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- 21171: Autobiography of Marina Pitkowski
- ... replied nervously "I read your name on your luggage" she told me. I cracked a smile and looked down at my tattered ragged suitcase. I considered myself lucky, because many people on the ship didn't have luggage in as good condition as mine was. Although it wasn't the greatest, I always try to look at the bright side of things. Yes it was tattered, but my suitcase had a story behind it. My life started back in Warka, my home town in ... too sick to come to America, and my mother refused to go without him. She was always very loyal to him. We went through some low times when I was growing up. We often didn't have that much money, especially to get new luxuries such as new luggage or chocolate. When I was young, we suffered a little, but both my parents' degree of love never changed, and although ...
- 21172: Graduation 1999
- ... the state championships and most of the students went down to watch the game even though it was 300 miles away. When you start to remember all of these fond memories its like you can’t stop them all from all coming back at once. You also realize that this might be the very last time that you see many of these people, most of them will end up going off ... education it is your choice of what you do with your life. There is an endless list of choices out there for all of us. You no longer have to take classes that you don’t want to, or even do homework. It is now your turn to say what you will do and make of yourself. This is your chance to try something new, different and even scary. Many people ... the things that you want, almost all of the time you are going work as hard as you can to get it. If it was easy to get what you wanted in life there wouldn’t be a need for work. Since you have to work it may as well be something that you enjoy doing, because you will spend a lot of time there. There is also going to ...
- 21173: Personal Writing: My Unforgettable Experience With Drugs
- ... my crush and I walked to the field by my house. We just laid in the grass for a while and talked. Then I started to feel very strange. I told my friend I couldn’t breathe and he said I should calm down or I would scare myself. I was beginning to hallucinate, the grass started to dance and turn shades of purple. It was a strange feeling, like we ... street, it felt like they were all staring at me and that they knew I was on drugs. I was so scared. As soon as I walked in the door my brother knew something wasn’t right. I went to the bathroom to calm myself down but I flipped out instead. I remember thrashing about and screaming. They said I was screaming so loud that the neighbors could hear me. By this time my mom was home and was wondering what was going on. “Mom, call the ambulance, I’m trippin’, I’m gonna die,” I screamed. “What do you mean tripping? What’s wrong with you?” While I was having a fit, I had to explain to my mom what LSD was and what I meant by trippin’. I kept on telling her to call the ambulance ...
- 21174: Eisenhower
- ... liked it so much that he placed Eisenhower as the commander of the American forces in Europe and promoted him to major general. In February 1943 Rommel counterattacked at Kasserine Passin Tunisia. This was Eisenhower s first real battle, and he did poorly. But he recovered, stopped Rommel, and went on the offensive. By early May, the Allies under his command had cleared the Germans out of Africa. Following successes in Africa, and then in Sicily, and a successful landing on the Italian mainland, Eisenhower was put in command of Operation Overlord. Eisenhower introduced the plan of taking out the railway system using bombers. Eisenhower's plan was implemented, and most of northern France was isolated from reinforcements. To achieve surprise, Eisenhower decided to attack south into Normandy rather than east toward Calais, where the German fortifications and troop concentrations were strongest. The Normandy invasion was a complete success, and the Allies advanced rapidly through France. Eisenhower was named Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. He worked 20 hours a day. Eisenhower's next challenge came at the Battle of the Bulge. Eisenhower's generals were completely caught off guard by the weather-based offensive that the Germans initiated. Eisenhower, faced with generals who were at the ...
- 21175: Ernesto Guevara De Serna
- ... He was home-schooled by his mother, Celia de la Serna. It was these early years when he became an eager reader of Marx, Engels, and Freud which all were all part of his father's library. He went to secondary school in 1941, the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, where he excelled in literature and sports. At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the ... Guevara de la Sernas were opposed. These events and influences implanted ideas of contempt for the charade of parliamentary democracy, a hatred of military politicians and the army, the capitalist oligarchy, and, above all, U.S. imperialism. Although his parents, most notably his mother, were anti-Peronist activists, he did not take participate in revolutionary student movements and showed little interest in politics at Buenos Aires University (1947) where he studied ... medical appointment. This left him penniless. He moved in with Hilda Gadea, a Marxist of Indian stock who expanded his political education, looked after him, and introduced him to Nico Lopez, one of Fidel Castro's lieutenants. While in Guatemala, he saw the CIA at work as the principal agents of counterrevolution. He confirmed, in his view, that Revolution could be made only by armed insurrection. When Arbenz fell, Guevara ...
