I would like my house to be a small‚ double-storeyed detached bungalow‚ modest by modern by modern standards but a place which will complement my desire for harmonious living. What I have in mind is a building in a gated community on at least ten thousand square feet of land overlooking a slope where I can enjoy the cool breeze‚ the fresh air and the beauty of a mature garden. My garden will be a riot of colourful blooms- ixoras‚ cannas‚ daisies and the flighty birds of paradise irrespective of
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The plot of the two stories‚ Odyssey and O’Brother‚ Where Art Thou both has interesting plots. The telling of the stories are both different but the plot of the stories are similar. The plots both involve Siren and the witch goddess Circe. Ulysses and Odysseus are trying to escape Siren and use wax as a way to avoid her. Ulysses puts wax in his own hair‚ however‚ Odysseus want but the wax in his hair. Odysseus has his men put it on their ears. They both used wax and they used it in a different
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My Brother Sam is Dead is about a family where the oldest son is a patriot and is fighting in the Revolutionary War. The parents and the younger brother consider themselves to be Loyalists. Of course they disagree on the oldest brother’s‚ Sam’s‚ actions. This story takes us through daily life with Sam away. Some major events are the dad‚ Life‚ being taken away by cowboys‚ Sam dying and Tim‚ the youngest brother‚ witnessing many gory things and having to step up and be a leader in his family. The
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I’ve always wanted to know what a funeral home really looks like‚ TV pretty much has it pegged but I just never really realized how boring a funeral home really is. I mean sure‚ the stench of death follows you everywhere you go and the eerie feeling of dead bodies waiting to be buried is still there but there isn’t a shady old guy working there or spiderwebs consuming the walls. In fact‚ it pretty much looked like a grandmother’s house. Plastic covered furniture‚ wax flowers‚ and the lingering smell
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luxuriant garden. My house consists of four bed-rooms‚ a living-room‚ a bathroom with a shower‚ a dinning-room‚ a kitchen and a toilet. It is air-conditioned and well-furnished. The living-room is decorated beautifully. Paintings by famous artists are hung on the walls. At night‚ the color neon lights increase the beauty and coziness of the room. There‚ on Sundays and holidays my father usually spends his time playing chess or drinking tea with his friends. My mother and my two sisters are diligent
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Shady plot What genre of stories does Jenkins want the narrator to write? Why? Answer :Jenkins had always called upon Hallock whenever he wanted a ghost story to be published in his magazine. John’s ghosts were live propositions as Jenkins called them. This time again Jenkins wanted Hallock to come up with another supernatural thriller‚ which would give the readers horrors and that is what the public wanted too. Does the narrator like writing ghost stories? Support your answer with evidence
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People are lonely in the book Of Mice and Men. Curley’s wife is lonely‚ Crooks is lonely‚ Candy is lonely without his pup‚ and Lennie is lonely in his own special way. Many characters have a lonely trait in the book‚ Crooks isn’t aloud to hang around with the ranch hands because he is a different color than the other people that work on the ranch. Curley is always leaving his wife to sit in the house by herself so Curley’s wife gets really lonely. When Carlson shot Candy’s dog that really broke his
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Song of My Mother Towards the back of a closet‚ in the corner where the dust tends to linger and the light shies away‚ hangs a brown suede leather jacket right next to a pair of old jeans. A jacket that--in its newer days‚ when the zipper still worked and both pockets were hole-less--a young woman wore on occasion. But‚ both the jeans and jacket are a bit faded now‚ the threads have turned awry‚ and the zippers have lost their shine. The woman has now passed it down to her daughter‚ but her
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Writer‚ Renaissance architect‚ humanist philosopher‚ and artistic theorist‚ Leon Battista Alberti is considered to be the Renaissance’s "universal man" of learning. In addition to painting‚ designing buildings‚ and writing scientific‚ artistic and philosophical treatises‚ Alberti wrote the first book on Italian grammar and cryptography. Born in Genoa in the year 1404‚ out of wedlock but immediately legitimatized by his father Lorenzo. Leon’s mother‚ Bianca Fieschi‚ was a Bolognese widow. She died
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Plot The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. See Conflict‚ Climax‚ Denouement‚ andFlashback. Dialogue The conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction‚ dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays‚ characters’ speech is preceded by their names. act n. 5. One of the major divisions of a play or opera. scene a. The scenery and properties for a dramatic presentation mo·tif a. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work
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