... the pool game was then between my opponent, myself, and my mind. As I continued to play I became aware of my frustrations and decided I was having "a bad pool day." The women I was playing was a middle aged red head who clearly signified she was a beginner by asking and reassuring me about the rules, not to ... that pool is 90% mental and 10% physical. So I had a persuasive war inside my head. I was trying to convince myself that I was not having bad luck and that the key to success is not letting outside distractions and/or influences affect my game. I tell you that this is easier sai...

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... profound. The American dream as a thing some people can't achieve. I think most of Steinbeck's work is about that. The working class man down on his luck. George wasn't exactly down on his luck more like he had bad luck because of Lennie. Lennie was my favorite character out of all. A child in a man's body who didn't understand his own strength. He is so sweet ... for people like Lennie to go and try to have a real life. He would have gone to school and gotten himself a job; maybe even went to college. He wasn't so bad that he couldn't ever accomplish those things. If only he had been b...

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... on the green, but the first off, and the one with the higher score. But for me, one-thousand bad shots are forgotten for one good shot. Most of my good shots were ruined by my friends telling me that it was luck, which most of the time it was because I am not very consistent at all. When I woke up and got ... in the groove then, I finished up four under on the front nine, and by then I was ready to quit because I didn't want to get too carried away thinking that my luck wouldn't last, but I wondered could it? As we went to the back nine I pared the first three holes and remained at four...

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... signs of trouble caught my eye. I noticed a couple of people sneaking drinks. This was exactly what I had tried to prevent. In my past experience, whenever there was alcohol at a party, bad things happened. I didn't want to spoil the fun people were having so I decided as long as it was contained to those few people, nothing would go wrong. As the night ... and out stormed Mr. Colby in his bathrobe shouting obscenities. "What in the @*#* do you kids think you"re doing, don't you know what time it is?" Of course my luck has it that the out of control drunk girl just happened to be in the...

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... English so I"m not worried about that. Last year in academic English I started with a 90 and finished with an 88. I missed the exam however since I was sick, which is just my bad luck (that's not sarcasm, I really was upset that I missed it) fortunately my teacher understood that it wasn't my fault and averaged my mark considering my previous ones. The reason I might want ... do easily, like acing that test or getting one hundred percent on that assignment. This drives me to try my best which is a good thing but it can also be a bad thing; because of my competitive nature I can sometime...

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... the phone, which is the usual rejection. One hundred and thirty five dollars in prom tickets, a rented tux, no date, and just 2 days from the prom left me in pretty bad shape. I was desperate! I decided that I was going to find a date that night, no matter what. I went to my youth group and in front of all the girls, I announced "I"m on a mission ... prom, she told me that she didn't want a relationship because her last 12 of this year hadn't worked out, she just wanted to go to a prom. Now if that wasn't bad enough, one of the other girls at my youth group that said they would go with ...

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... , and that he sent his only son to come and die for the sins of all men. Questions like, "if God cares for humans so much why does he let bad things happen". In the bible it states that God gives people choices and he will be the ultimate judge of the choices that one makes. The story of Adam and ... in "Lamen's terms" can be described, as something that happens that is unexplainable, usually something positive. There are those that happen to believe in miracles, others just call it good luck. With this combination of choices, miracles and anything else that applies to the unexplained, s...

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... off into the woods I ran down to my friends and told them what happened. They proceeded to call the police which I really didn't want them to do because I always had bad luck with cops but there wasn't another choice I could think of if I wanted my phone back. The police officers showed up and started to ask questions. Which way did they go ... ...

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... that fly away. This image emphasises Knox's feelings of freedom. In "Witness" there was constant references to the Birdhouse. When Book knocked it down it was an immediate feeling of bad luck and that it wasn't a good idea to be here. Trying to patch things up with the family he fixes the birdhouse thinking that it would fix everything else as well ... ...

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... a ship and survive on a life boat until they reached shore. This story is told over approximately one full day. The men had to live out in the water in very bad waves for a day and had to last the night in the boat. The short story "Open Boat" is a great example of an autobiographical fiction. An autobiographical fiction is when an ... it on the flame so we had some nourishment. The next morning we drank a little of soda. We then walked to the car to try and start it but no luck. After going back up to the cabin we found my uncles bow some of his hunting gear. My friend being a quite go...

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... one, the one that actually appears to have a will and mind of its own, the one that insist on guiding you down the isle. I used to think this was simply bad luck, but then I noticed at the Wal-Mart store that they have a "Cart Person" a person who picks out the cart for you. I then realized that I must be the victim of some ... ...

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