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    Short Story English

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    of data his mind had processed told him that large companies always sought the innovative‚ the inventive and well-rounded individuals that could give them an edge over their competitors. Why should ‘IN CORP’ be any different? “Are you sure? No secret passions‚ dreams that you wish you could have pursued in vain?” She pressed‚ eyeing him with vague interest from her seat behind the large‚ white desk that separated them. She leaned forward‚ and the jewel on her jacket glinted as it caught the light

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    Response to a Short Story

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    Response to “The Story of an Hour” The story mainly talks about complex emotions of Mrs. Mallard towards the news of her husband’s death along with her inner reflections upon living‚ death‚ and freedom. The emotional change of Mrs. Mallard is an essential clue throughout the whole story. At first‚ she was deep in sorrow after hearing the bad news that “she wept at once‚ with sudden‚ wild abandonment”. Then‚ she realized that her husband’s passing away actually set her free physically and mentally

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    Eric's Short Story

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    It was no secret that Eric had unresolved feelings for Madison‚ and not just the simple innocent type of feelings either. He had been in love with the girl since they were no more than naive teenagers growing up in Brooklyn; but even so‚ she had always been Theo’s girlfriend and there were some lines that weren’t to be crossed. After all‚ Eric was Theo’s best friend and therefore Madison was and always would be off limits. Nevertheless‚ these nettlesome feelings had followed Eric into adulthood and

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    Cuauhtemoc: A Short Story

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    Cuauhtemoc the cat sprinted alongside the Spirit of the forest‚ and his tail flapped behind him like a flag. Occasionally he would stumble--not just because the ground was uneven but because things kept erupting out of it. A fleet of deer‚ a flight of squirrels‚ mounds of loamy soil‚ mazes of dewy grass‚ a kitten crying out at the first light of the sun‚ a lion exulting over a meal. All the while‚ a chorus of golden birds followed them and sang a dizzy tune to the beat of their Mother. The Spirit

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    Whirlwind Short Story

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    the gravity of his weakness and hunger. He decides he must seek out food and compares the customary facility of finding food with the challenge of his current situation. Still dwelling on his parents’ divorce‚ he decides he will tell his father "The Secret" as soon as he returns home. Brian finds some unfamiliar bright red berries to eat‚ which turn out to taste very bitter. However‚ left with little choice‚ he eats them until the pangs of hunger subside. Since Brian has no matches he must think hard

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    Mélanie Short Story

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    and offered her my arm‚ which she accepted with the grandiloquence of stage actors. Like most old artists‚ she had kept a coquetry which had made her cover her wizened face with a thick and flamboyant rouge. She was wearing a dress with bouffant elements‚ and fabric windings which gave volume to her overly perfumed presence. Although she was not young

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    The Secret Life of Bees novel and film versions both tell essentially the same basic story. One major theme both the film and novel represented was that imprisonment makes people feel small even when they are much stronger than originally perceived. However‚ the novel was a better representation of the work’s theme. Even with the fact that the imprisonment theme was presented in both versions‚ the novel demonstrated this theme in different ways from the film. The novel’s presentation of this theme

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    Dominoe: A Short Story

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    Dominoe was in shock after hearing the story Liz just told her . The lady that died on the steps was not just a force by spirits ‚ it was the cause of pure drunkness and childness . Dominoe was in rage at her cousin and friends for doing that ‚ bringing a curse to the school and to themselves. Liz got up from her seat busting out in tears ‚ she explained how she had been watching herself and hoping the curse does not bring anything bad upon her. Alton apparently was claimed to have gotten more

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    Gothic short stories

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    The graveyard was dark and shadowed; tulips lined the cobblestone pathway that led to the mausoleum‚ looming darkly against the feeble moon. I strode through the graveyard‚ glancing nervously around at the shadows that lay thick upon the graves like a shroud. Tulips‚ protruding like withered stakes from the ground‚ lined the pathway‚ and I could smell their sickly-sweet odor as I approached the mausoleum‚ looming above me like a forbidding monument to the feeble moon above. “Rachel!” I cried out

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    Racism: Two Short Stories

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    Individual Oral Presentation Essay (IOP) Comparing First and Third Person Narratives: Racism Note: This essay intends to explain the differences in first and third person narratives‚ highlighting examples within the two stories “Let them call it Jazz” and “A sense of shame”‚ both of which deal with racism and its subcultures in a first and third person perspective‚ respectively. The arguments presented are limited to that of first and third person perspectives only. The differences between

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