...about how hard you can hit , it's about how hard you can get hit and moving foward ".That helped me stand up and through out of the darkness when I came to The United Sate, which someone thought that is haven . To be came to that haven, I had to wait twelve years .Finally ,that moment came .Then I got in a airplan. To got in the airplane ,that is a big problem because i live in the poor country .It was destroyed through wars with power countries like China ,French , Even super power country ,that is the United State ,where I will be came . And another reason was my family not rich .To got 5 tickets for my family , we had to sell our house, which we was living whole life. When we was on the flight , and looked down the view from the flight and I say that with myself “ that is the heaven , now i get it “ .I was so happy and very excited about it . But when the flight landed and I got in the Los Angeles Airport . All my feeling when I was on the flight was disappeared because I realized that I didn’t know what they were talking about even simple words . And one thing I really regretted that monment was I didn’t learn English before .So I was lucky when I saw Vietnamese and they helped to talk with them by stranlation and airport staff were so nice even they didn’t know what I said and tried to understan what i said .And the next thing was money . We didn’t speak English ,how do we find jobs without English in the United State ?.After one week we came to here , My...
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...Going into the Hunger Banquet I was not sure what to expect. I had heard that we would be in a certain group and we would be given food for that particular group we were in. I figured we would hear about poverty and how many people go hungry do to this, however, I wasn't sure. As a result of the Hunger Banquet I learned about hunger, poverty, and global awareness all over the world. I got to learn about these issues first hand by taking the place of someone in another country for about an hour. When I first arrived at the Banquet I had to choose from a bowl randomly, what my social standing would be. I ended up in the low income group who all sat on the floor. After talking with people, I learned everyone was from somewhere different in the world. Thus this being about poverty and hunger not just in America, but all over the world. When everyone arrived there were three groups, there was the low, middle, and high income classes. The majority of people were on the floor in the low income group. Seeing this made me truly understand the magnitude of the problem of hunger and poverty across the globe and that these people need our help....
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...drives away To save the world or go to work It's the same thing to me He's got his mother's eyes, his father's ambition I wonder if he knows how much that I miss him I hang on every word you say You'll smile and say "How are you?" And I'll say, "Just fine" I always forget to tell you I love you I'll love you forever I watched Superman fly away You've got a busy day today Go save the world I'll be around I watched Superman fly away Come back, I'll be with you someday I'll be right here on the ground When you come back down Tall, dark and beautiful He's complicated, he's irrational But I hope someday he'll take me away And save the day, yeah Something in his deep brown eyes has me saying He's not all bad like his reputation And I can't hear one single word they say And you'll leave, got places to be And I'll be okay I always forget to tell you I love you I loved you from the very first day I watched Superman fly away You've got a busy day today Go save the world I'll be around And I watched Superman fly away Come back, I'll be with you someday I'll be right here on the ground When you come back down And I watch you fly around the world And I hope you don't chase another girl Don't forget, don't forget about me I'm far away, but I'll never let you go I'm lovestruck and looking out the window Don't forget, don't forget where I'll be Right here wishing the flowers were from you Wishing the card was from you Wishing the...
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...Chasing the nanny My name is Elena. I am twenty years old. I have a dog named Bella. She is a police dog. Bella can do a lot of things. She can chase everyone just by smelling something they own. She understands everything you say to her, and the best part of having her is that she is working with me. Together we have solved a lot of cases. One day my phone rang. “Hello?” the only thing I heard was a really loud noise. I tried one more time, “Hello? Are you there?” “Oh, yes my darling. I’m here” it was my boss. “Why did you call, sir?” he answered “I have a very important job for you. You need to find a lost boy, he got kidnapped by his nanny.” I can’t believe it. A little boy got kidnapped by his own nanny. “I’m on my way, boss.” I ran outside to my car. “Oh no, I forgot Bella inside! Bella, come here!” I screamed. When she finally came, we drove to the police station. “Good morning sir, where should we go looking?” everybody was staring at us. “Good morning darling, you can start with the place the little boy last was seen. We are talking to his parents now.” How could I know where he was last seen? I started talking to one of the employed. “Do you know where the little boy was last seen?” “Yes and his name is James. He was last seen in the church. His parents said that he was just going to the toilet and then he got kidnapped.” I either can’t believe that his own parents let him go to the toilet all alone. Bella and I was going to find little James and his nanny. We drove...
