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Telescope Eagerly Awaiting Madison Fuhhr Intension Stars
1,783 wordsIf someone would have taken me outside and told me to look at the night sky and tell them what I was thinking, two weeks ago I would have probably said some idiotic remark like, "Cool. " If they asked me what I thought about space, I probably would have coldly answered, "I could care less. " I thought that all that space was made of was a huge overabundance of white dots filling the pitch-black sky. The only thing I really liked was the moon because it was the closest thing I could see in space....
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1,180 wordsIn the small town of Diction the gentle autumn breeze rustled the golden leaves of the oak trees. The streets in this small town were as empty as a blondes head. There were no lights on in any of the houses, and it was so quite you could hear a mouse walking around at one hundred feet. The sun slowly sank behind the western horizon, sending golden rays over the town, this cast drooping shadows all around. All of the people were at the city hall, where the mayor and chief of police were addressin...
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Little Red Cap Poem
1,805 wordsIn Little Red Cap discuss the use of imagery, syntax and structure. Plan: Introduction to the collection of poems Similarities and differences between this poem and original fairytale Imagery how has Duffy used the words used to create pictures in the readers head? Syntax word order. Why has she written sentences the way she has? Emphasis on a particular word. Structure length of stanzas Little Red Cap is written by Carol Ann Duffy found in a collection of poems called The worlds wife, where she...
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Anti Communist Role Reversal
1,467 wordsWhat are the major themes of The Winter Oak and how does the author use the characters of Anna and Savushkin to develop these themes? There are four major themes in The Winter Oak. There is one obvious, very important theme, which is the huge contrast between both the settings and environments of the classroom and forest, and the ways the two main characters, Anna Vasilevna and Savushkin, behave in these places. Also, there is the theme of education, and how it continues from the classroom into ...
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Build A Fire Ralph And Piggy
2,789 words... at they are definitely on an uninhabited island, but there is an abundance of fruit and other things to eat. He explains that since there are no grown-ups, they will have to look after themselves. He assures them that if they remain calm, they can survive until they are rescued. Jack joins in by mentioning the pig, and Ralph adds that they need hunters to get meat. Ralph declares that they need to have some rules, and Jack agrees excitedly. The first rule relates yo the conch. It is identifi...
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Sam And Eric Group Of Boys
2,874 words... n more afraid when Ralph does not seem to have much faith in Jack's hunters to protect them. In fact, Ralph is feeling depressed and helpless. At the meeting there is a showdown. Jack confronts Ralph and calls him a coward. But when he calls for a vote on removing Ralph as chief, the boys do not support him. Jack cannot bear this humiliation, declares that he is no longer a part of Ralph's group, states that he will form his own group on the other side of the island, and walks away by himsel...
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Life Lesson Real Life
1,281 wordsBoth a Teacher and Entertainer One of the most difficult tasks as a parent is to teach your child lifes lessons. Many have tried, and many have failed. But over the ages most successful ideas have come in a form of story or tale. Aesop's Fables, nursery rhymes, and other tales of caution are used even today to teach this common knowledge one must have. In the Greek civilization, thousands of years ago, many children were taught through these fun and interesting stories. The Odyssey is one of the...
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Smoking Marijuana Vietnam War
2,529 wordsMost people in our society think of the Vietnam War as a tragedy, or a negative time in our history that was later viewed as a misstep. These comments are true and most-certainly conventional. However, does the average person realize how large of an impact it had on the men who fought? When questioned on the Vietnam War, it can be rightly assumed that many Americans would know that it lasted over a decade. Maybe even a few would know that over 14, 000 U. S. troops were killed in 1968, alone, (Ap...
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Ravaged Ripping Radically Memories Approaching Grandmas Christmas
1,012 wordsApproaching Christmas Memories CHRISTMAS MEMORIES Approaching Grandmas, our family anticipates the grand holiday about to be rekindled once again. With our family and friends about to be reunited with each other, each family member is trying not to notice how long the last kilometer is taking. The trees along the road seem to crawl by slower as Dad pushes his foot harder. Inch by inch, Second by second, we approach the long awaited destination. Finally when we arrive at Grandmas house our long j...
