Lightning flashes and illuminates the witches. ... her voice strikes a discordant note; it is the voice of a street-wise hooker. ... The flashing images on the screen lessen and eventually cease and the screaming turns into cries and then that too stops. ... A breeze blows across backdrop; rubbish floats, blurred grey-black images flash past, and there are moaning cries on the wind. ... These pictures very disturbing and un-nerve me, they start flashing from one to another, speeding up whilst a slow sheet of blood begins to drip down the screen. ...

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The final act is superb from its first note to its last. ... Verdi cannot be accused of skilled note-spinning. ... Each flash of lightning, each rumble, is bound into the stage directions, into the music, into the dialogue. ... The throbbing strings that represents the pounding of the hunchback's heart-beats; the lightning flash that reveals his daughters face; the two-octave trembling down of the violins that rends hi...

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Take notes your way. When a class requires a lot of notes, write down important key words then borrow and photocopy a classmate's of the teachers notes. ... Use flash cards to help you study for test. ...

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The narrator notes, " During the early part of my stay I had been struck, the climate and the deadness of the community" (5). ... The snow had ceased, and a flash of watery sunlight exposed the house on the slope above us in a plaintive ugliness. ... One can compare the destruction of the "L" on his home to his actual life, as the narrator states " this connection of ideas, caused me to hear a wistful note in Frome's words, and to see the diminished dwelling the image of his own shrunken body" (11). ...

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Each time the story flashes back to speak about Kreisler, the readers are led to discover more and more strange mannerisms about him. ... The important thing to note during this flashback is the way Kreisler reacts to Meister Abraham. ... He even leaves room in between the themes within a movement such as fermatas, long held notes, and cadences - which creates a false illusion for the listeners that the movement is coming to an end though it has merely only reached its halfway point. ...

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For instance, Abbey notes that "Across that narrow opening, a small white cloud was passing, so lovely and precious and delicate and forever inaccessible that it broke the heart and made me weep like a woman, like a child. ... I remember the beautiful noise the rain made against the dense leaves of the trees, the brilliant flashes of light with every lightning strike, and comforting crackle of the fire. ...

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On further examination, one would note, every paragraph after has included in it one form of pretentious diction or another. ... During the careful construction of this essay one scenario kept flashing in my mind: Abraham Lincon standing up to give a speech on the fundamental rights we all have to freedom speech. ...

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The same may be true of the brain's response to other dream sensations: certainly, stimuli such as a spray of water, a strong smell, a sudden sound such as the ringing of an alarm clock, a voice, a few notes of music, or a brief flash of light, may all be incorporated into dream and "rationalized" in some way to fit in with its content ( Wade 173). ... By comparing, contrasting, and sorting the wealth of material stored in the mind, these processes engender creative insights which flash as if from nowhere into consciousness ( Fontana 34). ...

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When we saw the lights flashing up the road on the bus, I'd look back and say "bye mom!"... The next morning I waited in our warm car all the way until I saw the yellow flashing lights on the bus. ... I asked the eighth grade English teacher for help, after five minutes she finally cracked the puzzle and unlocked my locker, I opened it to find a note addressed to me from "my worst nightmare". ...

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However, during a lightning flash, they move so fast that it gives itself a certain glow. ... It can flash INSIDE the cloud, BETWEEN the clouds, or OUT of a cloud. ... Sounds within this range can be reproduced by playing the lowest notes on the organ, tuba, and other instruments. ...

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(Note; in the hard copy version I received in class, the line reads, "Plant a flower on the grass," however, I use the version of the lyrics posted on Don McLean's official UK website at www.don-mclean.com.) ...

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"Fire is also used as a tool of murder when turned on the book woman and on Beatty, and fire is inherent in the flash of exploding bombs that level civilization in the final holocaust" (Stanley 102). ... An interesting thing to note about Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451's main theme of censorship has nothing to do with the plot of the story, but more to do with the editing of the book. ...

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When speaking seriously on the topic of love as a young girl, a teen, one tends to lose creditability. There is a generalized and common idea that love that is young is not as laudable nor as beautiful as love that is old. It is said that young love burns like brushfire and old love like oak; a simp...

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I also started to take notes on parts that I thought would be significant. If it was something that I had to memorize, I would just put it on flash cards and review them by flipping the cards back and forth. ...

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William Wordsworth was one of the strongest romantic poets in the English Language of his time. Born in April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, United Kingdom William Wordsworth was a poet of Sublime, of the transcending striving that is a vital part of the human legacy. After his mother's death in 1778 he was sent to Grammar school near Windermere, in 1778 he was able to work himself up to St. John's College, Cambridge and then to the University of Cambridge. William Wordsworth's father was a legal representative to James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, an English politician and landowne...

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Sex itself relies on this otherness, as it is the result of "a circuit of force always flowing" similar to electricity, and the actual act of coition is when "a great flash of interchange occurs, like an electric spark when two currents meet or like lightning out of the densely surcharged clouds." ... It is important to note that the time at which Daphne realises her feelings for the Count, is when she is in an almost dreamlike trance. ...

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Noting that the concussion syndrome covers a range of symptoms and severity, Gennarelli, suggests that there are two broad categories of concussion: mild concussion, without loss of consciousness and characterized by symptoms such as seeing stars, if the injury was focal, and or a short period of confusion and disorientation with or without amnesia for a brief time before and or after the event; and classic concussion, defined by reversible coma, occurring at the instant of trauma, which may be accompanied by cardiovascular and pulmonary function changes and neurological abnormalities. ...

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Think You"re a Good Driver? Certain people have different ideas of what a good driver is. Just because you always abide by the speed limit, slow down at those yellow lights and always let people cross in cross-walks does not make you a good driver. It means you are a cautious driver and frankly...

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle Academic habits can be seen as a mental attitude and behavioral practice that facilitates a student's learning and makes excelled learning and progressive development possible during the educational years. Thes...

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American Beauty American Beauty is a film that delves into your typical, middle-class suburban home and slowly uncovers all of the abnormalities that lie within. The family is portrayed as normal, but as the films tag line suggests "look closer." It is possible to fully...

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The mass media is pervasive in our everyday lives; consumers are constantly surrounded with information through various media vehicles, such as television. Television commercials integrate the use of art and technology to create simulations, stories, in an effort to evoke desired reactions from audiences. Through a bombardment of television commercials featuring popular designer logos and packaging, the general public feels compelled to buy brand merchandise. Using composed images, music jingles, superimposed graphics, narration and other elements, a worthy commercial is able to reinforce t...

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