... as the two teams gave it their best. Meanwhile, the game was almost half way over, the score had been tied for the previous fifteen minutes. During half time everyone discussed a stradegy to change the score. Then, to start the second half of the game I sat the bench. The coach had explained to me that our team was weak in offense and I was ... and I received the ball. Nervously, I looked in front of me and saw no one to challenge. I knew pressure was on me to get the ball down the field and score. The score had been tied for minutes without end. I began dribbling the ball down the fiel...

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... lead. There was now one minute left in the quarter and we had called a timeout to make up a play to score one more basket before halftime. The play was designed for me to get the ball and score an easy lay-up. We came out of the huddle and the crowd was still really into the game, screaming at ... and I was eventually able to persuade him to let me play. He just slapped a band-aid on my chin and I continued to play after halftime. At halftime the score was 35-30 in our favor. After the long halftime speech from our coach, the third quarter had begun. I was so nervous that it felt like I ...

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... cry, not knowing what I was crying about just knowing that my dad was upset and it felt safe to be in his arms. I'm not sure how long we sat there but I knew I would stay there until it was time for me to head up to bed. That evening my mother didn't return home. When my younger brother ... My brother and sister jumped off the couch and greeted him at the door with a hug as usual. I heard talking, but nothing I could really make out. I sat on the couch and waited for him to come in the living room and greet me. He didn't. Instead, he walked into his room and shut the door. My ... starte...

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... to keep myself warm from the frigid temperature that encompassed my body. A single teardrop trickled down my face and collided with the frozen steps below. As I sat there watching the sadness from that first teardrop evaporate into the sky above, I could feel the dampness from a second teardrop as it came to a rest in ... had always known that life is full of pain, but nothing could have prepared me for the greatest pain in life, that of a broken heart. As I sat on those steps in absolute silence surrounded only by the darkness, and chill of that mid November night. I tried to envision th...

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... did the usual, stand up, and sit down, boring stuff. Afterwards, everyone in the class got together and signed yearbooks and talked about the future. I sat with my friends Ryan and Marcus to eat. We discussed what we were planning to do, knowing little about what the future would hold for us. Later that ... night my friend threw a party. Greeting us with welcome arms, after the welcome he gave me a Red Stripe and showed me to the living room. I sat there having a good time waiting for my friends to show up. Stumbling through the door with his usual good cheer, Ryan said, "The party may ...

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... our car back and forth so hard that I thought it was going to flip over. Jessica and I didn't know what to do so we just sat there in silence for what seemed like several minutes. All I could hear were children crying, adults screaming, car horns that sounded like they were stuck in ... sure if the sirens were a warning call, ambulances, or maybe even both. Everything just started running together. Jessica and I were in such shock that we just sat completely still, staring straight in front of us. All of the sudden I looked up and saw a billboard sign, which was less than twenty feet in ...

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... and go back to the hotel. I was young, so I didn't quite understand what was happening, but I knew my family looked worried. When we got back to the hotel, my grandmother sat us all down and explained that she had pancreatic cancer. That moment is still kind of a blur to me; I repressed those horrible thoughts, but I do remember my whole family crying ... day we all went to my aunt's house and spent the day calling our other family and friends informing them of the news. My sister, my cousin Vinny and I all sat in the depressing living room in silence, which was a first. One of us alway...

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... . What the hell, I thought, why waste the entire summer cooped up in this house" I grabbed my jacket and went outside to see what the neighborhood had to offer me. As I sat down on my front porch I heard an intoxicating sound coming from the house next door. I could not for the life of me understand what he was saying, and even though ... to where they were sitting, "Me", I said loudly as I pointed to my chest, "Si", said the little girl while shaking her head up and down. I walked across the street and sat on the steps. One of the girls spoke the most broken English out of all of them; ...

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... , a door into the living room on the east wall, and another on the north wall that lead into another bedroom. My bed was one of the original feather beds that sat on top of open springs. The bed was handed down to my parents from my grandparents on my mom's side. The right and left side of the mattress had deep ... the people that have slept on it over the years. It looked like waves in the ocean since both sides had deep impressions. The bed was full size, and it sat up against the west wall under windows since the room was so small. I slept many a cold night under homemade quilts made ...

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Elizabeth sat in the waiting room of the doctor's office anxiously awaiting her name to be called, when after what seemed like days, her name was finally called followed by, "the doctor ... Liz of what the doctor had said, "If you think that you"re doing the right thing, then you are." With that, Elizabeth wiped the tears from her face and sat in the waiting room. Shortly, the doctor came out and called Elizabeth into the examination room and said to undress and put on the gown that he had provided. She ... ...

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... dogs, and there was nothing left but debt. They couldn't afford the horses that once brought the money.( Lawrence) Mabel felt unwanted and unappreciated. When she sat with her brothers she felt that " she sat on as one condemned." ( Lawrence Pg.548) Her brothers decided that she would have to do something with her life now that she was to old to ... ...

