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    Scary Short Stories

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    "Warning this story comes with a curse ‚listening to the end will give you the curse.” Mary was a girl who loved to be scared and October was her favorite time of the year ‚because her school had a scary story club after school‚ on Halloween a new boy wanted to speak ‚his name was Chris‚ Mary saw him but never talked to him .he went up to the stage ‚and he began to talk and as he talked the room seemed to get darker and colder ‚and then he yelled “and there” ‚and he held up a mirror scaring everybody

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    Despereaux: A Short Story

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    you just focus?”. The thousand-eyed monster shifts and shows it’s eyes white‚ restless‚ ready to strike with the laughter of 25 tiny voices. I fight alone through switching numbers as 21’s turn to 12’s. I fight alone‚ slogging through the muck of short passages‚ while others soar above on Nimbus 2000 broom sticks with Harry. I fight alone until I meet a little mouse named Despereaux.

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    Dominoe: A Short Story

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    Dominoe was in shock after hearing the story Liz just told her . The lady that died on the steps was not just a force by spirits ‚ it was the cause of pure drunkness and childness . Dominoe was in rage at her cousin and friends for doing that ‚ bringing a curse to the school and to themselves. Liz got up from her seat busting out in tears ‚ she explained how she had been watching herself and hoping the curse does not bring anything bad upon her. Alton apparently was claimed to have gotten more

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    Wojak: A Short Story

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    he is still having trouble another friend. Don’t get Taylor wrong‚ he does have one friend by the name of Wojak. Wojak is the person Taylor goes to‚ to not feel unaccompanied. Taylor and Wojak’s lives are extremely similar. They both attend the most prestigious high school in North America. ‘Vixen Academy for the Honored’. A school where you can be nobody‚ but somehow manage to become a CEO of some company that your father started and left for you to finish in his footsteps. Today is Taylor’s

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    “Death is a Dialogue” and “If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking” Analysis of Effective Poetry Of the two poems both written by Emily Dickinson‚ “Death is a Dialogue” and “If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking”‚ the first is one that a qualified reader would say is a good poem and the second is one a qualified reader would call a bad poem. The second poem possesses one of the three varieties of inferior poetry. Alternatively‚ “Death is a Dialogue” possesses poetic devices that establish it

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    negligence and disregard the home displayed appalled me‚ but helped me to realize that I wanted to make a difference and change the condition people live in. As I walked down the corridor I noticed a man lying in a hospital bed with only a television‚ two dressers‚ and a single window looking out at nothing

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    Aspects of Literary History: Spring and Summer Terms 2008 Aspects of Literary History course‚ convenor: Dr Alistair Davies [B331] [H.A.Davies@sussex.ac.uk] Welcome to the Aspects of Literary History course. This is an ambitious course with a number of separate but interwoven strands: 1) The course will introduce you to some of the key concepts of literary history. 2) The course will enact literary history by examining the history of a particular mode of writing from its Greek

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    Question… Using a country of your choice as an example‚ demonstrate how the government seeks to compensate for market failures. Name: Alex Dagnall Word count: 2382 Seminar tutor name: Lawrence Green. Group Number: 5Q4Z0008/9/Tutorial/A/09 In my essay I am going to talk about the way in which the UK government deals with market failures and the several approaches they can and have taken with the aim of preventing certain aspects of market failure from re-occurring. I will be particularly

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    Short Story Analysis

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    April 2012 Short Story Analysis In the story “Everyday Use‚” Alice Walker writes about three characters and their dispute over two quilts. Walker views the quilts as a timeless piece of art in her story. The argument is basically said in the title. Although the quilts are symbolizing art should they be viewed from a distance or be a part of everyday use. The quilts are an inseparable piece of the women’s culture. There is history present in both of them. Walker writes in the story that the quilts

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    In the short story “Gentlemen‚ your Verdict” written by Michael Bruce‚ Commander Oram makes a decision to save five married men and the other members including himself to sacrifice for them. The question is why does he choose married men? And does he have the right to decide the members who survive? These are some of the questions that arise while reading the story. Similarly‚ “The Lady of the Tiger” written by Frank Stockton and “The Ones who walk away from Omelas” written by Ursula Le Guin make

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