The Adventure of the Empty House

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    starts her nonsensical underground adventure. Through her conversations with the strange creatures, and the queer situations that she faces, she hopelessly searches for order, rule, and reason. However, Alice fails and surrenders to the unexplainable actions of these creatures. Unlike Alice, readers who know about Lewis Carroll's life- the creator of this chaotic world- are able to explain, and understand a lot of the aspects that he included in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In his essay, Richard

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    “Memories are special moments that tell our story”-Unknow, the person that said that meant that Memory plays a big role in our life, it allows us to remember skills that we’ve learned, or important information that we have stored in our brain or its moments that are great or changed our life. Memory gives us a portal to something gone something we can’t get back, something that made a big change in our life. I will never forget when i came to canada, That day changed my whole life it's a memory

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    Moving around constantly her entire life always on an adventure. Her family never had much money, and she had a hard time finding food. She was a skinny, tall girl with red hair, pale skin, and buck teeth. She was very optimistic in every hard situation she was put in and never gave up faith in her father, for a while anyways. Her father was who she had to put all her faith into. He made the decisions and he was the one who made all these empty promises to janette and her siblings. Janette lived life

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    Moving To Cancun

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    met someone special, someone who would soon to be my best friend, partner in crime, my other half, Sibley. She helped me see the good in situations and inspired me to be outgoing and carefree. Our families became best friends and went on adventure after adventure together. The year

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    Sherlock Holmes has assumed a reality few fictional characters have. Holmes is known for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise and his use of forensic science to solve different cases. Sherlock Holmes is the main character of four novels and more than sixty short stories by Sir Conan Doyle (1859-1930).(please find the exact amount-needs to be hard fact) Doyle used inspirations from his reality to help strengthen his description of the fictional detective series of

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    storage unit where the mover guys would pick up our stuff, not to mention the actual packing itself, then my dad’s new boss made arrangements for us to stay at hotel until we could find a house, and finally came the actual moving day, the last time any of us would see the house again. As I walked through the empty hall towards the steps to go downstairs, I remembered how my siblings and I would slide down the steps with blankets under us like sleds through snow, I

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    My Childhood In Haiti

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    In 1999, I left Haiti. Although it has been 16 years, I hold on to the memories for dear life. I lived in a city called Port de Paix, just a few hours away from the capital, which means it was quiet and peaceful; that was just wonderful. This essay will outline the wonderful memories of my childhood in Haiti. Most people had a routine; for most of us, the day started by 5 AM and was over by 8 PM. All was on the move, children walking to school, the merchants yelling the names of the products they

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    Letter From A Potato

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    an innocent smile. It was beautiful. I watched as you raced inside your house, a house that screamed the names of my ancestors. I remember the day you walked onto a yellow monster that opened it’s jaws to you. You climbed into it’s stomach and the jaws closed. It ran off with you each day, but it always brought you back. I supported you as you and your friends piled into my arms, reaching for my fruit.

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    Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle during the Victorian era of England. His stories are so captivating because Holmes is such a complicated, eccentric, character with spontaneous behavior but he managed to solve the most baffling crimes using logic and observation making it easy for readers to overlook the authenticity of the settings and scenes. The background scenes of the tales tell their own stories of the time period of in England. The stories show the

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    “It 's not the size of the dog in the fight, it 's the size of the fight in the dog.” This quote said by Mark Twain directly relates to his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The story is about a young boy named Huck Finn, a small dog, who finds himself on a big and terrifying adventure that makes him fight and stand up for what he believes in every day of his journey. Twain uses the life of the young boy to display the faults of the society in which he lived in in a humorous manner with a

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