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    In “Everyday Use ” by Alice Walker the exact setting is never revealed and therefore, can only be guessed, but it has been guessed that the story takes place on a country side in Georgia. At one point in the story Augusta is mentioned. The time is also estimated to be during the Civil Rights Movement around the year of 1973. Mrs. Johnson, along with her two daughters, reside in a small three room house, and take pride in there small yard. As Maggie and Dee grow older they start to realize how

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    In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is a short unpleasant story. Everybody faces difficult hardships, relationships, and family matters, such as life and death of loved ones. While going through those difficult times people end up having a difficult time by letting go of loved ones. After reading “A Rose for Emily”, Miss Emily Grierson had to experience difficult times in her life. She could not date anybody, her father passed away, she met a soon to be great guy, poisoned him, and end up being

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    narrator opens the story by revealing that he has been sentenced to death during the time of the Inquisition—an institution of the Catholic government in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spain that persecuted all Protestants and heretical Catholics (Sparknotes Editors, 2002). When the narrator discovers his predicament, he loses consciousness. When he wakes up, he discovers he is inside a prison. He investigates the dark prison, and discovers a pit near the center. Once again, the narrator loses consciousness

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    Prometheus Sparknotes

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    At the beginning of the play Prometheus, a Titan, enters escorted by Might and Violence followed by the god of fire Hephaestus. Violence is silent for the entire duration of this scene but Might is very disdainful towards Prometheus and states under Zeus’s command Prometheus is to be chained to a rock in the Caucasus because he disobeyed the will of Zeus and stole fire from Mount Olympus and gave it to humanity. Might is pretty cruel to Prometheus but Hephaestus is reluctant to chain Prometheus

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    The Berg Sparknotes

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    The story starts in a dystopian society where sun flares have struck the Earth forever changing the climate and lowering the population and food supply. The character Mark resides with his girlfriend Trina his three friends Darnell, Misty, and Toad with two war veterans Alec and Lana. Its starts off as a normal day for Mark. He wakes up early when it is still cool and goes outside to visit Trina, and he hears the sound of an engine overhead. Mark and Trina rush over to the Berg(A blimp, It was the

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    The Gangulis Sparknotes

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    The novel takes the leaders deep into the Gogol Gangulis' immigrant experience: their puzzlement at and isolation from a non native culture, their loss of connection with families in India,where happenings occur different from them; their seeking old links in a circle ofother Bengali immigrants, several of whom become substitute aunts and uncles to Gogol and his sister, Sonia. An ongoing struggle is showed it as first generation immigrants and their children struggle to find their places and adjust

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    Deadpool Sparknotes

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    Deadpool Brings His Swords, Guns, and Hilarious Insults on Amazon Marvel’s “Deadpool” makes fans love and hate this anti-hero, as the comic book character fights, and insults, his way to get his love back after an experiment to make him “super” goes horribly wrong. Ryan Reynolds portrays Wade Wilson, also known as Deadpool, a mercenary that takes jobs in New York City to get rid of bad guys by requests from clients. He meets an escort named Vanessa at a local bar, and their one-night stand turns

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    Shubham Sparknotes

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    One of my best friends recently moved to The United States from India and his name is Shubham. My group of friends love to go out and eat on a day to day basis and Shubham enjoys tagging along when we go eat so that he can experience the many varieties American food has to offer. One day my group of friends decided to go to a very fancy restaurant and get some food, so I called Shubham and brought him along. As we pulled up to this amazing four star restaurant, I smelled the pork and lamb in the

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    The Vikings Sparknotes

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    Vikings The "Vikings" is a drama tv series. It's about a farmer name Ragnar Lothbrok west to raid city's and towns for gold. He ask his earl Haraoldson to raid west when the ice breaks but the earl would not let him. The earl said "it's my ships and I am earl." Even though the earl told him to not sail west, he did so anyway and bought his own ship from his friend Floki who was a ship maker. Ragnar got his own crew to venture out to the west with him. No one has ever sailed west, it was said there's

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    The Mummy Sparknotes

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    Picking out a movie can be difficult to choose, because it depends on your mood. You should try to watch a movie that will have you on the edge of your seat, making you laugh, covering your eyes and with a little romance. The Mummy (Daniel, Jacks & Sommers, 1999) is a movie that has adventure, laughter, horror and love. The adventure begins in Egypt 1926. There are two expeditions that are searching for the lost ancient city called Hamunaptra. One of the groups, has three Americans with one thing

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