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    | |Superstitions have varying origins. Most are based in some kind of religious belief‚ ranging from animism to the monotheism of | |the Muslim and Christian religions. In animism‚ all natural phenomena are held to be governed by different spirits‚ and care | |must be taken both to please and to propitiate. For example‚ fishermen have beach ceremonies to ensure favor i.e a good catch. | |These customs are understandable‚ but life lived in this way can become over-restrictive. Development

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    Year of Magical Thinking: Syntax and Synthesis Syntax: Joan Didion uses many syntax devices to emphasize the important emotions or tones she is trying to create. One device that she uses throughout the book is parenthetical aside. On page 5 and several other places she writes “And then—gone” (Didion 5). One of the struggles Didion faces is the fact that her husband is actually gone and how it was so unexpected. The parenthesis aside created the dramatic effect showing how everything was as expected

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    REALISM IN 19th CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION The 19th century is considered to mark the origin of realism as a literary movement in the United States. American writers following the era of change in American life‚ moved steadily from Romanticism towards Realism‚ which was to lead the next step of Naturalism. The process was gradual‚ reflecting the periodic fluctuations in the history of American society. In this process‚ the Civil War provided a dramatic point of cleavage. In 1865 at the end of the

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    House as a Home

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    HOUSE AS A HOME… How can you consider your house as a home? Before proceeding to answer this query‚ it would be better to know first the meaning of home and house. According to International New Webster Dictionary of the English Language‚ a home is a “private living quarters of a person. A house is a “building for a person of family to live in”. HOME… a home should be a ” little heaven on earth” . a home is a place where the affections are cultivated instead of being repressed. Our happiness

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    dream house

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    My dream is to live in a big detached house surrounded by a big garden full of flowers and trees. I wouldn’t like to live in an apartment with blocks of flats and rude neighbors making noise in the middle of the night. My dream house should be located outside the city‚ on the outskirts of town where I can find true peace and happiness. Therefore‚ my dream house should have the characteristics that represent my spiritual world and personality with its location as well as its inner and outer design

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    there was a house that everyone knew was haunted. It was an old neglected house on a side street in the oldest part of town. Sometimes‚ the most wonderful smells issued from the house and filled the street with the heavenly odor of fresh baked bread. Whenever that happened‚ people would say that the old house must have been a bakery or‚ at the very least‚ the former home of a fabulous baker. Sometimes‚ the neighbors would hear the sound of music and laughter coming from the empty house as if there

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    too much. He had visited our church on occasion and one Monday night‚ a deacon from our church and I went to this man’s house and visited with him. We talked about the weather and other unimportant things. When I felt the time was right‚ I asked him how he felt when he came to church. He admitted he felt that people stared at him and made him very uncomfortable. I felt in my spirit that it was nothing more than conviction he really felt. I asked him if he were to die tonight‚ would he go to heaven

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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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    DMT the spirit molecule

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    DMT was first synthesized in 1931 by Canadian chemist Richard Helmuth Fredrick Manske (1901–1977).[10][11] Its discovery as a natural product is generally credited to Brazilian chemist and microbiologist Oswaldo Gonçalves de Lima (1908–1989) who‚ in 1946‚ isolated an alkaloid he named nigerina (nigerine) from the root bark of jurema preta‚ that is‚ Mimosa tenuiflora.[11][12][13] However‚ in a careful review of the case Jonathan Ott shows that the empirical formula for nigerine determined by Gonçalves

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    comparing stories‚ “The Fall of the House of Usher‚” written by Edgar Allen Poe‚ and “House Taken Over‚” by Julio Cortazar‚ there is a correlating story line in each book‚ relating to houses with an eerie sense of secrecy amongst each of them. Each author shows a secrecy that we may not comprehend at first. In each story‚ we see a resemblance‚ as well as a divergence. For starters‚ Edgar Allen Poe’s‚ “The Fall of the House of Usher‚” and Julio Cortazar’s‚ “House Taken Over‚” each exemplify traits

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