A best friend always understands you, or at least pretends to, and she is always willing to listen to your opinions and never criticizes them, even if they are a little weird. ... She knows all the family gossip and always buys your little sister a birthday present. Best friends always talk about the future in terms of "we," knowing that they will be best friends for life. ... Best friends have other friends but none as special as the one they call "best." ... And although best friends may grow apart and not talk to each other as much, it is safe to say that true best friends a...

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After class, we went to lunch where I met up with some of my friends. A few of them knew a little more about what was going on. ... I think they were still a little confused as to what really happened because all they knew was that a plane had crashed somewhere in New York City and that it was a terrorist attack. ... I felt so horrible for the people that had been involved or had family and friends that were involved in the attack. ...

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"I decided to be friends with her, to move beside her, where I could keep her in my peripheral vision."" ... Even though for a certain time Marjorie and Karen were best friends it couldn't last and they grew apart, just like the rest of the family did. ... "It was so little. You'd had so little. ... - (Remembering Karen, Page 58) Zoë actually showed some emotion after realizing how little Karen actually had, showing some remorse. ...

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Granted, a story is nothing without a little detail and description, but there is a limit. ... I think that in order to make the characters more memorable and to let the reader connect a little more with them, they must be very well understood. ... All of the people in the "main group" of friends were portrayed very well. ... Rambert, the journalist, seemed very obnoxious and irritating at first, but once he settled in to the town and became friends with the other characters, he became less occupied with himself and realized that there was more going on than just what he was worried about. ...

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The station that gets me through my workday and makes those long drives feel a little shorter. ... I myself hate silence, that horrid emptiness that makes a minute seem like an hour on those long road trips I take alone to visit friends who moved away and on those work days that seen to never end. ... When I find all my friends and open my first beer its like I"m a new man ready for a long night of drinking and being stupid. ... Instead of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Farmer in the Dell I had Peter Frampton and Duran-Duran sing me to sleep at night. ... I am Livin on the Edge, a little ...

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Depression can stem from not having friends. In other words, not having friends is just as bad for a person as having friends is good. ... Friends have the ability to soften the downside to life. ... Those with friends tend to be healthier individuals. ... After little contemplation Grace attended the meetings that were held four times per week. ...

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Apparently Smith's friend thought that it would be a one night stand or just some fun for a little while, but Marty felt a bit different about the situation. ... Furthermore, friends with benefit relationships hardly ever work. ... In friends with benefit relationships, there is a slight chance that it will work. ... They became good friends. ... One day, she asked him what were they and he replied just friends. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Now the smell of it or the sight of it makes me feel slightly sick because it reminds me of that one time when I was a little kid. ... The smell makes me feel good because it reminds me of being back home with my family and friends. ... The car was coming down the road and we were just throwing stuff because we were little kids and that's all we knew how to do and this car came over the hill. ... The car stopped and the owner got out and chased us on foot to my friends house and they told our parents. ...

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For an example, when I was little I wanted to be independent like my older sister. ... However, my friends were all very very snobby and I didn't like that. I had a great deal of friends that were not in the "popular" group as well. My friends that were in it, made fun of me for hanging out or even talking to the others. ... Any of my friends who did track with me I stayed friends with. ...

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I have tried taking two different approaches when talking to some of my friends and classmates. ... The most popular complaint that was reported back to me is the fact that I seemed unengaged, which made my friends want to stop the conversation almost immediately. Secondly, I tried to make as much eye contact with my friends as possible, it can be even called "too much " eye contact. ... We can say that if there is little eye contact, then we have every reason to assume that there is a bad attitude towards what we say. ...

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The story proves how difficult it can be trying to find a job with little to no education. ... Relocating causes the children to change schools, leave behind friends and makes them have to start all over again. Due to these extreme changes, the children might start to feel depressed, stressed and neglected from their friends, teachers, as well as their parents. ... She had to leave her school and friends because she had to stay with her father's side of the family and also when she was checked in to the home for children. ... "She fretted about her appearance, thin and dark and forei...

