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One Last Time George Mallory Step
695 wordsThe cold gray steel of the axe arced one last time through the air, the pick burrowed itself one last time into the frozen blanket of snow, and the hand that held it took a final pull, to ensure a secure placement. After a brief pause, George Mallory took a deep breath, and pulled himself over the crux, and onto the top. Slowly, shakily, he stood up, and took a look around, the first time American eyes had seen the world from this vantage point. This was it. He had done it. He was the first Amer...
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Familiar Triangle Of Stars Raindrops From The Lime Trees Levin
420 wordsIt had grown quite dark and to the south, where he was looking, there were no longer any clouds. The clouds had passed over in the opposite direction. From there came flashes of lightning and the sound of distant thunder. Levin listened to the regular dripping of the raindrops from the lime trees in the garden and looked at the familiar triangle of stars and the Milky Way intersecting it in the middle with its branches. At each flash of lightning not only the Milky Way but also the bright stars ...
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Strong Emotions Life Events
823 wordsThe Macmillan dictionary for students defines stranger as: 1. Person with whom one is not acquainted or familiar. 2. Foreigner, outsider, or newcomer. 3. One who is ignorant of, unacquainted with, or unaccustomed to something specified. In the book, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, these three definitions apply to the protagonist, Meursault. Meursault is portrayed as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think about events and their consequences. He also fails to express any emotion in his...
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Mother And Child Glass Doors
973 wordsAs Ms. Mallard uneasily sat in the waiting room, she watched the hustle of people as they scurried in and out of the clinic doors. The ring of the bell above the door sang like wind chimes on a blustery day. She stared at a mother and child across the magazine table as they flipped through an old and badly torn edition of Highlights. From the short distance she could tell that the child was around three or four years old and the mother was expecting in a few months. Mom was in good health and it...
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Telescope Eagerly Awaiting Madison Fuhhr Intension Stars
1,783 wordsIf someone would have taken me outside and told me to look at the night sky and tell them what I was thinking, two weeks ago I would have probably said some idiotic remark like, "Cool. " If they asked me what I thought about space, I probably would have coldly answered, "I could care less. " I thought that all that space was made of was a huge overabundance of white dots filling the pitch-black sky. The only thing I really liked was the moon because it was the closest thing I could see in space....
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History And Story Time Of The Butterflies Life
1,563 wordsIn the opening chapter of Julia Alvarez's second novel, a woman receives a caller in the countryside of the Dominican Republic. The visit is an awkward obligation, a meeting between a Dominican survivor of the Trujillo regime and a younger Dominican-American woman who wants to know more about Las Mariposas the Butterflies as they are known in the history of the country. The visitor has come to research the famous Mirabel sisters Patria, Minerva, and Mara Teresa. These three young woman were kill...
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Men And Women Leads The Reader
1,370 wordsRecovery of the American-African Male/Female Relationship Maya Angelou's extraordinary ability to express so clearly the historic and contemporary pain, love, and culture of American-Africans is unparalleled in poetic literature. Her brilliant use of imagery is one of the many facets of her writing that has propelled her to be recognized as one of the greatest poets of our time. The poem she read at the Million Man March called The Night Has Been Long, is a wonderful example of this unparalleled...
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Estella In Great Expectations
656 wordsOne of Dickens' most prominent figures in Great Expectations is the character of Estella. She plays a major role in the life of the main character, Pip. He is completely consumed with love and desire for her even though she has been influenced not to expose any feelings towards men (Dyson 235). Estella's cold-hearted, proud, and blunt mannerisms are in contrast to the symbolism of her name that is likened to a star in the galaxy. Similar to that symbolism, however, she shines but is unattainable...
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Basketball Player Brick Wall
1,157 words... to study it in college. But I am not studying it because I am good at it. I am studying it because I love it. Throughout all of the short stories that I read, I noticed a very consistent style in John Updike's writing. He uses many common methods in all or most of his stories. One of those methods that Updike used very frequently, but also very effectively, was imagery. This is when an author writes something and you can actually see, feel or taste it. In the short story Gesturing the phrase...
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Galaxy Its Spiral Shape Galaxy Its Spiral Galaxies
1,100 wordsWhen you look at a distant galaxy, you are not only seeing into space, but far into the past as well. The light from one of the galaxies we see today actually started its journey toward Earth more than two million years ago. The discovery of galaxies [ 1 ] began in the early 1400 s by Polish astronomers and continues to be studied today. Knowing as we do today that the universe is amenable to investigation, and that telescopes can examine millions of galaxies at distances of millions of light ye...
