"You might make 200 bucks one night, and 20 the next night, so most waiters live a kind of hand to mouth kind of existence."... Many servers resort to drugs and alcohol just so that they can sleep at night, or stay awake through their shift. ... Despite the actual health hazards, servers have to deal with that one irritating customer of the night. There is always at least one person a night that is complaining about everything. ... (par 5) If it is not one super complainer, it's a night of bad tips. ...

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"Well during the day there's not much to do, but at night we get together at the plaza, and wait for the girls to show up. ... Since it was going to be my first night that I spend in Mexico, I wanted It to be a good night, so combed my hair and got dressed. ... Hoping to see anybody that I knew, I decided to walk around the plaza because I didn't want to spend the night alone. ... I couldn't go to sleep on our way to the city, so I woke up Rogelio and began to tell him about the girl that I had met earlier in the night. ... We got home early in th...

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And then that night, the night he turned seventeen, the final night "Kyle, earth to Kyle."" ... But in Kyle's ear, her voice was but a dream that slowly faded into the memory of that night the final night. ... He grabbed a chair and flung it towards his father, turned without waiting to see if it hit him, and ran out into the empty, desolate, familiar night; he would not die under his grasp, not this night, not ever. ...

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In the second poem, "Do not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" Dylan Thomas encourages people to live complete lives before death comes and to fight death. ... In "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," Thomas speak about death to encourage people not to give up into death and fight for life. ... In "Do not go Gentle into That Good Night", Thomas' resistance towards death by showing the images of madness and fighting. ... " For instance he says, "Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, do not go...

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The darkness and cold sting of the night enveloped Cortnie as she lay on a park bench, who knows where. ... She had just gotten into this town last night and decided to venture around. ... She never had to get on that bus that night, that dreadful night. ... Never again did she want to think about that night. ... "As the night grew colder and colder, Courtnie's already wasting away body met its last hours by her own hands. ...

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That night, they went to each house where they supposed to do amazing things to get the "yes", from their prom couples. ... The night was just perfect for the homecoming proposal. ... Prom was really close, Ashley had to look for the perfect dress for the "perfect night". ... Dave rented a red Challenger, he was not just joking, the prom was real for him, but seemed like Kim wasn't his goal that night, he wanted to score in someone's goalie. ... They arrived at the same time, the party had already started, everyone was dancing, it was the perfect night. ...

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I had accidentally left my window open the night before, and I definitely learned my lesson. ... And sure enough, by Gods grace we almost did the first night. ... So we finished our night off with lots of sad and emotional hugs as we went back to our hotel room. ... That night as we boarded our train we were all in tears. ...

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He called me that same night, we made small talk and it started from there. ... One night I was out at dinner with my boyfriend, and he approached me out of nowhere, pulled a chair up to our table and started asking my boyfriend and I questions as if this were normal behavior. ... I remember he called me the next day to thank me for a nice night out the night before, and to tell me that I could find much better guys, and somehow hinting that he was a better suitor for me. ...

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At night, she would just hold her piggy bank tightly in her arms as she fell asleep on her wet pillow of tears. ... That night, she looked at her child and vowed to herself, "Mama will never ever let you live the way mama was forced to live. ... When night fell, she would return home to be with her. ...

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Finally one night when talking on the phone I said to her, "You do like me, don't you Brittany?" ... I found myself talking about her frequently to my friend, but I was also very much stuck into Rachel as well, even calling her every night on a friends cell phone. ... After I found out one night while talking to Brittany on the Internet that she was now going out with Kory, I said a lot of mean things to her, that I still feel bad about and wish I had never said. ...

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Sarah smiled and her exotic blue eyes glistened like the night's ocean. ... The penetrating sunlight through the glass windows woke me up with such discomfort, that it forced me to squint while searching my night table for my clock. As I stared at the red digital numerals on the clock, recalling what had happened the previous night, I was hoping it had all been a dream that would disappear. ...

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There has always been a sense in people's hearts for what is right and what is wrong. The sense that tells you to turn that lost wallet or purse into the lost and found. The sense that makes you feel good when you open the door for a stranger, and the sense that helps you make good choices when face...

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The compare and contrast of this vs. riding a roller coaster can be as clear as night and day. ... Comparing the excitement and Fear of a roller coaster to loving someone is almost as clear as night and day. ...

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If you have the time to kick it with you bros and have a movie night with your girlfriend, but you can't turn your paper in on time, then that's when you should take a step back and think. ... Partying every night shouldn't become a habit, that's not a good way to get through college. ...

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Then a night came. ... To express the warmth that flutters within you when beside a fire in a small home in Shilovka, with snow piling upon the windows, closing you in for the night, you feel for the first time the touch of your lover's hand. ...

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I cannot see anything. It is very dark. I am sitting on the floor and leaning on what seems to be a wall. I put my hands on my face and my head starts to hurt. I feel what seems like dried up blood on my forehead. That must explain why I was passed out. I put my hands in front of me and I feel a zip...

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He had said to her over a phone call the night before her big trip, after a very long shift at work, "limner, (her name before she legally changed it when she came to the states) mija, I need you here, here next to me. ...

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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny." George Santayana. By age seven I had already been introduced to two of the most known religions in my home ...

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KOVACS ILONA FLS LEVEL VII MASTER 5 TESS AS A "TRAGIC HEROINE" Tess of the D"Urbervilles is generally regarded as Hardy's tragic masterpiece, and certainly it is his most ambitious tragic novel. This novel, subtitled "A Pure Woman" was first published in 1891...

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I will be executed tomorrow. There is nothing - no excuses, no plea for forgiveness, no last minute stay of execution - that will help me escape this sentence of death. What I did was done with such malice, such cold-blooded intent, that even I find it hard to believe that I am capable of such bruta...

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Strictness Can't be out past eleven, can't wear what you want to wear, can't do your hair how you want, and can't spend your money how you want. Welcome too only some of the rules that my overly strict parents have placed on me. What have I done to deserve this? Nothing. This is a problem that...

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A friend who helps out when we are in trouble is a true friend "unlike others who disappear when trouble arises. Friends are one of most important things in our lives. Unfortunately we have a few real friends. I have a lot of friends- girls and boys. It doesn't matter what they are. They ...

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Yet they still had disagreements on things and he knew this as the reader can see when the author says, "Back at home every night, Fenstad spoke about his mother in his prayers of remembrance and thanksgiving, even though he knew she would disapprove."...

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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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Introduction It all started when I was a little girl playing with my rubber ducks in the bath tub. My mom always thought I was a weird little girl for quacking like a duck as I were playing with them in the tub. I always had a special love for animals. I feel like it's my duty to take care of all a...

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