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The blues merchant

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talkes about a jail and music and how inmate feel free. and the jail guards dont.

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Nanuq, the white ghost, repents

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I and his father died, by the Great whit arctic polar bear called nanuq and also the wight ghost, the king sent out.
dies with physical pain. his older brother Nuna killed the bear

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the leap

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three ways Anna her mother saves her.
1 Saves her self in trapez act
2 her mom get married to her father
3 he saves her from the fire

Herry is the dad Anna is the mom
last name is avalon

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the lottery ticket

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Ivan Dmitritch and mashe Dmitritch
she wanted to go abourd
and he thougth she was never going to share with him the money. it was all becaesu of a ticket they never looked at untill it was over.

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young people

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talked about how to change bad oil to good oil. the essay is an expository one because it uses facts and info that he tested to explain how to make it.

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the truth about lying

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social lying- wight lies to get out of going places that you dont want to go.
peace keeping lies- lies to protect yourself from getting in troble and having everything go well.
protective lies- to protect someone from getting hurt
trust keeping lies- lies to keep someones secret
the essay is persuasive and expository. becaues it is facts and also we know how it feels.

thesis:

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where the wild things are

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its about sport fans and how they celebrate.
the wave was made in 1981
it is a perswasive essay

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two words

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belisa crepusculario. she slod words for a living. she was kidnaped by the El Mulato. he wanted to be presedant so she gave him the words to be one. and she said two other words that might have ment that they would be together. and they fall in love.

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wings chips

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it was a chines fish and chips place
pauline little wolf
her mother and father dont live together
her father doesnt really take care of her she does the work
she olny sees him in the summer.
french canadian
he wanta her to pla piano but he doesnt give her one

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twins

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a husband herry is trying to kill her in his plot for a story and wife lucy knows and frames him and kills him before he can kill her.

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who killed Benny Paret

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its about a person who died in a boxing ring. its a perswasive essay bc it talkes about how the balme should be on the the prize fighter. and the crowd is also to blame because they are the ones that want to be satisfide.

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I am writing blindly

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it talkes about how you are trying to spill what you think and telling stories becaues we need it. it is also a perswasive essay becaeus there isnt facts that you can fact cheach. but it is good becaues it talkes about not knowing what to write next and the person who is talking is blind

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