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Younger Sister Ghost Story
642 words
Gr. 6 - 10. Fourteen-year-old Victoria Moore has
always seen herself as living in the shadow of her
popular younger sister, Sara. Then the girls spend
the summer at their grandparents' midwestern farm
with their cousins, quiet, dependable Elijah and
renegade, dare-devil Rennie. The boys and Tory (as
Rennie calls her) form a bond that revolves around
the team spirit required to do the farm chores,
the treacherous rim-walking that Rennie is so good
at, and a mysterious ghost child. For the first
t...
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Female Gender Century England
1,582 words
Sexing the Cherry, written by Jeanette Winterson,
abandons traditional literary form altogether. The
main story line is very simple. At the beginning
of the book, we are introduced to the Dog Woman,
her adopted son Jordan and the life they lead in
sixteenth century England. The Dog Woman is a
large grotesque giant who has a very direct view
on life. Jordan, on the other hand, has a more
philosophical view on life. He has a calm
personality and is a dreamer. He meets Tradescant,
both an adventure...
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Time And Space Rem Sleep
1,416 words
In the middle of the night, I was taking a walk
through the woods. I could hear owls hooting and
animals scattering under leaves. From the vague
sound of water trickling over rocks, I knew my
destination was coming soon. As I was walking, the
heel of my foot got wedged between a stump and a
rock. I started to sway and my heart stopped.
Slowly I could feel my body fall towards the
ground. Not knowing when I would fall, where I
would land, what I would fall on or what might
fall on me, made my hea...
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Make My Life Closer To God
1,670 words
The book of Job has many things in it that pertain
to my life. It tells me to never turn my back on
God because he is always watching over me and
taking care of me. Job went through a very
devastating time were his family and servants were
all killed by a horrible wind, his cattle and
camels were stolen from him, and he got sores from
head to toe and was forced to scratch the sores
with pieces of broken pottery as he sat among the
ashes. That is pretty crazy and yet he never
cursed God so he cou...
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Jumping Frog Connecticut Yankee
660 words
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida,
Missouri. Shortly after the death of his father in
1847, Samuel ended his brief period of schooling
to become a printer's apprentice. Between 1853 and
1857 Clemens worked as a journeyman printer in St.
Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Muscatine and
Keokuk, Iowa, and in Cincinnati. A series of
sketches, "The Snodgrass Letters, " signed with
the pseudonym Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, were
published in the Keokuk Post in 1856 and 1857. He
took a downstream...
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Modern Day Tragedy Of Macbeth
698 words
In this play a group of three cruel and disturbed
witches were used to display evilness and chaos
that will eventually corrupt Mac Beths well being
into mass murder. In Act 1 Scene 3 the theory of
modern tragedy can be shown by the use of special
affects, sound and setting. In Act 1 Scene 3 the
use of special affect demonstrated that it was a
modern day tragedy. There wasnt any doubt that
lightning and storms were the most energetic way
of showing how mysterious and horrid the three
witches real...
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Human Nature One Man
687 words
William Shakespeare's Othello tells the tale of
one man on the top of his game shot down by his
own jealousy. It takes place in 16 th century
Italy, right around the time of the failed Turkish
invasion. Othello starts out as a superb military
officer in the Italian military, but through the
love of a woman, he is brought to an untimely
demise. The story is actually a play and it is not
known if Shakespeare ever knew these plays were to
be read. The story is told by the characters in
the play. Ot...
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Immense Weight Of Duty Weight Of Duty Water
1,053 words
I heard the cry: plaintive, pitiable wail of a
lost and frightened child. It was one of those
usual days, when the sun flared like a fiery blaze
of a gem in the water filled sky. Feeling not for
the first time- the immense weight of duty
settling upon me. This would have been daunting if
I had not sensed an equally great strength and a
will to survive helping to burden. I was an aid
worker yet the aid they needed I had none. Like
vermin's crawling from the cracks and crevices
they emerged, hesit...
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Spirituality In Solitude A Clean Well Lighted Place
1,325 words
A clean well lighted place by Ernest Hemingway is
the ultimate story about the deep human struggle
to find one's inner place in a vast
all-encompassing world. This spiritual inner place
is one which can only be accessed through a
physical place which is conducive to a higher
state of spiritual being. This need to find one's
personal place in the world stems from the fact
that humankind is so exceedingly vulnerable and
insignificant. Thus people create a place which
brings sense out of the sensel...
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Black Veil Early American
413 words
The small, early American town that the story The
Ministers Black Veil takes place in is a quite
provincial town. Its inhabitants are normal people
who, when confronted with a foreign entity,
respond with ignorance. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses
symbolism and a black veil to convey his message
of the incorrectness of early American actions
towards things of a foreign nature. The black veil
symbolized the all too familiar urge to hide ones
private life, the necessity for people to look
past others sur...
