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    hits them. On September 1, 2009, Nicholas Sparks released his fourteenth book, The Last Song which is about a young girl named Ronnie Miller, who spends the summer with her father at Wrightsville Beach, where he’s been living the past few years. In the beginning of the movie, she’s a rebellious seventeen-year-old girl, but soon changes her ways when she meets the boy of her dreams, Will Blakelee, who is played by Liam Hemsworth (Goodreads). According to Nicholas Sparks, he came up with the idea

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    Shops are bursting with toys, mince pies are on the menu and radios are blasting out Christmas tunes -- so it's time for another festive favourite: lying to children. For millions of children, Santa is an essential part of the Christmas magic. But if parents persuade their children that Santa is real, that lie may harm them, according to psychologists First of all, you’re setting your child up for inevitable disappointment when they realize the truth about Santa. Everyone remembers that moment they

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    Reflection Paper

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    interest of mine. However, that changed the summer of eighth grade year going into my freshman year. I was finally able to take sometime that summer to willingly sit down and read a book of my own interest. That book happened to be The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. It really brought out a different perspective on reading for me, not only because the storyline, but to come to the realization that authors really do speak to their readers. I was never able to understand what that meant until I read The

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    Modern Mythology

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    is Santa. The Santa Clause story stretches all the way back to the 3rd century. The legend can be traced back to hundreds of years to a monk named St. Nicholas. It is believed that Nichola was born sometime around 280 A.D. in Patara, near Myra in modern day Turkey. Nicholas became the subject of many later told legends. It is said that St. Nicholas gave away all of his inherited wealth and traveled the countryside helping out the poor and the sick. One of St. Nicholas’s best story is that he saved

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    into a sweat and her hand began to feel clammy against her bouncing knee. Her conscious begged her not fabricate any false myths to her young and gullible child. The legend of Santa Claus can be followed back hundreds of years by a priest named St. Nicholas. And since then, millions of children have been lied to about a “fat man that comes to one’s house to steal cookies and brings people presents.” Parents have argued that telling one’s children is not harmful at all. And they are just carrying a tradition

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    Theme Of Oliver Twist

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    The word ' money ' sums up a theme that Dickens has been preoccupied with in many of his novels . Dickens has studied the nineteenth century commercially-oriented England and observed the corrupting influence of money on members and deplorably , suggesting how material possessions have become the criterion of evaluating a human being . Dickens's critics are well aware of this devastating influence . Humphry House confidently tells us that Dickens's plots and characters are , " constructed round

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    “The purpose of this paper is to write about the similarities and difference of two movies: The Choice and The Notebook. Nicholas Sparks really knows how to set a romantic/emotional, but also creates a very predictable love story plot-line. You could predict the ending before the movie started with only knowing who the movie was based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. There is always a boy who falls for a girl and has to work extremely hard to get her. Then, something happens, but in the end they are

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    I was in the living room hanging up my stocking singing Christmas songs at my house. When I hung my stocking up by the fire place I started to think about Santa. I was wondering if Santa was really real like everyone said he was. I was sitting there just thing about it like I have actually seen the guy in real life so how do I know if he is real or not. I was in suspense for finding out. I mean I always thought was real but now i am having second guesses about it. Santa Always brought me Gifts

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    Ariana Sparks, is a 12 year old girl who possesses a sweet voice that reveals her talent . She has been a resident of Creeks of Willow Bend for 8 years and she is currently attending at the FairHill School. Ariana is living with her mom Leah, her dad Justin, and 3 loyal & furry Maltese, Spencer, Cooper and Oliver. Ariana loves animals and she would love to be a veterinarian but she also has a talent that can't can't be hidden... Ariana is a busy young lady, who seems to be very clear on what

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    The Notebook

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    The Notebook, based off of the novel, is one of the best love story films around directed by Nick Cassavetes. An old man reading out loud from some old notebook that tells the story of Allie and Noah. Reading to a women with alzheimer’s condition telling about how the two were separated by world war II and then reunited. Allie and Noah grew up in two different and opposite life styles. Noah saw the women of his dreams, right there in front of him. Trying to get her attention was harder than he

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