Well I hate to tell you but it's probably someone just like me who is using a cell phone, eating, or even trying to read. ... Cell phones, although helpful to us when in an emergency, are used way to often in a car. When on a cell phone we have at least one hand free, but then I think about when I eat and I have no hands free and I use my knee to drive. ... Worst of all when these things happen at the same time; eating, people honking at us, and then a cell phone ringing , and trying to turn the radio down. ... I doubt that this will ever stop, but I know now how annoying it is to almost...

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I was at work taking the children to the breakfast room when my cell phone went off. ... When my mom answered her phone I asked her what was going on? ... I hung up the phone with my brother and started to cry. ... I dropped the phone to the floor and just cried and cried. ... My brother said yes and put the phone to his ear for me. ...

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He then asked, "Where"re the cell phones?" ... He checked my pockets, the cell phones weren't there. Ryan then started to panic and went running back to the car to look for the cell phones. ... I asked to use their phone to call my parents. ...

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Lying has No Advantages I was in high school and the big dance that made everybody uneasy was coming up on us very quickly. Yes, it was prom time. I was a junior and I thought that I knew everything about everything. One of the biggest parts of the prom really has nothing to do with the prom at ...

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I found a movie that I enjoyed very much. It was called Twister. It showed the harsh reality of what tornados can do to families and communities. Today we have the wonder of Hollywood so they were able to digitally put in tornadoes. The actors at times were in places that they realistically coul...

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Mother against daughter, boyfriend against girlfriend, every time I look around I see conflict as if conflict is a way of life. However I have always I tended to lead a virtually drama free existence, which means that I would avoid conflict, arguments, or problems. Unfortunately there was an instanc...

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As we were getting back onto the bus, I picked up my cell phone to call home to tell my boyfriend and little girls the great news. I looked at my phone when I saw that I had lots of missed calls, all of them was from my boyfriend's cell phone, and I knew something was wrong. After calling my boyfriend's phone a hundred times, it felt like, I finally got him on the phone. ...

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As a soldier living in the barracks there are very few policies soldier have to follow. As soldiers, your living quarters should be in regulation, ready for inspection at all times. If any rule or regulation is ignored by any soldier there will be punishment for this. We are soldiers 24/7, keeping o...

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Somehow, I managed to go back to sleep, only to be awoken by the phone-my Mom informed me that the situation was graver than she feared and that my Father was being airlifted to another area hospital that was better equipped to handle his illness. ... I spent the next half an hour just trying to take care of little details - anything to keep me busy - gathering up cell phones, my Mom's phone book, getting cash from the ATM, and getting gas. ...

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Even In Death "Buzz, buzz, buzz- the sound of Caroline's cell phone was vibrating against the mess known as her desk inside her small but comfortable dorm room. ... To her great surprise the voice was that of Caroline's ex-suitemate, Tara, and the tone was somber, immediately letting Caroline know that something out of the ordinary was going to come pouring through the phone into her ear. ...

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This part of the adventure occurred because my mother was worried about us and had decided that maybe something had happened to all of us since we didn't answer any of the cell phones. How could we hear the ringing, the music in the room was so loud and we couldn't even find the phones. ...

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When I opened my eyes, I realized I was the only one left. Everything was blurry; it took my eyes a few seconds to adjust to waking up. My purple duvet cover was burrito wrapped around me but there was only enough material to barely cover the ends of my legs. It was all ashes. Everything around me w...

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There's no greater teacher than experience. The story of this one experience taught me a valuable lesson that there are still some trustworthy people in this world. Trust has never been an easy thing for me. Throughout my younger years in school, often times, I was bullied. I remember one time, as I...

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It's hard to think about that day. Who knew it would be the last day I would spend with her. It still feels like a fresh nightmare that just happened last night. But it didn't. It happened over two years ago and I was still struggling with this new reality. ...

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Can you believe I have ten million dollars? Yeah, me neither. Walking down the block one day I just happen to come across a dog. Looking at its collar, I figured out who the owner was and decided to do my good deed of the day by bringing it home. To my surprise the dog was very rare and a prize winn...

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Can you believe I have ten million dollars? Yeah, me neither. Walking down the block one day I just happen to come across a dog. Looking at its collar, I figured out who the owner was and decided to do my good deed of the day by bringing it home. To my surprise the dog was very rare and a prize winn...

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Paging Doctor Miller, paging Doctor Miller. Doctor Miller to the Emergency Room please The sound seems to echo redundantly in my ears, and I can't really make out the words. My head is pounding and I open my eyes to find I"m still just as dizzy as I was before. What a nightmare, I dreamt I was in...

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"Stupid phone, " he thought, "I'm supposed to have coverage no matter where I go. " He held his phone up to the roof, hoping to at least get one bar. Then his phone flew out of his hands and smashed into a wall, shattering into pieces. ...

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My job as a student is to persuade you that not only did I read "All Marketers are Liars" but am able to use the techniques the book was trying to teach us. In the next few paragraphs I am going to talk about what exactly I learned and how to tell a great story compared to an average story. After r...

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Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a c...

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