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... I can do to make money skateboarding." I was thirteen years old when I was offered a baby-sitting job for a grandchild of one of my mother's friends. Having a younger sister, I had occasionally baby-sat for my parents, but had never really done this for any family outside of my own, but I was very interested in the idea. The young boy I was asked to baby ... not allowed have custody of her, but was now able to have Chaim come and visit on a conditional basis. I am 17 now and four years have passed since I first baby-sat Xan. This past month Xan, Chiam and Ollie came to town to visit the...

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... a result, he is made leader of the boys and the island when they had an election. "The most obvious leader was Jack, but there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out there" (22). They knew that Jack would be a good leader, but just looking at Ralph made everyone want to choose him because he is very handsome ... they had the election, Ralph ended up winning against Jack, which made him jealous and mad. "The most obvious leader was Jack, but there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out there" (22). At first, the friendship between Jack and Ralph was ...

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... to the door. I asked to use their phone to call my parents. I explained to my parents what had just happened; they told me they would be there right away. As I sat there waiting for my parents, Ryan came running up to the house frantically looking for me. "Why did you leave with out me?" Ryan asked. "My arm is killing me ... . I need to go to the hospital!" I snapped back. We then sat there talking with the couple about other accidents that had happened in the same place trying to avoid conversation with each other. When I saw headlights turn onto the road we ... ...

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... thought that they were going to get a huge meal, like my mother used to fix us. When we got into the mess hall, we found a table in the corner, and sat to eat. When my brothers saw what we were going to be fed, those big eyes suddenly got small. I hated to see their hopes get crushed like that. We ate ... that. I had to encourage him to keep going and to not give up. Three days later, he got much worse. I begged him to go to the doctors but he refused. I sat there on our bed, holding him in my arms, watching him live the last moments of his life. I knew he was about to die by the look i...

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... was approached by a tall dark guy one day while she was eating lunch and studying at the same time in the Memorial Union at ASU. John introduces himself as he sat down across from her. Jane recalls everything that happened and restated everything to the State Press in October of 2002: "Hi, can I sit here?" the guy says as he places ... this were normal behavior. My boyfriend and I felt uncomfortable, but we did not want to be rude so we let him talk to us. He even ordered a meal while he sat there. I got mad but I was not sure what I should do. I remember he called me the next day to th...

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... my attention. I placed my coke on the counter and accompanied her to a dance on the dance floor with everyone else. We danced, laughed and had a good time. When we had sat back down I soon found out that her name was Alexandra C and she was in her early twenties. She was a girl that was always happy, perky at times and was always ... has to do what a grooms has to do in order to look his best, even if it means to lose a couple pounds from the heat. The black car that Alexandra sat in finally drove up. I could see her sitting in the back seat with her white dress. My heart started to bea...

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... ever. Due to her "Damsel in distress-ish" ways, Cinderella gave in, doing whatever her stepmother and stepsisters asked her to. She slept in the ashes of the chimney and sat and sang and dreamed of something better. But instead of standing up and doing anything about it, she lived her life from dream to dream, hoping that somebody would come ... . Immediately, the two ugly stepsisters were excited. But poor Cinderella was not allowed to attend the ball, and she was very sad. So instead of doing anything for herself, she sat down and cried and cried and dreamed again. But this time to her...

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... many murders, so many deceits, so many breaches of trusts, so many treacheries bought off, as it were by compact; and so bought off that they may begin upon a new score" (Radice, electronic version). In this excerpt, Erasmus is talking about the debatable topic of indulgences, in which a person pays a certain amount to the church in order to have his sins ... ...

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... freedom of choice is shown to the reader. Through Lowry's use of stream of consciousness within her novel, real issues in the present world are effectively explored reflected through Asher's requirement to own his freedom of speech within a society. Longing for freedom is effectively depicted throughout Lowry's Guitar Highway Rose, this further enhances the power that fictional works have towards the ... ...

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... the orders and entering them into the system, it is the machines that perform the backdoor functions of sorting and storing the data. Another issue in the department, besides the requirement for automation, is the need for increased speed of the systems used for receiving, processing, storing, and sorting orders. At present, the servers and the databases used for information storage ... ...

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... not normally say, and it was because my mom had told me there were things the doctors would say that I would not understand. Even though I may not have understood, she sat beside me and dumbed those terms down for me. So in turn she showed me what patience was. I had to wait for the coded messages to be deciphered by my ... ...

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... ?" I asked. "To the side of the on-ramp getting on the freeway across from Walmart. Wait a minute! I went to Walmart earlier today to get gas. I must've accidentally sat it on top of the car while at the pump. It probably fell off when I turned to get on the freeway" she replied. So we headed back to the ... ...

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... 911. My little brother Jacob and my nephew Christopher were only 4 and 5 years old at the time. They were shivering on the floor just watching in awe. I grabbed them and sat them in the bathroom with a blanket so they wouldn't see the blood. "Stay right here with Christopher okay Jacob, I have to help Melvin get up baby. Don't be scared, I'll ... ...

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... . Klamm call her three times, but neglected to call a fourth time, leaving her devastated. She could not understand at first, but figured he must have simply forgotten about her. She sat in the garden in front of her house crying where a neighbor boy, Hans, saw her and consoled her. Gardena ended up marrying him, shortly before Hans's uncle sold them the ... ...

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