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The city was cloaked with the remains of winter, frigid with a subtle breeze, the kind that made you take a second breath. Spokane the town of sorrows, the town of nothing as I refer to it. Everything was either dead or holding on to the last bit of life it had left just to have a fighting chance to see the first glimpse of spring. Flowers droop with a lifeless despair, trees still naked from falls passing, birds taking shelter in old attics and abandon buildings to keep out of the blistering cold, and the people, more excited that snow had come once again to this lonely town, wishing it would give them a bigger adventure to there already useless lives. A city bound to the rules of society. A bunch of scavengers I think, searching and collecting any bit of hope they can grab to give them a better view on life, any idea they can sink there teeth into, clench tight just to forget the sinking feeling of regret that they live here. Myself, I walk to a different beat, not caring. I read this book Ham on Rye and it had me thinking of humanity and all it's useless ways, what's the point to everything if we roam around like mindless zombies, eating up anything that may come ...
Stress and everyday annoyances are not crises. Situations that interfere with normal activity, inspire feelings of panic or defeat, and bring about deep emotional reactions are crises. A crisis is a ?turning point? or a crucial time that will make a difference for better or worse. The Chinese word for ?crisis? is made up of two characters ' one...
?Audience: Parents who want to enroll their children in a ballet class for the first time. As a child I was very active in ballet. When I first asked my parents to let me enroll in a ballet class, they were skeptical. They weren't too sure of what a ballet class consisted of or what kind of exercise I would have to undergo. My parent...
THE Memory is the ability to remember past events, images, ideas, or previously learned information or skills. Memory is also the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information. There are three key processes to memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Each of the three stages in memory-sens...
Aaron Cornelius 10-5 9/5/2012 "Ready, aim fire," said the firing squad. Then bam, and the car door slammed. "Walter are you listening to me? You need to stop smoking those cigarettes. I am tired of smelling that stuff, it is stinking up the entire car. With one final drag, Walter dropped the cigarette and stepped on it furiously. On the way bac...
EFFECTING READING COMPREHENSION WITH COMPUTER QUIZZES Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of periodic computer-based comprehension quizzes in reading classrooms. Two special education resource-reading classes were used in this study. The students in one of the classes (Class X) received periodic computer-b...
