... . I sat down, to have breakfast with my family; my gaze crept from the plate on the table to my thighs on the chair. They were already swelling, as the stringy legs dangled. Mum stared at me as I took the first bite, and them she looked away. It was a sign of relief. She probably noticed the dark circles under my eyes showing ... . On one side - the pain, the hunger, the devastating work, on the other - the wish for beauty, love joy and hope. My body inhibits and constrains me. All around, time goes to waste. I thought that in taking up dieting, I could reach a kind of comforting fullness...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... brought to a large room with a seat in the middle of it, projectors, and a movie screen. He liked all this until he was constrained to the chair by his arms and legs, and with his head fastened so that he could not turn it. After the instruments used to hold his eyelids open were in place, the treatment began. Many short films ... was left out of the movie and the earlier American printings in which Alex is hanging out with new hoodlums after being cured, but realizes that something is missing. He goes for a walk, and meets the third of his friends who set him up so long ago, and finds ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... (I swear they say that). Many smiling women show up and talk about the happiness "Nad's" has brought to them. It's easy to use: put a thin layer of a gel on your legs, underarms or on excess hair of your eyebrows with a wooden stick. On the top of that, place a linen piece of fabric, press down so it sticks together, and pull down ... is thick and it's not easy to make a thin layer even though I"m using a wooden stick. After a long fight with "no messy" gel I place a linen fabric, press and pull. The fabric goes apart; threads are all over my leg and now all over my hand too. It didn't ...

• Word Count: 454
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School