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...I would like to tell you a quick story. This is a story about a girl who went against everything our culture defines as normal today. Historically speaking, for the past few decades, for a girl, most people would assume that life would take the following path… graduate from high school, go to college, get a job, get married, then have kids. Fair to say? (Pause) This girl graduated from high school as planned. Then she went on to college as planned… then her path took a LITTLE detour. She decided that being with her boyfriend back home was more important than college. So, after the fall semester, she left college and got an apartment with her boyfriend. They both had to work a couple of jobs to pay the bills. After a little while, they realized that maybe this wasn’t so cool, in fact, it was pretty hard. So they both moved back to their parent’s homes. This girl decided that she really did need that college education after all, so she went back to school, but this time she stayed local and still lived at home. And here is where her life took a BIG detour. See, she found out she was pregnant. Once again, she finished the fall semester and left college. Not long after, at 19 years old, she had a baby girl. Her story continues with more ups and downs… she had to rely on the help of other people to raise her daughter so she could work. Lucky for her, she had those caring people in her life. This girl was able to get a good job with health insurance so she could take care of her...
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...heart is, but is it really ? I lay my head down in the warm sand and I am hurt, tired and bloody from the last twenty four hours. I dream of home, but where is it at ? Is it with my Wife and children on my small farm in Oregon ? Or with my brothers in arms here in Afghanistan ? It's 0245 , dark ,cold and quiet, my watch alarm is beeping, waking me to another day in this dirty country, Got to get moving, my Joes are waiting for the brief. SGt. Flores is already to go. He's the type of Soldier that you love to have on your squad, see's everything,and always doing something. The MRAP's has been checked and all weapons are good to go. Time for the brief, same as before , roll out the wire at 0420, keep your eye open, stay alert , call out any contact , call signs , who on QRF ( Quick Reaction Force ) and MEDEVAC. We're headed to a small meet and greet of a local war lord to talk about building a girls school, Should be nice and easy. Easy Hell, nothing is never easy here, slow moving, watching for IED's and anyone that just wants to take a pot shot at us.We head out this morning with three MRAPS. SPC Kennay is in the turrent on the lead MRAP, 75 meters in front of mine.. I'm glad he's there, good eyes and a calm manner, always on his toes. At twenty four he has already done two tours in IRAQ and one here. His eyes say that he's already an old man, sad and tired of this life. But they come alive here outside the wire, he dos'nt miss athing. I wonder what these young men...
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...pulled out of the river. When Lennie gave George the mouse he began to cry so George said “Aw, Lennie!” “George put his hand on Lennie’s shoulder” (Of Mice and Men). “I ain’t taking it away just for meanness” (Of Mice and Men). “That mouse ain’t fresh, Lennie; and beside, you’ve broke it petting it” (Of Mice and Men). Here George demonstrated he cared about Lennie’s feelings. He wanted Lennie to understand that he was not taking the mouse from him just because he didn’t want him to have it; it was because it was died and he could get sick. George showed compassion toward Lennie when George places his hand on Lennie’s should as a way to comfort Lennie because the mouse was taken away from him. Another instant when George demonstrated he cared about Lennie was when Lennie got in trouble for the first time in Weed. Lennie said “jus’ wanted to feel that girl’s dress---jus’ wanted to pet it like it was a mouse---Well, how the hell did she know you jus’ wanted to feel her dress?” (Of Mice and Men). Because Lennie grab this girl’s dress and wouldn’t let go he got accused of raping this girl. Since, no one was going to believe Lennie didn’t do anything bad to this girl but only grabbing the dress both Lennie and George had to escape from Weed before they would kill Lennie. Here George again demonstrates how much he really cares about Lennie because they escaped together. George did not leave Lennie alone in this situation. George understood that Lennie didn’t mean any harm...
