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Cold Blood Ten Minutes
1,202 wordsLucy Wainwright Roche September 2000 Contemporary American Fiction In Cold Blood Beloved These days when a reader settles in to read a book, it is hard to know what to expect. In the past, there may have been a more rigid idea about what makes a novel or a story, now, there are many ways in which a modern writer can choose to portray a happening or a feeling. This development in fiction writing creates an exciting concept. It turns reading into a wonderfully intriguing activity where nothing can...
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V 8 Engine Henry Ford
1,494 words... that publication, which is the longest any motoring journalist has worked for the same paper. The 1000 cc Toyota Corona was launched in May of 1957. The year of 1958 was the year of the Ford Edsel, a V 8 engine of 5. 9 or 6. 7 liters. The Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford in Detroit launched it. Their appearance was quite strange with a wrap around windshield, prolific fins, lots of flashy chromium plating and a radiator reminiscent of a horses neckwear. Only 35, 000 were sold in the first si...
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Executive Branch Andrew Jackson
496 wordsAndrew Jackson was not born of wealth or prestige; however, he eventually ensconced himself in that position, mainly through military success. Jackson served his presidency, after John Quincy Adams, supporting the population that obtained a similar background. He supported the common man. Andrew Jacksons performance in office was strongly democratic, which completely opposed the prior presidencies, The Era of Goodfeeling. Jacksons presidency spurred polarized sects of the American population, wh...
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Found Her Husband Laying Found Her Husband Wife
584 wordsThis article came from a national magazine: Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with a dive tank, flippers, and face mask. A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about determining how a fully-clad diver en...
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Lot In Life Slave Revolt Smerdyakov
1,051 words... at the strong see as good. In Nietzsche's lamb vs. bird of prey description the lambs oppose the ideas of the strong saying Let us be different from the evil ones, namely good! (26) Smerdyakov's passion stems from his birth in Fyodors garden and ripens in his dreams while asleep in the kitchen. His passion is cooking. He closely examines and studies the different characteristics of food. He is then sent to training school in order to become a cook. Smerdyakov has a terrific knack for manipul...
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Made Her Feel Main Character
911 wordsIn the story How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro, I looked at the element of the narrator. In this story the narrator wasnt hard to spot like some other stories. Edie tells the story through insights on her feelings, how she describes others in the story, and her romances. Throughout the story Edie experienced many different feelings from things that made her feel good to things that made her feel horrible. She tells us that she loved being left alone in the house, to do her work when she felt l...
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Mama Elena Youngest Daughter
891 wordsLike Water for Chocolate was published in 1989 and in 1990 became a number one bestseller in Mexico. It was written by Laura Esquivel. This novel is separated into twelve chapters, one for each month of the year. Each chapter begins with the careful instructions to one of the protagonists recipes. In this novel the mother, Mama Elena, is a person who is filled with anger because her parents did not allowed to marry the person she loved and was then forced to marry another man. She took out her a...
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Dickinson Poem Ice Cream
1,433 words... more telling, is that the sheet gotten from that dresser is not likely to be long enough to cover the whole of the corpse's body. This is not a major concern to the speaker of the poem; again, this seems to illustrate a sense of comfort and acceptance of "things as they are. " The goings-on of the characters in The Emperor of Ice-cream, are the goings-on of life. Life in the face of death is the tone of this poem, versus the looming agony of death in Dickinson's. If we were to isolate the ov...
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Mothers Words Coming Mothers Words Mother
667 wordsIS THAT MY MOTHERS WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH My favorite phrase during my teenage years was, When I have children I wont treat them like you treat me! Now I am sure every mother on earth has heard their daughters say these words, but at the time I had put all the venom a 13 year old could into those words. I was sure I had deeply wounded my mother and this would send her screaming into the dark Carolina night. I was so wrong. She didnt turn a hair on her permed head. Could it be she had heard...
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French Fries Term Benefits
423 wordsEating out is more beneficial than a home cooked meal because it is less time consuming, all you have to do is pick a restaurant. It is also easier to decide what you would like to eat; however, eating at home is cheaper, a family could make two meals out of twenty dollars. Eating at home is also healthier than fast food dining because you are One night my family and I decided to eat at Burger King and we already knew what we were going to order. I chose a Whopper, large french fries, and a soda...
