What The Future Holds While Stephen King has rightfully garnered a reputation as a horror writer‚ some of his best fiction revolves around stories of everyday humanity affected by elements of the supernatural‚ such as the Dead Zone. After awakening from a five-year coma‚ John Smith has come back from the ether with a clairvoyance to see certain futures and hidden pasts of others by touch alone. Opting to use his powers for good‚ John is called upon for such tasks as helping the police to catch
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The Shining‚ by Stephen King‚ is about a man and his wife and son staying in a hotel during the winter. The man is named Jack Torrance‚ who will be the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel from the months of November to April. Jack was notorious for losing his job‚ mostly since he had a bad temper and drank excessively. Thankfully though‚ his good buddy Al knew the owner of the Overlook‚ who needed someone to stay there when everyone else left; so‚ he was able to get him the job. Jack’s son‚ Danny‚ has
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Amistad was produced and released by Stephen Spielberg in 1997. Many of the main characters from the film Amistad are portrayed by famous actors such as Anthony Hopkins‚ Djimon Hounsou‚ Matthew McConaughey‚ and Morgan Freeman. The main theme of the film depicts how you should never lose hope in the face of adversity. One of the main characters of the film who was portrayed by Djimon Hounsou as Cinque a member of a tribe captured by a neighboring African tribe and being sold into slavery. Along
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Desperation‚ a recent Stephen King novel‚ is not just a book‚ but an experience that leaves the reader frightened‚ paranoid‚ and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture‚ if you will‚ a lone‚ crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesn’t kill immediately‚ he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family‚ whose RV is sabotaged on
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Higher Education in the USA and the UK USEFUL VOCABULARY admission board – приемная комиссия admission n - прием в колледж (университет) applicant n - претендент; соискатель‚ абитуриент apprenticeship n - обучение‚ ученичество (процесс обучения на производстве) Associate’s degree – диплом/степень кандидата в бакалавры/младшего специалиста (в некоторых университетах и колледжах – степень‚ получаемая лицом‚ прослушавшим неполный курс‚ обычно двухгодичную программу из четырехгодичного курса‚ требуемого
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filling them with empty dreams and hopes such as freedom and democracy. They explain that the only way to achieve those dreams is to overthrow the government. The American intervention in other countries led to many impacts. The book Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer shows the negative impacts caused by the United States on other
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man‚ tub shaped‚ with a puffy face and lanky brown hair. “She tripped and fell.” “That’s not exactly how the complainant remembers it‚” counters the magistrate. “How do you explain the multiple bruises and lacerations on her upper arms and neck?” Stephen Finlay turns yellow. It’s his way of blushing‚ having succumbed to Pansy’s full pouty lips‚ ponytail‚ capacious tank top‚ and jeans cut off at mid-thigh. The magistrate stares down at Finlay. “You know what you need to recite in order to plead guilty
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MEMORANDUM From: Stephen Haas To: Reader Date: July 8‚ 2011 Re: Divulging Confidential Information About our client Ener G. Traidor Relevant Facts Our client‚ Ener G. Traidor (“Traidor”)‚ has retained our firm to assist with his acquisition of an oil drilling company. During the course of the representation‚ we discovered that Traidor’s plans involved drilling in a manner than could produce dangerous results for a nearby town’s water supply. We have presented Traidor our concerns about the impact
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Today I will introduce a famous and outstanding scientist to you. A brief history of Stephen Hawking. The main contents include four aspects Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist‚ whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford‚ England. His parents’ house was in north London‚ but during the Second World War Oxford was considered
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Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944)‚ Canadian author‚ will long be remembered for his best-selling book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) as well as the numerous awards and honours he received during his illustrious lifetime as author‚ professor‚ lecturer and humourist. Stephen Butler Leacock was born on 30 December 1869 at Swanmore‚ Hampshire‚ England‚ the third of eleven children to Peter Leacock and Agnes Emma (née Butler). The Leacock family did a lot of travelling in their early years
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