Heavy crosses that had caused me to fall hard to the ground, driving the pain into my lungs, putting me here where I would die in inches far from home. ... I said nothing in reply and he said not another word until the middle of the night when I drifted into sleep momentarily, for all my sleep was momentary, and opened my eyes to the lamp light and the cold hospital air. ... Your sleep is longer. ... I turned my back to him and went to sleep and later in the night I heard him calling. ... You sleep better. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ever since I was born, I wanted to be one of those pampered pet dogs who roams in vehicles with good looking ladies and eats good food and sleeps beside them and does everything as good as their master, but not every dog gets what he wishes for. ... At his home he properly wiped my body and then gave me some milk in a bowl which was meant for a dog, so I understood that earlier he had a dog who maybe ran away or died like my mom. ... It was visible in your eyes and so I decided to bring you home because I am also in the same condition as you. ... I understood he wanted to sleep. ... I now had ...

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Ray understands and respects this principle, which is made evident when he goes home for Christmas and he attempts to explain Enlightenment to his brother-in-law. ... When Ray ventures into the forest to meditate during his visit home over Christmas, he is directly engaging in one of the preachings of the Sutra. ... During Ray's nomadic journey back to the west coast after Christmas, he made a great realization while sleeping all alone under the desert sky. "There just isn't any kind of night's sleep you get in the desert winter night, providing you're good and warm ...

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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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Not only was I sidelined from sports for more than three months but I was barely able to walk and sleeping also became a task. ... Sleep is another area that I need to improve. ... Take last week as an example; I was on the go and away from home every night, but I was not at a club or anything like that. ...

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Realizing that sleep was something of my distant past, I flipped on my bed lamp and reached for the nearest reading material. ... He was still sleeping peacefully, as expected. ... He cried all the way home. ...

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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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The location of a neighborhood generally incorporates the families" incomes, the size of the home, and the quality of the schools, which ultimately affects their values, beliefs, and personality. ... The home is indeed where the heart is, an undoubtedly true expression in Dostoevsky's novel. ... I never realized that a space in which you lay your head to sleep can shape the way you live, whether it be in constant turmoil or enduring peace. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She pointed out interesting details of the scenery The children were reading comic magazines and their mother had gone back to sleep" (386). ... John Wesley suggests to his grandmother at one point, "If you don't want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay at home?" ... A good Southern lady would never lie; nonetheless, lying is precisely what she does when she tells the children about the non-existent secret compartment at the plantation home in order to convince Bailey to stop. ...

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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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Generally the first thought of war is believed that the soldiers are the ones suffering, it is forgotten that their families at home are struggling greatly as well. ... In Ivor Gurney's The Target, he chooses to portray the soldiers time away from his family in a different way, "My mother, she cant sleep for fear of what might be a-happening here to me. ...

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