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Opened The Door Zeena Opened The Door Ethan
499 wordsIn Ethan Frome author Edith Wharton uses parallel scenes of Zeena and Mattie opening the farmhouse door. In both scenes Ethan was locked out of the house, both nights he searched for the key, but never succeeded to find it. In both scenes the two women come to the door and hold the lamp in the same position. Both scenes are portrayed in total synchronicity. The way Ethan examined each of the women was a difference in the parallel scenes. Although the scenes contained many similarities, they also...
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Happy Birthday Good Bye
1,238 wordsMiss Catherine, oh, Miss Catherine, I love this one. Its definitely my favorite of all your Rosa was very pretty really. She stood dressed in Catherines white traveling wear. The dress with blue piping around the collar. Her dark skin looked bright and vibrant beside the white twill. Oh, Rosa, you have to put on the hat, too! It looks even better with the hat. Catherine ran to her wardrobe and pulled out a large brimmed white hat, and placed it on her There, now it is perfect! Catherine screamed...
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Main Character First Part
937 wordsThe first 1 / 3 of this story starts on the campus of Jordan College in Oxford, England. In the very first part a little girl named Lyra Belacqua, the main character, is introduced and is immediately pegged as being a very adventurous little girl. In the very first scene of the book, she is sneaking into the Scholar Retiring Room. When in the Retiring room she sees the Master put white powder into the glass of Lyra's visiting Uncle Asriel. Uncle Asriel is a very involved in high politics and exp...
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Family Together From Falling House
453 wordsIn the story, A Raisin in the Sun, Mama can be classified as a caring, bold and a person with great strength in her character. She kept the family together from falling apart. She is proud of herself and her family, never giving up what she believes in. She is the mot courageous person in this story. She kept everyone in obedience to God and his way; making Beneatha understand of her disbelief and rudeness. When Beneatha denied it, Mama made her say: in my mothers house there is still God. She s...
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Arnold Friend Home Life
999 wordsIn the short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates (1966), there are many indicators that Connie may have committed suicide. Oates wrote this story about the Bob Dylan song Its All Over Now, Baby Blue, which deals with a similar story line. Oats begins by letting the reader know how unhappy Connie's home life is. She then gives many clear signs of Connie's depression, and several hints of suicidal thoughts. Drawn by the urgent insisting pounding of the music (590),...
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Jing Mei Mother Joy Luck Club
1,269 wordsThe life of Jing-mei Woo was not of a Disney story but a sad, difficult life. Her past are laced with hard lessons. She is burdened with her mothers past haunting her and her family. The life changed when Canning asked Jing-mei to take Suyuan's place in the Joy Luck Club. Ultimately discover a part of family that she never knew existed and found herself on a Journey to find them and be united for the first time. Jing-mei's mother had unattainable expectations of Jing-mei. Suyuan expected her dau...
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Chocolate Chip Chocolate Milk Boys
962 wordsJack rolled down the window of the old 1987 Dodge Ram pickup truck and tossed the cigarette butt out. It was bleak November and the cold air rushed into his face. How we doin for time? He asked the dark-haired man driving the truck. You know how Mario gets when were late for a delivery. Gordy wrenched the steering wheel sharply to the right and turned down a dark street leading to abandoned warehouses. Dont sweat it, man. Well make it. They were a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean. Rundown build...
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Turned My Back Mate For Life Goose
877 wordsI had just divorced my third wife, Cherie. She was a plain woman with almost no outstanding characteristics about her at all. I married her because she was quite different from my first two wives and because I didnt want to grow old alone. Also, I couldnt cook. Cherie could cook, however, all of her dishes were very plain. This should not have surprised me. I stood along the riverbank behind my house and reflected on my marriages. It was early November, 1985. The Canada geese always flew overhea...
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Center Of The 8 Ball Center Of The 8 Hammer
981 wordsOne of the worst rumors ever created is that an 8 -ball has to be shaken in order to reveal an answer. Too many times I have had friends walk into my room, shake the 8 -ball, and flip it for an answer. Then when they see that the water is all bubbly and the answer cannot be seen, what do they do? ... they shake it some more! I have found myself shouting at my friends over and over again, No! Dont shake the 8 -ball! For the love of God, just put it down! Well, over the past few years, with all of...
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Buried Under A Stone Depths Of Time Father
317 wordsThe first paragraph of this poem leads us into a not so dulcet world of a young boy who is being abused by his drunken father. With a wretched smell of alcohol that reeks throughout the closed, and an intense atmosphere which surrounds the boy and his father, the little boy hanging on to his abusive father like an eternal flame in deep depths of hell. A young mind can do no more than take the abuse from his abusive father, swallow it in and hope that one day it will disappear like a bad dream. A...
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