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    The House on Mango Street The House on Mango Street,written by Sandra Cisneros, deals with a mexican girl named Esperanza, who grows up and dreams big in Chicago. Cisneros uses imagery, theme, and symbols to describe many things from Esperanza 's perspective. Imagery is used to describe items and people in a meaningful way. Cisneros uses various themes to show various ideas and beliefs. The symbols used describe objects and figures to portray ideas on a deeper level. Cisneros employs unique literary

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    Warning: Child neglect, Child Abuse, Violence, Dark thoughts " You never spend time with our kids Lucy! All you do is write your stupid novels, the house is a mess and the kids are running a muck!" " Oh wah, sorry that I'm not a nanny! What, this isn't my all my fault. You're only home on weekends and all you do is sleep you lazy ass!" It was like clockwork, their mother would spend most of her days writing her newest stories online, while Bailey and her brother Scott has free-rein

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    The Screaming Fire Sirens start to yell, people are screaming, a fire has begun and my brother and mum are trapped. My mum starts to scream “Help me, help me,” but let’s go back to how it all began. As a kid, you must be curious, but for my brother, his curiosity got the best of him and it was not pretty. I think you can guess what happened next. Ding ding ding! If your guess has to do with matches, you are correct. What most people don’t know, is that you can burn in a fire for 7 hours of more;

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    Ordinarily, traveling to the “middle of nowhere” is just that—going nowhere. However, to me it means the neighbor-less neighborhood, called backcountry. I live in the “middle of nowhere” for half of the time; the other half I live in an ever-growing college city, Columbia. I have cultivated a special appreciation for each journey home through the winding Missouri back roads that bring me to the place where my soul rests. Though the roads may take me to one of my houses, my home exists far beyond

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    Surrealism Impact

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    Surrealism: The Global Impact of the Puzzling Art Movement Imagine having the ability to observe an entirely new universe not yet explored by the human eye. Visualize having the ability to completely free your imagination, letting your thoughts and desires wander to form exotic scenes or locations. These unfamiliar worlds lay deep inside of the brain as subconscious thoughts, usually undetected by the person with them in his or her possession. With the help of the intriguing art movement known as

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    Beloved “Beloved” is the story of a young black woman's escape from slavery in the nineteenth century, and the process of adjusting to a life of freedom. Most people associate slavery with shackles, chains, and back breaking work. What they do not realize is the impact of the psychological and emotional bondage of slavery. In order for a slave to be truly free, they had to escape physically first, and once that was accomplished they had to confront the horror of their actions and

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    The microscope which is invented and developed by much different scientist overtime is one of the most important tools a scientist especially in the biology and chemistry study can use. It made an impact in how we view life and learn more about the nature of diseases that had plague mankind for years. The microscope is mainly a tool biologist use but it has many uses for those studying chemistry. Life before the microscope may not seem as different as life with the microscope. But if you

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    The Boyfriend Essay

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    Have you ever imagined your boyfriend dying and then coming back to kill you? Well this is not something you usually think about, but it might happen. The author R.L. Stein will take you through this in the book “The Boyfriend”. “The Boyfriend” was first published in 1990. This book is an exciting mystery- fiction book. This story takes place in various places. The main part of the story takes place in Joanna’s house. Joanna’s house in situated in a fancy community called Middle wood. The houses

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    1 / 4 Gavin Mina Ms. Geiger-English, P5 A Raisin in the Sun Script 15 May 2017 A Raisin in the Sun Script Act IV A few hours later. Mama, Walter Ruth, Beneatha, and Travis had arrived at their new house ready for a fresh start. They all started to unpack their bags. Admiring the scenery of their new house. It had more room than the apartment that they were living in before. Once they were done unpacking their bags Beneatha was chilling in her new room. Walter was chilling on the couch

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    Art, Dinner, Kisses and Walter. Tuesday I had dinner with my mother and her new husband Roger. Before going to dinner, Roger picked me up from the high school and we drove across town to meet with my mother at an art gallery. It was a small yet noticeable building, the outside painted mellow blues and yellows; there was no visible sign that said it was a gallery, no banner or anything, and not much of the art was on display in windows—though none of this would stop you from getting the impression

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