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    On one cold winter night by the oven-warm fire sat five children who had become friends and experienced a christmas miracle. Before that let’s take it back to a couple months before all that happened .One day in the autumn an old gentleman had gone away, and had rented his house to a family of little American children. Their mother was awfully sick so they moved from the U.S. to Italy. Then the next day they went to their backyard garden and they danced and sang. One day they’re kitten ran away and

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    “Sprinkles can you please run a report on this child?” “I am on my way, sir!” said sprinkles. A few minutes passed and Mr. Claus was talking to Mrs. Claus about the girl. “Mr. Claus I got the report!” said Sprinkles. “Her name is Rarity, she is 9 years old, she has a cat named Oliver, and she has no parents, so she is a foster chi-” Probably that is why she is crying,” said Mr. Claus “She is a foster child. I think I remember her from three years. She was so joyful and she is on the nice list.

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    Throughout her life, novelist Virginia Woolf suffered with mental illness, and she ultimately ended her life at age 59. As art often imitates life, it is not surprising that characters in Woolf’s works also struggle with mental illness. One of her novels, Mrs. Dalloway, recounts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high society woman living in London, and those who run in her circle. As the novel progresses the reader sees one of the characters, Septimus, struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder

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    “That is unbelievable,” Beverly said, amazed. Still shaking Steve removed a paper from his pocket and passed it around allowing his coworkers to read the letter, now no one thought it was funny. Looking at the time clock, Betty said, “We better get to work, or we will need Santa to pay our bills.” +++ During the next several days, each evening Doug turned on the local TV, to see how Santa Claus had granted more wishes for the boys and girls in Rockdale. Soon all the boys and girls were writing letters

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    that focuses on two of Metroville’s superheroes who are married-- Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl (add more) The government creates a law stating that ALL superpower activities are prohibited. Consequently, they are obligated to conform to a “normal life” in their society and wind up assimilating to suburban life with their children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. After 15 years of living as a civilian and insurance claims specialist, Mr. Incredible decides to take advantage of the opportunity to live the

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    Mr. Nobody is a fantasy/drama written by Jack Van Dormael also known as the director that associates a lot of his films with characters who have mental disabilities or physical disabilities. The rated R film that contained sexuality/nudity, strong language, and violent images was released in 2009. Mr. Nobody was watched on Netflix by TV. It was a confusing movie at first, but is easy to catch on along the way. The protagonist is named nemo, also known as the lead singer of Thirty Seconds to Mars

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    Of all their seemingly infinite similarities, Clarissa Dalloway of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Antoinette Cosway of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea are most similar in their longing for England. The actual country may be immaterial—for what both women truly yearn for is an escape from their current circumstances. Though several decades separate the lives of the two women, the forces of oppression they face are much the same. From an outsider’s perspective, both Clarissa and Antoinette appear

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    Both Larkin and Abse have composed verse which includes certain degrees of misery, be that as it may, it's reasonable that they have distinctive perspectives on what causes the feeling. Charles Hall said that it was "ideal" in Larkin's perspective, "for everybody to leave themselves to their fates and acknowledge the intractable void of their lives." Larkin appears to have the viewpoint that misery is for the most part and crucial part of the human condition. Though Abse is for the most part hopeful

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    Virginia Woolf Modernism

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    author used are no longer adequate for this new age; And finally how Woolf’s own subjectivity is reflected through the characters she creates. Virginia Woolf’s essay, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” is a befitting entry point to understand her politics of writing and creating a character. Woolf strongly puts forward the argument

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    Another tendency noted in the British newspapers is the frequent use of stylistic devices such as oxymoron, antithesis or paradoxes, in order to describe the opening ceremony and Britain. Most of them were retrieved from The Guardian, but they were present in all the newspapers: The latter sentence suggests that the opening ceremony, and by extension the country itself, tends to be described as a contradictory entity. This tendency is confirmed above all in The Guardian and in The Times. As far as

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