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    Safe Haven Monologue

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    quickly going through the crowd holding his kids’ hands. they found their mother talking to these people saying there is a group in the mountains that knew this was going to happen and made a safe haven in the mountains. the group of people are called Ride

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    arose to put on her dress and walked downstairs. She couldn’t wait to spend the night with her two beaux‚ Alex and Charlie. After daily chores were finished‚ Becca retrieved a horse and wagon from the barn. Becca and her mother‚ Sarah Case‚ would ride into town without her sisters because of the rumors of Gypsies. Becca’s mother parked the horse behind the depot and they started walking. As Becca and her mother trekked a young Gypsy that was crossing the street as Becca if she wanted her fortune

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    My Fear-Narrative Essay

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    I am the toughest one there. The thoughts of certain death run through my mind as I imagine my own funeral. My stomach feels strange. My palms are clammy. I am terrified of heights. Of course‚ it is not really a fear of being in a high place. It is the view of a long way to fall‚ rocks far below me and not having anything around me to hold on to. The scary heights of rides is one example of my fear concidering the first time i went on one of the fastest and tallest roller coasters. It was a hot summer

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    In a way Stephen King is correct; one way or another we all are mentally ill to a point. No one is perfect‚ and we all do strange things. Some people are perfectionists when it comes to how they do things; some have a habit of talking to themselves‚ and others just do strange things like pet peeves without even realizing it. We see horror movies for the same reasons we ride roller coasters: for the adrenaline rush‚ the escape of reality‚ and the ability to show our fears to the people around us

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    A Response Paper to 20/20

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    we "see" in people and things. Not everyone can see eye to eye but we can at least try to get along. With Ruthie and Bill; Bill wants to argue and Ruthie does not. They find a way to get along in this long car ride with Bill preoccupied with figuring Ruthie out and Ruthie seeing strange things and voicing them out loud. Each has their own outlet for dealing with the situation at hand and though they are not the same ways‚ they come together in the end. Bill has preconceptions about women. He

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    the thunder boomed‚ the lightning crackled and the rain poured; we waited restlessly for our ride. As they arrived‚ I vaguely began to recognize the faces of my many cousins. My parents and brother wen in one car‚ and I went in another. Driving rapidly over the unregulated speed limit‚ we arrived to the dock thirty minutes earlier than everyone else. There I sat‚ surrounded by strange faces and strange people‚ yet this was my family. When we finally arrived at my mother’s village‚ walking along

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    What is Sexy? What makes an object startling and strange is its lack of presence in everyday life. The unfamiliar evokes in people a sense of beauty and a need to understand that which they do not know. The foreign is both frightening -- for we do not know what may come of it -- and appealing -- for we wish to delve into its background and know its secrets. Jhumpa Lahiri is no slouch when it comes to understanding the intimate relationship humans have with the foreign‚ and many of her short

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    associations‚ however‚ Dickinson describes her carriage ride with death as‚ "I had put away/ My labor and my leisure too‚/ For His Civility‚" ( 6-8). By illustrating death as being civil‚ she expresses a courteous and gracious picture of death. This line has also a religious perspective; hence‚ Dickinson capitalized "His" in order to indicate God. The poem continues with a stanza telling about many things she passes during her carriage ride with death. "We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain / We passed

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    and well groomed. Perhaps a man coming to pick a woman up for a date. The poem begins with the woman being surprised on how "nice" death actually is. It wouldn’t be right for a young woman to take a carriage ride with a strange gentleman by herself‚ so in this case Immortality rides with them‚ and supervises. Immortality is only mentioned once throughout this piece‚ because the woman is still much focused on death. People have busy lives‚ and don’t think of their own death‚ however‚ the speaker

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    “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence was primarily about materialism‚ and illustrated how it can negatively impact more important aspects of life‚ such as love and family. The short story described a troubling relationship between a mother‚ who is incapable of love‚ and her son‚ who desired for his mother to love him. Lawrence created a perfect situation to showcase his theme‚ for the story is told very similar to a fairy tale. For example‚ “Rocking Horse Winner” begins with the omniscient

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