In "An Ounce of Cure," Munroe tells a story about a girl who found her first love in a small rural town. ... For example, the girl in the story says that she "hung around places where he might be seen, and then pretended not to see him"(365). ... When growing up in a small town much like this girl, there's only so much pleasure that you can seek from within the town. ... Those feelings allow you to feel more life than what is normally possible in that small town. ... Sometimes I might feel lonely or out of place, but it's something that I enjoy. ...

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At night I would lie in bed and imagine the places we would go, the things we would see, the dreams we would dream. ... After poring over each and every picture, I would carefully place them in my small jewelry box. ... I eagerly removed the paperwork from its hiding place and began to fill it out. ... Delicately, I scooped her out of the small, cramped box she was in and held her tightly. ...

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"Some texts take us to different times and places. ... Examine this statement by referring to one or two texts which are set in another time or place. ... We would all like a place of refuge where we can go, knowing that we can act ourselves without be judged or laughed upon by the people who surround us. The Café was a place where this was possible. ... This café of Miss Amelia's may just be the downstairs area of a small mansion in a small town, but really after viewing closely what happens within, it is realised that it is infact the focal point of the entire countr...

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I believe the most romantic place in the entire world is on a beach. Beach seems like the most ideal place for a perfect picnic, and I"m planning to take my significant love one there. ... The key element to setting the mood is the time of day in which the picnic takes place. ... In my picnic basket I have prepared some small, and easy things to eat such as: crackers and cheese, some grapes, strawberries, some deli meats, sandwiches, champagne, napkins and plastic utensils. ...

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William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" takes place in a town called Jefferson. ... Emily Grierson had a streak of general insanity, along with an insane pride, as is shown in her relationship with her father, her place in the community, and her problem with distinguishing the present from the past. ... However, Miss Emily's relation to the small community of Jefferson is of great significance. ...

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Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson's mystery-suspense novel, provides an immaculate interpretation of a small American coastal island's trial to conquer and expel the ongoing dogmatic narrow-mindedness synonymous with its inhabitants. ... The small community associated with San Piedro Island, recently stricken with the misfortune of a mysterious drowning, soon realizes a more complex situation. ... This conflict, though not visible to tourist mindsets, has been subliminally effervescent since the mistreatment of the Japanese Americans during World War II, and its dormancy beneath...

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Her story starts by telling the reader how, ultimately, small they, as people are, not once but twice. ... By showing us how small we are in comparison it helps to build on how big she views love and fate as being. ... It works towards an indiscriminate audience and makes them feel comfortable in place of the author. ... They are allowed to learn small things but are mostly kept in the dark. ... By beginning and ending with the theme of the universe it reminds us again how small and insignificant we are in relation to it all. ...

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As Lucretius puts it, "suddenly you place a thing in front of the mirror, at once its image appears; so you may know that from the surface of things there is a constant and perpetual flow of thin shapes and thin tissues everywhere," (IV, Lines 155-159). ... They both have to come together as one because atoms are mentally limited to how much they can divide into smaller and smaller parts, although they are physically indivisible. ...

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Whether it been swimming in pitch-black ocean water to hide from pirates, barely scraping by on small desolate islands for days until she and her siblings could be rescued. ... My mother's love is seen everywhere; it's seen in her constant support in my life endeavors large or small; it's seen in her willingness to drop everything to cater to my needs; it's seen in her smile and eyes whenever I go home to visit family. ... Thank you for teaching me the true meaning of love, the meaning to place another person completely above myself. ...

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Give away stuffed animals that were given to you by that person and offer it as a gift to your smaller siblings or cousins. ... Some examples of moving on are as follows, when you go out by yourself or with your friends avoid going to places that you know there might be a chance that he could be there. ...

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Things are not always as they seem. In David Guterson's novel, Snow Falling On Cedars, the "truth" shines through. The novel takes place in post World War II time, in a small island off Washington state known as San Piedro. It follows the story of a trial over the murder of fisherman Carl Heine, wit...

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"Fools" "Fools" written by Neil Simon, takes place in a small town in Russia. Leon Tolchinsky, the main character, is the new school teacher in town hired to break the stupidity curse put on the town, many years ago. The curse can be broken when Sofia Zubritsky, daughter of Dr. Zubritsky, is...

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How do I love thee is a sonnet by E.B. Browning where she displays her love and devotion for her husband. The sonnet is like a monologue where the poet asks herself a question and comes up with the answer. The strength of the sonnet is that the speaker tries to express her feelings as a person, whic...

