I sat for some time as Ma cooked, I looked 'round her house and I figure she must' have it nicer now cause of her new marriage and all. ... I found my own little compartment where I sat by myself under a dim light and tried to sleep awhile. ... I keep thinking 'bout how he must be doing, he just sat there motionless when I told him I was to leave to go see Ma. ... So I head on up to a little room she had set up for me and I sat at a little table lit by a candle. ...

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She was now the new princess of the land. ... Saddened to think that her new born would die, she racked her brain thinking of ways to keep her out of the garden on that birthday. ... The kingdom came to visit her at the funeral and the Queen sat in tears of guilt years. ...

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INTERPRETATION OF "THE BAD DAYS BLUES" When I sat down to write "The Bad Days Blues," I literally wrote exactly what was on my heart and mind at that very moment. ... And even though I was hurt, the pain didn't compare to the loneliness I endure sometimes because, since Keisha, I haven't found a new girl (Nicole). ...

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I had no idea what SAT or ACT tests were, but certainly I heard all of my peers sharing their scores amongst themselves. ... I remember the day the AP meeting was held at the Citrus Hill theater, there I was, proving to myself that I was ready to accept new challenges. ...

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Before me was the person who had opened a new dimension to my life and taught me how to overcome the hardships of life. ... I sat there for some time with tears rolling down my face, but then regained my composure, consoling myself by thinking that what is done is done. ...

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Courage is not those heroic acts we see watching superman nor is it those muscle bound men with super strength. But it is a combination of persistence, patience, determination, honesty, compassion, and love that makes true courage and strength an effective and influential but yet a fragile tool. ...

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She sat there alone, motionless, with an occasional sob. ... "Louise then immediately recognizes her two selves and comprehends how each will co-exist, the old finally giving way to the one new self. ...

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I sat down at the top of the sliding board and thought about it. ... Most of us replied the same thing, the Golden Rule, but the boy just sat there. ... Being in college this rule has became helpful, because I met new people and the first impression was always the best impression. ...

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Although the arts are not featured on the ACT/SAT, and they are not required school subjects, they actually require just as much thinking as math and science. ... One person may say that scientists and doctors are the the most intelligent because they find research and information that saves lives, but another might say musicians and artists are the most intelligent because they use their brains in a new and creative way. ... If we did not have common sense, we would not consider creating new things, because we would assume that the world is already fine and that we should not do anything to ...

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I grew up in the only Japanese community, so I had a culture shock during the summer because I found new things in the house everyday. ... A long massive sofa covered with a beautiful Pakistani cloth took a most of the space of the living room, and we often sat on the sofa and watched a television or chatted about difference between Japan and England drinking tea with milk. ...

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Time Goes By She held the doll she had had for over fifteen years in her hand. Cleaning her room and packing away for college was a hard time for Melanie. A few months ago a big fat envelope had arrived to her. Rumours always had it that if you got a big fat envelope from the institution meant...

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It is the opinion of the town that she is concerned with; the invasion of the new class does not coincide with the old southern traditions of her youth (Faulkner 2172). ... The men sat on the porch speaking as if they had danced with her and courted her perhaps. ...

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So our main character goes on and on about his sweetheart back home, that burden led into a new and tragic one, that now he must move on from. ... They would crack jokes about voiding on themselves, or that the enemy nearly added a new hole in them. When the young lieutenant blamed the man's death on being obsessed with his sweetheart, he immediately dug a foxhole, sat in thought and then that night burned all proof of that woman. ...

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1 Everyone passes strangers throughout life. Each stranger has a life completely different than the people we pass each day. But every now and again we are similar in thought. Although we know not what each thinks, our thoughts converge in similar fashions. Whether it be something in the sky...

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To demonstrate, I have seen a movie called Hachi, which is about a loyal Japanese dog, sat and waited for his boss at the gas station every day. One day, Hachi's boss died when his boss was teaching in New York University. ...

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"How to deal with myself" This week's topic for SAT Guidance is "How to deal with yourself". ... Many have preached on it and it is a popular verse in scripture, adequately expressing the war between the old and new natures of man. ...

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When he found the letter sent from the king on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ordering his death, he changed it so Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were the ones that were to be killed: "I sat me down,/ Devised a new commission, wrote it fair-/ I once did hold it, as our statists do,/ A baseness to write fair and labour'd much/ How to forget that learning,"(V,ii,33-37). ...

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