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    The Story Snail

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    As a storyteller for children‚ I would like to share my latest favourite story for primary aged children. This comes from a book by Anne Rockwell. The Story Snail Lee’s version of a story by Anne Rockwell Once upon a time there was a boy named John. John was a nice boy‚ and a kind boy‚ but there was nothing that he was really good at doing. Nothing at all. Everyone laughed at him and teased him. So one day‚ he ran away. He ran away to the paddock and he hid in the long tall grass

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    Summary on “Eve’s Diary” Eve’s diary chronicles Adam and Eve’s first days on earth from Eve’s point of view. Eve is a curious creature who is learning more and more by the day. God is giving her names for the animals and plants as she comes across them although she does not know where the names are coming from. She longs for Adam to talk to her and be around her but he seems to have no interest in her or what she likes. Little things such as the moon rising and falling fascinate her. She wishes to make

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    story of stuff

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    The Story of stuff is about the cycle of “stuff”. The cycle of “stuff” consists of extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption‚ and disposal. This is my analysis of the story of stuff. One major theme of this video is to explain how the U.S. is using up all of our natural resources. The first way that we use up our resources is deforestation. This is when we cut down a large number of trees in order to make it into products to sell. The next major theme is production. This is the stage where

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    WEATHER Story

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    long time. Maybe 3-4 months. Summer‚ Monsoon and Winter are seasons . Apart from the seasons.. .The wind .The closeness to the sea and .The clouds also affect the weather. •The Summer season is from February to May. .The weather is hot and dry. .This type of weather is called a sunny weather. .We cool ourselves by eating ice-creams‚ having cold drinks and drinking plenty of water. .We should wear light cotton clothes so that we don’t sweat much. .The Rainy season is from June to September. .There

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    Stories of Ourselves

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    Firstly‚ Clare uses many forms of figurative language such as metaphors‚ personifications and hyperboles to show the negative impacts of love throughout the poem. Phrases such as his “face turned pale a deadly pale” and “stole my heart away” show this. Love shocked him as if he was a dead ghost and as if life was taken away from him. At the beginning‚ he mentions‚ ‘I ne’er was struck before that hour’‚ telling us that he was hit by cupid’s arrow or suddenly struck in the face when he saw her. The

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    Women in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and “The Story of an Hour” Prior to the finish of Victorian era‚ marriage was tantamount to a master-and-slave relationship. The part of the woman in the marriage was negligible. The woman’s place was in the house‚ nurturing the kids‚ cleaning the house‚ and doing other womanly assignments. Fastened to their husbands‚ marriage progressed toward becoming jail to many women; the main means of breaking free from these bonds being the death of a husband. In the last two

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    rather quickly standing up from her chair‚ she walked peacefully to the door and pulled it open. Her sister Josephine was standing outside‚ a different look of panic flashed in her eye. Josephine told her sister to take a seat‚ because she had something very important to say. Telling Mrs. Mallard the news about Brently Mallard’s death was not very easy for Josephine because she was afraid her sister would die from heart break‚ after all Mrs. Mallard did have a severe heart condition. The news came

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    Story Of An Hour

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    “The Story of an Hour” is a short story written by Kate Chopin and first appeared in Vogue in 1894. The story takes place within the time span of an hour‚ hence the title‚ and is about the thoughts of a married woman who is told her husband has died only to find out an hour later that he is still alive when he walks in the front door. The story explores the range of emotions that the main character experiences within the span of an hour. Since this story was written after the death of Chopin’s

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    The Story Of Solutions

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    Rachel Bohnenberger Professor Van Doorn ENVS 150-002 30 January 2015 Critique Two In the first video‚ The Story of Solutions‚ the main focus was to shift attention from making more and more for the economy to making the economy better. It was described in the video that in order to make the economy better‚ we need to focus our attention on sustainability. One example given was banning plastic bags. Two methods were given on how to accomplish said task—the old method and the new method. The old

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    Short Stories

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    [pic] PEN 0055 Essential English Foundation in Law ONLINE NOTES Reading 1 (Short Stories) A Rose for Emily William Faulkner | When Miss Emily Grierson died‚ our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a |1 | |fallen monument‚ the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house‚ which no one save an old man-servant—a | | |combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least

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