Moonstone

My brother took me hunting far into the forest. I had no experience in this land before, and my brother offered to teach me of the safe and dangerous areas nearby, but I declined for now, I thought I could learn after these first two days. Though nightfall was upon us, we started to seek shelter from the cold nevertheless. We decided to split up, and of course, we had radios to get in contact when the time came. I knew my brother would find us shelter fast, so I didn’t stray too far from his trail

The next morning, Percival woke with a start, realizing Rion still needed to pack for his trip. He shot out of bed and shook Rion awake. "Rion, hurry, you'll need all sorts of things for your trip. Your bedroll, waterskin, clothes, provisions… We haven't much time." With a yawn and a lazy stretch, Rion clambered out of bed and yanked a traveling satchel from beneath his writing desk. "It's all here. Fleur helped me pack yesterday. She made sure I had extra apples and goat jerky. And she told me

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserable and greedy old man, who focuses mainly on his business and continues with his greedy ways on Christmas Eve. He is always grumpy and yells at his employees, and most of all at Bob Cratchit. Scrooge’s desire is to be by himself on Christmas Eve, and rejects his nephew Fred’s, invitation for dinner. One night, the ghost of Jacob Marley, a former colleague of Scrooge, who has passed away seven years ago, visits the old man. Marley reminds Scrooge of his cruel lifestyle

References - IHM (Indian Head Massage), BM (Body Massage), AM (Pre Blended Aromatherapy Oil Massage, HSM (Hot Stone Massage) Knowledge – B24 – Outcome 10 - HSM UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE STONE THERAPY EQUIPMENT a. Explain the types of safe, purpose-built stone heating equipment and how to use and position them safely. Hot stone heaters do vary with each manufacturer and all heaters operate in different ways. Some may take longer to heat up in relation to the water capacity (the

THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT SEAS During the early ages, many Filipinos use pearls for accessories. The Philippines as we all know is really surrounded by different bodies of water because of these, many sea divers dive in seas just to get big and beautiful pearls. The Philippines is also rich in natural resources containing beautiful places because to these, they export different sizes of pearls in the different parts of the country. With all its grandeur and magnificence, the Pearl of the Orient

the mystery before the reveal of the murderer, they find this satisfying to their curiosity. Thus they begin to continue reading more mystery fictional novels. The birth of detective fiction surfaced around the “19th century” (Gaines). “The Moonstone” novel considered the first detective novel written (Sahni). The novel created by Wilkie Collins established the ground rules for detective novels. Before the detective fiction surfaced, many novels conveyed the murderer as the innocent one, instead

According to the English crime writer P.D. James (1920-) “for a book to be described as detective fiction there must be a central mystery and one that by the end of the book is solved satisfactorily and logically, not by good luck or intuition, but by intelligent deduction from clues honestly if deceptively presented.” (James. 2009: 16). This is traditionally conducted via a detective; a figure deployed within the narrative structure ‘whose occupation is to investigate crimes’ (Oxford. 2006: 202)

- A good conspiracy theory is an “improvable” one. (The idea that many important political events or economic and social trends are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public {Dictionary.com}/ implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events {Wikipedia}/folklore / secret knowledge/ urban legend= a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has

~ I have read a heap of books in my time {Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone} -Richard flirts with the beautiful seductress. (A woman who seduces {Farlex}/temptress/ siren/ femme fatale/enchantress/ Circe/ Lorelei/ Jezebel/ vamp {Oxford Thesaurus}) -You flatter me. Now that I’m swimming in butter, what do you want?(butter

shirt with a black tie, he wore a pair of washed out blue jeans which fitted perfectly and brown boots. It didn't take the group to long to arrive at Gringott's Wizarding Bank, a rather large and impressive building that seemed to be made out of moonstone and was located in the center of Diagon Alley. A According to Remus, Gringott's was the only Wizarding bank which European wizards used to store their money. Each major Wizarding community had a single bank within their largest shopping district