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Healing Powers Death Row
773 words
The movie, The Green Mile, is a film that is based
on a true story set in the state of Alabama during
the Depression Era. The story is told by Paul
Edgecomb, who during that time was the head guard
on Death Row at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
The former prison guard reflects on how he
developed a unusual, relationship with one of the
inmates that may be innocent. The inmate is John
Coffey, an African- American man convicted of the
rape and murder of two nine year old sisters. The
prison guard...
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Women Of Christabel And Belle Dame Sans
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"Christabel, " by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was
written in 1798. It is about the invasion of a
disguised witch, Geraldine into the lives of a
lonely baron, Leoline and his daughter,
Christabel. Geraldine soon captures the heart of
Leoline, and alienates his daughter. "La Belle
Dame Sans Merci, a ballad by John Keats is written
some years later in 1820. In a similar concept to
"Christabel. " A supernatural woman, or a siren if
you will, captures the heart of a knight, only to
leave him her slave fo...
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Defence Minister George Pearkes Minister George Pearkes Arrow
1,251 words
... ir craft were sawed. And we paid $ 300, 000
for the works... We put them on trailers and took
them down to the smelters where every one was
smelted down. Nobody could purchase the material
from us because we were under security. They were
watching us all the time. We had three or four men
watching us and we had to do it as quickly as we
could. War assets came and took the vital parts
out of the aircraft, but when that was done they
wanted them out in a hurry, scrapped and out. When
we got to...
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Sense Of Belonging Richard Rodriguez
642 words
The theme of separation is an important
development in the novels Hunger of Memory and How
the Garcia Girls lost their Accent. The novels
deal with separation differently. For Hunger of
Memory by Richard Rodriguez, the separation allows
Richard to move from the private world to the
public world. Here, separation is a movement for a
solution, which is citizenship. In How the Garcia
Girls Lost their Accent by Julia Alvarez, the
separation is an effect from Antojo. Richard
Rodriguez immediately rec...
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Blah Blah Fell Asleep
1,188 words
Lightning Never Strikes Twice 9; A few miles
off the cost of Cape Cod, sits the island of
Nantucket. On this island, during the 1600? s
lived the Haley family. Tom Haley was the only
tobacco farmer on the island and due to this fact
they were extremely wealthy. Their estate was the
largest on Nantucket and was located right over a
beautiful cliff. Tom and his wife Janice ate
breakfast every morning at 6: 00 am everyday with
their son Garnet. Late Thursday night a storm was
getting very close ...
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Aunt Alexandra Tom Robinson
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The Evolution Of Jem Finch In Harper Lee s To Kill
A Mockingbird, Jeremy Finch is one of the main
characters who evolves from a child to an
adolescent who learns to question the many faults
of his environment. As Jeremy (or Jem) grew up, he
adapted to the adult world as best he could, and
learned that life was not the beautiful day in the
neighborhood that Jem thought it was. And in doing
so, he grows a closer resemblance to his father.
We meet Jem near the age of ten, with his sister
Scout, and...
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Concept Of Love Porphyrias Lover
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My Last Duchess and Porphyrias Lover. Robert
Browning wrote the two poems, My Last Duchess and
Porphyrias Lover. Both poems convey an thoughtful,
examination profound commentary about the concept
of love. communicates two interpretations
concerning Both poems describe the behavior of
people who are in loving, romantic relationships.
There are several aspects common in both poems.
Using the literary technique of dramatic dialogue,
the author reveals the plot and central idea of
each poem. Robert ...
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Identity Disorder Traumatic Event
912 words
Many of us have grown up watching cartoons
throughout our childhood. Of the many cartoons on
television is Batman. This cartoon has been on
television for many years. It is a story of a man
who is a successful businessman during the day and
a mysterious superhero by night. Bruce Wayne is
the man who is this mysterious man with the two
identities. He is both Bruce Wayne and Batman.
Only a selected few know both of his identities.
Many of us have grown up thinking that he is a
great man and a grea...
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Fourth Dynasty Sun God
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During this great Sphinx Bull-headed During this
great age of information and transportation, in a
world moving so fast that our reflections are
nothing save a blur on the cosmic mirror, who has
the time logically dispute the dating of ancient
monument. Egyptologists have done the research and
concluded that the monuments located in the Giza
plateau can be attributed to the fourth dynasty
(2900 - 2750 BC). Why should we waste our limited
time re investigating what appears to be a closed
case? Eg...
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Poem Quot Poems Quot
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Leslie Martin Silko is a Laguna Pueblo Indian who
has written many novels and poems in her lifetime.
One of these poems, " Storytelling, " is
very interesting to me. This poem excites me
because it tells of the impact that storytelling
has on people in Laguna culture. I will analyze
and explore many parts of this poem. One of these
subjects is theme. The theme of "
Storytelling" is actually the art of
storytelling. Another aspect of the poem I will
look at is tension. There i...
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