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One night I was walking around town with my friends Alex and Ben. We had finished our football game earlier that night. Ben had hit the game winning field goal as time expired, winning 23-20. It was almost 10:30 at night, when we heard an alarm go off about a block from us. We quickly ran and investigated the screeching noise. Once we turned the corner we saw the broken glass of the bank. We thought someone was robbing the store. Only being fourteen year olds, we didn’t really know what to do. We figured the police were already alerted and were on the way, but we decided to take matters into our own hands. We quickly rushed over to the door and looked inside. We couldn’t believe what we saw next. We saw Mr. Williams bent over sweeping the broken glass off the floor. We asked him what happened and he showed us a baseball with almost the whole cover ripped off. We then looked and noticed the neighboring old sandlot across the street. We then helped Mr. Williams clean

Harrison Bergeron was a very interesting short story. It showed us how equality is not good to a certain extent. Everyone was made in God's image and they shouldn't have to wear handicaps to make everyone equal. This story shows that uniqueness and individuality is good and perfectly fine in the world and that we shouldn't all be equal. We should embrace our traits and characteristics that we have been given. Common level one questions are; Who is Harrison Bergeron? What are handicaps? When does this take place in the future? Common level two questions are; What is the need for equality? Why is Harrison Bergeron seen as a threat to society? Common level three questions are; What is equality? Could this really happen in the future? Is equality better than individuality? The plot of the story: Exposition: The author tells when the story takes place and the main idea of the book, along with explaining the characters of the story. Rising Action: George and Hazel talk abou

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"Where were you the night of Monday the 14th, from 11:00 P.M. to 2:30 A.M.?", Officer White spoke. Danny answered, "I was at Johnny Cook's house from 10:30 until 12:45. Then we went back to my house for the rest of the night." Officer White asked, "Have you had any contact with Brady Lewis in the past three days?" Danny said, "Yea I talked to him before the game on Saturday, then after the game we went out with some other guys and had a few drinks." "Have you spoken to him since then?", Officer White inquired. "No sir, the last time I saw or have spoken to him was at the old bar down on 23rd Street," answered Danny. Officer White questioned, "Have you any idea of the possible whereabouts of Brady?" "Brady usually likes to hang out by the old high school football stadium off of North Boulevard, or he might be at the old bar on 23rd Street," pronounced Danny. "Thank you for your services Mr.

In the last week we have started to write our personal narrative. At first I had no clue what I was going to write about, but then I asked my parents to help me think of some ideas. We finally came up with the time I caught an Amberjack while fishing in Orange Beach, Alabama.  I am particularly excited about my use of dialogue and the way I tell the story, so that the reader thinks they are really there. I think my use of vivid detail and strong adjectives help the story flow. The biggest thing that I need to work on is telling the reader of the significance of catching the fish. Advice that I would definitely appreciate would be on how to make the overall story better and if there are any other ways I can make the reader feel like they are really there. 

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Dear 6 year old, enjoy your childhood. When you are six years old you don't have any responsibilities in life. Life is so open and free when you are six, you don't have homework, or chores etc. When you are six you can do whatever you want, in reason. Your parents still think you are the cutest thing ever and rarely get mad at you. So whenever you say "I can't wait to be all grown up," and "I want to be treated like a big boy/girl," yes there are perks to being older, but little kids have it all. If I could go back to being in preschool or kindergarten, I wouldn't hesitate in going back. From 5 years old to 7 years old were the best years of my life, so don't take anything for granted, have fun and live your open, free and no responsbilty life.

Currently in Alex Rider: Skeleton Key, the mysterious guard tries to eliminate Alex for knowing to much about his mission, but Alex ends up knocking him out and locking him in the giant freezer. Alex, Crawley, a chief of police, and a Wimbledon official figure out that the guard was sabotaging the matches to win money for the triad he worked for. Alex goes to Sabina's vacation house and tells her everything thats going on. Thanks to Alex's observation of the big red circle tattoo on the guards arm, they were able to trace him back to a triad he is linked to. I believe the mysterious guard who was trying to sabotage the matches is only a minor act in something of much greater magnitude. I think they will interrogate the guard to try and extract some information from him about his mission and the Big Circle. Also, by telling Sabina his secret of being a teen spy, it could risk his whole mission and also comeback and penalize him later. So far this book has been full of action,

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Hurricane Katrina was and is still today one of the United States worst natural disasters ever. Hurricane Katrina was the largest and the third strongest hurricane ever recorded to hit the US. The levees in New Orleans were built to withstand Category 3 hurricanes, but Katrina peaked at a Category 5, with wind speeds up to 175 mph. The final death toll 1,836, mostly from Louisiana (1,577) and Mississippi (238). 705 people are reported as still missing from Katrina. The storm surge of Katrina was 20 feet high. Hurricane Katrina affected over 15 million people in many different ways such as, evacuation of homes, rising gas prices, and suffering economy. 80% of New Orleans was estimated to be underwater, up to 20 feet deep in some places and impacted precisely 90,000 square miles. The final cost of damages in Louisiana and Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina was approximately $150 million, making it the most costliest hurricane in US history. More than seventy different countries made ver

Alex is currently working undercover for MI6 as a ball boy at Wimbledon. He sees a very suspicious looking security guard who is always acting like he is talking on his fake phone and starts following him every. So far this book has been very interesting and keeps me wanting to read more. The author engages my attention because there are a lot of interesting and exciting scenes where Alex is caught or has been questioned. The book is structured in chronological order and it has been about six weeks since Alex has been recruited for this new mission.