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    This book is just one account of what took place on that fatal September 21, 1986 night. It was a warm and beautiful Sunday night on the Sunset High way in Oregon when Cheryl Keeton was brutally bludgeoned body was found in her van, in the fast lane by a motorist, Randall Kelly Blighton who just stopped to see if he could offer any type of help.       Randall Blighton saw a silhouette of an infant in the vans window which now he says was a car seat. He felt that he couldn’t

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    research on sunset clauses. This topic was suggested to me based on something I had written in my first book review. I began by Googling “sunset clause,” but I was unable to find a reputable source that explained sunset clauses. I then went to my local library’s website and found the online resources page. I then used the databases to try and locate a source that explained sunset clauses. I was able to find one source from the Britannica Library. This source mentioned that the principle of sunset clauses

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    In Flanders Fields

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    “We are the Dead. Short days ago, We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields.” This is quote from John McCrae's influential poem about the fallen soldiers who fought in World War 1. After McCrae, who was a physician in the war, witnessed his friend Alexis Helmer die in combat, John was inspired to write a poem which recognized the soldiers who fought at the Second Battle of Ypres. This quote from McCrae's poem is a very poignant and compelling message

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    Film noirs describe pessimistic films associated with black and white visual styles, crime fiction, and dark themes. Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 film noir directed by Billy Wilder. Sunset Boulevard presents many themes that are common with the genre film noir, but also introduces some differences from the typical movie in that genre. The main similarity in Sunset Boulevard and a typical film noir movie is that it was very melodramatic and over the top. Many film noir films have very dramatic storylines

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    Abbey's Five Senses

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    In Abbey’s Essay, he does a very good job describing all the various objectives and is very inclusive on using the five senses to describe every detail. In his essay, Abbey describes the sunsets as “elaborate sunsets in every named and unnamed hue of gold, purple, crimson, green, orange, and blue, spread out for fifty or a hundred miles among the floating ranks of clouds.” The inclusiveness of the senses continues in his description of the sounds or the silence that he hears in the desert. In his

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    A 43 year old New York woman named Rosemary Billquist was shot dead with a pistol by a hunter who thought she was a deer. Rosemary was killed when she took her dogs for a walk in her home town near the Pennsylvania border around 5:30 on Wednesday. As police investigate they say that Rosemary was walking in a field when a man hunting nearby mistook her for a deer and shot her once with a pistol. The hunter heard her scream, called 911 and stayed by the girl’s side until emergency crews arrived. She

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    Vampire is "a bloodsucking ghost that come back from dead person believed to come from the place where a body is buried and wander about by night sucking the blood of people asleep and causing their death." Before vampires were seen as evil monsters and creatures humans must fear. However, now, vampires have become an "famous popular culture and fascination among teens around the world"  This art has increased vampire large groups of fans this way resulting to the creation of many fan clubs and social

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    this fact, as it is just that: a fact. · ‘Dead’ is capitalised, as though the poet is referring to all those who died as one collective person. People not in the war would probably refer to them like this, anonymously. * Line 1 – ‘Short days ago’ this brings home the suddenness of death in war. * Line 2– ‘We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow…’ this helps the reader to identify with the dead. It contrasts with the previous capitalisation of ‘Dead’ because it is reminds the reader of how

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    Phoenix Railroad City

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    city in the United States without passenger service. Amtrak had rerouted the Sunset Limited after the Union Pacific

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    Graveyard Book (2008) by Neil Gaiman breaks down the borderline between the dead and living world in his novel. Gaiman presents an irony in his novel by giving the caring nature to the dead people of the graveyard. He presents the graveyard as a safe place for an innocence, rather than the living world. Silas is a mysterious character throughout the novel and his existence is not stated very clearly amongst the living and dead. However, there are some evidence in the novel, which unravels the existence

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