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    you’re earning straight As, you’re learning the material as it’s presented. You’re not falling behind. You remain caught up and current on assignments. You’re not succumbing to confusion or cluelessness. If you don’t understand something, you figure it out ASAP. If you need help, you ask for help right away. You do NOT fall behind. Students who earn lower grades often work harder because they use a sloppy approach. They succumb to bad habits like doing assignments at the last minute under pressure

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    Alexander Baker was the first to disappear. He went missing on the first Monday of the month. Mrs. Henry found him dead five days later. She had been taking her daily walk on the beach when she found Alexander's body skimming the surface of the choppy water. He was perfectly intact and the coroner could find no cause of death. But how does a perfectly healthy seventeen-year-old boy just die? The confusing thing about this whole situation? No one knows how it happens. The only clues the police could

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    Nothing but Net

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    wanted to make sure. “Thank you,” he said heading toward the door but Todd interrupted. “Whoa.” Nathan stopped and turned around. Todd signaled to the window. “Really,” Nathan said realizing what Todd wanted. “Weeze,” Todd begged. Nodding Nathan looked out the window and saw the path easily. He walked over to Todd's bed and quickly checked the wiring. Plenty of

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    Perks Of Being An Au Pair

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    there, however, the doors were closed. Now I didn't know that they could reopen, I did try to pull the latch on one door, but when it didn't open easily, I assumed it was locked. Goodbye Train. I didn't want to go back to the machine and try to figure out my card and I didn't want to go back to the ticket booth to the same lady and buy another ticket. I called my host mom and informed her that I missed the train again. She then told me that there was a machine that allowed cash payments. If only

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    need to always have it in our hand or in our pocket if we are away from our technology for just five minutes we start to freak out and not feel comfortable. Both teenagers and adults feel like they need their phones for everything. For example they might be doing some math problems and then the question 7x8= what and they would just pull out their phone to try to figure it out even though they had learned that when they were in third grade. Not only this but also when someone might be driving and their

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    My Dreams

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    decided to travel to my old hometown to figure it out. I glanced over to my diary nearby and opened it up to look at my old family picture, or at least what’s salvaged of it. Father ripped it up in half because he wanted me to forget about mother, and he wanted me to forget about it all. Continuing on, I started flipping through a few pages of my diary until I found my old address: 187 Mapleberry Oak in Toronto, Ontario. - Time skip to the airport – After getting out of the taxi, I got my luggage from

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    Short Story

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    besides all of the soldiers leaving, and gathering of materials for the war effort anyway. So I gave up on trying to figure it out. My father was different, and didn’t laugh as much as usual, but he was my papa and we quickly rebuilt our relationship. Soon we were talking and he became almost the same, giving me advice, hugs, love, support. In fact our close relationship is the way I found out about our new troubles. We were sitting in the living room and I happened to mention that I wanted a new dress

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    “that will have to work for now.” I carefully pulled down the straps of my backpack, and held it firmly in place so when I walked it wouldn't move. I had to, at one point, accept that my pants had ripped, so I walked out of the room and started walking to PE. I was wondered how I would be able to survive another period in my state of being, but I relaxed once I remembered that we would be wearing our school PE uniform for the next forty minutes. I stopped abruptly,

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    I lifted my backpack off of the sidewalk and kissed my mother goodbye. As I turned to walk away she quickly grabbed my arm and twisted me around. She pulled me in closer and softly said to me, “Remember our golden rule, treat others the way you would want to be treated and they will treat you the same.” I applied the ‘Golden Rule’ every year, from the beginning of kindergarten to the end of 8th grade. The golden rule taught me how to build friendships, see the best in people, openly accept them

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    Throughout Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises many themes are seen. Among them being Drinking, nature, the lost generation, masculinity, and sexuality. Probably the most important out of these would be that of sexuality. Within the book it is simply seen as a means to an end, the relationships are not usually well thought out or meaningful. Rather they simply serve a purpose of showing that one can be in one without being committed to anything at the same time. One of the biggest parts that shows of

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