1. Entwined Based on the fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses‚ readers will be swept away into this fantasy world of dance‚ love‚ mystery‚ and curses created by author Heather Dixon. Azalea and her eleven sisters are trapped inside the castle with the Keeper. Each night he lets them out through a secret passage way to dance. As the heir to the throne‚ Azalea must take care of her sisters and find a way free them from Keeper’s curse. Readers will enjoy the detailed dance scenes and be pleasantly
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Those around him were unaware to the crime of what Oedipus had done and that he was the one to have murdered Laius‚ the former king of Thebes. When Oedipus had a prophecy of killing his father and mating with his mother he was quick to flee his hometown in hopes to stop this from happening‚ he was blind to the fact that in doing this he was actually setting his true fate in motion. Tiresias on the other hand was literally blind but had all the knowledge of Oedipus’s
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The Outsiders was set in a large‚ unnamed town in the United States. According to the website (http://www.shmoop.com/the-outsiders/setting.html)‚ the setting of ‘The Outsiders’ was based on the author’s‚ S. E. Hinton’s‚ hometown of Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ when she wrote the story as a high school student. The story took place in the late 1960’s. The landscape in the story was mostly in the cold‚ and dark nights. In one scene Ponyboy and Johnny walk through a park. The weather had seemed to be a freezing
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Jeddah Introduction Today I will talk about my hometown which is Jeddah and I will talk briefly about its background information‚ popular and famous places and types of higher education. The Body Jeddah is a huge city located on the coast of Red Sea in the western of Saudi Arabia. It is belonging to Mecca province. The population is over 3 million and its area about 1500 square kilometers. It is the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city which is Riyadh. Its climate
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exact setting differs throughout the story. “…the dull dawn was beginning to show grey when the engine whistled a mile out of Newark” (Cather). At this point in the story‚ the main character‚ Paul‚ is on board a train which has departed from his hometown of Pittsburgh en route to the Jersey City Station. From there‚ he plans to make his way to the glamorous New York City‚ a city that he has always dreamed about visiting. “The rumor had reached Pittsburgh that the boy had been seen in a New York hotel
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Carraway. He had recently moved to West Egg‚ a peninsula off of Long Island. Next door lived an eccentric wealthy man named Jay Gatsby. Across the bay‚ his cousin Daisy lived with her husband in East Egg. Five years ago Daisy and Gatsby had met in her hometown and fell in love briefly before he had to serve in the war. With the arrival of Nick the two were reacquainted. Though many claim that The Great Gatsby was a tragic love story‚ it was actually a representation of the unattainable american dream.
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When one of Augustine’s friends died suddenly he was so traumatized that he had to move out of his hometown Tagaste because he was always reminded of his friend everywhere he went. Once Augustine friend passes away‚ he said he loved his friend as if he would never die and when he passed Augustine became distressed. Augustine can only feel grief because the God that he worships is an empty God that does not allow him to understand his friend’s death. Now Augustine moved to Carthage and started to
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(Find topic sentence). Gwendolyn Rodger’s contribution to That Summer brought forward additional lessons that were then taught to Haven McPhail. Her few appearances may have been brief‚ but carried much weight that was needed to bring the story along. Taller than Haven McPhail‚ Gwendolyn was a worldwide famous model who‚ too‚ once lived in Lakeview. Her secrets that she had hid from the public eye‚ yet seen by Haven‚ allowed McPhail to realize that even the most flawless people‚ do have their own
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To be an ambassador for President University means a lot to me; representing a respectable institution which I am a part of to the general public‚ especially to eager high school seniors in my own hometown‚ sharing how it feels like to study here and live amongst the multicultural environment in the dormitory where I found a new family far from home. I’m lucky to be here right now‚ on my way to be tomorrow’s leader‚ and I want my juniors to be able to have the same experience—something which I believe
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songs themselves. And in modern music‚ singers write the songs themselves or they can invite famous singers to help them. The companies they work for also help them write songs. Traditional music often tells about new life‚ good times‚ beautiful hometown and so on. People play it to show their love for country‚ life‚ nature. Modern music is about the busy city life and young people’s love. People express the emotion of wanting to love and to be loved by playing the music. But in some modern songs
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