The stormy night The gray clouds had been threatening to rain all day‚ but it was only as she left work that it started to rain. The past few days had been horrible. She didn’t get a promotion at work and the only things she did gain were more hours and late nights. When she left the office‚ it was pouring like it never had before. She got into the car and left‚ the thought of kicking off her shoes and watching TV more inviting than ever. As she drove‚ the sight of a huge car behind her caught
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Night Terrors "Every night around 10:30 Billy Bolts out of bed and starts screaming uncontrollably. I often find him running around his room looking frantic. I try to hold him‚ but he just pushes me away. I don’t understand what is happening. He looks terrified‚ and it frightens me" (Mindell 257). The above quote represents a classic episode of night terrors‚ or sleep terrors (the terms are interchangeable). Night terrors called incubus in adults and pavor nocturnus in children (Durand
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CURFEWED NIGHT: BASHARAT PEER‚ RANDOM HOUSE INDIA‚ 2009‚ 239 pp. The Kashmir conflict is not new for the people of the world and more so for a Kashmiri. Yet‚ as the author rightly points out‚ hardly any work exists in the canon of Indian Literature in English about this issue. Basharat Peer‚ in his debut book Curfewed Night‚ sets out to change exactly that. Whether he succeeds or not depends on what the author aspires for; to be a narrator presenting a true and holistic picture of the tragedy
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moonlit night. Nowadays‚houses and buildings in a city or town are mostly lit by electricity public roads are well lit at night. Therefore‚town people do not seem to notice the moon shinning in the night sky.There is no electricity in villages and resultm country folk have to do things by the light of the moon. They usually get a chance to admire the beauty of the moonlit nights. I still remember a beautiful moonlit night night that
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NIGHTMARE COME TRUE In Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ the day before Elie and his family and friends were to be deported‚ they were taken to the local synagogue. Elie described the place of worship as a huge station luggage and tears. (Wiesel 19) The Nazis had destroyed much of what had been inside. The bimah (altar) was broken‚ all of the wall hangings had been ripped from their places‚ leaving the walls empty. When Moishe the Beadle comes back into the ghetto in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel‚ several
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The play Twelfth Night explores many different types of love between it’s characters. With so much love and so many different levels and kinds‚ love easily appears to be the central theme of the play from the complex love triangle between Viola‚ Oliva and Orsino to hinted at homosexual love from Antonio to Sebastion‚ it is easily the central theme. The first love in the play is Orsino’s love for Olivia. Although Orsino has never met Oliva before in his life he claims to be madly in love
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Starry Night is a beautiful painting‚ representational in the type of art. The size of the painting is 29 in. by 36 ¼ in.‚ and oil on canvas were the materials used. Van Gogh is using an expressive quality and an emotionalism viewpoint. On the left side of the painting‚ there is a group of black lines that curve in waves upward‚ coming to a point. To the lower right‚ there is a small town that leads up to hills and then mountains. The painting is set at night‚ and the sky is a wondrous swirl of bursting
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The Art A Well-Made Doll’s House: The Influence of Eugene Scribe on the Art of Henrik Ibsen Posted by Jennine Lanouette on Sunday‚ December 24th‚ 2000 A famous writer once said‚ “Because someone does a thing first‚ doesn’t mean they will do it best‚” and the history of drama certainly has done its part to bear this out. Playwrights who boldly introduce new dramatic forms (Seneca‚ for example) have often left to those who came later the job of raising their innovations to the level of art (as
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“Acquainted with the Night” portrays a life filled with depression due to isolation. Frost’s personal experiences may have influenced the poem because he was known to have a sad life with many deaths in his family. This left him depressed and cut off from the world. The title gives insight into Frost’s bleak and lonesome world‚ where the darkness of night makes no impression on him. He uses a descriptive language with an array of different symbols in his poem “Acquainted with the Night”. The poem uses
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43 Int. J. Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems‚ Vol. n‚ No. m‚ 2008 Commonsense Knowledge‚ Ontology and Ordinary Language Walid S. Saba American Institutes for Research‚ 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street‚ NW‚ Washington‚ DC 20007 USA E-mail: wsaba@air.org Abstract: Over two decades ago a “quite revolution” overwhelmingly replaced knowledgebased approaches in natural language processing (NLP) by quantitative (e.g.‚ statistical‚ corpus-based‚ machine learning) methods. Although it is our firm
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