After getting dressed, he left his apartment and made his way across the street to the deli. ... After finishing his meal and having a nice conversation with the lady seated next to him, he politely excused himself and started back home, hoping that his cat was back to normal. ... There he slit my throat and stabbed me several times before disemboweling me and throwing me in an abandoned boat to rot. " Nick didn't know what to think at this point. ... " George laughed a terrible laugh that made invisible blood fall from his gutted stomach and disappear before it landed on the floor. ... ...

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He started writing before the war and his first story, "Three Generations," has been hailed as a masterpiece. ... The Quitangons understood that she was an only child and that her parents were, therefore, overzealous in looking after her. ... They didn't have to talk at all; he would do all the talking himself, so long as they sat there in the sala before his eyes. ... After a dead look at her husband, Lydia obeyed. ... Said Cabading bluntly: "If she goes with you, I'll shoot her head before your eyes." ...

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It seems like it was just yesterday he took a piss in the scuttle butt just minutes before the DI took a drink out of it. ... About two nights before graduation I was doing my fire watch duty while polishing my belt buckle and wouldn't you know the washer machine ate my buckle right out of my hand! ... After we graduated boot camp, we were deployed to Iraq four days later. ... It took a lot of mental and physical preparation but after many long nights of having man to man talks with Coop, I knew we were ready. ... It was three hours before we would take action. ...

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After carefully examining these words, I knew I really had to be comfortable to go up to these people and ask them what the words meant to them. ... After the first person I asked which was one of my closest girl friends, I realized the things that could be said to these and knew that I definitely did not want to hear what my mom or dad's views on pornography. ... After going through so much with someone- the aggravation, frustration, tears, pain, and time spent yelling, you just don't look at love the same. ... Before I went any further I told her that she didn't have to answer...

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Not long after Sethe's reunion with Paul D. she describes her reaction to School Teacher's arrival: "Oh, no. ... So when I got here, even before they let me get out of bed, I stitched her a little something from a piece of cloth Baby Suggs had. Well, all I'm saying is that's a selfish pleasure I never had before. ... Morrison's "Beloved" Community After the abolishment of slavery, the black community became the core of African American culture and life. ...

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They tell him that Jack plans to send the entire tribe after him the next day. ... The officer tells the boy that his ship has come to the island after seeing the blazing fire in the jungle. ... Rather, they stand before him baffled and bewildered. ... For Ralph, as for the other boys, nothing can ever be as it was before coming to the island of the Lord of the Flies. ... After the war, Golding resumed teaching and started to write novels. ...

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The consultant will always put the bride before him or herself due to the wife being the main focus. Putting people before myself has always been one of my main priorities in life, and since I do a good job at that I feel like going into the wedding consultant business would suit me. ... After giving all 10 out, I had probably 5 or 6 of them come up to me and ask why I was doing this and had questions on the questions I gave to them. ... After getting some back, I was told by some students that wedding planning would be an interning job to go into, and they could see me doing it. ...

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After a couple attempts, a few anxiety attacks, and some screaming, my mother finally was able to zip my dress up. ... I never saw a "raw" dead body before. ... Before I knew it, I was looking down at my mother in her beautiful white and gold casket. The night before I wrote her a letter and slipped it into the casket at this moment. ...

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After her walk through San Narcisco and the constant appearance of Trystero's post horn, Pynchon uses personification and diction to illustrate how the overbearing puzzle and the pressure to solve it mentally paralyzes Oedipa: But the private eye sooner or later has to be beat up on. ...

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Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a clear and manageable way, allowing them to enjoy it more. Representation is a very important idea when looking at films that portray women in different societies, because they therefore have different ideologies to live up to. Stereotypes are also used in film; they are not real people, but widely ...

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Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistib...

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• Grade Level: High School