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    Monologue Of Ebony Myer

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    With only a plush‚ ivory towel placed underneath her juicy backside‚ she let the fire little by little evaporate all the small droplets still clinging to her brown flesh. Meanwhile‚ she pondered the changes that had already happened‚ in only a few and short hours; time seemed

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    Jim Carry

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    at Yuk-Yuk ’s‚ one of the many local clubs that would serve as his training ground in the years to come. He dropped out of high school‚ worked on his celebrity impersonations (among them Michael Landon and James Stewart)‚ and in 1979 worked up the nerve to move to Los Angeles. He finessed his way into a regular gig at The Comedy Store‚ where he impressed Rodney Dangerfield so much that the veteran comic signed him as an opening act for an entire season. During this period Carrey met and married waitress

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    containers they could lay their hands on: ’milk-cans‚ pea-tins‚ jam-pots’. The rhythm of the list is repeated two lines later in ’hayfields‚ cornfields and potato-drills’ whose bordering hedges offered the fruit for picking. Onomatopoeia in the phrase ’tinkling bottom’ suggests the sound of the first few berries hitting the metal of the cans they were dropped into. An ominous picture is painted in the description of the ripe fruit on the top: ’big dark blobs burned like a plate of eyes’. Perhaps this reflects

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    School Canteen

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    at the huge steaming pot of hot soup. On the other side of the stall‚ helpers work feverishly to serve these hungry mouths. Steaming bowls of soup‚ fried rice‚ fried chicken and sandwiches are passed in exchange for coins that are tossed into tinkling money baskets. The change from notes is thrust into ready palms that quickly pocket the jingling coins. The canteen grows crowded. Orders are shouted above the constant drone of busy hungry people. Someone starts banging the automatic drink dispenser

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    ever-popular winter song‚ "Jingle Bells [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud3xdj_RQ_A]." He uses the word tintinnabulation‚ which means the ringing of the bells‚ but just the sound alone suggests that. The sound suggests the ringing echo of the jingling and tinkling bells. In the second stanza‚ Poe illustrates wedding bells‚ which have a sweet happy feeling. The wedding bells of gold sounded at night to predict happiness for a newly married couple. Poe uses a long "o" sound in his words‚ which suggest harmoniousness

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    One Way or Another

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    is wanting what you get”. Ivory Christian was happy preaching and wanted to preach but was afraid football would interfere with his goal of preaching and succeeding at being a Christian. Many kids today are undecided on what they want to do in life. They have to really think on what will help them the most later in life. Ivory Christian was one of those kids. He could not decide if he should quit football to fully devote his time to his dream of preaching. Ivory Christian is a character whose

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    elusive character‚ a European worshipped by the natives by the name of Kurtz. Kurtz is portrayed as a very talented man; owing his artistic‚ musical‚ and literary skills to a high upbringing in Europe. He later becomes known as also the most talented ivory exporter in the Congo as well. Kurtz’s death‚ the pinnacle of the novella‚ reveals to those reading that Kurtz is terrified‚ of what exactly is uncertain‚ as he screams aloud “The Horror! The horror!” (144) The most correct interpretation of this statement

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    Woodpecker

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    The Case of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: The Scientific Process and How It Relates to Everyday Life* by Kathrin Stanger-Hall‚ Plant Biology‚ University of Georgia at Athens Jennifer Merriam‚ Biology‚ SUNY Orange Ruth Ann Greuling‚ Office of the Provost‚ Northern New Mexico College Part I—Background Brad Murky‚ a graduate student in conservation biology at Cornell University‚ had been involved for nearly a year in a highly secretive research project taking place in the tupelo swamp of the Cache

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    As Marlow notes‚ “The word ‘ivory’ rang in the air‚ was whispered‚ was sighed. You would think they were praying to it” (25). Clearly‚ ivory is the most important item to the Company‚ and Kurtz’s ability to collect so much of it is what makes him such a valuable employee. It is also worth noting that Marlow suggests the men are praying to ivory‚ which is similar to the third stanza of T.S. Eliot’s poem‚ in which “Lips that would kiss/

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    The mass killings of elephants for their ivory‚ the widespread pollution across the ocean‚ and the careless behavior towards nature are all things that people are contributing to. Mary Kate Frank‚ the author of both “Saving the World’s Ocean” and “The Race to Save the Elephants” believes that people’s lack of respect towards the elephants and the ocean is resulting in negative effects to the U.S and other diverse nations‚ such as a dramatic drop in trade and transportation‚ and an economic breakdown

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