... me. I'd do as I was told and head to the main office, where I would get a visitor's sticker to put on my shirt. The main office clerks always seemed very busy, making phone calls to people outside of the school or calling the teachers in different classrooms. When they weren't busy and were able to attend to my needs, they were always polite ... . I asked Mr. Gonzalez how he communicates with the parents and he said he had multiple ways. If it were a serious issue or a reoccurring problem, Mr. Gonzalez would contact parents by phone immediately. He also called the parents from time to ti...

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• Grade Level: High School

... smoke, the fire, the thousands of people running. The sudden silence from the newsman startled me and we all watched in horror, as the second tower collapsed. I immediately got the phone and called my mom. About an hour later, having spoken to all my family and safely wrapped in my boyfriend's arms, I felt that I could begin to contemplate what was happening ... story?" I was trying desperately not to sound pissed off. "I don't know, maybe," she said, shrugging her shoulders and going back to her cigarette. Yep, I'm home I was thinking. I picked up the phone. I thought I'd better call C...

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• Grade Level: High School

... university with four other young women. On January 31, 1974, her and her friends went out to drink came home late, and watched television, talked to her boyfriend on the phone, and went to bed. Later the next morning, she normally had to get up at 5:30 to make it to her job at the radio station. Her roommate heard her ... alarm going off at that time, as it did normally she said, but it kept buzzing and didn't stop. As she walked to go turn it off, the phone rang, and it was the radio station asking if she had left for work yet. The bed in her room was made and nothing looked out of pla...

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... find out what inspired a CSUEB student to play soccer. The interview process as a whole was very interesting, I wasn't exactly sure what to expect once I clicked the record button on my phone. From my standpoint, I wasn't nervous at all because I had my questions written down, ready to rock. But I was worried about how Jack was going to respond when the spotlight was ... ...

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... reduce their fares to enable boycotters to afford a means of transportation. Then, when the city blocked that measure, the group organized carpools. King was arrested, slandered, received hate mail and phone threats, and his house was bombed; but from the outset he preached nonviolence to the black boycotters. After Montgomery city officials refused to be moved to change by a number of ... ...

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... not been a time in which she cannot handle the situation, unless it has to deal with CPS (Child Protective Services), or even when she has to call them on the phone (she really does not like to do it, but sometimes she is forced to do it.) Mrs. Schiavone also told me that she is constantly dealing with the child and ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School