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A Dark Story : A Short Story

It seemed like a simple enough assignment. All she needed to accomplish was write a true story. A

powerful true story. She could achieve that. Then why was it so challenging to determine something

to write about? The fact that it had to be a dark story might be the cause. For a person who lived a

privileged, private school girl's life, it was difficult to consider anything to write about that was

'dark'. She couldn't remember anything dark that had happened in her life, except for that one story,

but she definitely wasn't looking to write about that. So, powerful story. She needed a true, powerful

story that was dark and mysterious, and wasn't 'that'. How did her English teacher expect her to

come up with a dark story, when her life had been nothing but privileged. Of course, there were

stories about people dying, friends even, but she felt that would be too cliche. Besides, people die all

the time. It's not genuinely something dark, it's just something we're used to. Then there were the

stories about her own struggles, but they all seemed too personal to share, and especially for her

English teacher to grade her on. So the last idea left to write was 'that', she guessed. She felt guilty

even thinking about writing it, but she couldn't come up with anything else, and her English teacher

said that she should write her first idea. So she had no other option then to write it.

So that was the story. It was official, she was writing this story. She couldn't consider anything else,

and she hoped that writing about it might cause her to feel better about it. The story definitely fits

the brief. It was true, it was dark, and the power that the story had over her and others was

overwhelming. So she felt determined to write the story. She opened up a blank pages document,

wrote 'powerful stories' as a title at the top and began to write.

She tried her best to put away the emotions she had about the story and just write it, but it seemed

with every word she wrote she felt more guilty about the story. Her heart seemed to sink lower with

every sentence, and her mind was racing as she furiously wrote out the story, until "So that's the end

of the lesson. Great work on your stories, I'll talk to you tomorrow". She felt

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Persuasive Short Stories

As we are nearing our destination our bus driver yells out "I am going to stop at this gas station and

fill up." When our bus driver came back onto the bus he exclaimed "The gas station is out of

gasoline so we will stay here overnight." Then, everyone in the bus started grunting and moaning.

"But guys we can make this fun if we tell stories to pass the time, Here, I will start." I said. And we

began telling each other our stories. "Can we please adopt this one, Mom? Pretty please, he is so

cute! With his bright green eyes and his pink little nose," said Jacob, a thirteen year old boy with red

hair. "After this we will be pretty much bankrupt," said Jacob's mom, with her deep blue eyes staring

into Jacob's "Please just this one thats all," said Jacob "Ok but promise me that you will take

responsibility of him by taking care of him," said Jacob's mom. And they strutted to the individual

behind the counter. When they got back home with their new puppy they decided to name him Spot

due to a cinnamon–colored spot on his back. The next morning, when Jacob woke up he noticed that

Spot's nose is not the same shade of pink. In fact, it is quite pale. "Mom we need to take spot to the

vet now!" screamed Jacob wistfully. "Ok, I will get Spot while you get in the car," replied Mom.

When they got to their destination, Jacob sprinted out of the car and went to the vet's office and

almost immediately the vet said "Spot is going to need surgery, do you have insurance?" "No, how

much

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The Story of My Life Essay

This explains the beginning of my life all the way to the end of my life. My life from the beginning

was very fun as I grew up living with my mom's friend and my friend. But there were a lot of fights

and I was very hyper back then. I have ADHD so back then when I was little; I was very hyper and

wouldn't stop moving around the place. I always was annoying back then and never seemed to get

my homework done at school. I was born at Kaiser Hospital during the year 1996. The first place I

lived was on the street Via Harriet and was right next to a train. It was always noisy when the train

passed by because it shook the house and scared all the animals. It wasn't the best place to live, but

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Overall I know that I'm going to graduate because I'm pushing hard and all I need to finish is my

Cyber High and keep up my grades and I will graduate. I want to go to Chabot College because it's

the closest place to go to. I am planning to get my associates degree then transfer to Cal State East

Bay University. I don't exactly know the requirements of classes to get into Cal State, but as long as

I get my AA degree I should be fine. I am focused on technology and computers; I like to choose

classes that can be similar to wiring or soldering. I am not that sure if I would be more focused on

computers or wiring, I think an Internship might help me out. My career would be Technician or

Electrician because I'm focused on electricity and wanting to discover what would happen without

getting electrocuted. I'm still unsure if I just want to work on physical components on the computer.

