She sat by the door for several minutes, while her brother pounded and screamed and made idle threats. ... Dana sat in the bleachers and watched the soccer ball go back and forth between teams. ... ket line to see the new Star Wars movie on opening day, and she waited and waited and waited She finally got to the front, and to her dismay she saw that the special of the day resembled hummus with corn and peas mixed in after it has been digested. ... Dana carried the tray back to the table, and sat down with her friends. ...

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The engines low murmur was the only thing piercing the deep silence that Erin and Gwen had been sitting in for 12 hours, only to have 6 more hours to look forward to due to their new "mission". ... They sat and stared out the window. ... "Probably the wind- she thought, as she sat back in her seat she handed Erin the beer. ... Erin sat down with hopeless defeat in the cool dry sand. ... Erin walked up and down the shore and looked at her new "home". ...

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As we sat down to a pre-dinner drink the joined us. ... When they came in we all stood and greeted them and sat down again to eat our food as they unloaded their baggage in their rooms. ... We all sat down talking and waiting for them to finish eating. ... Slowly everyone came, and we all sat down for something to eat. ...

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The 1500's brought further ruin when Pope Alexander VI allowed it to be used as a quarry for new buildings. ... It was 445 feet long by 341 feet wide and sat 20,000 people - Pompeii's entire population. ... His full name was Titus Flavius Vespasianus and his goal was to create a "new Rome-. ... The new amphitheater, the Flavian Amphitheater, was to be Vespasian's greatest achievement. ... It was three stories high and sat 11,000 to 15,000 people. ...

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Several years later Edmond has changed his name to the Count of Monte Cristo and has become very wealthy off of his new found fortune. ... Wang Lung builds more to his house and buys new clothing for his family making himself socially well known throughout the town as a wealthy man. ...

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Now mom and dad had gotten an offer to come up with a new script for a scary murder mystery, so they simply rented the spookiest home they could find on the coast of Maine and packed up the family for the whole summer. ... Once everyone sat down at the table for lunch mom and dad told us a little about the story. ... Heaving a sigh of relief, I sat up and turned on the bed light. Cory sat up too. ...

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The students then cleaned up after themselves, stored away the unopened leftovers and sat down on the rug for their math morning routines. ... There was one rug in the front of the classroom, where the students sat while Mr. ...

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The New York Times, the first major newspaper to publish an article about the shooting in Dallas, reported in their afternoon paper that President Kennedy was shot and killed while in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. ... He sat in the rear seat on the right hand side. ... While in the car, she sat on his left. ... Kennedy, sat Governor Connally, with Mrs. ...

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One night, as I sat, in a half-drunken daze, I noticed a small black head among the immense amount of bottles and glasses which made up the majority of the furniture in the place I was in. ... I allowed it to do so, occasionally stooping and patting it on the head as we made our way to my new home. When we reached the house, it adjusted to its new surroundings at once, and it quickly became a great favourite with my wife. ... Wherever I sat, it would crouch beneath my chair or spring upon my knees. ...

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Most of Europe lies in latitudes more northerly than New York, due to which it has warm, Atlantic currents with moderate temperature. ... In a century marked by immense political unrest, public debate between the classes, and resurgence in new forms of art and culture, citizens are taking part in Caesar's grand Roman tradition. ... We sat at a table on the terrace of a café facing the Trinité church just down the street from the Galeries Lafayette. ... After we sat around h...

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And off she would go, wherever she was, to tell her father, though it meant going all the way to Makati, Rizal, where she lived with her parents in a new house on Zapote Street. ... If they seated him on the back seat while they sat together in front, be raged and glowered. ... They didn't have to talk at all; he would do all the talking himself, so long as they sat there in the sala before his eyes. So, his compact family group sat around him at night, silent, while Cabading talked and talked. ...

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In the late 1930's outside Gallup, New Mexico people lucky enough to have any food sat down to their evening meal of a can of beans and loaf of bread. ... A Quaker women recalls an exhausted poor mother sitting in a dirty hovel telling her story of grief and hunger to ER who sat listening intently. ... ER was a member of the New York State of Women Voters, League of Women Voters and Women's Trade Union League. ... As she observed New Deal programs in the South, she was shocked to see blacks being continuously discriminated against. ... Subsequently, African Americans were given a...

