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    is strictly business. The last part that it is the most important is the speaker, her name is Jude. Jude is in high school. She makes a huge impact in how the story is told because the reader will hear it from her point of view. The books attention to detail was very wonderful along with the whole main plot story. In this story the characters and text really brings the reader into the story. For example “My heart thudded in my ears and I pressed myself closer, burying my face against his neck.” (pg

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    Othello, who is the protagonist of its story, outrages emotion with jealousy when he thinks that another man(Iago) had sex with Desdemona. “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on; (act3.3). Iago tells Othello not to be jealous of him but it completely breaks the heart of Othello. This heartbreaking story all happened when jealousy showed up

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    Josie Root Professor Panish English 203 24 March 2017 Power and Potential: Women from Farewell, My Lovely During the 1940’s, a lifestyle as a woman had presented more work opportunities yet still contained many gender stereotypes. The novel, Farewell, My Lovely written by Raymond Chandler, helps convey these opportunities and stereotypes of woman to the readers that the 1940’s held. The novel’s depiction of women gives them more power than what might be first be perceived yet continues to demonstrate

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    Estate of Erasmus Allassi Thirty years before Erasmus Allassi became the last living heir to the Allassi shipping fortune, his father, Stathos Allassi, lived in a small village, perched clifftop, overlooking the Cycladic Islands in Greece. Growing up among the tranquil white-washed houses of Chora Anafi -- a poor village, where locals survived on anchovies and sapts -- Erasmus Allassi found success in fishing. For Anafiots fishing was as natural as the mythological stories surrounding Anafi; tales

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    Anastasia Nickolaevna Romanova, was the last Grand Duchess of Russia. She was born unto Nicholas II Tsar of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna on June 18, 1901, in Petergof, Russia. She had four siblings: three older sisters named Olga, Tatiana, and Maria, and a younger brother Named Alexei. Alexei was never in very good shape, he had hemophilia, and after he injured himself the only one who could ever make him feel better was Father Grigory(Rasputin). They lived in Tsarskeo Palace. While she was

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    Nayla Windham Mrs. Leah Armstrong English 102, Section 3 1 April 2015 Dangerously in Love In Anthony Hamilton’s song “Love is so Complicated,” he sings, “ Love is complicated, the way I feel about you make me wanna change my attitude.” Obsessive love can lead to many dangerous consequences in a relationship. Browning and Marvell both examine dark love in their poems. Both poets want their mistress to commit to them so they can have control over them. Both Robert Browning in “Porphyria’s Lover”

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    My First Ride At Night

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    showered my face as I ran through dirt and gravel towards my step-father’s familiar police car, and with each step I took, rain water splashed in every direction. I hurriedly jumped into the lifelessly black passenger seat of the police car. This was my first time sitting a cruiser, and it was much more petite than I had expected. Studying the inside of the cruiser, I noticed that the interior of the car was entirely the blackest of black, completely colorless and boring. I was eager to go on my first

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    interaction between the last Duchess and Fr Pandolf while it was being painted. The Duke’s assumption is in his quote, “perhaps Fr Pandolf chanced to say “Her mantle laps over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint must never hope to reproduce the faint half-flush that dies along her throat.” From this quote I can derive that the Duke thinks that Fr Pandolf was flirting with his deceased wife, therefore she’s blushing in her portrait. 5. Where and how does this poem discuss what it means to be an

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    been my dream. When I was small, my grandmother suffered from severe stroke. It was disheartening to see her struggling for speech and for consuming food independently. With the help of speech therapists, her condition improved gradually and now she could nearly go back to live the life the way she did before. Six years later, I applied for the Programme Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences and I got rejected. Yet this does not extinguish my determination from pursuing my goal

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    playwright who mastered dramatic poems, which made him one of the most influential Victorian poets. Browning was born in Camberwell, United Kingdom and died at the age of 77 in Venice, Italy. Throughout his life he wrote many poems including “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”; he also wrote some plays including “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and “Pippa Passes”. Robert Browning was a much underappreciated poet until later in his life; he wrote very dark and dramatic poems that people did not give

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