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and gender preferences with a plan to grant university admission to the top 20 percent of high school seniors. The new plan also decreases reliance on SAT scores. This will increase the admission chances of disadvantaged students. On average, blacks do not score…

struck down one greasy character and blundered into the waterlogged carcass of a second.” (133) As I sat in jail with my friends I did not feel so invincible anymore, I had sobered up and started to reflect on my whole outlook on life. All I could think…

?" <Tab/>"She sat on her porch. The boys went by on bikes and stopped to chat. She read the funny papers, she reclined on the hammock." <Tab/>"What do you do on a warms summer night?" <Tab/>"She sat on the porch…

. With a gentle sigh thoughts ran through my mind telling me that it'll just be for today. I wasn't looking forward towards our reunion so I quietly sat in the car and kept quietly to myself, counting down the hours to counting the minutes, down through the seconds…

' that always sat alone in the cafeteria. We all had nicknames for the 'loner'. We knew deep down that this was a bad thing to do but we enjoyed putting him or her down.         Piggy is smarter than most of the survivors. You could see this because he…

to the sounds of silence as we ate. Nobody felt like discussing what had gone on, I think we all knew this was the last meal we would have together.         After dinner I sat down with him on the couch to watch television, but the couch was uncomfortable…

was wearing the jacket because she was wearing a uniform sweatshirt, but was still cold. She was pulled out of her class and sat in the office until her mom came to get her. Then for wearing the jacket, she got a detention. To make things worse, her mom did…

the twilight of the woods. All was calm now. The city moved before him in a muffled silence. Lights flickered and twinkled, windows glowed as car headlights beamed. Tom sat on the lip of the woods as the world spilled out beyond him, constantly moving, never still…

(an inflatable, egg-shaped balloon toy with a weight in the bottom that makes it bob back up when you knock him down). The woman punched the clown, shouting "sockeroo!" She kicked it, sat on it, hit with a little hammer, and so on, shouting various aggressive…

two people working the whole store. But those two employees were hard workers. There were about six customers in the store, including myself and all of us had the same polite service from the employees. When I sat down she simply asked, "Is there anything I…