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Scarlet Pimpernel Playing Cards
1,094 wordsIn Chapter One, the aristocrats, traitors to France, were trying to get through the Barricades so they would no longer have to be slaves of the king. Many, though, would get caught, go to trial, and be sent to the guillotine. In order to aid this awful fate, they would try to disguise themselves to get through. Men dressed as women, children as beggars, etc. Sergeant Bibot, who protected the West Gate Barricade, would catch almost everyone. At one point, though, so many people had escaped that t...
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Motion Picture Movie Camera
873 wordsCinematography: Everything You Need To Know (sin-uh-muh-the'-ruh-fee) Cinematography is the technique and art of making motion pictures, which are a sequence of photographs of a single subject that are taken over time and then projected in the same sequence to create an illusion of motion. Each image of a moving object is slightly different from the preceding one. Motion-picture projector projects the sequence of picture frames contained on a ribbon of film, in their proper order. A claw engages...
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Taj Mahal Beautiful Woman
716 wordsIt has been called the most beautiful temple in the world. It has become the monument of a mans love for a woman. Does anyone want to guess what I am talking about here? Anyone? Yeah... And guess what tonight I am going to inform you about, one, the historical significance, second, the construction and finally the awesome beauty that undoubtedly make the Taj Mahal one of most spectacular buildings of the world. First of all lets begin with the history behind the taj. In 1612, Mumtaz Mahal was ma...
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Avant Garde Grove Dictionary
1,051 words... ed at the Golden Gate Ballroom, the Savoy, and the Apollo Theater. His dance band also toured some, but did not last long. Hawk resumed working in the small group genre in ' 41. The next two years he devoted to playing mostly in Chicago and the Midwest until retuning to New York in ' 43. Between the demise of his dance band in ' 40 and the three years following, Hawkins appeared in only one commercial recording session. However, in the thirteen months from December, 1943 and the end of ' 44,...
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Fifteen Minute Ride Walking Through The Garden Train
1,217 wordsA ride in New York City's subway is one you will never forget, or at least I won't. As I walk down the terminal looking for my track number, I see the homeless lounging. These less fortunate individuals are trying to stay warm and catch some sleep before they are interrupted by a police officer who kicks them out to return to the cold. I smell the scent of urine in the air from the guy who couldn't wait for the restroom. The sound of talent is floating in the air by a group of young adults playi...
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Lonely Mountain One Day
861 wordsThe Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein is the tale of the journey of Bilbo Baggins. The story takes place in an imaginary land. We follow Bilbo on his journey to Lonely Mountain for treasure. The story begins in the home of Bilbo. He is a well-to-do hobbit who never had any adventures or would do anything unexpected. One day, the wizard Gandalf appears and asks him to go on an adventure, but Bilbo tells him to come back tomorrow. Gandalf shows up the next day with thirteen dwarves. The dwarves speak of ...
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Finally Yelled Day Colby One
1,348 words# 8220; Back to the Titanic" I remember my childhood years quite well. I had lived with my big brother, Colby Winston, ever since I was five, I don't remember much before that though. We traveled all around Europe; Colby was a big gambler and loved to make bets. He lied, he cheated, everything was always changing. Colby promised me one thing though, "Reagan, " he would say, "one days it gunna be you and me, in the United States. " I really wanted to believe him, but I never saw it coming true. B...
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Stomach Was Full Buy A House Contentment
1,043 wordsThere was once a woodcutter who was cutting wood near a river side, suddenly his axe fell into the river, and this was indeed heart-breaking because that was the only bread earning element of his life. He started howling around, seeing which river deity appeared and asked him about his grief. To test him, she first showed him a golden axe for which he rejected saying it was not his axe. Second came the silver axe which was refused too. At last, she showed him his axe, and the wood cutter was hap...
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Fire For Cooking Piggy Knew Jack
1,147 wordsThe novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding is a very deviant story. The characters in the story have no heroic qualities. Ralph is not a hero because he relies on Piggy's advice and stalls on his actions. This results in the eventual downfall of the tribe. Jack is not a hero because he is a murderer and was unfaithful to the others, again leading to the demise of the group. Piggy was a mamas boy and couldnt stand up for himself. He needed a say in the decisions that were made. There was not...
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Band Started To Play Started To Play Slipknot
704 wordsThe young boy motioned with his arms where to park, as the vehicle came to a stop. My friends and I got out of the car and looked up to see a line of people waiting to get inside. I asked them "So what now? ", since this was my first concert, I did not know what to expect. They said, "Hear that?" I listened and heard music playing in the background. We started walking towards the end of the line that had formed. As we grew closer to the gate, the music got louder, and my heart beat faster. While...
