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Narrow Country Road Passing Motorists Car
1,835 wordsWalking, there is no end in sight: stranded on a narrow country road for all eternity. It is almost dark now. The clouds having moved in secretively. When did that happen? I am so far away from all that is familiar. The trees are groaning against the winds fury: when did the wind start blowing? Have I been walking for so long that time hysterically slipped away! The leaves are rustling about swirling through the air like discarded post-it notes smashing, slapping against the trees and blacktop, ...
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Act Of Violence Short Story
752 wordsIn serious fiction, no act of violence exists for its own sake. Graham Green, in his short story The Destructors, reveals certain intangible needs met through one central act of violence. One need we all have as humans is the need to be creative, to express ourselves, to use our imagination. All little boys use their imaginations, which is based on what they see in their environment, whether that be television or their own neighborhood. The gang of boys in The Destructors witnessed destruction e...
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Stephen King H 2
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Checked His Watch Walls Of The Elevator Mcneill
1,313 wordsThe Consequences of a Lead Migraine He looked as his watch, a drop of sweat dripping from his forehead, his heart beating 20 to the dozen. McNeill was scared as hell. It wasnt his first mission for the LAPD SWAT team, but it was possibly one of the most scary. Set in a cramped house, with nothing but darkness all around (The LAPD dont negotiate with terrorists, they said) he crawled past another darkened room, his MP 5 constantly raised in preparation for a gunfight. The fact that he felt ill di...
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Share Ideas Good Fences
464 wordsH 2 >Q. Explain what the first line of this poem means to you. Do you agree with that idea or do you think that, Good fences make good neighbours? A. Something there is that doesnt love a wall. The very first line of the poem is symbolic and sends the readers mind in thought. At first glance the words something and wall bog the inquisitive mind. It makes the reader think as to what is this wall and what is this something that wants it down. The wall can be taken in the physical sense as ...
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Began To Feel Thirty Minutes
499 wordsThe Last Day I will never forget the night my grandfather was rushed to the hospital as he was gasping for breath. I could not comprehend the moment as being reality, while we followed the ambulance to the emergency room. The lights flashing by and creepy moonlight shinning in the night while being interrupted by the red and blue lights of the truck all seemed very confusing. I sat there and thought about of what was happening thirty minutes ago, as I was sitting down on my wide couch and watchi...
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Sexual Intercourse Third Stanza
1,343 wordsJohn Donne's poems are similar in their content love, sex, and religion and dissimilar in the feelings they express. These subjects reflect the different stages of his life: the lust of his youth, the love of his married middle age, and the piety of the latter part of his life. The Flea presents the youthful restless feeling of lust with a true respect for women through the metaphysical conceit of the flea as a church in the rhythm of the sexual act. The speaker in The Flea is a restless, would-...
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Gothic Architecture In French And English Cathedrals
701 wordsThe Gothic style originated in France around 1140. It spread to other parts of Europe and remained the dominant style in northern Europe for the next 400 years. Like the preceding Romanesque style, the Gothic style is defined largely in terms of architecture, with many regional variants. As the Gothic style spread throughout Europe, it brought profound changes in Europe. French Gothic captured the imagination of English architects and the style influenced their building down through the centurie...
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A Letter To Kurtz From Heart Of Darkness
971 wordsI am writing this letter to you, to a shrouded unknowing ness, a deep scar left upon my soul -- that, which seems to have been an obscurity and the only reason for traveling through this maze of green walls. Before I ever realized it, I had become so engrossed and drawn to this enigma of the darkness. I am now arriving at the inner station. This has been a captivating and intriguing experience thus far, and to realize it is not yet over, utterly exhausts me. I have only eight miles to meet you, ...
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Inherited Prensa Catholic Slaves Religion
1,460 wordsDuring the time of slavery in Cuba, religion was extremely important and respected; the intelligent individuals where thought to be the people who followed a particular faith. However because it was a way of living the religions had difficulty understanding and valuing each others beliefs. There were three main battling religions; Congo, Lucumis and Catholicism each religion had different views that clashed with the other religions. Because of this argumentative environment social divisions were...
