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    “Miss Brill‚” by Katherine Mansfield is about and elderly spinster woman who‚ every Sunday goes to the public gardens‚ or park‚ and sits and listens to the conversations of all the people around her. At the beginning of the story‚ she is overjoyed with her life‚ perfectly content. She has been alone for a while‚ and she contents herself by ‘inserting’ herself into other people’s lives by listening in on their conversations. She loves just sitting and listening to people‚ watching them interact

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    Her First Ball is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921‚ and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories. Plot summary A young girl called Leila has come to the city to stay with her cousins‚ the Sheridan’s (who also appear in "The Garden Party.") As the story opens‚ they are going to a ball (A formal gathering for social dancing). Leila is very excited: this is her first ball. Once there‚ she is both excited and terrified

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    The One and Only Ivan is the 2013 Newbery award book written by Katherine Applegate. It’s remarkable and unusual writing style and sentimental approach does more than just send a message that animals have feelings. It also renders a novel attitude towards concepts such as freedom‚ responsibility‚ and aspiration‚ which makes the book worthy of a Newbery medal. The One and Only Ivan is a novel‚ based on a true story‚ from the first person point of view of Ivan‚ a gorilla who spent most of his life

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    Summary of “On Buying Local” by Katherine Spriggs Having the luxury of eating any fruit or vegetable at any time is amazing but it can come at a cost to our bodies and our environment. Buying local is a way we can counteract this because local farms are more sustainable and overall better for the environment. The United States play a huge part in global warming. But this is an international problem and many companies are putting billions of pounds of pesticides and chemicals into our water‚ air

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    Katherine Mansfield?s ?Miss Brill? is a deep illustration of delusional thinking when one is deprived of emotional human bonds. This short story paints a picture of an elderly woman‚ Miss Brill‚ who believes life is a walk in the park‚ until a couple leads her to believe life is not all fantasy. Although this tale develops gradually‚ Miss Brill undergoes a drastic transformation at the tale?s end. The change that Miss Brill is forced to undergo is understandable through symbolism‚ characterization

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    All the Comforts of Home Personal Chef Service Executive Summary All the Comforts of Home will provide catered gourmet dinners in the Ahwatukee area of the East Valley. This "personal chef" service with a goal of providing supplemental income to the owner‚ will focus on intimate dinners and small dinner parties. The meals will be prepared in the client ’s home with fresh ingredients purchased specifically for the selected meal. Serving sizes will be for 2-8‚ with a focus on intimate dinners

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    Nostalgia and the yearning to go back to “better times” in a way motivates the idea of covering the wounded present. Speaking on the Great War‚ Katherine Feo’s article; “Invisibility: Memory‚ Masks‚ and Masculinities in the Great War” asserts that looking at the past played a big role in creating a mask for the soldiers who came back with wounds on their faces. Feo writes “As fundamental uncanny objects‚ the mask were invented to cover the shocking reminder of violence apparent in disfigurement

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    The Help The richness and variety of language is part of what makes the book so appealing and intriguing. The main protagonists are presented with the southern accent ’Law have mercy’. Each character has been presented with their own stereotypical dialect which as a reader contributes to the realistic feel of the novel. The Novel is written mainly in first person from each of the 3 protagonists perspective. The story is told by 3 different people as Aibileen‚ Minnie and Skeeter take turns

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    In both of Katherine Mansfield’s stories‚ “The Garden Party” and “Bliss” we can find this “multiple personality” in the main characters. In the first one we have Laura‚ who is a young lady of a well-positioned family in an upper class neighborhood. The young woman’s world is presented almost like a fantasy; the description of the environment is filled up with “perfect beauty”. The girl is not like the other members of her family‚ she seems to reflect about the things she is doing and is affected

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    Louis Comfort Tiffany’s eclectic sense of design incorporated the styles of the Arts and Crafts‚ Aesthetic‚ and Art Nouveau movements (Johnson 8). He had an eye for ornamentation in which he transformed every piece in a room into a humanly functional work of art (Johnson 27). Light and color were strong for forces in the design of his spaces to create a sense of exoticism and romance (Johnson 33). Though his designs were lavish‚ he strived to make his spaces livable and enjoyable by the user‚

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