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Edgar Allen Poe House Of Usher
974 wordsWhen reviewing Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales, Edgar Allen Poe pronounced that the short story, if skillfully written, should deliver a single preconceived effect- an effect upon which incidents be fashioned to accommodate that effect. Edgar Allen Poe was indeed a skillful writer. His short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a flawless example of a story in which all elements contribute to the delivery of a single emotional effect. Poe accomplishes this by achieving a perfect tone, developi...
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Lady Macbeth King Duncan
834 wordsChoose a major character from Macbeth and show how that character changes and develops through events in the play. In Shakespeare's play Macbeth we see the main character, Macbeth changes from a well-regarded and loyal soldier of the Scottish king to a murderous tyrant. At the start of the play Macbeth is courageous, ambitious, superstitious and devoted to his wife. These characteristics are shown through the victory against the rebels, Macbeth's trust in the witches and his letter to his wife. ...
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Women Are Equal Jose Luis Brother
1,348 wordsMy brother was the tallest man alive seven years ago. I know this for a fact because its not true now and humans notice what surprises them. I rarely look at Jose Luis now but when I do, I am sometimes startled that he does not stretch looming above all for seven feet as he does in my vague memories. When I was very young and only the members of my family had a place in my consciousness, I was extremely proud of my strong, tall brother whom was on the surface, the family's pillar of strength. Es...
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Lady Macbeth Imagines Kill King Duncan
1,656 wordsThe play is about a king who is murdered by one of his most trusted men trying to gain power. During the play Shakespeare heightens the mood by using various accounts of imagery. The blood and night imagery that Shakespeare uses adds to the evil, darkness and deception surrounding the play. It is established from the very beginning that Macbeth is ambitious. A certain level of courage accompanies his ambition as well. The people with greatest impact on Macbeth are the witches, his wife and Lady,...
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Age Of Eight Doesnt Matter Ian
1,391 wordsTwo more weeks, that's all I have to wait now. Results are coming back, and on the same day will be mine and Ians one-year anniversary. I love him so much. Were both going to college, so well be close next year. Since me therapy hes the only lad Ive been with. Weve been friends since year three. I remember the day we met; he was standing by the swings waiting for someone to let him have a go- he looked like a lost puppy. In the end I let him have my place, since then weve been inseparable. Weve ...
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Rene Levesque Maurice Richard People
691 wordsBy November 1976, Rene Levesque was already a mythic figure in Quebec. A full-blown star for twenty years, first as a television host and then as the most outspoken member of the Liberal cabinet of Jean Leave from 1960 to 1966, he projected a personality that seemed transparently honest, impulsive, mischievous, modest, outspoken, and provocative. His foibles - a chain-smoking sloppy dresser, he was a notorious night owl, working and then relaxing until the early hours - were as endearing as his ...
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Critical Analysis Of Richard Billingham Photography
1,013 words... trophic and disorienting; still, one might notice that Billingham chose to photograph the old man and then publish the photograph, rather than immediately picking him up and cleaning him off (Lewis). Billingham's behavior can be regarded as one of callousness and distance, or perhaps one of simple routine. As stated by Gordon Burn, every night [Billingham] came in from college and Ray would be lying passed-out on the bed; checking his breathing was always the first thing he did. So taking pi...
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Begins To Open Acceptance And Love Mother
689 wordsIn the short story Territory by David Leavitt, the main characters are Neil, Barbara and Wayne. Barbara is Neil's mother, and throughout the story Neil has always wanted his mothers acceptance and love. However, his mother was always too busy to spend time with him. There was always a cause which she had to support, that would take her away from spending time with Neil. Therefore, their relationship became very superficial, and they would make their appearance together in town to show that they ...
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Distant Objects Whats Wrong
687 wordsThe human eye is a wonderful thing. It lets us view things. They can give us another eye color, or we could just use them to simply view things. But its not that simple you see. Some people arent that lucky, and have impaired vision. This includes near-sightedness and far-sightedness. To begin though we must understand how the eye works, and why it works that way. First is the cornea, which is a clear dome that covers the front of the eye. The cornea accomplishes the majority, which is about 70 ...
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Domestic Firms Domestic Industries
1,758 wordsProtectionism vs. Free Trade Part I The Worlds Economic Debate Today people throughout the world are aware that they depend for their daily bread on something called the economy, and they are aware that they are vulnerable because the economy is vulnerable. People are aware that their local economies are somehow inserted in international trading patterns, and that what happens to them personally in their daily lives is affected by distant commerce. However, the importance of the global market fo...
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