The officials called all of the runners to the starting line and placed us along the line according to our times. ... As I crossed the line of the first lap labored breaths were the only thing in my mind and the thought of a state championship just 3 laps away. ... The bell snapped me back into the right mindset and I set my eyes on the finish line and gave every ounce of my being. The crowd was roaring, the footsteps and breaths were behind me and the finish line was right in front. I willed the finish line to come closer and for myself to move faster and my legs to hold out for just a littl...

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All wanted to do was get to the finish line, go home and take a shower. The finish line at a marathon is a sacred place, you"re exhausted but all of a sudden you get this burst of energy. ... Upon crossing the finish line, I searched the crowd of supporters for my wife. She had been very supportive over the last two months and I couldn't wait to share my excitement in finishing. ...

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Nice guys finish last Book 16: Patroclus Fights and Dies Lines 952 - 976 Hector waiting, watching The greathearted Patroclus trying to stagger free, Seeing him wounded there with the sharp bronze Came rushing into him right across the lines And rammed his spearshaft home, stabbing deep into the bowels, and the brazen point went jutting straight out through Patroclus" back. ... As the title suggests, nice guys finish last. The nice guy is Patroclus and finishing last means his death in the end. ...

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Any married couple working full time at minimum wage would earn more then double the amount stated as the poverty line. Even with two children they would be above the poverty line. ... Finish high school and take a job, any kind of a job. There is no excuse for not finishing high school, whether pregnancy, drugs, or simple laziness. ...

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Your feet should be shoulder width apart and they should be parallel to the line that goes from the ball to the target. ... Allow the club face to rest on the ground perpendicular to the line of the shot. ... Make sure that the club head follows the line of your shot the entire time. ... Continue the smooth, flowing swing as you begin to turn your hips and shoulders preparing for the finish. ... The club should finish resting on your left shoulder with both of your elbows having a comfortable bend to them. ...

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" Already checked in we grabbed our stuff and headed to the start line. ... Once she hit my bright orange marker, I started to run, ready to finish my 200. ... My teammate handed me the baton, I turned around already in last place and proceeded to run as fast as I could finish my leg. ... The obstacle that I faced was to finish the race or walk off the track. I overcame that particular obstacle by finishing my race and allowing one of the teams to achieve her personal best performance. ...

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In line 2 he says " Shutting, with careful fingers and benign" this means that he is being gently and very careful not to harm the body while it is in its "sleep". ... In line 8 he calls his coffin a bed and says that all the people are saying their good byes. ... He finishes of by saying that when the key locks the casket shut it has "hushed the Casket of my Soul." ...

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From the start of the play to the finish the author (William Shakespeare) gives away little hints about Romeo and Juliet and how they are destined to die tragically. ... In the prologue line 6 it says, "A pair of start-crossed lovers take their life." ... It is evident that Juliet wishes that Romeo was not a Montague in Act 2 Scene 2 Line 40, "What's Montague? ... In Act 3 Scene 2 Line 21 Juliet imagines Romeo being dead and among the stars, she also cannot help what she is feeling. ... All through the play Romeo dreams of this, the last time he does is in Act 5 Scene 1 Line 6. ...

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It is exemplified especially in the line ˜when it comes the landscape listens' which has a surreal quality. ... The parishioners take religion for granted, it is merely a show, this is shown in the line ˜Mourners to and fro'. ... This is followed by a very strong line: ˜And I dropped down, and down- ˜. ... This line lingers in the reader's mind long after the poem is read; this question of what is it that she finishes knowing. There can be many theories to be made, she finishes knowing that there is or isn't an afterlife, or that madness is merely...

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(London 224) This line is a powerful foreshadowing of the terrible events to come. ... After the man finishes his lunch he starts to get up and finish the rest of his journey. ... (London 239) This line shows great strength in the dog's instincts for survival and that to the dog, the man was nothing more than another survival tool. ...

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Although the last line is abrupt, it finishes off the poem very profoundly. In the first part of the last line, the boy realizes how small the box is that his brother lies in "A four foot box." In the last part of the last line, the boy realizes how young his brother was to face death "a foot for every year."This last line sums up the poem and the realization of the speaker very well. ...

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The passing between the various rooms communicates Dickinson's attitude that there is only a fine line that separates life from death for humans. ... "A blame that others could exist while she must finish quiet." ... This line speaks of the living people's jealousy that with her death, the friend no longer must deal with the emotions of life. ...

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The second line finishes off by saying "Love is not love." ... The firs line calls it an "ever-fixed mark" unchanging. The second line says love is not shaken by temptation. ... This line compares love to the North Star for a ship (bark). ... The second part of the first line and the second line says, although time can affect beauty it will not affect love. ...

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Character Counts When it comes to keeping long term goals I always seem to come up short. After ending my Boy Scout carrier of over ten years without my Eagle Scout badge I realized how unaccountable for goals I am. The whole idea behind Scouting is to turn a kid into a man by making him more re...

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Point Blanc in supposedly a finishing school for boys around the age of 14 and of extremely wealthy parents who can afford to fork out 10,000 a term. ... It has a really mysterious story line, if you"re into that kind of book. ...

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Frost then finishes off with a romantic stanza as he rhymes all of the last words this time around. Also, his use of repetition in the line "and miles to go before I sleep" makes that idea that much more strong. ...

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The Grand Old Duke of York. He had ten thousand men. He marched them up to the top of the hill. And he marched them down again. And when they were up, they were up. And when they were down, they were down. And when they were only half way up, They were neither up nor down. I w...

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Macbeth finishes the deed and kills Duncan. ... When Macbeth has Macduff's family slaughtered, he reaches the height of the evil within himself; "Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o" the sword his wife, his babes and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line" He does this out of what seems to be spite because there is really no gain in killing Macduff's family since it is Macduff himself who is the problem.Yet this act of Macbeth's proves to do nothing morethan fuel the fires of Macduff's righteous rage. ...

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I turned my head, and to my surprise there were two shelves lined with male Beta fish. ... According to Pets Keepers Guide, you should only feed your fish enough for it to finish its portion within a one minute period. ... Again, the best guideline is to give enough food for the fish to finish within one minute. ... Finish dumping the rest of the water out over some type of strainer. ... Over-feeding can kill the fish, so only feed enough for the fish to finish within one minute. ...

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Einstein's parents wanted him to finish school, get his diploma so he could go to an University, and then become an electrical engineer. ... As we know, light travels in a straight line. In space they define a straight line, or geodesic, through which they are moving. "Near a mass space time is non-Euclidean, and the line is now curved like a line drawn on a sphere. The curved path followed by light near the sun is really a straight line in the non-Euclidean space around the sun. ...

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Lastly, Blake finishes by questioning the very existence of the "Tyger.... The second stanza uses the word "he" in the third line again hinting the creator is God, or some "higher power.... Blake ties this metaphor into stanza two where in line two he asks how the creator "burnt the fire of thine eyes", where burnt could mean to forge from fire. ... Line three and four most closely relates the word "he" to God by asking, "did he who made the Lamb make thee?... This line ties into stanza two line four where Blake asks, "what the hand dare seize...

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On the long tabs with the white lines going horizontally across the tab, fold them in half and carefully cut on the white line. Make sure you don't cut all the way through the white line of the tab or it will not work so well. ... Fold the tab with the white line and carefully cut on the white line. Place the little tab into the longer tab with the white line and tape it with a small piece of tape. ... To finish making your cubeecraft, tape the pieces together with tape. ...

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In the second line the comparison starts to favor his beloved: his beloved is more beautiful and less extreme than summer. ... Starting from the ninth line Shakespeare shifts his tone with a great passion: "Thy eternal summer shall not fade." ... Line ten and eleven give an answer in comparison with line six and seven: The summer's fair declines, but the fairness of his beloved will be everlasting. ... In line twelve the "eternal lines of time" not only refers to lines of poetry but also to lines of beauty. The poem finishes with a triumphant couplet, which explains and summarizes the th...

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At a self-directed school all the questions are typed in the unit or must be answered on lined paper and stapled to the back of the guide. ... So if I got home from driving school at 7 I might finish the essay and do very well or maybe I should do a chapter of law and catch up on some accounting. This gives me the next evening to study for my Chemistry test and finish my essay during the day at school. ... Since there is only one of your teacher, and they have many students, many times you run into line-ups. ... Since math is something everyone is constantly needing extra help with the line up...

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In Hayden's poem it was the line "then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made"(1204). ... This line confused me with the use of the words austere and offices. ... They had a strong start and finish and stuck to a main theme. ...

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