Getting the wind knocked out of you Essays

  • The Acknowledgement of Basic Principle

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    Upon consideration for Sho-Dan, I would like to express my gratitude to the ninja lineage for compiling the information through the centuries, maintaining a practical art for the cultivation of the warrior spirit on its many different levels. This appreciation extends a great deal to my most recent personal lineage offering direct impact on modern budo and the battlefield arts. Those most recent are Moko No Tora Takamatsu sensei, Yoshikai Hatsumi sensei (who shares his birthday with me), An-Shu

  • Creative Writing: Hurricane Katrina

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    middle of the day no sun shined through the clouds in days. It was almost completely dark out except for tiny ray of light that had managed to seep through. The street and houses around here were completely flooded the water was up to about here” the man walked off the porch and pointed to a red line just above his head. “ When Katrina had hit I was safely inside my home but by this time I had been forced out by the water like many

  • Amigo's Wave: A Fictional Narrative

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    “My ship is big yes?” Inigo said in a drunken and vein voice. He had been the Dread Pirate Roberts for years now and he was getting fuller of his self every day. “Fezzik,” Inigo screamed “more of this,” Inigo gestured to his glass. “You really should stop,” Fezzik said in a soft voice. “Why? I have everything to celebrate. I have the best crew, job, and ship I the world….. Isn’t that right Amigo?” He gestured to his second in command, who had just walked in the pub. “Actually sir, there’s been

  • Creative Writing: The Cold War

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    moved. I summoned the last reserves of strength left in my body and desperately pulled the handle again. No success. I leaned my back against the door and dropped to the ground, feeling faint. I was so thirsty that nothing else mattered other than getting inside. I had to get the door open before I fainted here. I lifted myself up from the ground and faced the door again. I briefly shut my eyes and sucked in a deep breath, I was dying for some water. Pulling the handle down as hard as my fatigues arms

  • Being Laid Off Research Paper

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    seems to become different from your professional life. Your self esteem gradually dents. This situation can demotivate you in such a way that you can't even think about your future. If you are not smart enough about your future plans to overcome this phase, it can derail your career. The straight truth about lay offs: Right now, you might be thinking that the work you have done till now has broken down into pieces. Lay offs are the decision that is often outsourced to fancy expensive

  • Being Laid Off Research Paper

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    off. This excerpt will guide you on how to handle the situation of being laid off. No employers want to lose their employees. But due to some crisis such as drop in sales and profit, inability to raise funds, or expand business, they have to take drastic steps, which is laying off employees. Receiving a pink slip from the company can be a painful experience to any one. Being asked to not come to the office from the next date or from a certain date is the last thing you ever want to hear. But when

  • A Descriptive Essay About The Beach

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    Everyone has a place where they feel all the weight lifted off their shoulders. When you 're at that special place all the worries in your life suddenly feel gone. At times you may see paintings or hear songs of it. For me, my happy place to escape reality is the beach. The beach is more than just a vacation spot, it’s a place full of serenity. Last month I was in Newport, California, for ten days. Almost every day we went to the beach and some mornings I went for a jog along the water. It seemed

  • Comparing The Rules Of The Game And If I Should Have A Daughter

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    The Significance of Girl Power As Roseanne Barr once said “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” Women throughout the ages have come to know the struggle of finding a voice through an abundance of society given stereotypes and gender roles. Most of these conformities are forced upon young girls at an early age, and often set a precedent as how to act in society. These oppressing social norms may seem inescapable, however through strength and feminist

  • How Rollercoasters Are Able To Move?

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    Have you ever wondered how roller coasters are able to move? Roller coasters don't have engines to make them move after the first hill. In order for the car to reach the top of that e hill, the car has to be pulled up by a rope or wire of some sort hooked to a motor. The roller coasters use energy instead of an engine to help the car move. Once the car has reached the top of the hill the car has built up potential energy. When the car is going down the hill the potential energy changes to kinetic

  • Perseverance and The Olympic Story Lost in Time

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    of perseverance, determination, and grit bringing them together to work magic on the water. They trusted each other, relied on each other, and most importantly they had total confidence that “no man would pull the full weight of the boat”. So what you need to understand is that these boys were not born with silver spoons in their mouths and they had to work hard to succeed. This crew was composed of sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, not sons of businessmen or lawyers like the crews

  • Epilogue To John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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    blankly at the candle with an expressionless face. George jerked quickly towards Candy. “Candy? How have you dealt with the death of your dog so well?” asked George. Candy sternly replied, “ Well… I don’t know. I just stopped thinking of it. It hurt for a couple days but i’m doing well know. How are you getting along after what happened yesterday?”