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Bright Green Uniform Held Down My Head School
1,132 wordsMel, Mel! Its already seven! Youre late! I tossed furiously on my bed, groaning in annoyance. I lay still for a moment then sprung up from my bed as I heard my fathers grumpy footsteps approaching to my door. Im up, just give me five minutes. I rushed past my father and headed to the small bathroom. There I was, trying to wear my weird looking uniform while the toothbrush was still in my mouth. I stared at the mirror above the sink, practicing my friendly smile which I thought it would be useful...
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Years Ago 30 Years
855 wordsI stepped out from the yellow Ferrari Get second edition, recalling when was the last time I landed my feet on my beloved hometown. Everything had changed. After three decades being isolated on an island for a government top secret project, I am finally at liberty. The first place that I wish to visit after being secluded is my high school. So, off I go trying to locate the school based on the information on my cars databank screen. Before my eye is a 30 -storey building. As my car drawing near ...
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San Francisco Bay Francisco Bay Area
821 wordsThe primary responsibility of any elected official is to operate in accordance with his or her constituency. They are thus obligated to do so, an obligation that at times forces the individual to act courageously, against outside pressures, to accomplish this task. When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples in 2004, he did so with tremendous courage, against warnings of committing political suicide, and has subsequently ignited a modern struggle...
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Circle Of Hell Dantes Inferno
1,013 wordsDantes Inferno by Dante Alighieri is a classic tale that involves Christian morality, and mythological and classical literature. In this tale we watch Virgil guide Dante through the circles of hell in order to reach heaven where Dantes beloved Beatrice awaits. Dante created this tale in order to give the world a visual image of afterlife and to explain the Christian belief of sin and punishment. He explicitly takes us through each circle of purgatory describing what it looks like, who gets sent ...
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Boston Houghton Mifflin Masque Of The Red Death
999 wordsIf someone is insecure, it means that he or she is not confident, not sure, unprotected, or unsafe. The feeling of insecurity often leads to a heightening of security in order to ease that feeling. This is not always beneficial and can lead to mishaps and misfortune. Security breeds insecurity. A demonstration of this can been found in the stories The Masque of the Red Death and Once Upon a Time. In each story the heightening of security caused misfortune. Though the characters in the stories we...
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Journey Through Hell Power Of God
1,549 wordsDantes Reconciliation of a Loving God and a Horrific Hell Dante Alighieri, a great Italian poet, is most noted for a journey, which he wrote of in his Divine Comedy series. In these works, Alighieri sends a fictional Dante through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. The Inferno is a detailed description of Dantes journey through Hell. While on this journey, Dante witnesses the scourge of the damned through the use of all senses. He smells the foul odors, sees the horrifying sights, feels the heat, as w...
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Emily Dickinson Stone Quot
616 wordsAnthony Hecht This poem is not usually conceived of as a riddle, but rather as a description of those instinctive preferences and choices, those defiantly non rational elections and allegiances, like love, that we all make, without regard to personal advantage, to rank or to estate. To the degree that the poem has been construed as a private and guarded revelation of the poets emotional life, and to some circumstantial events in it, there is a dispute about whether the choice of " one"...
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Worship God One Half
1,362 wordsThe Swish of Angel Wings A young mother was standing in the kitchen making breakfast one spring morning. Her little garden was in full bloom with fresh flowers and the smell of honey suckles filled the air. It seemed as thought winter had finally passed and spring was here. As she looked out the window into the backyard, she noticed that the garden gate had been left open. Her little three-year-old daughter, Lindsay, had toddled through the gate and was sitting there on the railroad tracks playi...
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Duke Commanded The Guard Commanded The Guard Prince
1,091 wordsOn an autumn day in the ancient city of London, in the second quarter of sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name Canty. On the same day another English baby was born of a rich family of the name of Tudor. There was talk in England about the new baby, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, who lapped in silk and satin. While on the other hand Tom Canty, who lapped in his poor rags, was seen as trouble. For fifteen years, Tom Canty lived in place where it is narrow and dirty, which ...
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Ufo Sightings Unidentified Flying
1,104 wordsThe Effects of UFOs on People By Steve Edwards Almost every civilization in history that has kept a written history has recorded the sightings of strange objects and lights in the skies. These objects have been described as glowing wheels, colored balls of light, and disk shaped objects. Today unexplained aerial phenomena are generally referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or flying saucers. The effects of extra terrestrial sightings can have an adverse effect on people if influenced...
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