- 21176: Christmas Day
- ... usual I received a huge amount of gifts from Santa, which I enjoyed but my mom was not filled with great joy. Today was the day we go into Brooklyn, NY to see my father's parents. When we arrived, I was greeted by all but; I felt a huge pain from deep within my heart. There was nothing to fear and nothing was going wrong so I spent a lot of time in my mother's arms. After a while at the house my father had to call work to see how everything was going. He was on the telephone for a while but that always happened during family occasions. As ... hand and a look of sorrow on his face. I started to cry because my father walked out but I still had no clue what just happened. The following day December 27, 1988 my mother's friend came over and they just chatted. They always told me to go outside and play with my toys. I was so scared to ask what has happened so I went in my room ...
- 21177: Nowhere, Kansas
- ... died in here”, my cousin muttered as we walked down the aisle of this tiny grocery store. The musty scent smelled something like a loaf of bread that had been molding for months, but wasn’t quite as strong as my cousin described as a rotting animal corpse. We were in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas. My dad, cousin, and I were on our way back from a vacation we took ... about a hundred feet away from the next exit when the dumb car finally broke down completely. This nice lady gave us a ride into the town, which was about three blocks long, and that’s where we were, waiting for the outcome. A middle-aged, tall man with dark hair, and a thin mustache walked by us, as to get our attention. This skinny man with his apron tied around ... I’m going ta get out of this town one day. I’m going ta go somewhere and I’m goin ta become important.” We had to try and keep ourselves from laughing. We weren’t very successful. The disgusting smell was starting to get to us but we thought we could tuff it out to eat. The sandwiches were awful. They tasted about as good as the store smelled. ...
- 21178: Emmy Noether
- ... the first time. Even with the new rights granted to women, Noether was not paid for her work teaching. During this time, Felix Klein and David Hilbert were working on further defining one of Einstein's theories at the University of Gottingen. They felt that Emmy Noether's expertise could help them in their work. They asked her to come and join then, but since there were no women on the faculty, Noether was unsure if she would be welcome. Many of the ... teaching under her own name. Three years later, she began receiving a small salary for her work. During her time at the University of Gottingen, she accumulated a small following of students known as Noether's boys. These students traveled from as far as Russia to study with her. Noether was a warm person who cared deeply about her students. She considered her students to be like family and was ...
- 21179: Route 66
- ... on Route 66 in east Texas. A cop has just pulled over a jet black NSX that was speeding. John, the driver of the NSX, is an ex-convict. When the officer runs the NSX’s plates he finds that the car has been reported missing two days ago. The officer gets out of his patrol car and walks towards the vehicle. As the officer approaches the NSX, the driver of ... going?”. “I’d say I was going a shade under a hundred.,” John says with an uncaring attitude. The officer states, “I clocked you doing a hundred and twenty-four miles an hour.”. “Why doesn’t this registration have your name on it?”, the officer questions suspiciously. Thinking quickly john replies “My cousin owed me some money so he gave me the car and I haven’t had time to change the registration yet.”. Doubting the truth of Johns answer the officer asks, “Then why is the car reported stolen?”. John refuses to acknowledge the officer. Sensing trouble the officer demands, “ ...
- 21180: Do As To Others
- ... harder acting like a knife as he mercilessly cut a path through the wet night air. All of a sudden there was a sickening thud as the car hit something rather large. Shit!. I don't have time for a pathetic, dead animal! Jack slowed and pulled the car to a halt on the gravel. Turning the engine off, he sat listening to the patter of the rain in a state ... her ear. The animals mouth was partially opened and a thin stream of blood trickled out. As he collapsed onto his knees and felt for a pulse. He found a feeble pulse on the woman's clammy neck. What the hell am I supposed to do now? The damn bitch is not going to make it and what the hell gives her the right to jump in front of my car ... this moment of pondering and meditation, he wanted no chance of interruption. Another option flooded into his mind. He had no time to spare if he was going to make his flight. Was this woman's life really worth it? Her dishevelled appearance caused him to rationalise. Most likely she had been a street lady - maybe a prostitute - out on the streets in search of the food that would sustain ...
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