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    My Ideal Room.

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    My Ideal Room My ideal room is inside a grand two floor French chateau which is located in a hilly countryside with quiet and cool environment. My room is large and spacious‚ two hundred meters square in area and seven meters high. It is rectangular in shape. It is on the first floor of the house. Ventilated from three sides it has total six wide windows allowing refreshing breeze and sunlight to flow in. All windows have a frosted pearly- green sliding glass and two wooden shutters with

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    Word Choice used through Shakespeare’s Ghost in Hamlet Shakespeare’s use of language impressively exercises diction and imagery in this passage of Hamlet to help readers understand the contempt that Hamlet and the Ghost have for Claudius and Queen Gertrude. His dramatic sentences and word structure allow the readers to see into the minds of Hamlet and the Ghost‚ therefore giving insight to events and knowledge‚ which the rest of the characters in the play know nothing of. The Ghost describes

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    Description of My Room

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    there is not much to say about my small (7 m2) room. When you go in‚ first what is visible is a big window and the nice scenery outside with many trees and a kindergarten full of children during spring and summer. You could feel the calming atmosphere of this small space because of the light blue colour‚ that reminds of light blue sky ‚ which is quite relaxing. On the ceiling there are phosphorescent stars and the moon ‚ so at night it is even more psychodelic. There is a nice‚ white big table on the

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    My most favorite place has always been my grandmother’s house. This is the place I would have to go to before and after school. I have always loved my grandmother’s house because it made me feel safe and warm. There was a smell of coffee in the air at all times. It seemed as if all my grandmother did was make coffee. If I smell coffee‚ I instantly think of my grandmother’s house. My grandmother’s house will always be filled with people. I can remember sitting in a chair watching her do hair

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    My grandmother’s house - Kamala Das About Kamala Das: Kamala Das is one of the best poets in contemporary Indo-Anglian literature. Kamala Das‚ born in Kerala in 1934‚ is a bilingual writer. She writes in Malayalam‚ her mother tongue‚ under the pseudonym Madhavikkutty. Her poetry is an exploration of the geography of her own mind‚ and the lyric is an instance of such self-exploration. Through images of repulsion and horror‚ she brings out the emotional emptiness and sterility of her married

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    My dream room

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    you ever thought about what your dream room would be like? I know I have. I always pictured my room to be kind of like Batman’s lair‚ my secret man cave‚ where I could do things on my own terms. It would be a place where I wouldn’t have to act a certain way for people. It would have a gigantic closet that would be pretty much as big as the room itself. My room would not only be a room where I slept‚ it would be my sanctuary‚ my haven. I always imagined my room to be a warm genial place‚ but also seem

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    Essay on The Importance of Degradation to the Environment "Jimmy‚ let’s see if you know the creatures of the rainforest. What sound does this one make?" "That’s right‚ a chainsaw goes RRRRRRRRR." A simple cartoon in a magazine‚ that’s all people see it as. There is constantly talk about the environment being destroyed and we’ve become immune to the topic. It just washes over us‚ without the idea actually sinking in. Everything that is being done on this planet somehow affects someone‚ something

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    Land Degradation

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    Land degradation From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Serious land degradation in Nauru after the depletion of the phosphate cover through mining Land degradation is a concept in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by one or more combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land.[1] It is viewed as any change or disturbance to the land perceived to be deleterious or undesirable.[2] Natural hazards are excluded as a cause‚ however human activities can indirectly

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    My Dark Room

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    I live in a dark room Where my pain surrounds me. It’s filled with discouragement and gloom And I’m obviously unhappy. In this room I have hid‚ In this room I have cried. In this room I am nothing‚ In this room I’ve got no pride. My room has suffered with me And darkened with me For there is no light‚ Just like my life. In my dark room‚  The air I breathe Is the pain that fills my body‚ And it engulfs my self-esteem. My dark room is filled with secrets‚ Broken promises and

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    Difference between my Grandmother and Mother During my child hood‚ I had to go live with my grandmother who I consider as my mom. I use to wonder what it will be like if I go stay with my mother. My grandma always told me her rules are not the same as my mom and I am going to wish I had stayed home with her. I thought to myself what will be the difference between them is. Until one day‚ I decided to go live with my mother to experience the differences. I found out that my grandmother is totally difference

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