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“I got up and pretended to study the pictures on the walls like I was a lover of religious art. When I got to the Merciful Mother right above Sinita’s head, I reached in my pocket and pulled out the bottom I’d found on the train. It was sparkly like a diamond and had a little hole in back so you could thread a ribbon through it and wear it like a romantic lady’s choker necklace. It wasn’t something I’d do, but I could see the button would make a good trade with someone inclined in that direction.

The courtroom bustles with the activity and chatter of a hundred different noble families, and their cousins on top of that. Veronique purses her lips at the head of the table, watching the incessant gossip of one woman pass onto another. The servants scramble with plates of food and bottles of wine alike, back and forth across the marbled floor. She does not know – or rather, she knows very well – why Caine insists on the constant socialisation. He flits about from noble to noble, like some sort of graceless hummingbird, laughing or frowning when he must. The mask is wonky on his face, clinging around his temples far too tightly, and pulling away from his nose as if repulsed. It is, all in all, quite the sight, she thinks. Veronique

Both Lincoln and Adhra had decided to remain in their cells, to rest and recuperate. The plasma beam that had injured them was quite thin, so the injuries, while painful, were not life threatening. In fact, after a few hours of lying on his bed, Lincoln started his exercise regime. He was somewhat surprised at how his shoulder and leg allowed him free mobility, albeit with some wincing.

V2 grimaced as he folded his arms across his chest. A local carnival had arrived in town and was stationed in the open lot across from Toshizou's manor. For the most part, V2 hated crowds of people, they drove him mad, not to mention the odor their bodies gave off when V2 was close enough to smell the blood that ran through their very veins.

I was born in Manhattan, before there were efforts to introduce New Yorkers to “green spaces” and “street trees.” Concrete and steel held me in their grasp; I could have walked multiple blocks without seeing the color green beyond an occasional glimpse of dead grass and limp shrubbery from a “secret garden.” There was comfort in the noise of traffic, the rumble of the subway, and the clamorous conversations.

Paint powerfully swiped across a winter white canvas, leaving the pure canvas to be tainted. The calming fragrance of paint, strong as it may be, attacked my nostrils. The dust of the attic made my mouth cotton dry, and left me tasting the scratchy musty smell. Small segments the sunlight peaks through the sole window. Black paint dripped down running off the canvas onto the easel.Each black drop, full of my own passion, and emotion. No noise littered the room except my loud thoughts screaming, and the shift of a paint brush against the rough surface of the canvas. My thoughts carried me away from the reality of painting.

The three women are in a café lit with plenty of sunlight on the outskirts of Nagasaki. Behind the café, a still pond under a small stone bridge can be seen. This bit of blue is at the foot of a mountain. Madame Chrysantheme (MC) is sitting upright on a mat with a forlorn face, staring straight ahead. Yuki (Y), sitting on a mat to the left of MC, has a smile on her face and stares up with bright eyes to Madame Butterfly (MB).

On the morning of the fourth day, while every nation was still piling and burning millions of dead Christians, plans were being drawn by the larger nations to aid underdeveloped countries. Smaller countries who had no reserves to rely on needed world support to maintain a meager existence. What farm animals that survived were no longer to roam freely in the pastures. They were penned and guarded like gold bullion. Every breeding technique was used to replenish the food supply. Severe punishment was given to anyone caught killing an animal that could be bred.

Somethings in life, we find very sad. Although most of us wouldn't be alive without them. This exact feeling affected me in June of 2017, we were away from home experiencing a whole other feeling a whole other feeling, a whole other world.

“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal” - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (NASA).

It was the year 2666 and there was a kid named Jack and he was with his family one day and he wanted to go play with his friends so he called them.

key. Take as much time as they will allow. I am the one who made time. What did I do on the sixth day? Man’s time and my times are different. Do not rush ahead of me. I have to touch hearts. When you turn in the key, tell them my Father thanks you. When they give you your keys, tell them my Father thanks you and I thank my Father. When you step into the house, thank Me. When you step out of the house, you thank Me. Praise Me! Praise Me! Every box you touch thank Me! Thank Me in My Son’s name! The enemy is going to try and block you. Say “Jesus,” and he has to flee! You have to fight! Fight! Fight! Until you know the wall is down, every box that you touch, know that I am working it out. Get an appointment book. You are

I) Today is a big day for me. I have a presentation at my office for a bond with a company from China that wants to invest in my start up. They seem pretty impressed with my idea of ‘Smartly Engineered Interior Décor’. I have prepared for it the whole month with my team. As I wake up, my smart wrist band tells me I had a sound seven hour sleep, gives me details about my heart beats per minute, body temperature and the amount of workout needed. The refrigerator tells me the nutrients present in the salad I am going to have for breakfast. I read a news of a retailer being arrested for using plastic bags for sale. The laws now are strict regarding their usage. My nephew is taking his missed lessons from school on his tablet. I wish we had

In the last 20 years, a significant amount of research on franchising has been conducted in various disciplines, including economics, law, management, marketing, and management science. A major goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the existing literature. A second goal of this article is to enumerate steps that can be taken to improve both the rigor and relevance of franchising research. Since this represents an initial overview of a very broad research field, we have not attempted to develop a tightly focused research agenda on any one topic. Instead we present several relatively general, widely applicable suggestions that can significantly improve future research. We first split existing research into three

“Levantate!” I groggily got out of bed and looked at the clock on my nightstand 7:15 am. “Wonderfull,” I thought “he woke me up early”. My father isn't someone who likes to be late he is a very punctual person. I on the other hand always preferred to wait until the last minute. So why did I have to get up at this ungodly hour during summer vacation on my day off work? I had to pick up my cousin who was going to live with us. Her parents believed that it would be best for her to study here in the Evergreen state and my parents agreed. So that is how I found myself at the airport at 8:40 am waiting for my flight looking at “Primitive Technology” on youtube. Some people don't like the hassle of flying. I don't mind it but I can see why