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Because you have been conditioned to respond to the sound of the ringer your heart beats a little faster and your brain tells you to pick it up. ... I was in my local Starbucks a quarter after noon and one to five people were wither reading or talking with their friends while the other majority were on their devices. ... She explains, " College students rarely plan ahead; they simply call their friends and get together in the moment. ... As I begun to distance myself off of the site I realized how many more of my friends started to have cool new cell phones and Facebook or Myspace sites. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When I'm down or just bored waiting for the train, I enjoy going to my photos and just reminiscing on those priceless moments with my friends and family. ... Although I don't speak to many different people, I like to keep in touch with my closest friends whom I don't get to see every day. ... Sometimes while I strut down the sidewalk, I like to pretend that the music is my background or theme song like in the movies, and I'll giggle a little to myself. ... Sometimes I may get carried away and feel defensive for little or no reason, but it's what I do unconsciously any...

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Leaving for many months, Bernis leaves his home in Paris, along with friends and a loved one, Genevieve. ... Upon his arrival, he arranges to meet with some old friends, one of which is Genevieve. ... During his stay in the United States, he wrote several novels, one of which is The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince). The Little Prince was written in New York City in 1940 and according to some sources, the third most read book in the world in this century. ... Remembering his family, his friends, and especially Genevieve. ...

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Naturally, we became good friends soon. ... Every time she made me feel I was the little animal always asked for some attention. ... Actually, I think we should make friends with these small lives; I believe they can understand us, as they always do....

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Jim admired the freedom that such a small creature had, flying around the world with little need for care. ... Jim and Paul were only at war due to peer pressure from their friends swept up in the idealistic vision of war and from the ever-present propaganda from their respective nations, Australia and Germany. ... However, Paul was more influenced by his friends and his schoolteacher, who had encouraged his pupils to protect the fatherland'. ...

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Our identity is formed from all the influences we have around us like people we talk to or our friends or anyone that might be older than us whether they are successful in life or not. ... Well based on my self-esteem on my weight and having to be careful about it looking at them and comparing myself does make me think a little bad about myself when I know I shouldn't feel that way. ... Thanks to my mom I'm described as a caring generous guy by my friends and people that I talk to or help out. ... Like I can say I do get mad for the smallest things, I let little things bother me a lo...

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Moises agreed to switching with him, little did either of them know the twin towers would be hit by a plane. ... Sekou decided after he lost Moises and other friends he worked with in the restaurant, he would change careers to be a cab driver. He said" this way I will not have to get close to people, I can take them where they need to go and become friends." Sekou felted that it would be too hard losing any more close friends. ...

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First of all, Plato would have his guardians feel no attachment to those around them whereas Confucius emphasizes the importance of relationships with family and friends. ... While this scenario might be a little extreme, I believe that it is easier to teach somebody to love rather than not. ... In addition, there is great emphasis throughout the book placed on the importance of a gentlemen being trustworthy and honest in their interactions with friends. The stress on the importance of friends and family creates a gentleman and sage with strong emotional ties to the ones around him. ...

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Some of us let our imagination create our own special details to make the story a little more catchy, others may have heard the story several times by different people and consequently combine the two or three different versions to make the story more accurate while others just say the story the way they heard it. ... Little details like this make the story informal and it also makes the reader feel free to think of the story the way he feels towards it, being able to tell the story to someone else from his point of view, of course without changing the original story. ... But, throughout the ...

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There are empirical results that actually affirm the validity of these two assumptions (Diener, 1984), which is a little a questionable to me. ... There are different kinds of happiness, such as someone can have an overwhelmingly happy due to the love they from their family and friends even though they have a crappy job as to someone who is the same level of happiness with no family or love but lots of money and wealth. ... This actually made me laugh a little bit and I became curious to see in my yearbook who was truly smiling. ...

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Passionless for Preschool Have you ever had a job where you just felt abused, and where the negatives heavily out-weighed the positives? Have you come home after a long day of work and been not only physically, but also emotionally drained? This was the problem I was faced with for five years at m...

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My eldest sister was reading her book and my little sister was napping next to me. ... One night I tapped on my parents' door to confess my little secret. ... Despite the verbal abuse and gestures thrown at me during school I had the support of my friends. ...

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Here's a little background about "my addiction": He was born and raised in Virginia, so he has that "up north accent," which I absolutely die for. ... We ended up having mutual friends between the two of us, so it was kind of like we already knew each other, but not really. ... We will never give up our friendship, however, from time to time it seems as if we are more than just friends, or not friends at all. ... I have sacrificed almost everything for my addiction including; pride, dignity, happiness, and even a couple of friends. ...

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It was about a person who wanted to be a football player, and play at Notre Dame ever since he was a little kid. ... The day of Rudy's friends funeral was the day that Rudy took a big step to achieve his goal of being a football player at Notre Dame. ...

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