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Da Vinci Six Months
1,127 wordsLeonardo's "Last Supper" is among the most famous paintings in the world. In its monumental simplicity, the composition of the scene is masterful; the power of its effect comes from the striking contrast in the attitudes of the twelve disciples as counterpoised to Christ. Leonardo did not choose the portrayal of the traitor Judas customary in the iconographic tradition; he portrayed, rather, that moment of highest tension as related in the New Testament, "One of you which earth with me will betr...
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Washington Irving Van Buren
895 words... ings best work appeared in Tales of a Traveler. In this there is an apparent influence of Addison and of Goldsmith, but the originality of Geoffrey Crayon is still evident. Works found in Tales of a Traveler include Dolph Heyliger, Kidd the Pirate, The Devil and Tom Walker, and Wolfert Webber. However, following these first few works, Knickerbocker History, Sketch-Book, Bracebridge Hall, and Tales of a Traveler (1809 - 1824), he focused his writing on the history of Spain. (web) In 1826, wor...
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Past Present And Future Christmas Carol
523 wordsThere are many reasons why A Christmas Carol was all a dream by Scrooge, how can a ghost make someone invisible. Scrooge went right through walls and people cant do that. Scrooge also went flying with one of the ghosts. That had to be a dream. Another example is, that every time that one of the ghosts came to Scrooge after a different ghost showing Scrooge his past, present, and future, he would always wake up in bed. There are many reasons why A Christmas Carol story was all dreamed by scrooge....
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The Janissaries Of Ottoman Turkish Empire
955 wordsThe Janissaries was an elite corp. in the standing army of the Ottoman Empire from the late 14 th century to 1826. Highly respected for their military prowess in the 15 th and 16 th centuries, the Janissaries became a powerful force to be reckoned with on the battlefield, and in government administrations. The janissaries were organized into three unequal divisions: the combat, b"ol " ukhalki, and sean. The Janissary corps was originally staffed by Christian youths from the Balkan provinces who ...
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East India Company British Army
1,645 wordsHow the 1857 Indian Mutiny threatened Great Britians control over India Since the beginning of the 16 th century Britain used to have the colonies in India, a land that had given to the world Vedas, Upanishad as, Sanskrit, Yoga, the reach east mythology and philosophy of the ancient civilizations Mohenjodaro and Harappa (now in Pakistan). The British perceived India principally as a place to make money, and its culture, beliefs and religions were left strictly alone. By the middle of the ninetee...
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Haidar Ali And Tipu Sultan
2,386 wordsHaidar Ali and Tipu Sultan The book Confronting Colonialism: Resistance and Modernization under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan by Irfan Habib is a compilation of essays devoted to Mysore under Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan. It is part of the remembrance of the second centenary of Tipu's last stand against the British at Srirangapatnam observed by the Indian History Congress. The idea, one assumes, is to underline the need to research the historical space inhabited by the two rulers, and to make a more u...
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Walls Are Painted Artificial Lights Light
756 wordsThe Purpose of Architecture is to shelter and enhance man s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence. Every Saarinen Architecture establishes the atmosphere in which we create, live, and complete our existence. It can manipulate our emotions, our decisions, even our actions. With this in mind, architects must establish the correct ambiance to correlate with the buildings purpose. In other words its form must follow it function. Many factors are involved in creatin...
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Dominant Submissive Relationship End Of The Story
1,227 wordsIn " The Yellow Wallpaper" , by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the dominant / submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity. Flawed human nature seems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, a noted physician, is unwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his wife. This same attitude is seen in her brother, who is also a physician. While this attitude, and the actions taken because o...
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Hold Creation In My Foot Creation In My Foot Hawk
687 wordsMasters of Their Domain The similarities between The Eagle, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Hawk Roosting, by Ted Hughes, are far more prominent than the differences. There is one glaring contradiction between the two poems. The hawk is an accomplished killer whereas the eagle is just perched ready for dinner only to kill when he has to. Both masters of their domain, perched in areas of high surveillance, these two very similar birds are portrayed as opposites by the authors. The eagle is a laid b...
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House Of Usher Fall Of The House
1,235 wordsWhen Narrative Perception Narrative Perception When literature first began to take flight in America, many of the stories written were of the Gothic variety. American society, at the time, seemed to connect with fantasy and reality, therefore many early writers wrote in the Gothic style. Most of these Gothic stories feature characters whose perceptions of themselves and the world around them are abnormal due to drug use, being in a dream state, or simply just madness. In comparing two short stor...
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