  • Personal Narrative: How LOTOJA Changed My Life

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    Enjoying the wind rushing around my body, I remember feeling free, watching the earth pass by so quickly. Immediately after waving to a fellow cyclist, I looked back to the road, and realized that I had taken the corner too wide going too fast! I didn’t know it at the

  • For The Birds

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    there was just a different feeling surrounding it. Like I was creating some sort of plot against it now. Pulling out the big guns, you might say. Last year I spotted it and I don’t know why it strikes fear into me, but it just does: the bird’s nest. Nestled in a corner under my deck, there it sat. Frayed pieces of straw poking out like arrows announcing I’m here, sucka, and there’s nothing you can do about it. That summer that mother bird roosting on its nest gave me the dirtiest looks a bird can muster

  • Comparison Of The Outsiders Book And Movie

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    Contrast The Outsiders book and movie were different from each other in many ways. The Outsiders is about a boy (Ponyboy) who tells us his story about how he feels being a Greaser. His friends (including him) are all one gang who look out for each other and hang out. Their rivals, the Socs, are the rich kids that like to beat up and pick on the Greasers. Ponyboy tells us what happens to him during one week. Ponyboy goes to the movies with his friends and meets two girl Socs. Dally, Ponyboy’s one

  • Creative Writing: Why Did He Lie

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    Why Did He Lie? I took one last glance back at the garden we had worked so hard to build. The Texas bluebonnets in our front yard swayed in the wind as if waving good-bye. They turned blurry with the tears falling down my face. I could barely see the red front door of our beautiful brick house. The only thing in my mind when we left was, why did he lie to me. Hannah screamed in surprise when my tiny head peeked around the corner announcing that I had found her. She shot up past me like a bullet

  • Why Is Wilkie Collins A Fit Of Extreme Anxiety?

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    Wodehouse, Big Money} ~ "I burn with indignation, and I ache with fatigue," was the way Miss Rachel summed it up, "when I think of Franklin Blake." {Wilkie Collins, the Moonstone} --Can you put off having apoplexy for 3 minutes? (A fit of extreme anger; rage / Sudden impairment of neurological function /Getting cross/ outbreak/ outburst/ frenzy/ a paroxysm/ an attack/ a fit/ seizure/ spasm/ a convulsion/ extreme anger/ losing your temper/ fermenting/ control your anger or irritation/ throw a wobbly=‘have

  • Guineveremorgan Le Fay: My Hero's Journey

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    country. Finally. Morgana thought to herself as she started her way up one of the castles stairways. I finally have a plan for getting my revenge on Arthur for killing the man I loved. As Morgana reached the top of the stairway she came upon a closed wooden door, which she then knocked on. “Who’s there?” a voice asked. “Queen Guinevere, it’s Morgan le Fay.

  • Little Red Monologue

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    indeed, be getting lonely at around this time of year. “That sounds like a wonderful idea! Your grandmother will be very happy to see how much you’ve grown,” her mother said. And with that, they packed a basket filled with soft, freshly baked breads and cookies. It gave off such a splendid aroma, so much so that even absent minded Little Red had trouble restraining herself from tasting just a little

  • The Georges And The Jewels: A Literary Analysis

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    readers see a change when the the story is in a first person point of view? A good example is in the passages Black Beauty, Black Beauty is about a horse who has a bad outlook on being tamed and then changes and has a great outlook on being tamed. You can also look at a character change from the text. Of course in The Georges and the Jewels,which is about a girl who’s showing cowardice towards her new horse and how she needs to ride the horse and flashes back to when she actually loved the horses

  • The American Dream Meaning

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    lottery, and father getting shot by the cops? The common threads of this columns’ three dreams are how we need to move on from our past and present circumstances to have the lives we truly deserve. Read on to discover more. Dream I had a strange dream couple of days back. I was in the temple and the priest was doing some prayers for me. Suddenly, I fell down and a horse came out from inside of me. Interpretation My guides are playing Christopher Cross song, “Ride, ride like the wind.” My first impression