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    GProvide a character analysis of the grandmother in “A good man is hard to find” The author‚ Flannery O’Connor created the unnamed grandmother as a very interesting type of person. She is different by having complicated ideas‚ conflicts‚ and thoughts to form the grandmother. The grandmother has a hypocritical personality and is old-fashioned “old south” to be different than being a normal old lady. The grandma seems like she is more superior to the others and is selfish. Throughout

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    essays isn’t really my cup of tea. I find it really difficult to begin as there are so many different ways to do it. I can start with‚ “One day…” but then it would be too common. Finding the right way to start a composition‚ for me‚ is the most taxing thing in the world to do. Then‚ there’s also the problem of choosing which items to include and disregard. If the limit of words is four hundred then I must choose the words carefully. Otherwise‚ I might go over without getting my message across. Do

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    The Reptile Room

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    The Reptile Room T he title of the book I am reading is The Reptile Room. The author is Lemony Snicket. The point of view is first person. The main idea of The Reptile Room is that the Baudelaire parents die in a house fire and the orphans are sent to live with a distant relative named Count Olaf‚ a terrible and greedy man. The Baudelaire parents had left behind an enormous fortune which will go to Violet‚ the oldest of the orphans when she turns eighteen. Count Olaf is so obsessed with getting

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    A Room With A View

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    A Room with a View written by E.M. Forster is a story about love‚ conflict‚ and finding your way. The story is set in both Florence Italy and England during the Edwardian era where societal standards were different and the upper class were unforgiving on lower class peasantry. Lucy Honeychurch is an exception‚ as a naïve‚ sheltered young women brought to Italy by her older cousin‚ Charlotte Bartlett. She begins to learn the struggles of love through unexpected encounters and memorable people. Lucy’s

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    My senior year I played soccer it didn’t start out good. My team was on a losing streak we were 5-0 so far‚ we had to do something different. We did just that and we ended up winning our first game it felt great. My junior year I played soccer also we made it to the final. My sophomore year we went to the final and won it. It was a good feeling knowing that all of our hard work paid off. My senior year playing soccer we didn’t start out good. We were not playing as a team. Everyone wanted to do

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    home and in with my baby’s father. Not even having any thought on how I would make any money to survive with my newborn baby. I was the only child and my parents were always good to me and raised me very well. They only wanted the best for me and as you can imagine having a baby at eighteen and moving out was defiantly not what they wanted for me in my life. Despite my parents not agreeing with my choices they still tried to stand by me as much as possible or I guess you would say as much as I would

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    Marvins Room

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    means the most to me/ if our eyes met today/ I doubt I could look away‚ explain how things went wrong we know what went right/ in a sense‚it was tight/ now those days are gone/ no words‚only silence/ waiting on things to come/ meanwhile we hope/ and I know someone heard that/ But I pray it wont get us in trouble/ I followed my heart/ Its led me to you/ admit there’s been a few/ I would call it 2/ Y look back at what Ive been through/ I feel like I grew/ closer to you I love that girl so bad‚ i hope

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    In today’s constantly changing society‚ more and more people are becoming more materialistic. This is particularly so in the cities and more urbanized areas. Take America as an example. Compared with three or four decades ago‚ Americans today are very much more materialistic. Materialism is usually more apparent in cities because in the cities‚ people are constantly exposed to new inventions that make life easier. These new inventions often come with a hefty price tag attached to them‚ simply because

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    The Wrestling Room

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    Heated Room of Sweat This room was my domain‚ my escape from reality‚ my room of hard work and determination. This overly heated room was one of my favorite places to be when I was in high school. I let off a lot of steam in this sweaty room. This giant room was where the best and most athletic athletes in the school came to practice and put in work to put a poster and their name of themselves on the wall next to the previous posters. As I open the door to my old high school wrestling room‚ I get

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    statement suggests that Fairy Stories are fundamentally meant for a diverse audience and regardless of age‚ if the reader benefits and finds an innate love and comfort in the story then it is a successful work of literature. Machen’s Story “The White People” detailed the imagination and the influence of childhood stories that a young girl heard from

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