a guide warned us that we would have to climb 937 steps to reach the top of the ancient tower. At first we started counting the steps ourselves‚ but we soon lost patience. We occasionally passed small windows cut into the wall. As these gave little light‚ we felt as if we were going round and roung a dark tunnel. It was good to get out into the fresh air at last. from the top there was an excellent view of the grounds of the castle and of the surrounding countryside. In the distance‚ we could just
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entered the streets. The diving between the people was mayhem. I finally I got to work‚ at the twin towers‚ walking up the stairs to the 94th floor. To get todays assignments; Bumping into my boss on the way up. It wasn’t until I had just sat down I had caught something in the corner of my eye but the moment I looked at the object it was too late‚ a huge‚ snow white plane has heading straight for the tower. I ran raising all alarms for the soon impact but they already knew. About half of the workers on
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"The Tower Pig." The story is set behind‚ and outside‚ the walls of the Thomaston Penitentiary in present day America. The story essentially revolves around a young man who suffers the hardships of imprisonment in an American correctional facility. The protagonist is throughout the tale addressed only by his surname‚ Caine. Caine expresses incomprehensible anger he feels for one of the wardens‚ an outcast despised by colleagues and inmates alike‚ and who is commonly known as "The Tower Pig" by
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The Tower of Babel 11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward‚[a]they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there. 3 They said to each other‚ “Come‚ let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone‚ and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said‚ “Come‚ let us build ourselves a city‚ with a tower that reaches to the heavens‚ so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
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building the Eiffel Tower” • “was a French engineer and entrepreneur‚ specialist of metallic structures.” http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/pdf/about_the%20Eiffel_Tower.pdf?id=4_11 • “He was responsible for the metal structures of the Bon Marché department store and the Crédit Lyonnais bank in Paris‚ the cupola of the Nice observatory‚ and‚ above all‚ the very impressive internal structure of the Statue of Liberty.” • “The construction of the Eiffel Tower in
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GCSE English – Writing to Describe Every year‚ the descriptive writing task in Section B of Paper 1 is where students lose the most marks in their English exam. It is therefore a good idea to practice descriptive writing so that this does not happen to you. Furthermore‚ quality descriptive writing can be used as coursework. You are therefore improving your coursework folder at the same time as you are learning how to impress the examiner. Below is a selection of descriptive writing tasks from past
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The woman stares across the table anxiously‚ her son quietly staring at his hands beside her‚ the look on her husband’s face anything but pleased. The sun hangs midway over the house in the sky‚ and though it is just about time for dinner‚ no one seems to really want to eat any of the dishes she has prepared. A meat pudding sits untouched in the center of the table as if mocking her growling stomach. The silence is nearly unbearable‚ her feet tingling‚ her son obviously restless as well‚ and she
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While I was strolling on the beachfront‚ I happened upon a bottle under the slowly rolling waves. I picked it up‚ unscrewed the cork cap‚ took out the parchment coiled inside‚ and rolled it out on the fine sand to read the message. It was written in Spanish‚ but my years of education in the Spanish language had allowed me to effectively decipher it. To whomever finds this letter‚ I was one of the sailors aboard the Sanlúcar‚ the Spanish cargo ship that crashed near the shore of this accursed island:
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I awoke on a beach‚ completely soaked‚ with salt water up my nose‚ and sand in every uncomfortable place imaginable. Drenched black hair obscured my sight. Cold sea air chilled my bare back. If I didn’t move soon I would die of hypothermia. I stood on my trembling legs. The cold wind bit at my chest. The sky was dark and it was clear that it would rain soon. Broken boards and scattered crates littered the shore. Clearly I was on some kind of ship‚ but where I was or where I came from was lost to
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The campsite that I visit yearly always seems to surprise me. Last year‚ I visited Bear Creek Camp for the fourth time. When one goes to a camp‚ they can expect to get soaked in mud from head to toe‚ leaving them to scratch off the crusty residue until they are graced with a shower. They can definitely count on the infinite drone of insects‚ keeping them up until the crack of dawn. Above all‚ they can count on something to go wrong. Last year‚ I was greeted at camp with a torrent of rain that
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