I used to work on computers a lot, but it got boring and I can't do it as great now. Soldering is

interesting for me because I get to repair broken wires, being able to strip a wire. When striping a

wire, you get to know how the wire is connected. I think a life event for me is to grab my master's

degree, which is what I'm focused on. That's like the best degree to get, but it's really difficult to

receive. I wouldn't like going to years and years of education, but it's totally worth it. Getting a

higher degree affects the amount

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Electricity Energy Story

Energy Story, Hands–On Science with Squishy Circuits, and Conducting Solutions all have one

important similarity: they all explain how electricity works! These three sources explain very

different things, but they always end up coming back to the main objective of electricity. Energy

Story explained how atoms function, and how they, as a whole, are passed through circuits to create

electricity. Conducting Solutions explains how liquid solutions including Ammonia and Vinegar are

stronger together, and create a stronger conduction of electricity. Hands–On Science with Squishy

Circuits visually shows how two batches of homemade play–dough, one made with salt, and the

other with sugar can be made into circuits when used together. Energy Story uses visual

representation to explain how atoms function, and then move further to explain how atoms..

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In this video, AnnMarie Thomas shows how two different types of homemade playdough can help

you change your students or children into circuit designers. You make on batch of playdough using

salt, and then another substituting salt with sugar. First, you take a battery pack, and plug the two

wires into two separate pieces of playdough containing salt, or the positive playdough. You can then

stick a tiny LED light into the playdough, and it will light up, but when the two positive doughs are

pushed together, you create a short in the circuits. This happens because the electricity wants to run

through the two positive doughs, not one positive dough. To prevent this from happening, you take a

piece of the sugary dough you made, or the negative dough, and place a clump of that in between to

two positive doughs. However, the sugary dough is 150 times more resistant to electricity than the

salty dough, due to the ions in the sodium chloride in the salty dough. The sugary dough then creates

a barrier, successfully making a functioning

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A Survivors: A Short Story

13 year old Valerie Willson had been riding her bike on the side of the road when she had seen a car

destroyed from a car crash. Just by the way it looked, there couldn't have been any survivors she

thought. As she went up to the crashed jeep she seen a pile of blood coming out from the jeep. So,

she hoped that just maybe there would be some survivors; she highly doubted. Yes, there were two

people in there. She couldn't identify them very well, all she knew was that they were for sure dead.

Who was in the driver seat, had gotten their face completely torn off? The person in the passenger

seat had ,literally, been snapped in half. There necks were as well snapped. So, Vallery called the

police and reported what she had saw, the police

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The Forgotten: Part of a Short Story Essay

The light, so brilliant and beautiful, everywhere always everywhere, filling every corner and creves.

Shining around me, through me, from me. I feel delishesly warm, the heat spreading though out my

entire body. All my nerves and senses completely aware of all life, even the smallest miniscule

particles. Then the voices, they are always next, as much as I relish hearing them, I also dread it

because I know what is coming after. "You are complete" they whisper in a warm, kind tone, one

that puts me right at ease. "You must do it, for all life to continue" the voices getting louder, clearer

with each word spoken. By this time I can normally define certain voices from the rest. They starts

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That gorgeous light shines so brightly that it blinds me, all I can see is a glare everywhere. It's like

it's streaming from every pore of my body. I cry out in agony, internally pleading for the voices to

take away the pain. And like normal at this point, it's as if they can read my thoughts, or maybe they

are just sense the pain I must be in. "You will never be forgotten" they have to practically yell to be

heard over my screams of pain. I feel excruciating pain all over, yet my consenses reminds me it is

for the greater good. How I know that I don't understand, but it's the only shred of information that

makes the pain bearable. I feel like a star that is dying, and yet it's light will continue to be shed on

millions for generations to come. Somehow my actions will be like that, benefiting countless people

for generations. "No more, please make it stop" I beg, even my internal voice frail and empty.

