A brief History of Ann Summers 1970’s 4 sex shops in London aimed at men clinical white closeted spaces. 1980’s 3 shops closed and 1981 party planners recruited all women 500 of them. 1990’s Ann summers went back into storefront retailing again. In the 2000’s early on Knickerbox was acquired and this added 26 stores in the high street. Web based online retailing and retail is now the biggest part of the Ann Summers Business (1). The change started when Jackie Gold (one of the owners daughters) took
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hesitation settles in her bones as she reaches for the handle on her door. she knows for certain it wasn’t the high-class‚ pretentious woman with a sketchy husband from earlier‚ but that’s just it: she doesn’t know who it is. gripping the handle harshly ( careful‚ jessica. don’t want to pull it out of its fixture )‚ she opens it enough to slip half her body through to stare down her visitor .... claire. “ oh‚ it’s you. ” lacking excitement‚ but she’s sure she sounds relieved. though‚ she hasn’t
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Kiss My Ash by William Severini Kowinsky I could barely speak. I was having lunch with the young editor-publisher of the In Pittsburgh alternative weekly in the summer of ’89. As a contributing editor and a regular columnist‚ I had always written about anything I wanted‚ exactly as I wanted‚ and smoking was one of my recurring subjects‚ though by no means the dominant one. But I knew immediately I couldn’t change his mind. He was already committed. "We can’t run any more stories on smoking
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In a time where the digital age has taken over our lives‚ our initial meeting represented a pure fashion of two individuals conducting their business as usual and destiny meeting its fate. With both of us working in the healthcare industry‚ Methodist Hospital was the scene that setup the perfect place for our lives to come together and eventually lead us to live happily ever after. Walking through the hospital one day‚ Lawson‚ as a vendor of the hospital and Shay‚ an employee of the hospital‚ sat
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higher frequency in correctly remembered words when in a bright room; it was also hypothesized that words with longer exposure time would have an increased frequency of correct recall. The later hypothesis was supported‚ but the former was not. Subjects in the bright room (n=15) remember an average of 7.8 words; while the subjects in the dimly lit room (n=15) remembered and average of 8.467 words. Average short words remembered across both room scenarios (n=30) was 3.267; while average long words remembered
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The poem "Tenement Room: Chicago" is simply about the same thing as its title says‚ a tenement room in Chicago. To show the mood of the room the poet uses imagery. When the poet uses imagery‚ he uses words to create mental images using the five senses of seeing‚ smelling‚ hearing‚ tasting‚ and touching. The poet here tries to show how the room and everything in it is broken‚ beaten‚ and old with visual imagery. In the second stanza the port goes on‚ object after object‚ describing each. In verses
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Analysis of “the lumber room” by H. Munro The text under analysis is a short story by a British novelist and short-story writer Hector Hugh Munro who was born in Akyab‚ Burma when it was one of the parts of the British Empire 1870‚ he was killed on the French front during the first world war in 1916‚ he is better known by the pseudonym Saki‚ and he is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Beside his short stories‚ he wrote a full-length play‚
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Alain Robbe-Grillet and The Secret Room On page 2032 of the class’s anthology‚ there is a work by Alain Robbe-Grillet entitled "The Secret Room". What interests me about this work is that I thought that this topic or story is deep and hard to get the idea. So‚ I wanted to know about Alain Robbe-Grillet and wanted to get the idea. In this connection‚ the question that I want to research is who Alain Robbe-Grillet is and what is this story about. First of all‚ Robbe-grillet‚ he was born in Brittany
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think they know better‚ they ignore any warnings from what they might think was a blathering old fool. These old men would be representing the religious side of the argument. There is also a woman who is outside of herself in both stories. In The Red Room there is a woman sitting staring mindless into a fire. And in The Monkey’s Paw‚ you see a normal woman begin to go crazy after the death of her son. In Victorian times‚ this would be a very intriguing subject for some. As mental problems‚ especially
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all around the room... There were screams all around the room and I could sense dangers beyond the door. Without lingering for the next second‚ I banged on the door with as much force I could gather as I knew the door was locked inside and after a few attempts‚ my effort bore fruits. The door was opened. I stared in disbelief as the sight was simply too appalling to behold. The room was lingering with eerie silence just after the panic and screams I heard. Even though the room was dimly lit
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