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    Dangers of Bath Salts Abuse in Teenagers Bath salts have become extremely popular among teenagers for the past 5 years. This is not the kind of substance that you use for bathing. These are synthetic cathinones that act similarly as a khat plant. They have similar effects as that of the other illegal substances which are covertly sold in parties, concerts and music festivals. Bath salts are usually sold as a white or off-white powder which is mostly in small plastic or foil packages that are packed

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    How does Northanger Abbey use representation of buildings and architecture to communicate ideas to the reader? In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen uses buildings and architecture to represent ideas to the reader about appearance vs reality and to provide evidence for the view that Catherine sees life through a gothic lense. I will be focusing on how Blaise Castle does this and how both Northanger Abbey’s external and internal architecture does this. Appearance vs reality is a strong theme throughout

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    The Albatross by Kate Bass reveals a kind of loneliness and sadness to it. The poem doesn't have a rhyme scheme, it just flows as you read. It is split into 3 stanzas and has 20 lines that make up the whole poem. Kate Bass is a British poet that was born in North London in 1962. She went to Edinburgh University and studied chemistry, but later studied illustration at Anglia Polytechnic University. Now she lives in Cambridge, England with her family and works as an illustrator. Kate Bass' poems mostly

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    Landlady By Roald Dahl

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    price. When he goes in he discovers a room is already ready for him. Is this just a stroke of luck, or is there a darker purpose behind this seemingly innocent hotel. In the short story Landlady by Roald Dahl you follow Billy on his adventure through Bath England. In the beginning Billy is searching for a place to stay when he stumbles across a very cheap one. This hotel has great service and prices. However Billy soon finds out that this place and the woman who run it aren't always what they seem.

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    beginning of Northanger Abbey, the narrator quickly posits two kinds of readers, one the “naive reader of romance who would expect a heroine to be an orphan and to engage in ‘the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rosebush,’” and the second a “more sophisticated reader who rejects romance and who knows a parody when he sees one” (Wallace 262). According to Wallace, the narrator holds a black-and-white view of readers, where there are only two

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    beginning of Northanger Abbey, the narrator instantly posits two kinds of readers: “the naive reader of romance who would expect a heroine to be an orphan and to engage in ‘the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rosebush’; and the more sophisticated reader who rejects romance and who knows a parody when he sees one” (Wallace 262). According to Wallace, the narrator holds a black-and-white view of the readers. There are only two categories of

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    In Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey, conformity is a very prominent recurring theme. The main character Catherine Morland fails to conform to the clichés of a typical literary heroine and woman in the aristocratic society. As a child she never enjoyed the more ‘girly’ activities, she “had no taste for a garden, and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief,” (Austen 5). As a young teenager she was quite foolish and awkward. The narrator stated at the beginning

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    Jane Austen writes her novel Northanger Abbey surrounding the protagonist, Catherine Morland, a young girl, living within the Regency Period. Women at this time were seen as subordinate to men, and were taught to seek a husband for wealth and status. From the very first page of the novel, however, we see that Austen does not depict Catherine Morland as a typical woman of this time. Jane Austen writes the character of Catherine Morland as a character pushing the boundaries for women of this time.

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    The Ruined Maid

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    The Google online dictionary defines developed as “advanced or elaborated to a specified degree.” In the Thomas Hardy poem “The Ruined Maid” the main theme is how two women are sharing comments on each ones growth and change. The speaker show how somebody else growth and change may influence somebody else life to make them want to change. A lot of times your changes will influence others around you rather its good or bad. This poem also show that you have people watching you so it’s best to always

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    girls enjoy the company of one another, their friendship is based only on self-interest. Once arriving in Bath, Catherine’s lack of acquaintances lead her to spend most of her time with Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Allen is Catherine’s guardian in Bath. As a guardian, Mrs. Allen’s responsibility is to find acquaintances for Catherine. Instead, Mrs. Allen says she wishes she knew people in Bath to introduce Catherine to. The situation that occurs during the ball is extremely

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