C old Mountain ‚ Charles Frazier’s debut novel‚ won critical acclaim and the National Book Award for fiction when it was published in 1997. As an author of travel books and short stories‚ Frazier had ample experience in writing about landscapes and using a condensed prose style. Frazier applied these literary skills in crafting Cold Mountain’s episodic structure and detailed descriptive passages. Frazier’s prose draws on the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ the scope of southern novels by
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Hooters: More than Just Wings (“Aint No Thing Like a Hooters Chicken Wing”) Introduction: Ever since the first Hooters Restaurant opened in Clearwater‚ Florida in 1983‚ Hooters had been a hot fanamina. With locations in over 42 states‚ Hooters is in attempts to push itself in a global market and becoming one of the top food leaders in the industry. Its tremendous success has allowed it to have franchises all over as well. The concept of Hooters is basically featuring good looking women to
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Michael Honick After my first week of the Summer Bridge Program at Penn St-Abington‚ I learned a lot about the differences between high school and college. I really understand in high school that you must be there during the allotted hours‚ success rides on the teacher‚ and that we can get away from not reading the text for class and in college you have more freedom‚ harder courses‚ and longer hours of studying. We learned how to become an efficient and effective learner. What I learned from
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Do women talk more than men? “Women talk almost three times as much as men‚ with the average woman chalking up 20‚000 words in a day - 13‚000 more than the average man.” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-419040/Women-talk-times-men-says-study.html) My boyfriend always tells me that I talk too much‚ and that I talk more than him. This topic got me curios‚ so I decided to find out the truth. Do women really talk more than men? I will base this essay on facts taken from internet
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hold more power than weapons. One reason why words are more powerful than weapons is that if words can hurt‚ they can also heal. Another‚ it serves as a mean of cooperation and compromise. Lastly‚ with words‚ we can influence someone into thinking something that they are not going to do‚ or cause someone to make a mistake. “If words can hurt‚ they can also heal. Think of the four words‚ ‘I have a dream.’ The moment they enter your mind‚ you know who said them -- and
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English translation – “Nothing is more permanent than the temporary” – recurs throughout‚ on account of the villanelle structure. Stallings uses this particular form to emphasize the passing of time and how the temporary becomes the permanent. From Stallings’ biography‚ the reader can infer that the speaker is the poet herself. She is talking about her experience moving from the United States to Greece with her husband. They did not intend to stay for more than a couple years‚ but that was twelve
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Summer Vacation I have a great summer. At first month I went to summer school for Grade 10 History‚ even though it was super busy but I still having a great time with my teacher and classmates. At the second month‚ my parents decided take me and my younger sister for a driving vacation where headed for Canada’s biggest water park. This water park is locate at Alberta‚ so we decided to travel through all the western Canada. After about 13 days travel in Canada‚ we flew to Miami with another
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Smartphones bring more goods than harm Having a smartphone seems to be the trend of the future of wireless communication. As with all new technology‚ there are both advantages and disadvantages to having one. Smartphones seem to have more benefits than risks and this has been proven by their rise in popularity. In my stand‚ I think smartphones bring more goods than harm. Increased connectivity is a major advantage of owning a smartphone. Users today can use their phones to
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Spinoza states‚ “there cannot be more than one substance of the same nature”. I want you to realize that we would repudiate the meaning of substance if there were more than one with a similar trait. Since if there were more than one with a similar quality‚ at that point one would impart a trademark to another‚ which implies that reasoning one includes pondering another‚ which repudiates the meaning of substance as self-caused. We realize that substance must exist‚ since it is characterized as self-caused
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What is green building? As the global climate warming‚ more and more people focus on building energy efficiency. There is more awareness that CO2 produced by building energy use is the main source of climate warming. Energy-saving buildings become inevitable trend of development‚ the green building also arises in time. Green building can be define as to the construction of the whole life cycle‚ for maximize resource conservation (epa.gov‚ 19/12/2012). It includes energy saving‚ land saving‚ water
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