Chapter 1 - Christmas Eve • When the book opens‚ Arthur Kipps is sharing some fascinating thoughts about how he’s always been affected by the weather. • He describes how he came to live at Monk’s Piece and stumbled across it while out on a ride with his employer‚ Mr. Bentley. • Arthur is a solicitor and has worked with Mr. Bentley for many years. • Now he’s married to a woman named Esmé and lives in Monk’s Piece with her four children from a previous marriage; they have been happily settled for
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The story centres on a young solicitor‚ Arthur Kipps‚ who is summoned to Crythin Gifford‚ a small market town on the east coast of theUnited Kingdom to attend to the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow‚ an elderly and reclusive widow who lived alone in the desolate and secluded Eel Marsh House. The house is situated on Nine Lives Causeway‚ and‚ at high tide‚ it is completely cut off from the mainland with only the surroundingmarshes and sea frets for company. Kipps soon realises there is more to Alice
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they had relocated 12 times. Every place they travelled to leads to more troubles. Eventually‚ her brother Crick landed in jail. Her sister Stella‚ eloped to marry a marine‚ when she was 16 years old. Fortunately‚ she returned to the family and confessed her marriage . She was unable to make them believe her. To the surprise of the family‚ one day Stella goes into labour! The next day Dinnie began her “second life”. On the day following the birth of Stella’s baby‚ her mother’s sister Sandy
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Library and for some reason my keys teleported themselves through two locked doors into my locked car with the alarm activated. My cell phones likes to disappear when I get an early morning emergency call from my daughter Stella‚ it starts ringing but can’t be found until Stella hangs up. Then I try to return the call‚ nobody answers. Finally‚ object I buy for a purpose‚ but they stop working when needed. I carry more than one pen with me during my second midterm in Professor Lamore’s English 015
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THE RUNAWAY JURY By John Grisham Takes place in Biloxi‚ Mississippi. MAIN CHARACTERS Nicholas Easter – (real name is Jeff Kerr) Juror that was a plant on the jury. He and his girlfriend Marlee had money motives. Nicholas molded the jury from day one to vote his way. Marlee – (aka Claire Clement - real name is Gabrielle Brant) Nicholas Easter’s accomplice on the outside of the courtroom. Rankin Fitch - Ran the show of high-priced lawyers and consultants
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Eating Chocolate Helps Students Become Happier Henry Vuong Dennis Lin Stella Zhang Introduction: Our experiment is based on a former experiment described in the article A Scientific Experiment‚ In Search of Chocolate Happiness. It was an experiment in a mall Cafe called Butler Chocolate‚ with a purpose of finding a way to help shoppers become happier. By giving each customer a piece of Butler ’s chocolate‚ the Cafe hoped to increase the number of smiling faces at the mall. Early findings
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The fusion of Eros and Thanatos in A Streetcar Named Desire Death and desire have been linked closely together ever since Freud identified Eros (the instinct of life‚ love and sexuality) and Thanatos (the instinct of death and destruction) as two coinciding and conflicting drives within human being (Cranwell). In Tennesse Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) these fundamental drives of Eros and Thanatos dominate the story from the beginning to the end. This becomes particularly clear through
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In the play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams portrayed Blanche to be an extremely complex character. She was depicted as a delicate‚ pure woman‚ and eventually a lonely alcoholic! She was neither completely good nor bad‚ because she was so torn by conflicting and contradictory desires and needs. It is evident that the tragedies that occurred in her life contribute to the complexity of her character. In the very first scene of the play Blanche appeared wearing a white suit. As Williams
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Adi Radia The Exploration of Womanhood in All About My Mother In his critically acclaimed 1999 character-driven drama film All About My Mother (1999); writer-director Pedro Almodovar cements his reputation as an expert on the complexities and intricacies of womanhood. The film features several complex and multi-layered female characters that are portrayed with great emotional depth. Throughout the course of the film‚ these characters are forced to struggle with impediments such as loss‚ betrayal
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the dogs‚ and a mysterious young girl forces them to sleep in the stables that night. Meanwhile‚ Victor receives a phone call from Esther‚ informing him that Bo has run away and that she no longer wants anything to do with him. Victor goes to the Stella and finds Bo. When he takes him back to Ida’s‚ he finds Prosper missing and everyone in the house frantic to find him. The next morning‚ Scipio and Prosper are taken to an office and meet with a young boy‚ and it is revealed that the young boy and
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