Article 26 Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty In a rite of passage‚ some Nigerian girls spend months gaining weight and learning customs in a special room. “To be called a ‘slim princess’ is an abuse‚” says a defender of the practice. By Ann M. Simmons TIMES STAFF WRITER AKPABUYO‚ Nigeria—Margaret Bassey Ene currently has one mission in life: gaining weight. The Nigerian teenager has spent every day since early June in a “fattening room” specially set aside in her father’s mudand-thatch house
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Beautiful Stranger (A-List Novel #9) Zoey Dean To Dianne. Loyalty is everything. New York was real and California was not. T’ was ever thus. --Lauren Bacall 8 9 Blank Silk Christian Dior Gown T here were many things that Anna Percy loved: classic novels written in the nineteenth century‚ the antique diamond stud earrings handed down from her grand-mother‚ the idea that a person could‚ if she really wanted to‚ reinvent herself. But at this moment‚ she wondered if the thing she loved
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America is essentially the laziest country in the world. This elucidates why there’re so many lazy people in it‚ like myself. However‚ being lazy does not necessarily mean America is a bad country; laziness makes America the unique and beautiful country we know and love. Being lazy can be awful or great‚ but when I describe how excited I am to go on vacation‚ it’s a huge deal. I’m never more anxious than the morning I wake up to go on vacation once a year. Consequently‚ I am usually at my worst when
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had to let a court decide on who Nic would stay with I can only imagine that this was a very hard divorce for Nic to have to go through. Also in making this decision did David or Nic’s mother take into consideration what effect their fighting had on Nic? When I was reading Beautiful Boy: a father ’s journey into his son ’s addiction‚ I was surprised to read that Nic had marijuana in his backpack. I felt that this was an important part of the story because it is Nic ’s first introduction into drugs
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BYE BEAUTIFUL SUMMARY TABLE Page Reference | Events | Techniques | Themes | Purpose | 1 – 2 | Prologue: Family’s and Frank’s reaction to Billy’s death | Italic’sThird Person | | Creates suspense | 5 – 6 | Lansings’ car journey | Similes :HeatPersonificationAdjectives | Family roles in 1960s established | Creates a sense of heat and isolation | 7 – 9 | Meet Bill Read | DialoguePersonificationSymbolism :” shriek of the cockatoos” (9) | | Reference to politics (Menzies) provides historical
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We read to train the mind; to fill the mind; to rest the mind; to recreate the mind‚ or to escape the mind. What is essential for you in reading? What is your idea of a private collection of books? "Reading" is an ability to perceive‚ understand the information‚ written down (transferred) by that or otherwise. There are two ways of reading: fluent and careful. To read fluently it to be able to be run by eyes under the text and to understand a plot essence. Careful it means to read the text
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[b]frost- →[/b] [i]a deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces when the temperature falls below freezing.[/i] her mother was unable to name her‚ and her father wanted nothing to do with her. her elder sister - who also acted as her mother - decided she would name her little sister. she looked down at the small kit‚ her pelt reminding her of the frost that collected on the branches of shrubs during leaf-bare‚ and so‚ she named her frostkit. [b]-wave →[/b] [i]a long
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THE WALRUS • MARCH 2OII lltSIHilliiKHIIIIIIIIIillHIIIiniltli BOOKS Crímínou8 Minds A new wave ofcrime writers is exploring Canada’s darken corners BY RICHARD POPLAK ILLUSTRATION BY JACK DYLAN BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY: and beaver-shaped shortbread. Rush espies the young Rosalind Canon‚ CanLit Wunderkind of the moment. She is flush with a Dickie nom‚ a considerable book advance‚ and the adulation of the culturocracy. Why not me? whines Rush‚ borrowing the italics Stephen King made
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Hamlet Essay Period: 5 November 15‚ 2013 “But come‚ / Here‚ as before‚ never‚ so help you mercy‚/ How strange or odd soe’er I bear myself/ (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/ To put an antic disposition on)‚ …” (Act 1‚ Scene 5‚ Ln. 169- 173). With this one phrase Shakespeare sparked a debate that has lasted for centuries and have left literary analysts no closer to deciphering Hamlet’s “mental disorder” now than the analysts were in Shakespeare’s time. The second act of any Shakespearean
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Beautiful Creatures (Book 1) By: Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl I. Introduction/ Summary Sixteen-year-old Ethan Wate lives in Gatlin‚ S.C.‚ but dislikes his small town and would like to move away. He lives with his father and a housekeeper; his mother has passed away. On the first day of his sophomore year of high school‚ Ethan again has a dream about falling through trees with a girl whose face he can’t see. This dream has been recurring for months‚ and it troubles Ethan because in the dream
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