A HOUSE ON FIRE It was the month of October. The weather was delightfully cool. I was sleeping soundly. All of sudden‚ I was disturbed in my sleep by loud cries of ‘fire ‚fire’. I sprang out of window. I was people with pails and buckets‚ running out of the burning house. On enquiry‚ I learnt that the palatial double-storeyed house of my neighbour‚ Mr. Sharma ‚ was on fire. I ran downstairs with a bucket. I no time‚ I reached the place of occurrence. It was a heart-rending sight. The newly-built
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and hinted at feminism. Based on the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the drama "A doll house" by Henrik Ibsen‚ there is a theme of burdened womanhood and toxic marriages. These two stories are not the same‚ but they share some similarities. The first big similarity is in the settings. In the "Doll House" all the action takes place in the Helmer family house‚ where Torvald Helmer lived with his wife Nora and their children. We do know that Nora goes out from time to
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In the story‚ “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf‚ a seemingly haunting‚ but wonderful story is told about a ghostly couple that is seeking out something they had “lost” in their old home from many years ago that another couple lives in now. The ghostly couple spends the night in this house searching high and low for a specific something that they cannot exactly put their finger on. As they search though the house‚ they relive some nostalgic moments that they had in the times they lived there and
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Successor <br> <br> <br><b>Henry II</b> <br>Henry II was the first of eight Plantagenet kings. He neither ignored his island kingdom nor dragged it into continental trouble. Along with Alfred‚ Edward I‚ and Elizabeth I‚ Henry II ranks as one of the best British monarchs. <br> <br>Henry II was born in Le Mans‚ France in 1133. Geoffrey Plantagenet‚ Count of Anjou‚ and Matilda‚ daughter of Henry I‚ were his parents. Henry ’s younger brothers were Geoffrey and William (Bingham 22; Tabuteau 185). <br> <br>Henry ’s father
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“Never Back Down” I believe in never backing down. My mom told me this when I was young. I heard this was when I moved into my new town. I felt like a stranger and my mom’s words to me were “Never Back Down.” I didn’t know what that meant until after I got home. She told me that it meant I can always learn something new even if the experience was bad. I was in a fight once at school because of a misunderstanding and the first thing that went through my head was “never back down” and my mom also
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Winners never cheat and cheaters never win Winners never cheat and cheaters never win. Americans have grown up with this statement. It is as American as baseball or apple pie. It appears that over the years‚ winning has become everything and athletes will do whatever it takes to win. In order to achieve this goal‚ more and more professional athletes are turning to the use of performance enhancing drugs. "A performance enhancing drug is any substance that is taken for the sole purpose of enhancing
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of John Henry. The legend of John Henry is about an African American male who manually works on a railroad with a hammer and was proud of his work. Others working on the railroad could not match or exceed John Henrys capabilities as it pertained to hammering railroad spikes. It usually took three workers to do the same job that he could do all by himself‚ just that alone caused a lot of jealousy and animosity for some people. This topic is important to me because it shows that John Henry was determined
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A Doll’s House is a three-take action drama in writing style by Henrik Ibsen. It first went to stage on 21st December 1879‚ at the Royal Theatre in Denmark. It was originally published one month earlier. The play has been charged with the fever during the European revolution in 1848; in this case‚ a new modern perspective was emerging in the literary as well as dramatic world; hence challenging the romantic traditions. Major characters in the play include Nora‚ Torvald Helmer and Krogstad. The characters
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Haunted House “Come on you big baby” my friend Ron said. It was Friday the 13th and we were at a real life haunted house. It wasn’t one of those haunted houses they put together for Halloween; it was a real life haunted house. Let me start at the beginning. It was Thursday the 12th and me and a couple of my friends decided we were going to go for a walk down the scariest street in the neighborhood‚ the town‚ and maybe even the world. Rumor had it that more than 50% of the houses had murders occur
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The Misogynistic Henry Higgins The key to understanding George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion lies in understanding the power struggle between the “haves” and “have-nots” – specifically the active and intentional disenfranchisement of women at the turn of the 20th century. At the core of Pygmalion there is a focus on the societal inequities of the day‚ with Shaw presenting society’s treatment of women as property without rights and with little understanding of their surroundings or place in society.
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