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Ran As Fast Rain Forest
1,908 wordsI awoke, there was a crash on the upper deck. I heard a thunderous crackling from my head above. I ran up the stairs and what I saw devastated me. The small wooden boat was completely coated in billowy flames. "Help, help, somebody please!" I slowly moved towards the sound being careful to dodge flames as much as possible. The smoke was choking me. I could see a faint outline of a face across the deck. It was Tom, my lifelong friend and companion. He was completely surrounded by the bright flame...
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Make A Difference Wear Uniforms
1,493 wordsThroughout the State of Florida, numerous school boards have been attempting to standardize the clothing that students wear. The school superintendents who are in favor of uniforms will argue that the children who wear them will experience many benefits. I disagree with this position. I feel that the use of uniforms will strip identity, stifle creativity, and unnecessarily burden the families that cannot afford them. The use of uniforms has already been implemented in several long-standing socia...
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Poetry Works
898 wordsAs I walked into the lecture hall, I saw people ranging from the literary community? s elite to high school students. Taking my seat, the crowd hushed as a rather distinguished looking man walked to the podium. The man prepared his notes and I waited silently in awe of his presence, anticipating his words of wisdom. I knew this was a gentleman who knew what he was talking about? that is, until he opened his mouth. My first impressions of Professor Dunne, a visiting literary critic, were torn to ...
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Canadian Wilderness Survival Pack
971 wordsI read the Hatchet Hatchet I read the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. The book was about a thirteen-year-old boy named Brian Robeson who was stranded in a plane crash. He was out in the Canadian wilderness trying to visit his dad. Brian is left with nothing but his clothing a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present. First as Brian and the pilot were flying to Brian fathers house the pilot was showing Brian how to fly the plane. Here, put your hands on the contro...
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Heart Of Darkness Hollow Men
597 wordsThe second part of the poem has changed two a first person speaker, describing his in counters with his experiences to get him to where he is now. The speakers observations have made him a hollow, unemotional man. There the eyes are/ Sunlight ona broken column (23 - 24). In heart of darkness Kurtz has somewhat of this same thing in front of his hut he has the heads of rebels on stakes (222). Both the speaker and Kurtz had no emotions these type things had no effect on them for they felt no sympa...
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Mother Death Lived His Life
1,283 wordsThe Stranger Meursault appears to be a typical, middle-class young man. He works as a clerk, rents an apartment, and enjoys women, the sea, the sun, and smoking. He appears normal? almost boring. His neighbors seem to trust him and approach him for help and advice. However, he lacks any emotion or passion towards anything in his life. Meursault lives life through the sensations of the here and now, describing these in much detail: the sun, sea, and sky; the feel of a crisp towel; the taste of go...
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Miracle Of Birth Brought Into The World Ben
436 wordsMargaret Creal leaves us with plenty to ponder about as her use of symbolism is used to describe the strength and wisdom of women along with the miracle of birth. Margaret Creal uses symbolism to link the fragility of birth to the delicateness of life. Margaret Creal describes the scenery at the beginning to illustrate what the surrounding beach looks like, however we can also see that her description also resembles the miracle of birth. It is evident that the bay as representing the? outside wo...
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Oxford University Work Cited
516 wordsJane Austins Emma Woodhouse and Clueless Cher, both portray the same six qualities as main characters of their respective works. These qualities are best seen as they interact with the characters around them. The first portrayal is self-control. This is portrayed in Clueless when Cher finally realizes Josh is the one for her and not the other guys she has gone out with (Clueless). In Emma, Emma feels going after Frank will complete her and she ends up being successful (Emma). The second quality ...
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Kino Pearl Kino Found A Pearl Doctor
874 wordsKino lives in the shore with his family, he was a fisherman. When the morning comes he can hear the song of the family which includes the sounds of waves and animals that surrounded them. Juana his wife had a song too, an ancient song that had only three notes and yet endless variety of interval. One day their baby, Coyotito got stung by an scorpion a deadly poisonous, tiny creature the couple was panicked and didn? t know what to do. Their neighbors help them to get to a doctor but it seems tha...
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Kino Found A Pearl Found A Pearl Song
466 wordsKino lives in the shore with his family, he was a fisherman. When the morning comes he can hear the song of the family which includes the sounds of waves and animals that surrounded them. Juana his wife had a song too, an ancient song that had only three notes and yet endless variety of interval. One day their baby, Coyotito got stung by an scorpion a deadly poisonous, tiny creature the couple was panicked and didn t know what to do. Their neighbors help them to get to a doctor but it seems that...
