hesitation settles in her bones as she reaches for the handle on her door. she knows for certain it wasn’t the high-class‚ pretentious woman with a sketchy husband from earlier‚ but that’s just it: she doesn’t know who it is. gripping the handle harshly ( careful‚ jessica. don’t want to pull it out of its fixture )‚ she opens it enough to slip half her body through to stare down her visitor .... claire. “ oh‚ it’s you. ” lacking excitement‚ but she’s sure she sounds relieved. though‚ she hasn’t
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Kiss My Ash by William Severini Kowinsky I could barely speak. I was having lunch with the young editor-publisher of the In Pittsburgh alternative weekly in the summer of ’89. As a contributing editor and a regular columnist‚ I had always written about anything I wanted‚ exactly as I wanted‚ and smoking was one of my recurring subjects‚ though by no means the dominant one. But I knew immediately I couldn’t change his mind. He was already committed. "We can’t run any more stories on smoking
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In a time where the digital age has taken over our lives‚ our initial meeting represented a pure fashion of two individuals conducting their business as usual and destiny meeting its fate. With both of us working in the healthcare industry‚ Methodist Hospital was the scene that setup the perfect place for our lives to come together and eventually lead us to live happily ever after. Walking through the hospital one day‚ Lawson‚ as a vendor of the hospital and Shay‚ an employee of the hospital‚ sat
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The Exchange Of Dirty Hypodermic Needles For Clean Ones‚ Or The Sale Of Clean Ones. Is it the exchange of dirty hypodermic needles for clean ones‚ or the sale of clean ones necessary for our society? The exchange of dirty hypodermic needles for clean‚ or the sale of clean ones is very necessary and important because our society is in need of solutions on how to prevent and decrease the big amount of infections and death that these type of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis c are causing. A lot
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higher frequency in correctly remembered words when in a bright room; it was also hypothesized that words with longer exposure time would have an increased frequency of correct recall. The later hypothesis was supported‚ but the former was not. Subjects in the bright room (n=15) remember an average of 7.8 words; while the subjects in the dimly lit room (n=15) remembered and average of 8.467 words. Average short words remembered across both room scenarios (n=30) was 3.267; while average long words remembered
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The poem "Tenement Room: Chicago" is simply about the same thing as its title says‚ a tenement room in Chicago. To show the mood of the room the poet uses imagery. When the poet uses imagery‚ he uses words to create mental images using the five senses of seeing‚ smelling‚ hearing‚ tasting‚ and touching. The poet here tries to show how the room and everything in it is broken‚ beaten‚ and old with visual imagery. In the second stanza the port goes on‚ object after object‚ describing each. In verses
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Analysis of “the lumber room” by H. Munro The text under analysis is a short story by a British novelist and short-story writer Hector Hugh Munro who was born in Akyab‚ Burma when it was one of the parts of the British Empire 1870‚ he was killed on the French front during the first world war in 1916‚ he is better known by the pseudonym Saki‚ and he is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Beside his short stories‚ he wrote a full-length play‚
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Alain Robbe-Grillet and The Secret Room On page 2032 of the class’s anthology‚ there is a work by Alain Robbe-Grillet entitled "The Secret Room". What interests me about this work is that I thought that this topic or story is deep and hard to get the idea. So‚ I wanted to know about Alain Robbe-Grillet and wanted to get the idea. In this connection‚ the question that I want to research is who Alain Robbe-Grillet is and what is this story about. First of all‚ Robbe-grillet‚ he was born in Brittany
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THE BRIMMER STREET GARAGE Eliot Conviser‚ a young real estate developer‚ and his wife were finishing some egg rolls at the Golden Temple restaurant in downtown Boston in March 1979‚ when he spotted a familiar face at a nearby table. Wes Marins‚ a veteran broker in the real estate of Boston’s downtown areas‚ had just paid his bill and was making his way over to the Conviser’s table. "What a coincidence‚ Eliot‚" Marins remarked." You were on my list of people to call this week. Want to buy a
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think they know better‚ they ignore any warnings from what they might think was a blathering old fool. These old men would be representing the religious side of the argument. There is also a woman who is outside of herself in both stories. In The Red Room there is a woman sitting staring mindless into a fire. And in The Monkey’s Paw‚ you see a normal woman begin to go crazy after the death of her son. In Victorian times‚ this would be a very intriguing subject for some. As mental problems‚ especially
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