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    A HUANTED HOUUUUUUUSEEE!! Virginia Woolf’s short story ’a haunted house’ is about a house and a ’ghostly couple’ that inhabit it. The short story uses much symbolism and is very short but can be read again and again with new discoveries each time. The first time I read this story I was pretty clueless to what it was all about. I was unsure of who the characters were and the story was just generally confusing and I got the feeling that the ghosts were antagonistic characters. What are they

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    Dream House

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    Would you like to stay in a lovely white house in the suburb of the New York city within 40 minutes drive off the city centre ? It’s a classic style house with 2 floors . It has a large garden all around the house and has a beautiful path with many trees and flowers besides so in your freetime you can take care them ‚ really interesting .In the backyard of the house has a few fruit trees and Addition ‚ it has wonderful swimming pool behind the house where you can have a party or ideal eating

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    House of Burgesses

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    House of Burgesses America is a nation that gives its people freedoms and power through its government‚ but it did not come to be over night‚ it has been in the making for hundreds of years. There have been many factors that have made America what we know today. Initially the first Americans did not have an established government‚ they did not even have an assembly to represent the people. The first official Legislative assembly in the English colonies was the House of Burgesses (*history

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    The Abandoned House

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    An Abandoned House The mansion stood isolated from civilisation but seemed to be inhabited by somebody. But who? nobody really knew but I wanted to find out. Standing in front of the furtive gates and rusted black iron gates‚ I could feel the cold gaze of people walking past‚ they could probably smell my fear. Gently pushing the gates open ‚they let out an ear piercing screech. Walking up the long and cracked windy driveway‚ I could see strange shaped hedges and unusual lawn ornaments placed

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    “Doctor in the House” (Richard Gordon) 1. The author of the story is Richard Gordon. It is the pen name used by Gordon Ostlere (born Gordon Stanley Ostlere on 15 September 1921)‚ an English surgeon and anesthetist. As Richard Gordon‚ Ostlere has written numerous novels‚ screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history‚ mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is most famous for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme starting with Doctor in the House‚ and the subsequent

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    My House

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    Brain Of Britain Ben: Wake up Kelly. Get up! (Baby voice) Kelly: What who said that. (sleepy voice) (Ben leans over Kelly while she’s in bed and druels over her.) (Kelly openers her eyes gets up and chases Ben round the house‚ then Ben runs into his Mum’s room.) (Their Mum gets up) Mum: Kelly why are you are you chasing after your poor brother like that? (Sleepy voice) Kelly: Because he woke me up again. (Angry voice) Mum: Ben you need to stop doing that and as for you young

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    A Doll House

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    Social Issues in A Doll House In the play A Doll House written by Henrick Isben several social issues were revealed. Considering the time period‚ women had little to no rights at all. They were basically expected to have no voice‚ and to just keep a happy home. The main social issues that are portrayed in the play mostly stem from a high level of disrespect for women that are presented in several different ways. When Nora opens up about her secret to Mrs. Linde‚ she expresses to her‚ “I’ve

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    House on the Hill

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    The Old House on the Hill Crimson rays of sunlight speckled through and glittered the autumn leaves‚ making their colorful silhouette seem to dance on the mountain horizon. These fluttering hills rise up from the back of a vast plateau like pasture as if they were titans‚ peacefully awaiting the turn from day to dusk. A calm breeze feathers the tall sun spotted grasses with an inconsistent motion making the ground appear alive. In the back corner of this field lies a large and seemingly mystifying

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    A Doll's House

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    Reflective Statement on a Doll’s House How was your understanding of cultural and contextual (literary) considerations of the novel developed through the oral exercise? When I first started reading the play I was prepared for it to be a little backward since I had the knowledge of it been written in the 19th century and set in Norway;in which time day to day life and the culture was very closed and what it’s called now is backwards. In the beginning of the play‚ I felt really bad for Nora when

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    Nora has not always been a feminist; it is throughout the play A Doll’s House that she changes the way she reacts when interacting with others. She is introduced as a subordinate‚ submissive woman who tends to allow others to walk all over her. These "doormat" characteristics are especially prevalent beginning in Act I‚ where Nora keeps to herself and is used as a puppet by Torvald. For example‚ Nora states‚ "Yes‚ yes‚ as you wish‚ Torvald‚" in response to her husband’s orders (Ibsen‚ 111). As a

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