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Mental And Emotional Physical Mental
838 wordsMany different symbols were utilized in Kate Chopin's The Awakening to illustrate the underlying themes and internal conflict of the characters. One constant and re-emerging symbol is the sea. The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, clo...
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Didn T Wasn T
1,025 words? Nora smiles at two men at the beginning of the story, and William is giving her the evil eye. Does he really not trust her that much? ? When Nora goes to walk on the beach, it reminds me of when we go to Corpus Christi. I love to go and walk on the beach. ? Nora talks about the child as if she is already born. I think that is wonderful. ? ? Don? t bother with them, Nora. They? re not our kind? When William says this, it reminds me of my best friend, and her boyfriend. ? Nora seems like an outg...
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Kobe Bryant Los Angeles
697 wordsCould you imagine being nineteen years old and making five million dollars a year? Kobe Bryant, the son of former NBA player Joe " Jellybean" Bryant, jumped directly from high school to the pros in 1996 and enjoyed an impressive rookie season with the Los Angeles Lakers. He also won the Nestle Crunch slam-dunk contest, and was the leading scorer in the Rookie Game during the NBA all-stars Weekend. Kobe Bryant could very well become one of the best basketball players to ever step on a b...
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Lord Of The Flies William Golding
805 wordsSetting is the physical environment in which action occurs. It is a common literary element of every story. However, when it is used eloquently, it can be seen as brilliant device that aids in the development of a story. In the novel Lord of the Flies, the author, William Golding, focuses on depicting his setting in great detail. Throughout the novel, he utilizes the setting to motivate character behavior, foreshadow events that will take place, and also to represent the values held by the chara...
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Polanski Version Establishing Shot
1,206 wordsIn this essay I shall be comparing two, media versions of Macbeth one was made for a television audience, another for a cinema audience. The original version of the text was for the stage, and these two media could not have been draft of by Shakespeare. As Kenneth Branagh says There are so many different ways to match images with words. This four hundred year old play, you could approach it as if it were a completely new script. This statement could explain why there are so many new adaptations ...
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Place I Remember Newquay The Place I Remember Surfers
395 wordsA Surfers Paradise. An Old Mans Hell! Pubs and clubs, open till late. Music and lights on into the night. Drunken youths littering the streets! Tramps begging for dosh! Thats Newquay the place I remember. A Surfers Paradise. An Old Mans Hell! Down on Fiscal, live music plays. Surfers catching those enormous waves. The beach is packed with the younger generation. No room for those frail oldies! Golden sands. Crystal water. Thats Newquay the place I remember. A Surfers Paradise. An Old Mans Hell! ...
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Raymond Asks Meursault Play The Game Friend
1,103 wordsMaman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I dont know, are the first statements made by the protagonist Meursault, in Albert Cause The Stranger, One finds this a very peculiar way to speak of a mothers passing. Meursault, however, finds his statement perfectly normal because he is not sure which day his mother died; he feels this is a perfectly logical statement. This quote is just one of the many examples of how Meursault is not a normal person in societies eyes. Meursault, in fact, is a man who re...
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Sarah Jagged Rocks Mother
732 wordsSarah stood at the top of the cliff, her toes curled around the edge of the jagged rocks. She glanced briefly down towards the circular, blue pool, which appeared to be the size of a laundry bucket from this height. She knew from experience that if she hesitated, paused to gather courage, it would only make it harder to take the step into space. She drew in a deep breath, counted to herself, ? One, two, three? and placed her life in the hands of gravity. As she descended, the magical power and s...
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Shawshank Redemption Good Job
1,312 wordsShawshank Redemption Critical Analysis Essay Being convicted of a crime you honestly did not perform, let alone the crime being the murder of your spouse, and being put into a prison where you would be for life and parole was out of the picture. This is the start of Shawshank Redemption. Andy Dufresne must live with this in the story based back in the day in the late 1940? s where Rita Hayworth was the object of desire. Shawshank is the prison in which Andy is sentenced to and must survive all o...
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Back And Forth Rocking Chair
1,477 wordsBack forth back forth she sits in her creaky rocking chair pleasantly reminiscing about her lost childhood as she crochets a warm fuzzy quilt for her granddaughter. Out of nowhere her desire to finish the quilt before noon fades and she find her attention drifting towards the window and looking at a giant maple tree bejeweled in sparkling frost. The tree is old and withered, it has aged immensely; it is somewhat like the old woman even the texture of the bark is likened to the wrinkles on her fa...
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