Our reasoning for going to the lake was the same as the characters as the narrator explains here: "We went up to the lake because everyone went there, because we wanted to snuff he rich scent of possibility on the breeze, watch a girl take off her clothes and plunge into the festering murk, drink beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars, savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and roll against the primeval susurrus of frogs and crickets." (129) The lake always provided a fun social atmosphere for my friends and I at the time, until the day it would change our lives forever. ...

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Franklin looked into Tularecito's "mirror" and saw what Tularecito was. The Pastures views come from several directions. While one teacher sees Tularecito as a dog, needing to be trained, the other sees him as an idiot savant, needing only to be pushed into harmless fantasy. This leads a third view ...

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Cellar Door A thought I constantly ponder is that of why one thought or another will, for no explainable reason, jump into the mind. This is why on one ordinarily average Thursday I entertained an idea of years past. One memory in particular appeared to stick in my mind; that of a little Nebraska...

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As Ronda looks at Gregorian she gave a quick point to the right. I had noticed this but nobody else had noticed it except for Gregorian. I was very disappointed in Ronda. I thought she would be a good sport and let fate do what it wanted to do to Gregorian. Now that Ronda had done this I was very upset. ...

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Technology Vs Evolution Until the recent discovery of cloning, no one thought that technology was in any way related to morality. In reality isn't technology against the morals of the natural world to begin with? But is there even such a thing as a purely selfless act? Sure there are actions that ...

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Technology Vs Evolution Until the recent discovery of cloning, no one thought that technology was in any way related to morality. In reality isn't technology against the morals of the natural world to begin with? But is there even such a thing as a purely selfless act? Sure there are actions that ...

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A direct example of this is when James' refers one of Emily Dickinson's poems in her diary, while explaining how she had been asked by her doctor if she'd ever been written for the press like her famous brothers: How dreary to be somebody How public like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog. ...

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