Lady of Letters’ in 1987. It is a dramatic monologue from the ’Talking heads’ collection and was written for Patricia Routledge. This satirical tragic-comedy is about a middle aged woman called Irene Ruddock who writes letters of criticism and the short period in her life when her letter writing is most malicious and trouble making. She is judgemental and likes to look down on people‚ as if she is better than everyone‚ when really she isn’t. Her mixed up life leads us away from the irony near the
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Rain. An unusual occurrence for San Diego‚ somewhat of a “glitch in the system.” The weather may have been warm‚ but the sky told a different story. It spoke with a dreary‚ gray tone‚ swallowing up the sunshine that regularly enlightened the sky each day. The rain pelting to the ground was more foreign than the absence of the sun. I had never encountered rain during my past commutes‚ so this weather brought with it‚ an important learning experience. The heavens opened up and poured out its tears
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He just thought they were wrong in the head. If he could give you reason why this would be it. Reason one there yard was a mess‚ reason two his father is a painter‚ third reason there brother was sick and in a mental hospital. He just didn’t like them at all. That meant that the family were not on right terms.
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It had been a long day of work at the slave trade company and Ogo was getting ready to fall asleep when Paama yelled‚ “Minu is gone!”. Ogo jumped out of his bed and ran towards Paama. “Do you know where Minu went?” “No‚ but he was kidnapped somehow”. So Ogo ran back to the slave trade company just in case Minu wanted to visit Ogo. When Ogo was running he saw his brother was being sold for a slave. Minu was boarding the slave ship‚ Jesus of Lübeck which was heading for Morocco. Ogo then knew that
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outside their living quarters. The intense look on her mother’s face while she examined the reddened blistered area seeming to cover her Mistress’ forearm‚ spoke of the rare instance she’d ever seen her worry. “Let me get you something to put on that‚” she said. “It’s a nasty burn and you have to take care of it.” When she opened the door to their room‚ she laid as still as possible pretending to be asleep. She’d almost been caught—her mother coming back into their room like that. As soon as she left
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that causes a person to possess the inability to see or to have the sense of sight. In the short story “Cathedral”‚ we meet an average‚ suburban husband and his wife‚ who have a troubled marriage. The husband is less than thrilled to meet his wife’s blind friend‚ Robert‚ who she has been exchanging tapes with for the past ten years. We feel sympathetic towards Robert because of his handicap‚ but as the story continues‚ it is in fact the narrator who should be pitied because he has trouble seeing
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as one of the men shoot him in his elbow. The man grasped his elbow as the men dragged him across the ground. The man looked around. It was dark out and they were surrounded by trees. The rustling of leaves made the man look at the ground to see dust go up in the air and leaves scattered all around. The men stopped and yelled something in German. One of the soldiers pulled out a gun and slowly paced forward. A couple
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her dad‚ was just coming up the stairs to wake her up. He is a news reporter so he has to leave early. Normally he wakes her up about the time he is leaving. Every day after school‚ Madison goes home and watch my dad on tv. Today’s show was weird. You could tell they were concerned about something. They were talking about the differences in the rotation of the earth. Madison didn’t understand the importance. When my Robert came home‚ he explained it to her. He told her that scientists have
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The guard gave me directions to Ivarstead‚ head to the meadery‚ head south to Riverwood then Helgen and finally go east through the mountain and turn north on the other side‚ he advised I would pass the abandoned meadery just before Ivarstead. He also told me that is where I go if I want to climb the tallest peak in Skyrim‚ the throat of the world. Not long after passing the meadery I met an afflicted refugee who told me he was off to the shrine of Peryite‚ when wolves attacked he coughed some vile
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told her she wasn’t to talk to strangers. When Ellie and Piper arrived in Los Angeles‚ they set out to find Audrena. “There’s some things I need to warn you about before we see Audrena‚” Piper said‚” she must have been murdered in a horrible way because she won’t discuss her murder with anyone. So you better be a good persuader because I’m not sure she’ll tell you. It might take a few days to get her to talk.” Ellie wasn’t discouraged by this at all‚ In fact it made her even more determined than before
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