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Middle Aged Man Clich
1,428 wordsLolita is perhaps one of the most disturbing novels of the century: it tells the immoral story of a middle- aged man who falls in love with a twelve year- old girl (a nymphet, as he calls her) and has a sexual relationship with her for over two years, until she disappears with another more perverse middle- aged man. What makes this novel particularly disturbing is the fact that Humbert's sexual perversion is disguised in highly poetic garb and that the only monitor of virtue is the gifted perver...
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Eternal Life Jesus God
853 wordsTheatre Critique On the night of April 19, 2000, I attended Godspell, written by John-Michael Tebelak, and produced by the Gainesville Alliance Theatre. It was a musical based on the gospel according to St. Matthew. The director chose to add a modern twist to the classic production. The beginning began with us mothers too busy for anything other than work, the alcoholic, a child without her father, children captivated by video games and rock star boys everyday people with problems and obsessions...
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Edgar Allan Poe Masque Of The Red Death
756 wordsEmily Burchett Seventh Period College English III 17 March 1997 Poe's Tales Survive Many people have adored Edgar Allan Poe's writings and many have hated them. Overall Poe still appeals to a large audience today who enjoy the terror, the excitement, and the unique writing style he influenced and provided for readers all over the world. All around the world Poe influences in all types of writing, For a moment I can see the importance and the influence Poe has had on three French poets, Baudelair...
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Huckleberry Finn Huck Finn
1,254 wordsHuckleberry Finns Free Will In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn gets into trouble on land and runs to the river for safety and sanctuary and for his own free will. Huckleberry Finn runs to the water to escape his father, the fighting between the Grangerfords and the Shepardsons, and the troubles with the king and the duke. As he takes to the water he realizes that no one can get to him and he determines where he stops and when. When Huck Finn is on land he takes to the water to esca...
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Waste Of Time Jane Eyre
1,253 wordsJane Eyre In Jane Eyre, the themes of servitude and liberty are brought to life and contrasted with each other in many instances throughout the novel. Inside, Jane at first desires to be a free spirit, but the social class stratification and conditions of the world that she lives in make this dream impossible to truly fulfill. Jane regards the concept of such absolute freedom a fleeting, ethereal, and hollow notion, and accepts her servitude; it is a vehicle that helps her learn more about herse...
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1,180 wordsThe Relationship of Jazz Music and Jack Kerouac There is a distinct relationship between jazz music and the Beat Generation, particularly Jack Kerouac. The writings of the beat generation were often influenced by the different styles of jazz. One certain style of jazz known as bop and bebop were the most influential of all forms on the beat generation. They were an improvised form of jazz that has been traced back to originating in Harlem in the early forties and fifties. A harmonically and rhyt...
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Told Me Stories Straight On Till Morning Irish
2,063 wordsSecond star on the right? I can remember it like it was just yesterday. It was the mid-eighties and I was just an awe-stricken young eight-year-old as I accompanied my aunt to Shannon Airport. She was the second of my relations that was travelling to spend a summer in Australia and I can still remember the look in her eyes as we saw her off. To me, she exuded an air of nervous anticipation, tinged with the excitement of what was no doubt going to be one of the most memorable summers of her young...
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Clich Sexual Desires
2,760 wordsVladimir Nabokov, one of the 20 th century's greatest writers, is a highly aesthetic writer. Most of his work shows an amazing interest in and talent for language. He deceptively uses language in Lolita to mask and make the forbidden divine. Contextually, Lolita may be viewed as a novel about explicit sexual desire. However, it is the illicit desire of a stepfather for his 12 -year old stepdaughter. The novels subject inevitably conjures up expectations of pornography, but there in not a single ...
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Edgar Allan Poe Poe Writings
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Type Of Therapy Criminal Behavior
2,364 wordsAs a young child I, like many other children was fascinated with fireworks. Every July 4 th my family would always put on the best fireworks display. Even to this day I enjoy watching fireworks and lighting them off. For some people it is their job to play with fire, and for others it is an impulsive desire they cannot deny. These people have a problem with the inability to control impulses to set fires. They will do anything to see a fire, be part of a fire, they simply like fire. Firefighters ...
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Three Or Four Hundred Dollars
5,417 wordsIt was four oclock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija's broad shoulders? it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others...
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