"Sarah...." Comes a man's voice seemingly out of nowhere. It's distant, but I try to latch on to it with

the last bit of humanity I have left inside me. "Sarah.." this time louder pulling me slightly away

from the light, the heat, and the pain. With the voices still calling out to me I ride his word.."Sarah"

to freedom. "Sarah, are you ok?" James looks down at me with a concerned expression on his face.

"I was day dreaming again wasn't I?" my feeble voice barely

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What is History?

The definition of history, is a question which has sparked international debate for centuries between

the writers, readers, and the makers of history. In the words of acclaimed historian Edward Gibbon,

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." A

more romantic view on the subject was taken by Cicero. He said, "History is the witness that

testifies the passing of time. It illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance of daily life

and brings us tidings of antiquity" History, described in the simplest of terms, can be seen as a

record of events that have occurred in the past that the historian has taken the trouble to document. It

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There is of course the argument, that even primary source evidence can be somewhat tainted.

Propaganda by rulers and governments has been used a major tool to promote popularity amongst

their people. For example, in Russia at the turn of the century writers who wrote critically about the

internal affairs of government were censured, persecuted and sometimes imprisoned or executed. In

1537 to 1574, The massive censorship exercised by Cosimo I de' Medici of Florence precipitated a

decline in historiography in Florence. The extreme wealth and power of the Medici family extended

even further into the art of the Renaissance period and their depiction was prevalent as saintly

figures in the works of these artists. Fear of persecution could drive an otherwise intelligent scholar

to be biased and one sided. Even today bias and prejudice is apparent in the accounting of daily

events in newspapers and television. The events revealed to the public are those which the editor or

director chooses to be relevant. The Daily Telegraph for example, is widely perceived as being

supportive of the Tories. In the world of films we never read 'this is a true story' in the credits but

that it is 'based on a true story'. The director, has used artistic licence to inject either a romantic or

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A Dark Story : A Short Story
It seemed like a simple enough assignment. All she needed to accomplish was write a true story. A
powerful true story. She could achieve that. Then why was it so challenging to determine something
to write about? The fact that it had to be a dark story might be the cause. For a person who lived a
privileged, private school girl's life, it was difficult to consider anything to write about that was
'dark'. She couldn't remember anything dark that had happened in her life, except for that one story,
but she definitely wasn't looking to write about that. So, powerful story. She needed a true, powerful
story that was dark and mysterious, and wasn't 'that'. How did her English teacher expect her to
come up with a dark story, when her life had been nothing but privileged. Of course, there were
stories about people dying, friends even, but she felt that would be too cliche. Besides, people die all
the time. It's not genuinely something dark, it's just something we're used to. Then there were the
stories about her own struggles, but they all seemed too personal to share, and especially for her
English teacher to grade her on. So the last idea left to write was 'that', she guessed. She felt guilty
even thinking about writing it, but she couldn't come up with anything else, and her English teacher
said that she should write her first idea. So she had no other option then to write it.
So that was the story. It was official, she was writing this story. She couldn't consider anything else,
and she hoped that writing about it might cause her to feel better about it. The story definitely fits
the brief. It was true, it was dark, and the power that the story had over her and others was
overwhelming. So she felt determined to write the story. She opened up a blank pages document,
wrote 'powerful stories' as a title at the top and began to write.
She tried her best to put away the emotions she had about the story and just write it, but it seemed
with every word she wrote she felt more guilty about the story. Her heart seemed to sink lower with
every sentence, and her mind was racing as she furiously wrote out the story, until "So that's the end
of the lesson. Great work on your stories, I'll talk to you tomorrow". She felt
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