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    perfect. A young girl‚ Ruby Moon disappears after she sets off to her grandmothers. After parcels of mannequin doll parts arrive on Ruby Moons parents door step; Ray and Sylvie Moon. They walk up and down the street to question their neighbours to try and solve the mystery of their daughters’ disappearance. All we discover is that life behind the doors of suburbia isn’t quite right and the mystery of the missing child is never fully resolved. Matt Cameron wrote this play after he grew up in the suburbs

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    you really know someone. Unlike the idea of the characters setting the rules and codes up to be proved wrong or absurd‚ the door is also used to show absurdity of codes of behaviour. Rita knocks on the door the first time she enters but then doesn’t knock again until act 2. This lack of knocking and the fact that social convention generally dictates that is respectful to knock and you are being rude if you don’t‚ shows that Rita and Frank have thought this code unnecessary and pointless. The first

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    Cause and Effect Essay THE MONKEYS PAW The story‚ “The Monkey’s Paw‚” is about a small family‚ a husband‚ Mr. White‚ his wife‚ Mrs. White‚ and their adult son‚ Herbert. The family is relaxing and enjoying each others company‚ while father and son play chess. They are expecting a visitor over later that evening; an old friend of Mr. Whites. When Sergeant-Major Morris arrived‚ and as the three men sat around drinking‚ reminiscing and exchanging stories‚ Morris told the family a tale of a

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    minutes into the arguing and let me go. My dad didn’t have a driver’s license at the time so my grandma drove me there. As we pulled into the driveway I could already hear them arguing but my grandma walked to the door and knocked I could hear my dad stomp towards the door but he seemed to open it as nothing happened. We walked in my grandma told him that it wasn’t a good idea that I’d stay there. He started to argue‚ I stared at the white sheet hanging over the window and just waited there

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    another man on her floor. She hurried up and tied him up in a chair and locked him in the basement. Once again she trying to hide attacking a police officer. Just when she thought it couldn’t get worse she went into labor that day and had to lock the door of her house to keep Jack Noonans from leaving. In the meanwhile when she was at the hospital Jack had managed to escape from the basement and called the police station and told them everything that happened. So going back over to Mrs. Maloney she

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    have been inside. We did not find anyone inside of the room. Officer Seversind requested that we stand outside of the room to preserve any possible evidence inside. While Officer Harrell stood outside of room #337‚ I conducted a door knock at room #339. I knocked on the door and Witness Scott Anthony Eastman answered it. I asked Eastman if he heard anything unusual coming

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    of it‚ the narrator hates the old man. This leads the narrator to plan a murder. He stalks the old man for seven days. He watches the old man carefully. On the eighth day‚ he is extra careful. He creeped into the bedroom. As the narrator opens the door‚ the old man wakes up. The half-asleep man scans the room as if he heard a noise. He stays awake for a while. Finally‚ he drifts back to sleep. That’s when the narrator strikes. He jumps on the bed and strangles the poor old man until he breaths his

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    Grendel‚ arrives to the porch of Herot‚ as his demon like appearance is exposed due to the glimmering overhead light shining upon him. He hurriedly grips the door handle and tears the door straight to the floor. The collapsing door and Grendel’s stomp into the grand entrance was as loud as thunder. Straight ahead of him‚ lay the warriors‚ sleeping like rocks. The walls of pure gold were so shiny‚ it was as if it was reflecting off the warriors skin. A sense of pure joy fills his mind‚ and his mouth

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    and my dog fluffy started to bark. We started pacing through the rain to my house to go in the basement. We were a block away from are house when lightning started to strike on the ground. When we got to are house I grabbed the key and unlocked the door. I ran to the fridge grabbed food and drinks to last for a while. Then I grabbed Fluffy and ran down the stairs to the basement. We sat there in a corner for one hour and the house was still shaking. We were both curled up against each other‚ just

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    “Father‚ why did you join the war?” *** The sun rose proudly as the morning clouds parted revealing the stairs to what seemed like heaven as I glanced through my office window. The light slowly uncovered the field outside as the men marched uniformly while I saluted to my countries flag that stood high above foreign soil. *** My father focused on the horizon through the morning dew that covered the kitchen window. His hands fidgeting with the cross that hanged from his neck. With a small glimpse

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