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...Skies are crying, I am watching Catching teardrops in my hands Only silence, as it's ending, like we never had a chance. Do you have to make me feel like, there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have You can break everything I am Like I'm made of glass Like I'm made of paper Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper As the smoke clears I awaken and untangle you from me Would it make you feel better to watch me while I bleed All my windows, still are broken, but I'm standing on my feet You can take everything I have You can break everything I am Like I'm made of glass Like I'm made of paper Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper Go run run run I'm gonna stay right here Watch you disappear yeah Go run run run yeah it's a long way down But I'm closer to the clouds up here You can take everything I have You can break everything I am Like I'm made of glass Like I'm made of paper Ohh Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper Like a skyscrape [Jason mraz] When I look into your eyes It's like watching the night sky Or a beautiful sunrise There's so much they hold And just like them old stars I see that you've come so far To be right where you are How old is your soul? I won't give up on us Even if the...
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...annoy the hell outta ya. So I got up on a dark august morning. Pouring out as usually, but then again when isn’t it rainin in Singapore . I could hear the thunderin’ outside. The storms were coming closer. They had been traveling the whole night to get here; of all of Singapore , they had to pick here to settle down for the day. Just my luck I guess. I didn’t choose to be in this war, actually im not even in the war yet and I already lost my right testicle to it. Stupid private had to go be a hero and try to show off. He took a Desert Eagle, loaded it , spun around 5 times and before he even got done finishing the final turn, that stupid idiot went and fired that blasted fine piece of machinery right into my ball sack. They operated on me the next mornin’. I got dragged into the infirmary and the nurse said “ Durnet Charlie, cant you ever stay outtta trouble?” “ Sir no sir, this time it wasn’t my fault sir” “ And the time you jumped into the pond with your rifle and messed it so bad that all you had in the end was a water squirt gun? No, that wasn’t your fault neither was it?” “Well sir, I guess I had a little to do with that one….” They all make fun of me here. For one I got a lazy eye, they call it exotropia or somethin’. Don’t laugh, its not funny, I’m getting it fixed though, I swear, soon’s I get ten thousand dollars. Damn near expensive, you’d think they’d give me a break, you know, because it’s a congenital thing. They don’t though. Its one thing I hate about this forsaken...
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...school” the rude bus driver said. Eric didn't know who to sit by because he was new to the school and obviously he thinks no one is going to talk to the new kid. He walked down the hallway as these two light skin boys both wearing fitted jeans and an Hollister shirt one was wearing green and the other wearing a bright yellow color and both wearing all white jordans looking like a pack of sour skittles. As he passed them 1 they started laughing hysterically, as Eric looked at them with a little smirk on his face, one of the boys says to Eric “what are you wearing,them bad ahh reebok and them bad ahh cargos, school Boy”! Eric sat down by himself in the seat behind the two boys. They reached atthe huge, white school building. He got of the bus quickly as possible until then the two boys pushed him out of his way so they could walk he walked through. He had a mean mug on his face like he wanted to punch them in their faces but it’s the first day of school and he doesnt want to get in trouble. He brushed his shoulders off and walked through the black,tall doors of westward middle, there were alot of people starring at his light skin, hazel eyes , and his most definately his outfit. Eric walked to his homeroom, as he walked in everyone in the class starred at him 2 as his eyes peered around to look for his seat until he...
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...Sally and Mrs.Chipley are going on there phones to use the GPS to find Aunt Sarah’s house ,then they finally found Aunt Sarah's house,she had a wooden cabin,so Sally didn't want to stay long because it was a small area. Aunt Sarah begs her to stay because she wanted to spend time with her, But she couldn't make her stay. She gets sad and cries herself to sleep. The next day Sally couldn't sleep because of how tight it was. Then Sally wanted to leave in two days,but Mrs.Chipley steps in so she can stay with her aunt. But I don't want to stay, this area sucks. Too bad you should stay with your aunt, I will call your parents and tell them. No don't tell her parents I don't want her to get in trouble. She must be a good girl, she just...
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...coats Everybody here wanted something more Searching for a sound we hadn’t heard before And it said Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s a new soundtrack I could dance to this beat, beat Forevermore The lights are so bright But they never blind me, me Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York When we first dropped our bags On apartment floors Took our broken hearts Put them in a drawer Everybody here was someone else before And you can want who you want Boys and boys and girls and girls Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Like any great love It keeps you guessing Like any real love It’s ever changing Like any true love It drives you crazy But you know you wouldn’t change Anything, anything, anything… Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Taylor Swift "Blank Space" lyrics [Verse 1] Nice to meet you Where you been? I could show you incredible things Magic, madness, heaven, sin Saw you there and I thought oh my god Look at that face, you look like my next mistake Love's a game, wanna play New money, suit and tie I can read you like...
