Creative Writing: Tamia
- ... strange army riding under a red banner swept down on the town. Tamia held out for almost two years, but eventually the King laid aside his scepter, the staff of Niord, and surrendered to the new power: Kaid. Imperial Kaid, at that time, was an emerging culture from the sandy banks of the River Namm. Because Kaid lies in a veritable desert wasteland, the Kaidites were protected from enemy attack, until ... between- planes spell had weakened him too much. In disbelief, he found himself funneled off to a flat, featureless plain of existence, where he was dumped unceremoniously on a barren, packed dirt ground on a world far from anywhere. At that moment, the glow of his statue in Tamia flickered, then dimmed, then was extinguished. Arnak had fallen prey to the weakness of the cruel and strong -- he had underestimated his ...
- 13823: Personal Writing: My Goals and Dreams In Life
- ... In an attempt to conquer my life long dream of receiving the best education possible, I have decided to attend Xavier University located in Cincinnati, Ohio. I am actively preparing my self to enter the world after high school by taking Technical Computer Courses, participating in non-profit organizations such as a Marketing Education Program called DECA, Urban Minority Drug and Alcohol Outreach Program, Habitat for Humanity, and many others the ... a struggling parent of three. I am the youngest girl with high expectations placed on my shoulders from family, environment, and friends. My only dream is to make everyone proud, especially my mother. In our world today a college education does not come without financial sacrifice. However, this goal for my family seems impossible to reach. In fact, a college education is almost out of question due to the financial burden ... all the doors of life. It always opportunity to forever live in the advancement of an educated individual. I want to obtain something that no one is able to take from me, an education. Our world continues to advance in the field of technology. In some way I want to contribute to the growth and assessment of the lives of all people. Knowledge is the answer to all my questions. ...
- 13824: Lost In Samarra
- ... a bus from her house in Sacramento, to the train station, which took about an hour and a half. Then at the train station, she boarded the train. Dawn took the train from California to New York. There she got off the train and boarded a boat after she received her heavy luggage and made sure Billy was successfully boarded on the huge ship. She then traveled to Portugal, where she ... 2 seasons; winter and summer. The North is cool year round. Central Iraq has a long and hot summer, and a short and cool winter. The south has some of the hottest temperatures in the world (123 degrees F) and can get very humid. In most of the country, there is only about 4-7 inches of rainfall a year. The Syrian Desert has little or no precipitation. She also heard ...
- 13825: Catcher In The Rye - A Sequel
- Catcher In The Rye - A Sequel Chapter 1 Another day another school...I thought about this new school they placed me in. They said I will like it. Well I'll be the one to decide that. Next thing I know I'm on a 6:30 train to Windsor, CT. It was a Thursday and I received a call from Mr.Spencer, well it wasn't really for me but for my parents. I immediately new who it was, you can just hear it's a school teacher. One can just hear that over the phone. After the phone hangs up I hear a yell, Holden, front and center! Then we ... Pencey and Elkton Hills. I can't stand those people, they try to be people which they are clearly not, that just makes me so...MAD. Huuuuaaaaaaa I just gotta sit down, all of this new school, Connecticut business is getting to me. I mean where is Connecticut, I never was really good at geography, now it catches up with you. Now is one of those times which I really ...
- 13826: Personal Writing: A Schoolyard Lesson
- ... Nikes. After giving up on my hair; I ran into the kitchen and snatched my lunch box off the counter. Soon I was out the door and on to face my first day at my new school. After defeating the labyrinth of streets that we call our neighborhood, and meeting my first crossing guard; I made my way into the school. It was quite crowded , but I knew where I was ... soon as the bell rang I felt all right. We went through the motions for awhile: filling out paper work, introducing ourselves, all the first day stuff. I heard a few kids say they were new to the area, of which Brian Vedder was the only boy. He wasn't much to look at, not a soap opera star, or a great athlete, just a regular kid. Nonetheless I thought I ... few of the soccer players and he might be able to get them to play football. The next person I could count on was Melvin Jackson. I met Melvin while in math class, he was new to the school too, and he was dying to play football too. With these two I could at least throw the ball around, and hope for others to join in. The next morning I ...
- 13827: My Trip on the Ganges River
- ... its water. The Ganges River is so important to the Indians that they call it "Ganga Mata" or Mother Ganges. It is also the greatest waterway in India and one of the largest in the world. Temples line the riverbank, and stairways, called ghats, lead down to the water. I am enclosing one of the pictures I took of the Ganges River. The river is an important trade place. Its valley is fertile and densely populated. Some of India's largest cities like Calcutta, Howrah, Patna, Benares, Allahabad, and Cawnpore are located on the river. India's capital, New Delhi, is on one of its tributaries, the Jumna. The Ganges River however, isn't as important commercially as it once was. By the way, when we stopped in Calcutta for the night, I was ...
- 13828: Creative Writing: I Thought You'd Never Ask!
- Creative Writing: I Thought You'd Never Ask! The first day back to school for the new year, Bob noticed a new girl in the class. He stared at her for 15 minutes straight, and quickly fell deep in love with her. The teacher introduced the new student as Jennifer. Now Bob knew her name. He deceded to introduce himself to her the next day. The next morning, as Bob was walking down the hall, he noticed Jennifer struggling to open ...
- 13829: Creative Writing: The Man who Stepped into Yesterday
- ... told me that the lizards were a race of people practically extinct from doing things that smart people don*t do, he said that he was once a lizard too. his name was rutherford the brave and he was on a quest to save his people from the fate that lay before them. their clumsy end was perilously near. the lizards would be saved, he said, if they could be enlightened ... seemed like hours *til finally the colonel felt it all had been a dream. defeated, he bowed his head then turned to go. suddenly, with a roar, the creature emerged before him and held the brave knights body to the sky. the creature laid the knight upon the shore and the colonel fell beside his friend in prayer that he*d survive, and rutherford, brave rutherford, was alive. forbin and the unit monster were crouched over the soggy knight carefully removing his bulky helmet when the colonel heard a sound behind him. he turned and came face to face ...
- 13830: Cfc
- ... became widely used in automobile air conditioners and nontoxic propellants in aerosol cans. It's insulating properties also was used for blowing agents for plastics and foam cups. Thus CFCs became used all over the world and its business got bigger and bigger until late in 1973. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina, two distinguished chemists, came up with a surprising result in his calculations concerning the CFCs and ozone layer. CFCs ... realized that the calculations of Rowland and Molina were absolutely correct at the end of the 1980's and in the early 1990's when large holes in the ozone layer began appearing around the world, especially over Antarctica. It appeared that for every molecule of chlorine some 10,000 to 100,000 ozone molecules were being destroyed. Adding to that depletion can also be caused by bromine, a close chemical ... also suffer because of nitrogen deficiencies, due to the sensitivity that microorganisms such as cyanobacteria(which fixes the nutrients) to UV-B. In short the effects of UV-B has been detected all over the world in all kinds of environments, even 60 feet under clear water which hurts many types of fish, mollusks, and most importantly phytoplankton. Destruction of these phytoplanktons would give serious problems to fishes which depend ...
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