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  2. I, Pencil - Wikipedia

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    "I, Pencil" is written in the first person from the point of view of a pencil. The pencil details the complexity of its own creation, listing its components (cedar, lacquer, graphite, ferrule, factice, pumice, wax, glue) and the numerous people involved, down to the sweeper in the factory and the lighthouse keeper guiding the shipment into port.

  3. Family - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] Thus, one's experience of one's family shifts over time. There are different perspectives of the term 'family', from the perspective of children, the family is a "family of orientation": the family serves to locate children socially and plays a major role in their enculturation and socialization. [10]

  4. My Family series 9 - Wikipedia

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    The series was given a new, Thursday evening prime-time slot, with the opening episode airing at 8:30pm, with all the following episodes airing at 8:30. To celebrate the 100th episode of My Family, the fourth and fifth episodes were aired as a double-bill in a Sunday evening prime-time slot. The opening episode of the series gained 6.83 million ...

  5. Essay - Wikipedia

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    In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been

  6. In Our Time (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 10 is the longest; it details a soldier's affair with a Red Cross nurse, [47] and is based on Hemingway's relationship with Agnes von Kurowsky. [48] The piece about a robbery and murder in Kansas City originated in a newspaper story Hemingway covered as a cub reporter at The Kansas City Star ; [ 46 ] it is followed by the story of the ...

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  8. The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness - The Huffington Post

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    This is a picture of me and my family when I was 9. My parents still claim that they had no idea I was gay. They’re sweet. Jeremy and I are 34. In our lifetime, the gay community has made more progress on legal and social acceptance than any other demographic group in history.

  9. Life skills - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization in 1999 identified the following core cross-cultural areas of life skills: [8] [9] decision-making and problem-solving; creative thinking (see also: lateral thinking) and critical thinking; communication and interpersonal skills; self-awareness and empathy; assertiveness and equanimity; and