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    poets. The short story “The Hand” for example is full of symbolism. First‚ the story starts with the wife lying in bed nestled against her husband. The narrator shares the wife’s sense of surrealism. She goes in depth to describe the positioning of their bodies. The wife first notices the husband as being a‚ “handsome‚ blond young man‚ recently widowed‚ good at tennis and rowing” almost as being a perfect person. She also is reveling in the fact that he had only been widowed one short month ago

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    Melanie Solis English 1302 Professor Wishard May 12‚ 2015 “The Cactus” Analysis Resubmit Benjamin Franklin once stated that “Lost time is never found again”‚ the short story “The Cactus” is about a man named Trysdale‚ who allows his “vanity and conceit” (O. Henry “The Cactus” paragraph six) get in the way of his relationship with a girl that adores him. He fails to find meaning behind a cactus that she gave him in response to his proposal. Instead of knowing the cactus’ importance‚ which she

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    behind the front desk motioned her hand towards a row of seats. I sat down‚ tapped my foot and listened to the distant woof and occasional bark of the dogs. I shot up when I saw the door start to open. A lady with short brown hair stepped out with a dog. My smile started to fade. He was short and fat like a pig‚ and his black and

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    Scott makes a decision that will change the course of his dancing career. Explain how dialogue with others has influenced his decision. The desire and decision to ‘dance his own steps’ at the ballroom dancing competitions first appears at the beginning of the play where Scott Hastings and Liz Holt get boxed into a corner of The Southern District Waratah Championship Hall. In this scene‚ the temptation of escaping the restricted rules of the ADF leads Scott to urge Liz Holt via the dialogue

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    1. What are your short term (say 5 years) academic goals? I’d say one of my short term academic goal would be to graduate high school in the “Top Ten” of my class. The next thing I would do would be to go college‚ and earn a B.S. either in health science or psychology with an emphasis in a physician’s assistant or a program designed for aspiring physician assistants. It depends on the college I would attend. I would then apply to a graduate school where I would receive a Master’s degree‚ learn how

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    life. So on the cold December night; that pretty much described my life as I knew it too a T. Just the very thought of what had been happening too this very beautiful and intelligent young lady was in fact what I was dealing with. Long story short; her boyfriend of over 3 years was an addict and very abusive towards her. On a daily basis he beat on her and threw her in to walls and broke her down emotionally. Finely on day it had dawned on her that this wasn’t right or the way that she intended

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    Artificial intelligence or Al for short capability of a computer to perform functions that is normally associated with human intelligence‚ such as reasoning‚ learning or self-improvement. Its concept requests a lot more than present information to the user; it requires that the machine is not only able to store and manipulate information but also to deal with its "meaning". AI is what we call understanding‚ a combination of computer science‚ physiology and philosophy. The element that the fields

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    “A Sunrise on the Veld” is a short story written by British author Doris Lessing. It tells the story of a boy who is filled with the excitement and wonder of life and the world around him. However‚ he soon discovers the darker side of reality‚ which is that living things must die. This story explores feelings of invincibility that many people have had in their youths. It also describes feelings of fear‚ anger and grief that most humans feel when they must face the reality of suffering and death.

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    The theme of the short story “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys (1976) is death and the journey home. Without implying literal death‚ this story is characterized as an allegory‚ which is described by Clugston (2010) as “a fictional work in which the setting‚ characters‚ plot and other elements are all symbols‚ each conveying an aspect of an abstract moral‚ religious‚ or social concept.” Another narrative element this story contains is the use of a Motif‚ which is a recurring theme in a literary

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    I walked in the doors and looked around at the blazing lights and large crowds. I walked up the large set of stairs in the dingy room where we were to get ready. I striped down to my shorts and walked onto the large scale to test my weight before the match. I weighed in at just 97 pounds. The matches went by weight‚ from smallest to largest‚ and were displayed on the clean wall by a projector mounted high in the gym ceiling. I was in the third set of matches‚ and could barely stand because of all

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