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Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners.....
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it...More
Many of us don’t realize how important blood is to keep a healthy community going. What keeps us from giving blood? For many of you it’s the fear of needles, or the sight of blood makes you woozy. Or maybe you don’t give blood because you don’t have the time or you just don’t care. Like oil keeps a car running smoothly so is blood to the body. Blood can not be produced by man and for many hospitals they count on volunteers to keep the blood supply ready to save lives...More
The Society of Fine Arts has not been a fully functioning club for seven years. Does that make it a secret? Not necessarily. It is no secret that the end of the semester Ceramics Sale, hosted by the group, is quite popular among faculty and staff of Pikes Peak...More
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Video games today are as common in the home as the refrigerator or the stove. Many homes have them and if you were to ask any child at random to explain their favorite past time during the day, the answer would more than likely revolve around a video game of some sort. This is a far cry from the past when your answers would have been probable revolved around sports or bike riding and this change is having a negative affect on our youth both mentally and physically...More
The violence in video games appears to children as fun and games, but what happens when they take the violence outside of the television? A majority of video games include punching, kicking, whipping, shooting, or otherwise killing the opponent in order to win the game. Such violence may be directed against inanimate objects, imaginary creatures, or, even, other humans. Children are increasingly becoming more violent, taking issues to a physical level due to the increasing intensity of violence in the video games they play every night. My questions include: What are the effects of this violence in young children? Why are they still selling, and why does the violence in youth seem to be getting harder to control?...More
It is accessed in classrooms, churches, businesses and homes all around the world. It began as an on-line storage site. It is now ranked the fifth most visited English-language website and the 19th most visited website in the world according to Alexa Internet, a web-statistics site. Answers.com calls Myspace the largest social networking site in history...More
Picture this: a young girl who grew up with her father her whole life. Suddenly, everything changed when he met the woman of his dreams and decided to get married.
My parents have been divorced since I was two, and it was just my daddy and me my whole life. I felt like the woman of the house, and I loved it. I knew it was hard for my dad to raise a growing, becoming young woman by himself, so I understood where I stood in helping out. I was happy, and I knew that I had my daddy all to myself...More
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