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    conveyance. V. Investment or other Application of Capital Trust Money 24. Capital money under Act; investment‚ etc.‚ by trustees or Court. 25. Regulations respecting investment‚ devolution and income of securities‚ etc. 26. Investment in land in Jamaica. 27. Settlement of land purchased‚ taken in exchange‚ etc. Dealings as between Tenant for Life and the.Estate 28. Dealings as between tenant for life and the estate. m inclusion of this

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    Shauna Crawford Mr. Meadows ENG 102 20 January 2014 Soldier Do not speak unless spoken to; always begin and end your sentence with “Drill Sergeant;” stand up straight; lace up your boots tighter; blouse your pants like this; do not say sorry‚ try harder; curl those damn fingers; thirty inch steps precisely not baby ones; just look forward to chow time; lights out is at 2100 sharp; wake up is at 0400; quit making excuses; this is how you shine your shoes; this is how you make a bed; this is how

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    Phillips SOS: Creative Writing Reader Response # 3 Ranch Girl by Maile Meloy from Contemporary American Short Fiction The story is told in second person‚ which gives the reader a sense of being in the story‚ at the same time being an observer. It begins with telling you where you stand in the socio-economics’ and in the eyes of your peers. “If you’re white‚ and you’re not rich or poor but somewhere in the middle‚ it’s hard to have worse luck than be born a girl on the Ranch. It doesn’t matter

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    night of October 29th 2010 as my mother and I nervously awaited to greet my two older sisters at terminal A‚ Entrance 3‚ Finally they’ve made it‚ planted their feet on American soil. My mother strived so hard to get them here‚ from our native country Jamaica‚ and finally they’ve arrived‚ standing right in front of us. It was extremely surreal. My mother burst out in tears‚ she glowed with excitement as she wrapped her arms around them never wanting to let go. As the happiness filled her heart‚ jealousy

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    “Only a girl” In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” she tells a story about a young girl’s resistance to womanhood in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm outside of Jubilee‚ Ontario‚ Canada. During this time‚ women were viewed as second class citizens‚ but the narrator was not going to accept this position without a fight. Munro’s invention of an unnamed character symbolized the narrator’s lack of identity‚ compared to her younger

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    or prejudicing the reader? There seems to be a contradiction in how Curley’s wife should be viewed. In his letter to Claire Luce Steinbeck says that Curley’s wife is “A nice‚ kind girl and not a floozy.” But then Steinbeck allows other characters to speak about her in a gossipy manor. “I think Curley’s married a … tart.” From the evidence of the letter I do not feel that Steinbeck is prejudicing the reader against Curley’s wife. I feel he is doing this to prepare the reader for the tragedy at the

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    Christina Anderson Mr. Kingsley Eng105 1 February 2012 Life Lessons from the Farm Jessica Hemauer’s essay‚ “Farm Girl‚” tells her life story of living on a farm through her eyes as ten-year-old child to the time of her early adulthood. The purpose of this piece is to teach the importance of life’s responsibilities to children‚ mainly female‚ and young adults who may not be familiar with the challenges life can bring and to promote the benefits you can gain by overcoming those obstacles. Hemauer

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    analysis of ‘The Zulu Girl’ by Roy Campbell The Zulu Girl is a poem written by Roy Campbell‚ which at a glance appears to be about a Zulu girl and her son. An in-depth analysis reveals it to be a poem about the life of African people being dominated by European civilisation. The title refers to a girl. Not just any girl but ‘the Zulu Girl’. This implies that there is something unique about her‚ something that sets her apart from the rest who are around her. The Zulu Girl seems unfamiliar to the

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    Cited: Kamenetz‚ Anya . “Generation Debt”. The Contemporary Reader. Gary Goshgarian. Eleventh Edition. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education‚ 2013. 147-151. Print Grossman‚ Lev . “Grow Up? Not So Fast”. The Contemporary Reader. Gary Goshgarian. Eleventh Edition. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education‚ 2013. 157-165. Print Healy‚ Ryan . “Twentysomething: Be Responsible‚ Go Back Home After College”. The Contemporary Reader. Gary Goshgarian. Eleventh Edition. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education

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    SERVANT GIRL and How did my brother leon brought his wife? SUMMARY 1. This is a story of a humble good-looking house helper named Rosa and her adult infatuation. Rosa is portrayed as a physically and verbally abused servant girl to an obnoxious but at times kind mistress. Rosa fantasized about the cochero whom she named to be "Angel" who later-on known to be as Pedro. She imagined him as different from other men‚ more gallant‚ gentler‚ and her rescuer from her miserable life with her mistress

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