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    Lawrence’s three earliest short stories‚ written in 1907‚ showed him as a potentially successful short story writer. "Amusing" (radically rewritten later as "The White Stocking") is an "incident" story where the whole narration leads to and concentrates around the incident of a woman drawing out‚ to her embarrassment‚ a white stocking instead of a pocket handkerchief at a ball. "Legend"‚ later revised and re-titled "A Fragment of Stained Glass"‚ is what may be called a fable‚ for in it Lawrence

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    Half Broke Horses

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    Skylar Patterson Writing 101 Dr. Moore April 25‚ 2013 Two Very Different Ladies and Yet Alike Based on a true story Jeanette Walls‚ the author of the book “Half Broke Horses” gives an interesting narrative of her grandmother’s life‚ which revolves around various ranches in Texas and New Mexico. The book begins with the interesting section where Lily and her younger siblings are caught up in a flashflood thus prompting them to spend a night on top of an old cotton tree. Upon

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    The Half-Skinned-Steer

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    The story "The Half-Skinned Steer" by Annie Proulx could be classified in the Return to the womb arch-type. It fits that unit theme very well‚ mainly because the main character in the story‚ whose name is Mero‚ returns to his place of birth and childhood almost sixty years later. The one major event that leads him back home is the death of his brother Rollo. Mero had left the country out by Cheyenne‚ Wyoming to go and live in New York City. Over that time he had grown to become a fairly rich man

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    . Girl: I know! We play the game .. Boy: What game? Girl: I’ll be your girl in 30 days and you’ll be my girlfriend ... Boy: It’s a great plan in fact‚ I have nothing to see much of this sequence weeks ... DAY 1: They watch their first movie‚ and they both touched in a romantic movie .. Day 4: They went to the beach and have a Picnic ... Boy and girl have their quality time with Day 12: Son of the circus called the girl‚ and driving on a house of horror .... Daughter

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    forested wood‚ each tired from a night of trick or treating‚ Avon is the first to speak “What’s the haul guys?” he says‚ “about 10 pounds of pure sugar” Cynthia chimes “wanna scare some kids since we are near the haunted woods” they all look at each other with evil grins that would burn the soul out of any who watched and then burst out with laughter. “Ok lets go.” Cynthia says leading the boys into the forest on a small path. Roughly ten minutes later the children stood in a circle puzzled by the absence

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    A Day In The Life Of A School Bag It was a typical (ordinary) school day and I was being packed with my heavy load. I had different compartments. Inside in you could find books‚ pencils‚ erasers‚ rulers‚ dictionary‚ Atlas of Belize‚ some coins and other stuff (things). My zips were closed and I was lifted off the ground. It was time to go to school. I was being tossed (flipped‚ swung) around. I kept bumping into something hard. Soon I felt myself being lifted up again. ‘We were at school.’ I thought

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    Half Past TWo

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    rough" by Stephen Spender and "Half-past two" by U. A. Fanthorpe In all three poems the poets present childhood in different and exceptional way. In "Piano"‚ childhood is presented in a very idealistic way. The poet is remembering the good old times when he was sitting under the piano and listening to his mother tenderly singing a powerful song. He remembers his loving mother‚ and all the factors surrounding her‚ only having a positive atmosphere. When on the other hand Stephen Spender is describing

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    Half Life Experiment

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    Half Life Experiment My hypothesis would be that after each shaking about half of the remaining candies would be logo-up and half of them logo-down. That’s why the shaking represents a "half-life". half-life || total time (sec) || # of undecayed atoms || # of decayed atoms 0 0 100 0 1 5 65 35 2 10 51

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    Lisa’s Cat The day Muffin died was a huge disaster‚ at least to Lisa it was. The whole thing had happened on a sunny and enjoyable afternoon. Lisa Louise had just come home from school after saying goodbye to her friend who had walked with her. She rushed into the house‚ wanting to find her cat‚ Muffin‚ for a big welcome‚ only to find Muffin lying on the floor! She hadn’t seemed to look‚ well . . . very much alive. Lisa rushed to her side‚ but it had been too late; she only found the already hardened

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    Half of a Yellow Sun

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    Techniques Employed in Half of a Yellow Sun Literary Technique and Associated Theme | Explanation | Example | Abrogation-Marginalization-Alien’s Perspective | The author uses a character to explore a cultural background to gain credibility to belittling that very same culture. In HOYS‚ Adichie uses Ugwu to undertake an exploration in to the British rule to be able to point out the flaws in their imperialistic influence on Nigeria. | * Pg. 11 – There are two answers to the things they will

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