The Devil Went Down to Georgia

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    The Devil’s Role in Paradise Lost,  The Bible,  Faust, and The Devil and Tom Walker   The devil's role as the inspiration for rock-and-roll is already well documented and commonly understood. Perhaps less well documented is the role of the Devil as inspiration for literature. The Devil has played an active role in literature for quite a while with his name appearing in stories for centuries. The historical devil has not always been personified. Initially, in religious settings, he was

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    Even though his role model and older brother, Tony, encouraged him to stay in school and to stay out of the drug game; Wes did not listen. Although he tried to better himself by enrolling himself into a program and trying to get back into school, “Wes went back to school immediately after leaving the juvenile detention facility, the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson” (Moore 110), he still did not accomplish what he wanted. Wes just wanted to be able to support himself and his family but “Wes

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    J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, said: “To die would be an awfully big adventure.” I believe it would be. I have had many experiences with almost dying. I have had many experiences where my life had flashed before my eyes. April 4th, 2014, I almost died 27 times. On that date, I looked death right in the face, and laughed at it. In the summer, I was supposed to go to a girls camp for my church. There were a few requirements we had to pass off before going. One of them was a 3 mile hike and

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    actions, so he went after and told her “please forgive I am so sorry”—“it’s always the same thing with you Steven, you’ll never change, get over whatever is going on in your life, just get over it, it’s destroying you” after that conversation Africa left. After that day Steven realized that she looked as pretty as a princess even when she got angry. Three Days passed and Africa haven’t returned to Starbucks which was really rare because every day around 5 o’clock Africa always went to Starbucks with

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    Plus, it is the ugliest thing in this house!!” yelled Annie. My mom left the room quite upset. She immediately went upstairs, slammed the door, and called my dad. After a minute, I started to clean up the broken pieces of the lamp. When I finished I looked up and Annie was nowhere to be seen. “Lucy, can you go check on your sister upstairs, please?” my mom said. “Sure,” I said. I went upstairs and knocked on her bedroom door. There was no response. I figured she had her headphones on and was listening

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    light went out. Only one light post was on but it was crackling. Then they saw Mr. Grabe under the cracking lightpost. Gianna Kale thought that it was a just clothes on a manikin. Emily Kimye knew that it was a stupid idea. Jacob

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    said. “First we almost got killed and know we are lost!” “Clam down Katie I think I know where we are.” “You THINK! No, I need to now where we are. I can’t take the chances of getting kid napped! I want to go HOME! Later on, the kids found a nearby police station. “We are saved!” Katie said. And soon they asked for help and found their way home. They all told their parents about the adventure they had. The next morning, the kids went to the beach while the parents had wine and relaxed on the sandy

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    World war 3 I will be telling you about the eclipse, how it happened and the target that goes behind it. Everyone went up going to the mountains to go watch the eclipse. The totality of the eclipse had just occurred when everyone noticed something different about the eclipse, it didn’t go away it stayed there it got cold, and dark, everyone stopped what they were doing looked at each other, with scared faces not knowing if that was a good sign, or a bad sign, everyone ran to their cars, and headed

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    Matthew. They have been my friends pretty much all my life at this point. I met all of them in kindergarten, they've been my friends ever since. They all came over at different times early in the morning. Felix was the first one to come over so we went fishing until everyone else arrived. While we were fishing we saw a grass carp, which is a huge fish, but Felix really wanted to catch it. He ended up getting a huge fish on the line but he wasn't able to bring it in, the fish broke the line. He

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    family in town, Gene and Katie Fields, and they were the sweetest family Liz knew. Suddenly, Liz heard the doors slam open, and immediately knew it was her sister, Sally. As Liz rushed down the stairs, she slowed down to a stop near the bottom, because she saw her sister pouting around as she set her things down. “Hey Sally, what’s bugging you? Are you hungry? Do you want some dinner?” Liz quietly asked, as her sister was normally always a ball of sunshine. Liz expected the same reply, “No thanks

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