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    Moreover, on that bright June day the hurry and spring in the pretty redhead’s step had a teeny bit to do with what her best friend, Sylvia, had told her earlier that same morning: someone new had come to town; a handsome, mysterious young man. All the harbor girls whispered in delight; gossiping, speculating and wondering who would land the first date with this new guy. Rumors had it that he had started work at the newly opened First National, the harbor’s first modern grocery store. Oh sure,

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    CHAPTER FOUR As Dark As His Tar Black Soul The strange beach was stifled as if the ghosts of notorious pirates maybe even Blackbeard himself had come back to silence the coastline. My imagination was chuck full of childhood tales—I could picture infamous pirates wielding silver cutlass swords and gallant king’s men battling at sea, but the sand was deserted and even the wind now held its breath. “Bro, we’ve fallen down the rabbit hole or something. I know were not in Pixie Dust anymore . . . but

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    After quickly finishing the process of Identity & Baggage Registration and some couple of random security check points, I finally get to take a break from all that madness. Especially during the screenings where a bunch of kids kept tripping & pushing me. I did wonder at some point where their parents were and found out that the mom and dad were indeed a bunch of careless drunkards. I was putting my things on the conveyer belt then everything went on a complete turn when the children stuck gum

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    The Death Of A Soft Sigh

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    into the woods. "Maniko! Boy, get back here!" The woman scolds her giggling grandson. The grumbling duo eventually continue their way down the road towards Ba Sing Se. After they 're out sight, the young man gracefully jumps to the ground. He takes a deep breath before whistling a series of notes loudly, before beginning to count and leaning his back against the thick tree. "Jet, we 're here." Three figures

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    was undoubtedly long pointed crannies. So I was right.. How fun! An amused smirk plastered itself on her face. "Why isn't your face constricted in fear? Why are you smirking at me?! Are you mocking me?!! You worthless mortal!!" The violet haired boy screamed at the girl. "Tsk tsk; don't yell. It's troublesome and besides why would I be scared of you? You are merely a vampire that needs blood to sustain life. Nothing more and nothing less" she ridiculed, enjoying seeing him seethe with anger.

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    John Updike presents us in his story A&P, through Sammy’s actions, the protest of young and misunderstood generation which he sees in his story, as rebellious and visionless by older generation for which all that does not obey to society's standards is unusual, unaccepted, and accentuated by the fineness of details and nuances, a deep insight intuition of choosing revealing moments of 1960’s, in which sexuality was taboo. With this Updike is announcing a big change in the culture, and of the times

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    The Night of Fire

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    The Night (Fire engine, boys, rain) April 24th, 2012; the sound of the news on the television hums in the background drowned out by people talking and laughing. Fire Station 141 is buzzing with life; everything is in calm and peaceful; when suddenly a loud screaming sound rings through the brick walls. All of the men in the station startle to attention and rush around in organized chaos. The shuffling of boots on the smooth concrete floors and ruffling of thick fire suits is drowned out by the

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    conclusion, some being biological and distinctly different from gender to gender. Boys were usually assessed as less developed mentally and developing in different sequences as their female counterparts. The corpus callosum was 20% bigger in females than males. These connect the two hemispheres of the brain. Couple this with these facts together explains why females tend to be better communicators than males. Boys generally express their feeling with action whereas girls are able to

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    The Man, The Boy, and the remains of a dead world are the only constants the reader will know as they make their journey down “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. The novel tells a story of the nameless protagonists as they traverse through a post-apocalyptic land in an attempt to reach the warm coast before winter. McCarthy’s story also covers many dark and heavy topics - primarily death. He has said himself that death especially is a major issue in the world, and that writers who do not address it are

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    published. One year later, Wright’s first book was published. Since then, Wright has wrote a number of books, series and short stories until he died in 1960. With that being said, Richard Wright’s short stories, The Man Who Was Almost A Man and Big Boy Leaves Home were both written to show what coming with age and responsibility truly mean. The Man Who Was Almost A Man After a hard day at work, seventeen year old Dave heads across the fields for home, still thinking about some of the problems he had

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