Another thing was that I was enlightened about how hard it is to get your credit and life back on track after you have had it stolen and completely destroyed. ... As I found out from the article, it is a huge ordeal of paperwork, money, and wasted time trying to fix your information and credit but even after that, it probably will not be the same as it was before it was stolen. ... I have a paper shredder and after I read this article, it made me realize how important it is to use it more frequently because you don't think in the back of your mind that someone would really dig through the...

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The Curse is a story about Mitchell Hayes, a forty-nine year old bartender who faces an internal conflict after witnessing a rape. ... It is obvious that Mitchell changed the day of the rape when the narrator reveals that he feels Susan's hand "was a professional hand and he wanted from her something he had never wanted before: to lie in bed while she bathed him" just like she had bathed invalids for a living. ... These characters, like Susan, her children, and the regulars at the bar, are all flat static characters that represent Mitchell's life before the incident, and do not chan...

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In the last scene of Strangers on a Train, Guy is going to play a tennis match that he has to finish as soon as possible in order to go to Metcalf before sunset when, with help of darkness, Bruno intends to leave Guy's lighter on the island as evidence of guilt. ... After the match, thanks to the Barbara's help, Guy can take a taxi without being stopped by the policemen that were waiting to arrest him. ... After that, Guy and Bruno begin fighting on the carousel that is accelerating out of control because the ride operator has been shot accidentally by a policeman. ...

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One reason why this play produced a feeble plot structure was because the play jumped around from scenes that did not relate to the one before or after it, which made it hard to understand. The director did not make it clear whether or not some scenes were flash backs about what happened before, or if they took place recently within the time period of the play. One example of this was when one scene took place on Amy and Paul's wedding day where Bobby asked Amy to marry him after she backed out of her own wedding and then the scene that followed took place in Bobby's apartment with o...

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Shortly after his respectable introduction of our main character he interjects with a "But suddenly" and goes on to foreshadow that this "but suddenly" will be a catalyst in the story. ... After the sneeze Chekhov makes a point to explain that every man sneezes, "It is not reprehensible for anyone to sneeze anywhere. ... After his first apology during the opera fails, the clerk decides he must apologize after the performance to which the general replies, "Oh, that's enough. ... Had the weight of the general and the clerk's society been more balanced the...

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The Other Sister is a romantic comedy/drama about the special relationship between two mentally impaired young people- Carla (Juliette Lewis), who just came back from 8 years in a special school, and wanted to prove she can now handle her life on her own and be independent, and Daniel (Giovanni Ribisi), a sweet young man who falls in love with Carla after she helps him with the vicious students in their Polytechnic school. ... My sensitivity to people with disabilities has most indefinitely been increased because of my viewing of this movie, and the thing I will remember is that it is wrong to...

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After his marriage, Reefy had established a more effective means of communication with his young wife; he would read to her from his scraps of paper. Unfortunately, after almost a year, Dr. ... Before his marriage, Reefy isolation only allowed him to express his thoughts and truths through writing. ... After he leaves, the girl takes his advice, and demands to be called Tandy. ... Right after World War I, America pursued the isolationism policy, the ruling that kept America out of foreign affairs. ...

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He has disturbing dreams, one entailing him embracing Elizabeth, but as he "imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death," and he sees his mother's dead figure before him. Victor's relationship with Elizabeth is almost impossible to continue because of the loss he feels after losing the mother figure in his life, which Elizabeth tried so hard to replace for him. ...

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After nine months, we're just getting to the hospital called "Promater" on a sunny day with a lot of wind, typically weather for my city, almost a perfect day. ... For some unknown reason the doctor that would perform the birth of my brother was the same who performed my birth nearly eleven years before. ... We returned to the hospital, and ten minutes after, some people of our family began to arrive there, all too eager for the arrival of this new family member. ... After a few minutes my tension began to raise, nervous, anxious, cold sweat, to see my brother, and to have some news about...

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Before this passage, Ann has been getting reacquainted with the Keller's house, and the passage hints at the tension between Ann and Kate that will develop in later acts and clues the audience into Kate's mental instability. ... When Chris wittingly says to his mother, "I'll bet you money that you're the only woman in the country, who after three years is still...," he shows his desire to reject the fact that Larry is alive and therefore escape the shackles he has on him, even after his death. ... ; he poses the question to show deference to his mother, and the preceding c...

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Every piece of 'modern' advice about maintaining independence and using their twenties to explore and experiment sexually is layered over a piece of 'old-fashioned' advice about getting married before it's 'too late,' not being too assertive or passionate in sex, and not being too sexually experienced" (27). ... Nelson questions, "Do we really live under the aegis of these opposing threats, or is it the very reiteration of them as our two primary ontological options (and our unthinking acquiescence to such a formulation) that acts as a truer thre...

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After cruel rejection and suffering the cottage maiden is left as an ˜unclean thing', judged by others in the Victorian community. ... This could suggest that before she was involved with the ˜great lord', she was ˜contended'. ...

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This action of cause and effect or of disobedience and punishment is similar as that in Genesis after Eve took the forbidden fruit and God punished her by changing everything in the perfect world he had created. ... The Iroquois twin brothers hated each other even before birth and when the left-handed twin caused the death of their mother, the right-handed twin could not forgive him. ...

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In Praise of Folly, Erasmus says in a very sarcastic tone that there are two madness's that are desirable; one of which is "the desire of war, or an insatiate thirst after gold, or some dishonest love, or parricide, or incest, or sacrilege" (Radice, electronic version). ... After all, "our passions belong to Folly" (Radice, electronic version) and "A man, led by his passions [is] like a beast, he is but the worst of slaves, inasmuch as he gives himself up willingly to so many and such detestable masters" (Radice, electronic version). ... As mentioned before, the priests and clergymen are ...

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Hazel has one and used it as a child before she was "diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen." After being diagnosed and sick, her lungs wouldn't have been able to allow her to swing anymore. ...

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Edward is no Tamburlaine or Doctor Faustus to run after power. ... Here, the irresponsible, immature and weak king undergoes a complete transformation, as he emerges before the audience as a tragic hero in his understanding of the worthlessness of a king stripped off power, much like the King in King Lear. ...

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