My body was so tired and wanted to sleep, but it was a little bit impossible because we had to go to the U.S. ... While I was sleeping my parent got done with all problems, one of the Janitors poked me, When I wake up I saw myself on the floor with a very bad headache. ... When we went out I asked them what's going on and she wanted us to wait until got my cousin's home. ... When we got home, I saw food, lots of, lots of food. In addition that was confusing, my cousin usually works at that time her husband too, but they were at home and she made food for us. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

My mom has always been home for me when I need her. ... On the day that they went, my parents left early, and I was home alone despite my young age, only 10 years old, I knew how to take care of myself. ... After a long time, few families member couldn't stay because they had jobs and had to leave, so it was only me and my grandmother, and my father left from the room that my mom was to called us, but warned us that we could not make a lot of noise because both my mother and Luigi were sleeping. My mother had already breastfeed him, and everything was fine, she went to sleep because she w...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She would sometimes just sing herself to sleep and have the radio on for hours. ... Mariah had to settle sleeping on a mattress on the living room floor.... Mariah was overworked and wanted nothing else then at least eight hours of sleep. ... Mariah didn't want to go all she wanted to do was sleep. ... (Handelman) During the ride home Tommy took the tape and listen to it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

My mother stays at home making quilts to sell for extra money. ... Eight days later, Hanukah is over and my grandparents have gone home. ... I was lying in my bed early one morning, because I couldn't sleep well. ... I thought to myself, "Finally, after three years of living in that ghetto, we get to go back home." ... My first night in the camp was terrible, I didn't get any sleep. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After an eight-hour drive, I arrive at home for a well-deserved vacation. ... If I was awake, he would say "You better get some sleep boy, we got a lot of work to do tomorrow." ... I would beg her "Please let me go back to sleep," but she would have none of that. ... My dad always told me that if I got a whooping by bullies, then I would get another one from him when I got home. When I got a whipping at school (from a teacher), I had to stay in my room until dad got home. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She was the only woman at Sweet Home, besides Sethe, that was used and abused as a baby factory. ... He leaves 124 immediately and begins sleeping in the basement of the local church. ... Each person she becomes close to brings back her past memories of Sweet Home. Baby Suggs was the Sethe's first close friend and companion after escaping Sweet Home. ... She does not walk steadily, her speech is impaired, she does not have full control of her bodily functions, and she sleeps constantly. ...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Pretty soon I wasn't coming home and I started to sleep around. ... About and hour after I finished cleaning up he came home. ... That night I didn't sleep because I knew my mom would be calling him and asking if I could stay with her for a little while. ... He told me that my mom would be picking my up when he got home from work so my younger brothers would not be left alone. ... A week after I got home from the hospital my mom called my dad and told him that he had a granddaughter. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As little girls, we grew up to the stories of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Beauty and the Beast. ... And not just the kind thoughts and love, but also dresses, shoes, shawls, delicious food, comfy beds, as well as every home comfort. ... Though she was lovely, she talked so much, and always cried in bed when the Prince wanted to sleep. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Towards the end of the night, when my friend, Matt, was getting ready to take me home, Ryan came up to me and said, "I love you, man." ... Looking back over the last years, I thought of the times Ryan and I had playing one-on-one basketball in his driveway, and the days of sleeping through class, people getting mad because Ryan and I would still get A's. ... It turned out that he did fall asleep, sleep that cost him his life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Living at home with my mom meant I was in charge of paying my car payment and that was it. ... Simple things like getting my hair done came so easy when I lived at home that I never imagined a time where things would be any different. ... There was nobody around to yell at me for coming home late or for being too loud when they were trying to sleep. ... Our relationship is important to me so I always made sure that it stayed the same even after I was away from home. ... After a year of living on my own I decided that moving back home was the best option for me. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When I wake up in the morning, I'm even more vigilant as I walk down the hall to check my home once again before leaving for work. ... However, when we came home we found our apartment completely empty. ... I am the man who automatically locks the door when coming home due to fear of a home invasion. The man, who doesn't trust to have guests over in order to protect my children, so no one knows where they sleep or the layout of my house. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Just drive home, right? Home is only 5 minutes away, I can handle my alcohol, so why not. ... I had just gotten home from the fun filled opening night of Farm Fest that happens every year the weekend before Labor Day in Fountain City, Wisconsin. ... I have an hour left to sleep." ... Drinking and driving is not ok, no matter were you live or how close home is. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It was about 5:15pm when I started home from work. ... The only thing that I remember about the rest of that night was drinking hard liquor to ease my pain and crying myself into a deep sleep. ... Once the employees of the funeral home opened the caskets all of my emotions started right up. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Even though this is not my home, when I drive over that bridge, I feel like I have just walked into my grandmother's house on Christmas Day, to find the oven full of chocolate chip cookies. ... I can just come and relax in a city that never sleeps. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One day I was driving home from work and I realized I had forgotten something I was going to let my friend borrow. The second I had a chance on my lunch break, I went home quick and got it. ... They then had to sleep in tents for the rest of boot camp. ... After he lost he walked home just to find out that on that particular day his father walked home, too. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I loved the responsibility of caring for, making sure she had food, water and a cozy place to sleep was important to me. ... You filled yourself up on penny candy on the way home, and now you're not hungry". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

George's words that he spoke that night turned up when in the middle of the night, a group of men club and beat him to death in his sleeping bag. ... These people left home for peace, love and freedom. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Imagine. Imagine sitting in a cold, dark room. The low lights of the hospital ceiling flicker and that stale scent that you've always hated is now what you're used to living with. Imagine knowing that you're completely helpless; no one can save you. Imagine seeing your whole family in tears as they ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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 didn't get much sleep because I was always beside her and all throughout the night there was beeping noises coming from her machines she was hooked up to and a nurse coming in to check on her every half hour. ...

• Word Count: 1867
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School