Hypothyroidism is a dysfunction of your thyroid gland, which plays a key role in your metabolism. ... It was during spring break on a Saturday afternoon that Grace's parents were out of town tending to family matters. ... I had come to give Grace a casserole my mom made knowing that she was fending for herself since her parents were out of town. ... I knew of her from school and our mothers worked together at a doctor's office, the only one in town. Our school was relatively small, my graduating class being somewhere around fifty. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I believe that our earliest childhood memories play a part in influencing our future career; it's certainly true for me. ... A kiss on my forehead, and father was off to town for more supplies. Town was not far away. ... A man in a police car was barreling straight towards our camp site. ... On my father's way to town he was run off the road by a vehicle that crossed over into his lane. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When his father said he couldn't play and to stay home and work on the farm. ... King Kingwood, the star pitcher from the High School Billy can't play at. ... After all of what you have read, you would have to agree that Billy Baggs is our major character. ... First the sadness of not being able to play baseball thanks to his dad. ... Using skill and ability, the town team is defeated by Billy's squad of country players and immediately grabs the attention of the city. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

We were already halfway to the outskirts of town when I wept. ... It was a Sunday evening and we were riding the bus heading to my mom's small town after her mother died. ... She never told me stories, played with me nor cradled me in her arms. ... She must have been very lonely being only with me in our house. ... Morning came and the prickling summer heat wasn't sensible enough to give shade for our grief. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

On a good day, it would take forty, to forty-five minutes, to get to town. ... Half of the population of New York also wanted to get to town. ... By the time he got to town, it was 3:30 p.m. ... Aria, this is my friend and our neighbor, John." ... Aria, I would like you to go back to your play room. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

We would play basketball a lot and play his Nintendo whenever I went over to his house after school. ... Both of us were enjoying our years of junior high, and preparing to be together for high school, but things started to change with him. His dad went out of town more and more, leaving just Bill and his mother in the house for months at a time. ... He wanted people to come over to play basketball and have fun. ... Bill's father was home when Julie died, and Bill was playing the good son card. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One day when I return from playing babushka tells me that I must quickly hide as the men with the shiny boots are searching for others like me. ... The weather had begun to get warm and we spent most our days helping our landlord with the many farm chores. ... Discouraged and defeated I went to my room and for the first time decided that I did not agree with my parents.Each day on our way to school Miriam and I would put on our red lipstick and change our clothes , so that our parents would suspect nothing. ... Things got even better when I discovered that Miriam's boyfriend played baske...

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• Grade Level: High School

At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. ... Before they play "chicken" and one of them dies, off the cliff, Jim asks "why do we do this?" ... Not even the music was sincere, as Gitlin points out, the music is taken from the black side of town, bleached, stripped of some kind of soul and mass produced by white boys. ... The youth culture was all about breaking out, they just didn't know it yet, everything was a way of saying that something is changing, ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I grew up in a small town twenty miles away, in a small cluster of houses in what today is called a sub-division. ... My family perceives time as being very important in our lives. ... My parents were also pushing me to go outside and get some exercise, so playing sports just became natural for me. ... These are some of the beliefs that our family has. ...

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I remember many times I couldn't have both my parents together at a party because someone had to keep an eye on the restaurant we owned in our home town. Working so many hours and different shifts didn't turn out so good for our family. ... I started to concentrate less in school, had bad grades, and didn't want to play with my friends. ... My mother made a decision to move to America so we could start a new chapter of our lives. ... A successful outcome of each stage gives us a virtue, which we carry with us throughout our lifetime. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Family and transience played major roles in both author's lives while religion and rebellion were important forces in Barnes" adolescence and Hale discussed her adulthood more thoroughly in her work. ... Although the Barnes's often moved, she believed that her family and her way of life would always remain stable: "I had moved many times as a child and had come to believe that even in strange homes and new schools, some things would always remain constant, the love of my parents, the circle of our family and my belief in God." ... Barnes" writing included numerous tales of playin...

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• Grade Level: High School

The children used to play and study together when they were young. ... And in a very short time Joe owned one of the biggest shops (factories) in town and became a respected business man. ... The Kellers did not leave town, to the contrary Joe became a distinguished business man. ... He knew that Keller had offered to help him work in the town again instead of going back to New York. He also learnt that Keller had a place for Steve as soon as he got our of prison. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Gender Roles Gender plays a role in defining the expectations and behaviors of each family member and makes up a significant part of family health care (Wright & Leahey, 2013). ... Our first child was born less than a year into our marriage, and she wasn't even a year old when we found out we were expecting again. ... All of their family was born and raised within the same small town and have lived here since birth. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

We moved from our apartment in the city to a place in the suburbs. Our father took us out of school in the middle of the year. Once we moved and started in our new schools I started to rebel. ... My mother made arrangements with my school saying that were going out of town in a few weeks and that I would not be back in school for about 3 weeks.. ... My friends from school would come by on the weekends to see her and they would spend the whole day asking me questions and playing with her. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When I found out that I was going to write a paper on my family and our culture, it never struck me that I would be looking into their past. ... He then began to tell me that he left his small town of Mexicali. ... My mom did not want them to play any school sports because that was manly of them to do that. ... They allowed my sisters to play in school sports, and they would go to their games and cheer them on. ... We are all expected to do our part in the home as well. ...

• Word Count: 2440
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School