Bubble Girl: A Short Story

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She was a bubble bath taking, loud singing, puppy loving, Jim and Coke drinking type of girl. She was the one person who was always ready for any type of adventure. Whether it was driving to Lexington at 1:00am for Cookout or walking around the city, she was up for the journey. She was a loving daughter and sister. Nothing made her happier than spending time with her family. She would make an hour and a half drive home just to visit her niece for less than an hour before she went to bed. She was the type of friend to give her brutally honest opinion but would still support whatever decision you decided to make. She would go above and beyond for her family and friends. She was also a very hard worker. You would never see her slacking. She was

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Judith Ortiz Cofer's Catch The Moon

Ortiz Cofer, is an astonishing short story about loss and coping with devastation. After the main character, Luis, loses his mother after her battle against cancer, Luis and his father struggle to understand each other. In the three years following his mother’s death, Luis starts a “gang” of pranksters called the Tiburones. Luis, the “gang” leader, is caught in a prank and is sentenced to six months of free labor to his father. One day while on the job, a beautiful girl named Naomi, who is searching…

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Country Lovers Essay

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Removed By Nathanael Matanick: Film Analysis

child does not have to be a direct product of their parents; their story does not have to reflect their parents’ story. The short film, “ReMoved” produced by Nathanael Matanick, begins with Zoe, a young girl, narrating her life with an abusive father and a powerless mother. After authorities remove Zoe from the household, she is passed from home to home, separated from her younger brother and everything else she knows. The short film portrays the pain and hopelessness foster care children face every…

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Essay on The Boy Who Missed Everything Working in the Summer

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Cultural Background In Alice Walker's 'All I Do Is Win'

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Alice Walker Dee Essay

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The Unreliable Narrator In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

For a short period, I was sharing a house with my roommate and boyfriend, both now former, both of them had a tendency to needlessly bed the truth for more interesting or biased stories. I found that when events occurred between the two in my absence, I would often receive two conflicting stories about what had happened. This left me to piece together the truth, which I now know often lied somewhere in the middle. These two telling these slightly, or sometimes completely, fictitious tales is an ideal…

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Ramez Naam

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The Illusion Of Love In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

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Essay on Greek Myth

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