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She sat there in an empty field with the overly tall and too skinny boy who she calls "love" as he placed the white and lilac wildflowers carefully in her hair, being cautious as to make sure the others wouldn't fall out. ... Jack sat up slightly, looking over his girlfriend, his face expressionless. ... She was sure that the man hadn't heard her, but she was mistaken when he walked to the edge of her bed and sat down and laughed. ...

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He perched and sat there, and nothing else (42). ... I sat engaged in guessing this, but did not express a word to the fowl whose blazing eyes now burned into my heart (73-74). I sat speculating, with my head resting on the cushion's illuminated velvet lining, where Lenore would never sit again (75-78). ...

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It sat atop a hill on the southern edge of the Acropolis facing the Athenian people, who could then worship Athena in hopes for a favorable outcome from the war with Sparta. ... Atop each column sat the entablature and the frieze. ... Zeus sat on his throne; Hera, Herakles and, finally Hermes, the Graces and Hygieia, at the extreme right. ...

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This description of William I gives him the image of a deity, which would help explain England's immediate acceptance of their new King. ... Henry needed to find her a new husband quickly. ... Whether or not he was going to declare a new heir was irrelevant, for the minds of the barons were made up, and Matilda was not going to be the new monarch. ...

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A new concept, segregation , evolved and was predominant from the late 1800's through the first half of the 1900's. ... Segregation remained the same for many years until one day in 1955 a black woman named Rosa Parks sat down in the front of a bus where all of the white people were sitting. ... In October 1995, two black students from Rowan College in New Jersey were beaten on the college campus by a couple of white football players. ... Lawrence, was caught saying that black students do worse on the SAT tests because they are genetically inferior to other students, particular...

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Because players could now control soft and loud (piano-forte), which was impossible on earlier plucked keyboard instruments, Cristofori named his new instrument pianoforte. ... The vertical piano sat on a stand or table and in the front of the instrument were doors that could swing open to expose the strings and soundboard. ...

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After going home and getting rid of Ackley he sat down to write the descriptive composition for Stradlater. ... While sitting in the hallway of the dorm he decides to leave for New York that same night instead of waiting until Wednesday when he is supposed to go home. He plans on staying in New York for a while before actually going back to his parent's apartment so they can take in the news of his expulsion then. Chapter 8 In the eighth chapter, Holden walks to the train station and catches the first train there is to New York. ... He makes up a terrible lie about how he is returni...

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From that point on he exhibited issues with other stumps he encountered in his life such as the time he described the Judge who was "a one-armed man, with white hair and side-whiskers, sat at his desk, writing with his left hand. ... Claude's feels more connected with the soldier as he discovers new information about him. ...

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Time Management Throughout this whole production process our time management hasn't been organized or on time. At the start of our production we started of really well and started hitting our targets. On the 19/1/13 we arranged to take the shots 1-6 and develop them in the storyboard and we all c...

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Historical Insights on Dating Dating is a relatively new concept. ... He brought gifts, sat and listened to her play piano or sing, all under the watchful eye of other family members, usually her parents. ... This Emergence of a new way of courting led to dating. ... Yet, later the term was accepted by society as the new courtship pattern. ... This new system gave way to the need for money during the dates. ...

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There was a document that was used by the Rochester Board of Education, that was still valid rationale for school social work and it states As a new comer to the field of school social work, I wanted to find out and eventually compare how each social worker works with the students. ...

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"My heart is to intensify the expression of things, as is done by Crivelli, Bellini, ect, so that the heart and inner meaning is made vividly visible."" Thomas Hardy states on January 3rd, 1886, about his works (Scott 2). A common thread that is in three of Hardy's many poems is a passion or mourn...

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Lincoln sat in a comfortable armchair rushed into the theater especially for him that afternoon, and drew the curtain halfway across his booth, as a gesture of humility. Abraham Lincoln sat next to his wife and behind some important government officials. ...

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