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...WAITRESS * BOY THIEF * POLICEMAN SCENE ONE Mid-morning, at the street SYNDICATE 1: I think were lucky today! SYNDICATE 2: Why? What’s the reason? SYNDICATE 1: See that kid….Standing near the store. SYNDICATE 2: Yeah! Yeah! I got you. [Syndicate 1 approaches the kid] SYNDICATE 1: Hey there kid! What’s your name? JOHN: I’m John. SYNDICATE 1: How old are you? JOHN: I’m six years old. SYNDICATE 1: Why are you alone? Where are your parents? JOHN: I lost them two years ago. SYNDICATE 1: What happened? JOHN: I can’t remember anything. SYNDICATE: Don’t you have any relatives or friends here? JOHN: I don’t have friends. SYNDICATE 1: Why? You know what, friends give each other gifts. JOHN: Like what? SYNDICATE 1: Like chocolates. Do you want some? JOHN: Uhuh… SYNDICATE 1: Does it taste good? I have more chocolates do you want some more? JOHN: You have more? Do you have lots of it in your pocket? SYNDICATE 1: Yes! But a friend of mine has lots of it in his house. JOHN: Really? She must be rich! How lucky, I wish I was like her…rich… eating all those chocolates. SYNDICATE 1: I’ll introduce you to her. Don’t be afraid, she’s friendly especially to kids who are lonely like you. JOHN: You think so? SYNDICATE 1: Yes, of course! She also gives new shoes for free. I’ll tell you a secret; she owns a big shoe factory. She might give you a pair. JOHN: She’s here? I want to meet her. She seems nice. SYNDICATE 1: She is! Let me introduce you to her. Hey Dominique...
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...1301-2H2 For my 14th birthday my grandmother gave me a diary. I never used it until now. It was just pieces of strings that connected sheets of paper together. It was nothing special or anything that looked fancy. She wanted me to practice my writing since it “imitated a peasant’s work”. How considerate of her to be so kind about helping me with something so utterly useless to me. It was a miracle for her to even give me anything since she is so blinded by all the money she has. She calls “part of the family”, which is a lie since it’s a miracle if I even receive dinner most of the time. My grandmother spent most of the money on expensive luxuries like, clothes, wines, and furniture. I hated my life here in France. Since I had no support in any kind in this land I decided to smuggle myself out of this home. I have many reasons to leave this place, let’s start from the beginning. I, Antoinette Cherubin, was born in February 29, 1650. My mother, Liliane Cherubin, died when she was giving birth to me. Nobody knew what killer her. She was a very slender woman and my grandmother always told me that slender women like her weren’t meant to have babies. My Father, Alexandre Cherubin, I never got too met. He went off to fight for France in the war versus the Spanish a few years before I was born. Nobody knows if he died in battle or went somewhere to live another life away from us. My grandmother (my mom’s mom) never met Alexandre. I never talked or knew who my dad’s parents were. My grandfather...
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...his desk, smiling. Tony Long trip? Betty Honey, you don't know the half of it. A three-hour drive in the valley, and what's it like out there? One hundred degrees. Nice and cold in here though . . . Tony Air conditioning. Betty Yeah. I guess so. Well anyway, I made it. ANOTHER ANGLE-as Betty reaches into a large, patchwork-quilt handbag and takes out a newspaper, turned to the auto ads. Betty Might as well get down to business. I know what I want. This pickup truck you got advertised, the one here for eleven thousand, three hundred, and ninety-nine dollars.ANOTHER ANGLE-as Tony goes forward and looks at the newspaper ad, at the same time introducing himself. Tony Tony Sulka. Betty Betty Algur. From up near Vacaville. Tony Well come on over and sit down. Vacaville . . . that means "cow town," doesn't it? Betty Six hundred of them on our ranch, the last time I counted. Tony How about a cup of coffee? He leads her over to his desk and sits her down, but remains standing himself. Betty Okay. More than two hundred miles. Drove it all in an old Ford pickup, with the original engine and every one of the original rattles. I called over the phone, and the man said he'd give me three thousand dollars in trade for it.Tony Oh yeah, I remember. That was me. Betty Well, it's all yours. Tony Of course, we've got to take a look at it first. Betty Oh, really? That's not what you said on the phone. You...
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