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    later, I found Elmer on the map. Using my finger and the scale at the bottom of the map to measure how far away we were, I came the conclusion that we were roughly 30 miles out of the way. With thoughts running rampantly through my head, I shouted, "Backtrack on 40, make a left on 55, hop onto 42 and get out at 130". Understanding through her facial expression that my words weren't making sense, I tried again and said, "U-Turn". Obliging to my order, she turned and sped off, fearing that we would be late

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    On May 24, 2016, I thought it was just going to be a regular day. I was very wrong. But let’s backtrack some, I was invited to be a part of Girl’s State for the state of Alabama, for my school and Tuscaloosa county. On this particular day there was a meet and greet for all the young ladies that were invited from the area. My mom had pestered and bothered me the entire week about going, but I just had no desire to go. Me not listening to my mother this day has been my biggest regret of my life so

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    Mary Elizabeth Frye

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    In Mary Elizabeth Frye’s “Do Not Stand By My Grave and Weep”, she uses three literary devices that I thought made her poem catching to the readers. The three literary devices I found are imagery, metaphor and rhyme. I believe she uses these literary devices to convey that the speaker isn’t dead, the speaker lives around us no matter what the sound of their heart beat makes.. Here is an example introduction paragraph: Since the beginning of civilization, humans have been observing burial rituals

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    a little. throw him another small piece of hotdog, he eats it after only a few moments. "Now, a little more" I whisper. My mate starts to walk out from underneath the bench, but just as he's getting his shoulder blades out, he whimpers, and backtracks back underneath the bench, now only the roundness of his face is sticking out. "Come on baby. You can do this, I know you can" I say, as I hold the hotdog out to where he can see it.

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    scrambled to my closet. Today I was determined to be cute, as cute as was possible! Bingo! Tight summer dress, I would have to pin it tighter. Jackpot! Painful cute high heels, check. Lucky charms! That’s what I would eat for breakfast today. Backtrack, Backtrack, I needed a bra, well I guess my mom’s was holding up decently, it looked good on the outside, but it still required a lot of safety pins. Now I just needed a touch of makeup and a hair curler. Roughly two hours later, I entered the kitchen—pinning

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    Zirdum's Metamorphosis

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    unbelievable for him, as he attempted various medicines keeping in mind the end goal to acquire the same results. Therefore, he quit taking insulin as he trusted that his new eating routine can't raise the sugar levels. For any case, he planned to backtrack to the same insulin treatment in the event that they increment. However, nothing changed, his glucose levels stayed stable and he began getting thinner. In just 25days, this young fellow lost 11 kilograms, and this pattern proceeded. After just

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    comfortable with the way he looks and wish we could change. He likes halloween because he can cover what he dolorous with on his body with a costume. Throughout the book he starts to get more comfortable with himself. But, there are parts where he backtracks. On page 57 he cuts off his padawan. He claims he didn’t like it, but we all know it was because he was going to school. He starts to get better when on page 206 he says “ That's why I still don’t like school events that include parents. I don’t

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    Victor Frankenstein God-Complex Answers In Science In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein’s desire for fame and fortune backfired when his creation ultimately wiped out Victor’s loved ones. Many experts argue that Victor became too consumed with his experiment and his desire for the resulting reputation to consider the repercussions of playing God. Although some believe that Victor’s reputation played the role of him having a God-Complex, it is because of his lack of self honesty-yet

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    Essay on The Linux

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    The Linux was originally founded by Linus Torvalds. In 1991, he was a second year computer science student in Finland. He sought after an operating system that was similar to the UNIX system, but both UNIX and the hardware it ran on were excessively expensive. A UNIX version called Minix was available for free, but it did not reasonably meet his needs as it was simply an operating system for students, designed primarily as a teaching tool rather than an industry strength operating system. As a result

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    “I think we lost it,” Aileen pants holding on to a tree. “I think we lost ourselves in this woods,” Alex gets out before bursting out into into a fit of coughs. They were in the deeper part of the forest, a place where many creatures hide in trees or deep underground caves. The wind blows slowly and the trees rustle seeming like it was telling them to get out and run far, far away. The forest held many deaths for who wandered in, but could never find the way out. “Look at the map, we may

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