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For a manager to think and feel this would be a terrible place to work. ... It is only when Dan starts to trust Soc and realize that the place and time is always the present. ... Timidity is never a positive attribute, especially in the work place or business world. Strong ideas and actions make for audacious, confident leaders, no place for timidity. ... Realizing that our small problems could be so much bigger and that worry and guilt only lead to unhappiness is a realization that enlightenment is not attainment. ...

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The iconography includes a memory place (place of first kiss etc.), parents being the obstacle, life drives them away from each other, a fiancé appears as another obstacle, their love is strong and overcomes everything as well as beautiful, instrumental music and calm romantic settings (e.g. on the lake), the weather (+ lighting) changes with the mood of the scene (happy times, sunny. ... The characters are usual for a romantic drama: a young man Noah Calhoun (main character), young woman Allison Hamilton (main character), strict parents Anne and John Hamilton, fiancé Lon Hammon...

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Mitch had his goals in values in the right place, but a crisis shattered his normal existence. ... It caused him to place his values into the popular views of society. ... Another wave tells him not to be afraid, for all of the small waves are a part of the larger ocean. ... Morrie's appreciation of the story can be interpreted to reveal his belief that after his death, he, the one small wave, will somehow return to the human race, the vast ocean, and again contribute to a cycle he has unknowingly repeated many a time, just as the waves on the ocean continuously break on the shore and dis...

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The war takes place in the mountains that sit back beyond the plains. ... Henry and Catherine continuing to find small amounts of given time to spend with one another. ... Later in the year, the couple move outside of a small village on a nearby mountain. ...

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And the only one who could possibly help her in her despair is the one who entered the room to console her; the man who now sees her as the apple in his eyes―the girl I loved for what seemed like an eternity― slowly and affectionately wrap his long and strong arms around her now slender and small back as she bawls her grief away. ... From the time I had rescued her and held her small and trembling frame against mine, to the day she gave me a gift as a sign of her thanks, the nights we spent eating out together, laughing, messing around and the days that go beyond that, every single one...

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The story took place in both England and France. ... Some of the story took place at The Fisherman's Rest in Dover, England. Otherparts of the story took place at Sir Percy's house in Richmond, England, The Chat Gris in Calais, France, Lord Greenville's Ball and The Covent Garden Theatre in England. ... The Scarlet Pimpernel and a small band of devoted followers had dedicated their lives and fortunes to saving the innocent aristocrats of the French Revolution and the horror of the guillotine. ...

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In order to keep up their social position and maintain superiority over anyone in the neighborhood, the household struggles to live an elegant life with a small income and regularly spends beyond their means. ... No matter how hard he forces the horse or slashes it with the whip, the wooden horse is only swaying back and forth, impossible to bring him to the place where there is luck, just like it is not possible for Paul at that time to do anything practical to satisfy his mother's desires. ... Unlike a real horse which can run and take the jockey to anywhere he wants, the wooden rocki...

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Gertrude imposes herself onto Paul's and William's lives so much that she arguably takes the place of a lover. ... This lack of trust in the relationship is relatively detrimental to both parties and leads to the breakdown in love and Stella's placing of Stanley above her sister. ... Their relationship throughout the play is strained; it is in the passage after Blanche's confession of the loss of Belle Reve that Stella starts to understand what actually happened and places Stanley above her. ...

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Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, tells of a young child, Pip, and his revelation from childhood to adulthood. Pip, due to many unfortunate incidents, painfully learns from his mistakes. He lives in a very harsh environment; after his parents died he began to live with his sister. His sist...

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The resemblance was uncanny, but there is a small chance I could be wrong. ... At that moment I realized that this wasn't Leisha, but in fact a random homeless bag lady from the streets who happens to know my name because I told her it to her in the first place. ...

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Judge Me Not, Love Me, Seek No Revenge Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a dark tale of sin and redemption, centers on the small Puritan community of Boston during the seventeenth century. A young woman (Hester Prynne) comes to this town to find a place to live for her and her husband, but falls victim to the desires of the human nature. ...

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Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is the story of young black girl growing up in a small town in Ohio, during the 1940's. ... This hatred and neglect of Pecola by her mother is evident in the scene that takes place in the opening chapter of the book, where Pecola is found to be "ministratin" by Claudia and Frieda. ...

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