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    story. Dialogue in a story can tell you many details and important things you may need to understand a story. This is shown in the stories‚ “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The House of The Scorpion by Nancy Farmer‚ where the authors use dialogue to develop characters and setting and to further the plot.     In the story‚ “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” the author‚ Walter Dean Myers‚ uses dialogue to develop characters and further plot. This is reflected when Greg Ridley’s father

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    American Nightmare In my paper I am going to analyze one of the Sam Shepards play. Its name sounds depressive but it completely fulfils the main idea of the play – Buried Child. From the information I read about the author I deduced that he wrote it on the basis of his own personal experience in his childhood. Sam Shepard grew up on the farm in California and was a member of a broken family because his father was an alcoholic. The play was firstly produced in the year 1978. From this and from the

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    is turned on.” This quote is important because when you start writing you can describe the story however you want . In the story‚ “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers‚ the author uses descriptive adjectives to develop an imagine. The author also uses figurative language to develop the mood in the story and to develop the characters. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” the author uses descriptive adjectives to develop characters and an image. First‚ the author stated “Graffiti scarred

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    much as awareness of issues of gender‚ race‚ class and national identity are integral to the creative construction of liberating postcolonial subjects” will be investigated through four stories from her short story collection‚ The Collector of Treasures (1992). The stories that will be looked at are The Deep River: A Story of Ancient Tribal Migration‚ Jacob: The Story of a Faith-Healing Priest‚ Life and The Wind and a Boy. Each story will be looked at in terms of societal changes; character displacement

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    example of the argument. In the article Lost Cities‚ Lost Treasures‚ there is a scholar and businessman known as Heinrich Schliemann. Heinrich is searching for the lost city of Troy. He comes upon a man who owns a presumed site‚ named Frank Calvert‚ who is modest and a quiet discoverer. Frank does not have enough money to fund excavation‚ so when Heinrich strikes the plan‚ he agrees. As Heinrich’s crew digs down‚ they find many treasures. Although after‚ many people say that if they hadn’t digged

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    written by Charles dickens in 1869 and ’ the Treasure in the Forest’ written by H.G. Wells in 1895. A feeling of suspense is created the black cottage when the two housebreakers attempt to break into the Black Cottage. The climax in the story is when Bessie finally escapes from the cottage just as Dick and Jerry break the door down. HG Wells Treasure in the Forest creates suspense as the two explorers find the dead body of the Chinese man near the treasure. The climax of the story is when Hooker pricks

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    castle in England.’ INTRODUCTION The Stratford-on-Avon and District Hotels and Caterers Association (SCATA) publishes a brochure which has described the Castle as follows; “This magnificent ancient Castle‚ situated at the very centre of England‚ is a treasure house of great beauty and splendid‚ rare quality collections of pictures‚ furniture‚ furnishings and an outstanding collection of arms and armour which bear witness to the power and influence of the Earls of Warwick down through the centuries. The

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    Gather and Read me! Moneerah A. Bint-Usman moneerah.bintusman@gmail.com Introduction Have you ever wondered about how the statisticians managed to graph large amount of data? How will you read their graphs? Is it just like bar graph? Line graph? Or just another pie chart? In this activity‚ you will learn to read and graph histograms‚ frequency polygons and ogive. Have a pair. Prepare your notebook for some notes to be taken. You will answer some series of questions that I prepared for you

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    CASE APPLICATION Treasure From Trash 1-800-GOT-JUNK? based in Vancouver‚ British Columbia has a vision of creating the ‘FedEx’ of junk removal. By the end of 2008‚ however‚ the company had over 340 franchises in the United States‚ Canada‚ and Australia‚ and system-wide revenues of over $125 million. Scudamore’s company has been described as a “curious hybrid” that blends the old and new economies. Although its product—hauling trash—has been done for hundreds of years‚ it relies heavily on sophisticated

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    Amy Silva Mrs. Thomas 11A English 7 December 2009 The Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt 1.) Bio: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul‚ Minnesota‚ on September 24‚ 1896. 2.) Disillusionment Fear of Bolshevism and foreigners Major goal of government in the 1920s: help business and industry to operate with maximum efficiency and productivity Prohibition 3.) Women gained the right to vote. 4.) Pope Benedict XV dies. American actor William Desmond Taylor is murdered

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