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    had a worn out, light tan vinyl siding with faded, dark red shutters from years of Minnesota weather. At the end of the driveway was a garage that resembled the houses color. To the right of the driveway was a large stone wall that was overrun with wild grape vines. In the middle of the wall was a stairway that leads to an old, rundown playhouse. Also, there was a large, gray brick shed further away. Beyond the house are the woods, littered with pine needles from the rows of trees my grandpa planted

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    Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, theater, fertility and ritual madness, and was worshipped for centuries, but how he was depicted varied greatly throughout time. The “Dionysus Cup,” (fig. 2) a black-figure painted clay pot, was created by the Athenian artist Exekias between 540 and 530 BCE, at the end of the Archaic period. The “Free-standing Dionysos with a panther,” (fig. 1) a marble statuette, was sculpted by an unknown artist between 150 BCE and 100 CE, at the end of the Hellenistic period

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    In the play Othello, by William Shakespeare, the tragic protagonist Othello is tricked by his subordinant, Iago, into thinking that his wife, Desdemona, has been unfaithful to him with another man named Cassio. Iago does this because Othello gave a promotion to Cassio that Iago had felt he deserved instead. Iago, bitter and jealous of Othello the Moor and Lieutenant Cassio, both of whom he speaks disparagingly of, devises and enacts a plot that results in both chaos and turmoil for the people around

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    Top 10 Soundtracks

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    Lucy Tonic Blog: Top 10 Varies Top 10 Soundtracks from 2000-2010 5/4/15 Top 10 Soundtracks from 2000-2010 My definition of a great soundtrack is one that you can play straight through, discovering new tracks while enjoying old classics. Here is a list of the top ten soundtracks from 2000-2010 (for the top five indie soundtracks from this decade, click here.) Number Ten: Accepted Released in 2006, the Accepted soundtrack sounds modern all around despite containing a couple classic tracks

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    of lower-class niggers in their society. One day, Junior tricks Pecola into coming to his house to glimpse his kittens; on the contrary, things yield a ruthless turn. The cat was thrown on Pecola’s face by Junior and she got scratched up. Pecola subsequently tries to leave the house and Junior closes her in. The cat ends up falling to death from the radiator and that is when Geraldine comes home. Without hesitation, Junior blames the incident on Pecola, thus, Geraldine calls her a “nasty little black

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    How To Survive

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    How to Survive Introduction: Have you ever been in the woods for a whole day well let me tell you it is harder than you think. When you go in the woods you would think of a lot of things. The first thing I would think of is shelter. You need shelter if you try to go outside for a whole day. When I show you this essay you will see an introduction which I am typing right now, building shelter paragraph, getting food paragraph, building fire paragraph and for a little extra some mistakes that we

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    Ancient Rome, The Roman Colosseum Historians have always used great structures from the ancient world to find out information about the kind of lives they used to live. The Colosseum in Ancient Rome, Italy was one of the most famous structures. The Colosseum in Rome gives historians a number of insights to the type of civilization that existed during the time of the ancient empire, through the gory battles and violent games that took place. This can be proven by the purpose of the Colosseum and

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    This is a significant contrast to the bleak, wintry hillside that he described previously. With the contrast in this setting comes a contrast in how the knight characterizes love. In the meadow, the knight meets a beautiful woman with long hair and wild eyes. The knight describes her as having an almost fairy-like presence (Ln. 14-16). He makes her a garland for her head and bracelets from the flowers in the meadow (Ln. 17-20). The woman eventually takes the knight back to her “elfin grot”, or, cave

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    Life Of Pi By Yann Martel

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    Whether an individual chooses to believe in religion or not has a substantial influence on the way they ultimately live their life. Those who believe in a religion and God have a guideline to help them through life providing them with a code to live by. Whereas those who choose not to believe in religion may find themselves lost. Through his novel Life of Pi, Yann Martel presents this idea that religion acts as a guide for one’s life. One can easily see how religion brought meaning, direction and

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    fill my lungs, and the morning frost creep out. My glistening blue eyes presented purple bags, and my normally sleek hair was a tangled cobweb. I’d been up all night, searching and seeking for answers. Yet answers had been as hard to find as a  black cat in a coal cellar.‘One year’ I announced, trying to force a joyful tone, but

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