When I sat down to write this tribute‚ there were so many things I wanted to tell you all; from each adventure‚ every smile that was made because of Isabel’s gentleness & generosity‚ to every laugh and all the times I can possibly remember of her.. Good or bad. When I had first met Isabel‚ I was boarding off from sea one sunny winters afternoon. What had caught my attention about her the second I laid eyes on her was her laugh‚ & the curls of her dark hair swirling in the wind; the first time I realized
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Playing the board game Sorry with my grandmother and sister‚ I draw a seven and knock both of my grandmother’s pieces off the board. “You’re just vicious”‚ she alleged in a joking voice. As unimportant as that day might’ve been‚ I know that not all people would even play the board game with their grandchildren. Sue Straw was born on August 11‚ 1958. She had eight siblings‚ and she would give birth to my mother on March 19‚ 1978. My Grandma is special to me because she is generous‚ dependable‚ and
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Good morning family and friends of the beloved Eugina S. Frog. My sister and I have been through a lot of hardships together‚ from our father passing and us hoping to a new pond. Eugina was a curious and unique frog‚ she brought happiness everywhere she went. She was well-known on the west side of the pond. Eugina lived to be twelve years old‚ she had 1‚000‚200 babies with her husband Robert A. Frog. In the twelve years that Eugina lived‚ she accomplished many goals that she planned to succeed. For
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The Forsete‚ a ship that set sail from Norway’s northern coast‚ was hit with an outbreak of the Spanish Flu on September 21‚ 1918. Within the next two weeks‚ seven people died‚ and were buried in Longyearbyen‚ the arrival site of the Forsete. Kristy Duncan‚ a Canadian Geographer‚ set up an expedition to go to the grave site of these seven men in Longyearbyen. These men may very well be intact‚ cryogenically preserved‚ and may still be carrying
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The book I chose is Ransom by Lois Duncan. This is a story about five teenagers‚ Dexter‚ Jesse‚ Bruce‚ Glenn‚ and Marianne‚ that get kidnapped and their parents are contacted to pay a ransom to get them back. The teenagers are from very different backgrounds and have different social statuses at school. They all live in a “rich” known neighborhood called Valley Gardens which is how the kidnappers chose them. Ransom is a crime thriller and the mystery of not knowing what’s going to happen next keeps
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Good Morning noble thanes‚ kinsmen and sons of Scotland‚ I‚ King Macbeth‚ am honoured to be here today to praise the life of my beloved friend Banquo. The past two weeks have been unbelievably hard and in the midst of my grief‚ I had the daunting task of finding the words to farewell such an incredible man. I would first like to acknowledge all those who journeyed here to the castle of Inverness. It was the last place Banquo was seen alive‚ and so it seemed fit that it should be the last place in
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Piggy was a thinker‚ the smartest kid I’ve ever known. It’s ironic to think that of all the boys‚ I knew Piggy the most and I do not even know his real name. I hurt’s me to think that I did not realize Piggy’s intelligence until it was almost too late. When we first met I laughed at him and teased him. If I could go back to that first time we met I would have probably still laughed at his confession of being teased as Piggy‚ but I would still want to know his name. Unfortunately‚ I will probably
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I have always loved working with children. I’m always the first to offer to babysit and the whole family knows they can leave their kids with me. I have worked with one little boy for almost 3 years. His name is Alex and there is something that makes him unique. Alex is autistic. I started to work with him when he was only 4 years old. When I first started working with him‚ he did not communicate well. If he wanted something he would yell or point‚ but he did not know enough to ask for what he
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The behavior that is associated with the preparation of food‚ the varieties and the amounts has been undergoing changes over the last century in American families everywhere. A simple questionnaire was given to three different generations of people all growing up in Alaska. Though two of them are directly related as father and son‚ the third in not directly related but a stepmother to the father and will serve as the eldest of the generation in this evaluation. Brycen Lynch‚ born in 1999 who is
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In Marion‚ at my parents house‚ they gave me a place to stay with a roof over my head‚ they back me on what I do everyday. They do things around the house to let me have time for my schooling‚ doing homework‚ and studies. It happened in August‚ of 2012‚ when I was staying with friends and they got evicted‚ and I had no other place to live. I was talking to Judy and she said I was not sleeping under a bridge‚ for me to come and stay with her and my father and help them out since they have had heart
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