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    Electricity

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    Lightning - Each bolt can contain up to one billion volts of electricity - Electrical discharge is caused by an imbalance between positive and negative charges in the atmosphere - Colliding particles of rain‚ ice‚ or snow increase this imbalance and often negatively charge the lower reaches of storm clouds - Objects on the ground‚ like steeples‚ trees‚ and the Earth itself‚ become positively charged - A step-like series of negative charges‚ called a stepped leader‚ works

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    Essay On Katherine Mansfield Short Story “Mansfield sheds a vivid light onto ordinary lives” In what way and how effectively do you think Mansfield achieves this? Refer to two stories. In the stories Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding and Her First Ball by Katherine Mansfield‚ an example of ordinary lives is shown. This is illustrated by both characters‚ Frau Brechenmacher‚ who attends a wedding‚ and Leila‚ who attends her first ball. As both stories are instances of people’s lives‚ we see

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    Henry Lawson Essay Distinctively visual depictions of the land shape people and their experiences‚ allowing meaning and depth. In henry Lawson’s short stories the Australian outback evokes a sense of isolation‚ ultimately shaping the identity of the individual. This is portrayed in the ‘drover’s wife’ and ‘in a dry season’. Furthermore Archie Weller in ‘pension day’ creatively depicts the inextricable connection between indigenous Australians and the land. Thus‚ depicting how the land can come to

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    Scary Story: A Short Story

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    What makes a good scary story? A good scary story is only good if it’s based on something that happened in reality and could happen to anybody. My story is something similar to that. Now that I look back at it‚ maybe it was just the sugar rush I had from the Surge soft drink. It had my blood pumping and my heart beat was racing. I haven’t been back to those woods since that day; however‚ there was still a part of me that wondered if what I saw was there in reality and not just my imagination. Either

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    Racism in Short Stories by john This is an essay i wrote for English Literature. My examples are from two short stories ‘The Test’‚ and ‘After You My Dear Alphonse’. A Race is a population of humans distinguished from other humans. The most noticeable way to distinguish between races is by skin colour. In a white patriarchal society‚ like ours‚ race is used as a point of difference and discrimination to create power differences. ‘The Test’ and ‘After You My Dear Alphonse’ both challenge the

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    “A Sunrise on the Veld” is a short story written by British author Doris Lessing. It tells the story of a boy who is filled with the excitement and wonder of life and the world around him. However‚ he soon discovers the darker side of reality‚ which is that living things must die. This story explores feelings of invincibility that many people have had in their youths. It also describes feelings of fear‚ anger and grief that most humans feel when they must face the reality of suffering and death.

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    basin. Suddenly‚ rangers from the National park Service greeted us and asked “Want to learn about the cherry trees?”. “Sure‚” we answered. I was so fascinated by them. When the park ranger was done speaking‚ we decided to go to the World war 2 Memorial. We arrived at the World War 2 Memorial and was heartbroken when the ranger told us “405‚000 people lost their lives in this war and the wall of gold pays tributes to them.” He also told us that theres a rainbow pool framed by 56 granite columns representing

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    This is and essay of the short story A&P ENGL 1102 – summer 8:00am 29 July‚ 2009 First Step of Maturity Everybody makes hard decisions through life that mature them. In John Updike’s short story “A&P” Sammy‚ a nineteen-year-old clerk working the checkout line at the A&P grocery store‚ decides to quit his job because he stands out for his decision and fallows it thought. The story focuses on the observation‚ through Sammy’s point of view‚ of three girls that come to the store wearing

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    Short story is fictional work of prose that is shorter in length than a novel. Edgar Allan Poe‚ in his essay "The Philosophy of Composition‚" said that a short story should be read in one sitting‚ anywhere from a half hour to two hours. In contemporary fiction‚ a short story can range from 1‚000 to 20‚000 words. Because of the shorter length‚ a short story usually focuses on one plot‚ one main character (with a few additional minor characters)‚ and one central theme‚ whereas a novel can tackle multiple

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    Emergence of a New Woman in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories The turning of the 19th century instilled a desire in all women to be free and liberated from their husbands. They desired freedom‚ liberation and happiness. Such characteristics were portrayed throughout the short stories written by Kate Chopin. For the majority of Kate Chopin’s life‚ she was brought up without a male figure and was constantly surrounded by females (Toth‚ 1999). Kate Chopin was a woman whose feminist viewpoints were far ahead

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