It had been a usual week at 221B Baker Street for the consulting detective. Well‚ the norm since his best friend’s wife‚ Mary‚ had passed. Why had he provoked the receptionist? Why? If he would have kept quiet then she might of still been alive and god why did she have to step out in front of him. The bullet was meant for him not her. He should have been the one who died. She could have lived a long prosperous life raising her and John’s daughter‚ Rosamund. Sherlock took a long drag of the cigarette
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WRITE A STORY BEGINNING‚ ‘I LISTENED TO MY MOTHER’S WORDS WITH EXCITEMENT’. I listened to my mother’s words with excitement. She had heard that a local vet‚ Dr Subramaniam‚ need an assistant. It seemed too good to be true. I had just finished school and dreaded the thought of filling shelves at the supermarket‚ the only job that I had heard of so far. On the other hand‚ I had loved animals for as long as I could remember. At that very moment‚ in the open space around the house‚ were several
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characters in “A Man Who Had No Eyes” by MacKinlay Kantor‚ both with extremely different personalities. One of the characters is Markwardt‚ a beggar who displays negative character traits throughout the short story. Markwardt shows to be devious‚ pessimistic and abrasive through his behaviors and actions. First Markwardt is devious. From page 2‚ “there might be more half dollars in Mr. Parsons’s pocket” is thought by Markwardt. He decides to tell Mr. Parsons his practiced sob story about how he lost his
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emotions and touch. 2) Share one or more of the following stories; a boring Beach Story‚ Morning Story‚ A Cold Day Story. Then read the exciting ones. Morning Time I woke up this morning and knew it was going to be a good day. I got dressed in my favorite outfit. I brushed my teeth. I brushed my hair. Then I went downstairs and ate my breakfast. Then I went outside and waited for the bus. I rode the bus to school. When I got to school‚ something was different. Morning Time
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| The Woman Who Had Two Navels | Aug 11‚ ’07 2:43 AM for everyone | Category: | Books | Genre: | Other | Author: | Nick Joaquin | A native Manileño‚ Nick Joaquin was born in the district of Paco‚ on Calle Herran‚ in 1917. His parents were Don Leocadio Joaquin‚ a colonel of Philippine Revolution and a prominent lawyer during the 1920s; and Doña Salomé Marqués‚ one of the first teachers to be appointed to the public school system set up by the Americans. Got into writing just before war‚ Nick
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Modernization really had taken its toll in countries especially in a growing country like the Philippines therefore compromising the trend in playing traditional games. According to the article by Gerard Anthony Naval Philippines try to… (Naval‚ 2007). Instead of the typical “larong pinoy” games that children are expected to play children instead are seen in internet cafes or in their homes playing digital games. There is indeed a need for the Filipino children to engage in these games once again
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As a storyteller for children‚ I would like to share my latest favourite story for primary aged children. This comes from a book by Anne Rockwell. The Story Snail Lee’s version of a story by Anne Rockwell Once upon a time there was a boy named John. John was a nice boy‚ and a kind boy‚ but there was nothing that he was really good at doing. Nothing at all. Everyone laughed at him and teased him. So one day‚ he ran away. He ran away to the paddock and he hid in the long tall grass
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On The Story of the Moth One night‚ all the family‚ except my mother and myself‚ went to bed early. Why‚ I do not know‚ but we two remained sitting alone. The candles had already been put out. They had been blown out in their globes by means of a curved tube of tin. That tube seemed to me the finest and most wonderful plaything in the world. The room was dimly lighted by a single light of coconut oil. In all Filipino homes such a light burns through the night. It goes out just at day-break
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“The story on an hour”‚ A short story published by Kate Chopin In 1894. From the beginning‚ we as the readers are introduced to the protagonist’s health problem with her heart. Subsequently‚ her husband has just “passed away” in a railroad accident‚ and her sister wants to break to her the news as gently they can. So then‚ right after hearing that‚ Mrs. Mallard proceeds to feel “wild abandonment” (Chopin 428). That feeling quickly changed as she now began to feel a sense of relief and freedom because
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course I have ever taking in my academic career‚ the use of literature terms are one’s that I have never used before in work and school. In this paper‚ the literary approach is what I’m going to use for Kate Chopin’s on The Story of an Hour. The best definition I can give for literary approach is a literary approach is a way of looking at literature i.e. how you read a piece of literature. This approach has interested me for this story and it will be the approach I will be using for it. When I read
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