“The Speckled Band”: A Damsel in Distress Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story “The Speckled Band‚” within the book Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays‚ is an attention – grabbing locked – room mystery that has elements of chivalry and of great danger‚ as well as complication and the classic reasonable deductions that all come into play during this enthralling narrative. These are combined with an abundance of unusual circumstances‚ characters‚ and clues that eventually
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50 Africa Facts Here is the list of 50 facts about the continent of Africa. 1. There are 54 countries and one “nonself governing territory”‚ the Western Sahara‚ in Africa. 2. All of Africa was colonized by foreign powers during the “scramble for Africa”‚ except Ethiopia and Liberia. 3. Before colonial rule Africa comprised up to 10‚000 different states and autonomous groups with distinct languages and customs. 4. The Pharaonic civilization of ancient Egypt is one of the world’s oldest and
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What is the Illuminati? Is the Illuminati even real? I had never heard of it until my junior year of high school. One of my teachers mentioned the word in class. She associated it with some of my favorite celebrities‚ so I immediately began questioning. Although what I heard about these music artists disappointed me‚ I suddenly became very intrigued with this fascinating‚ mysterious‚ alarming theory‚ so I went home and began my research. I found that many people feel that the Illuminati is a secret
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The tail is longer than half the body length measured from head to tail. This fierce animal has small round ears and long whiskers growing from dark spots on the upper lip. The size of the leopard varies considerably. “The leopard differs from the cheetah in having shorter legs‚ and rosette-like spots and is without
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Journal 3 Encounters with several terrorist threats‚ and having loved ones in harms way‚ has Scot Harvath enduring to change the pattern and protect his surroundings even though he is a retired agent‚ would you take a stand for your country and do something about it. The story The Last Patriot takes place in different countries around the world‚ but each having the same threats created by a Terrorist named Dodd and his assassins. With the enemy having more than one target‚ it has the President
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nara I frantically turned off the television and stared around the den with a paranoid expression. Who knows what could be lurking behind the striking red curtains that mysteriously shifted back and forth or even underneath the soft brown leathered couch. My mind quickly flashed back to the horror movie I had just finished watching by myself at the dead of night. Turning off the light‚ I was submerged in a darkness in which I felt I was being watched. Sprinting out of the den‚ I started to scramble
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The Language of Prejudice and Historical Perspective Can you imagine living in a world‚ in which we judge people by the labels that are branded onto their head at the instantaneous moment of birth? According to Gordon Allport‚ in “The Language of Prejudice”‚ he believes that “Without words we should scarcely be able to form categories at all” (217). This statement is valid‚ because today historical events such as the Rwanda genocide have been labeled as a category of “genocide”. And because of
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Aubree Beagle It was mid-winter in Salisbury‚ Vermont‚ 1956. The snow was starting to fall fast and the wind was picking up speed. “Father said that this was going to be the winter that comes back to bite us in the butt.” Said Ivy. Aubree had agreed with Ivy’s father‚ the winters here are always dreadful but the massive cold front from Canada would cause a record breaking winter in Salisbury. The two arrived to the small one story house. Three people lived with Ivy. John‚ Ivy’s older brother‚ Edward
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SOME IMPORTANT THINGS OF KANPUR Kanpur spelled as CAWNPORE before 1948‚ it is the tenth most popular city in INDIA and the largest within the state of UTTAR PRADESH. It is the second largest city of the HINDI-speaking city after Delhi. It remains one of the oldest industrial townships of NORTH INDIA although it has not kept pace with IT industry growth in the rest of India due to political indifference. It has a metropolitan area of over 1‚640square kilometres (630 semi) and a city area of around
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