My little home is probably the oldest house on my street. ... My little home is white with green trim and has a beautifully paved driveway, which stretches from the street all the way into the backyard. ... In those days I used to love to go into the basement which was a finished room and run around and play with my friends, but now I can barely even recognize the basement as it has suffered so much water damage and is such a state of virtual disrepair it does not resemble what it looked like in days long past. ... Then I realize that I must work hard to restore my little home to its origina...

• Word Count: 811
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Living life in the fast lane while socializing on the weekends with friends, enjoying fast food at a football game or just relaxing in the sun, nude at a near by beach. Paying the bills on time, building and maintaining credit to lease or buy being accepted for a loan, abiding by the law trying to make life a little better than average. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her presentation to him is accompanied by an adroit little suck to the interior of each of her cheeks in succession, by which curious and original maneuver she brought as by magic upon its smooth and rotund surface a perfect dimple'. ... After their first introduction she unemotionally discusses with her friends how to catch him, as she considers Jude a good marriage prospect. ... In the end, lacking any sense of romantic idealism or true love, she swindles him into marrying her by claiming a supposed pregnancy, a well though deceit, carefully planed by her friends and herself. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Erasmus describes desires as "somewhat little differing from madness" (Radice, electronic version), which make people "jocund, another while dejected, now weeping, then laughing, and again sighing" (Radice, electronic version). ... Erasmus believed that only a little part of our body was reasonable, and the rest was controlled by our passions. ... Erasmus believes that everyone from the common people to the men of the church are consumed in the desire for money; but Erasmus says only "fools [should be] abound in money because wise men have so little to do, unless it be with poverty" (Radice, e...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate