Early the next morning‚ I woke up with a rough hand shaking me. I opened up my eyes to see Phokas shaking my shoulder. “Come on Domitius‚ it is time to get up!” I groaned as I did so. Phokas was a family slave‚ and had been personally assigned to me‚ and was responsible for bringing me to and from school each day. On days when we have club meetings however‚ I send Phokas home while I go to the Roman Boys’ fort. We can’t have any non-members around during our meetings! Anyway‚ Phokas is rather
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Munchausen syndrome is a serious mental disorder in which someone with a deep need for attention pretends to be sick or gets sick or injured on purpose. People with Munchausen syndrome may make up symptoms‚ push for risky operations‚ or try to rig laboratory test results to try to win sympathy and concern. Munchausen syndrome belongs to a group of conditions‚ called factitious disorders‚ which are either made up or self-inflicted. Factitious disorders can be psychological or physical. Munchausen
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English Writing Dear Diary I am standing alone in a lake. The water is still‚ and there is no one with me - nothing containing any life… and yet I still feel like something is observing me. I can’t hear anything or see through the thick blanket of fog that carries an air of melancholy across the marsh. I am standing alone in a lake. Until I open my eyes. Tranquillity leaves me and I am transported to a place where there is no adequation; where hierarchy takes over and all beings abide by it
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University Press Headway Plus INTERMEDIATE Writing Guide UNIT 6 Writing Task: Describe your favorite room Worksheet 1: PRE-WRITING Exercise 1 Put the words from the box in the correct column. Some can go with more than one room. 1. 5. 9. 13. 17. 21. 25. 29. 33. 37. 41. 45. have dinner read the newspaper prepare food workspace play with your brothers spend time with family coffee table kitchen table dishwasher do your homework printer shelves 2. sofa 6. carpets 10. play computer games 14. chop vegetables
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Both in their early twenties‚ both extremely vivacious‚ and good looking‚ they were a hard bodied couple that had both my wife‚ and I drooling over them each time we saw them. Chris is 6-4 with brown hair‚ green eyes‚ a strong jaw line‚ and a weight lifters body. My wife used to look at him like he was a slice of chocolate cake that she couldn’t pass by. Tiffany is sex personified. At 5-1‚ maybe 100 pounds‚ her red hair and green eyes
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Creative Writing The short story by Etgar Keret is about the metaphorical aspect of creative writing using two characters; Aviad and Maya‚ husband and wife who have recently gone through the tragedy of a miscarriage. The story begins with Maya‚ who has been encouraged to attend creative writting workshops in hopes of getting out more and moving on rather than sitting at home dwelling on the lost child. Aviad at first seems quite pleased that Maya has been doing well in her workshops‚ however
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Operation Fiery Vigil Growing up in the military‚ I was no stranger to picking up and moving from one place to another. By the age of 6‚ I had already flown across the Pacific Ocean four times! I was born on Clark Air Base in the Philippines‚ a large group of tropical islands located in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. After my sister was born‚ we were relocated to Carswell Air Force Base near Ft. Worth‚ Texas‚ which is where I spent the first two years of elementary school. From there
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niche blogging‚ I used to keep my storytelling skills confined to the ’creative writing’ label and I used nothing but cold‚ objective‚ descriptive words in my first articles. The mere thought of writing for a niche gave me shivers. It made me anxious. I didn’t like that ice-cold sensation writing descriptive paragraphs gave me. The storyteller in me itched to take the lead and turn that boring piece of copy into joyful writing that would make my readers smile‚ laugh‚ frown and cry. You know‚ move
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I asked‚ “What is your involvement with Mr Inman?” “Me? Well‚ none. I told you‚ I read about him in the paper.” “What about the church?” “I told you about that too‚ didn’t I Bernie. He writes those letters to the Chronicle defending SecuWisdom. The guy’s free to write any letters he damn-well wants. It’s a free country.” I said‚ “Megan Hooper asked him to write the letters. That’s what Inman says. Brags about it‚ in fact.” “Yeah. You said that.” He shrugged. “I leave people to do their jobs. Megan
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straightened out his already tucked in uniform and smoothed his hands over his hair as he made his way from his cruiser. Great‚ I thought. I wonder how many reprimands this stiff is gonna write me up for. My record already had 14 points on it for picketing‚ 6 more and I’d be in real trouble. He knocked on the window
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