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Waiting For The Rain Essays and Term Papers
The Ecology Of A Rain ForestIn 1980, the estimated amount of rain forests in the world was 40,000
square miles. This number decreases each year by roughly 1,000 square
miles due to construction and the resources being used for profit. It is
too bad, because the rain forest is one of the most beautiful places on
earth. It ...
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The RainThe room is almost silent, only the rhythimic inhalations and exhalations of our breathing and the indistinct buzz of the flourescent light above the bed can be heard. Changing positions I shatter the silence, the leather of the chair creaks and pops, reverberating through the room like gunshots. ...
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Creative Writing: Under The Spell - A Travel Tale By Danny O'brien"The great advantage of having an ancestry like that of a mongrel dog is I have
so many ancestral homes to go home to."
We caught the ferry from Le Havre, France to Ireland, land of my ancestors.
Every since I was a wee lad, my mind has been used as a canvas by every Irishman
who has been ...
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Creative Story: Neolithic ParkA Short Story composed by:
Reagan B
Honors English II
Mrs. Coultas - 3
August 16, 1993
"Thanks for that update, Bob," said the aged anchor person. His voice
was rough and deep, as though he had been to sea recently and had taken home a
throat lined with thick salt water. He sounded too ...
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“All Summer In A Day”: Selfish And Hateful Of The Human RaceImagine living your whole life without ever seeing the sun. What would it be like to see rain everyday of your life? In “All Summer In a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, that is what all the children live like except Margot. Bradbury explores what it would be like for children to be born on and live ...
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Symbolism In The CrysanthemumsA good writer has many tools at hand that help them develope good story lines. There are literary techniques such as voice, point of view, character, theme, and symbolism. One very interesting technique is that of symbolism. With symbolism the author is able to write a story in which many of ...
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The Battle Of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)The Battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)
(The edited text of a paper given in France in November 1993. The original paper was illustrated by contemporary slide photographs and maps; this text is best read in conjunction with a map of the area.)
In 1915, at the second Battle of Ypres, the Germans ...
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The Great Gatsby: Weather SymbolismA Storm of Emotion
Weather, a force of nature, can take a person’s spirits from the top of a mountain and cause them to come crashing down. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, the weather mirrors drastic changes in emotions and the overall mood of each situation because when ...
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Cow LoreA long... long time ago, in a distant galaxy, was the planet "Cud". On
this ancient planet lived the warlike race of the Cowfolk, a race of people
who had evolved and broken into two major groups. The first group, the
"Beefers", were a very rough and barbaric race. They were the type ...
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The ChrysanthemumsJohn Steinbeck, in his short story \"\" depicts the trials of a woman attempting to gain power in a man\'s world. Elisa Allen tries to define the boundaries of her role as a woman in such a closed society. While her environment is portrayed as a tool for social repression, it is through nature in ...
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Grapes Of WrathThe James D. Zook Chapter 1 In the beginning of the chapter the book Steinbeck discusses the earth. It tells how dry the soil is and how even walking stirred up a dust cloud. It tells how the people have adapted such as wearing mask and goggles to protect the air they breathe. The people were ...
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David LivingstoneBorn: March 19, 1813 Blantyre, Scotland
Died: May 1, 1873 Chitambo, Northern Rhodesia
Life Span: 60 years, 1 month, 12 days
SELDOM ARE GOD'S GREAT GIANTS HONORED by the worldbut Livingstone joins the class of men who rank as the greatest explorers the world has ever produced. Marco Polo, ...
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The Montgomery Bus Boycottchanged the way people lived and reacted to
each other. The American civil rights movement began a long time ago, as early
as the seventeenth century, with blacks and whites all protesting slavery
together. The peak of the civil rights movement came in the 1950's starting
with the successful ...
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Lightning Never Strikes Twice A few miles off the cost of Cape Cod, sits the island of Nantucket. On this island, during the 1600’s lived the Haley family. Tom Haley was the only tobacco farmer on the island and due to this fact they were extremely wealthy. Their estate was the largest on Nantucket and was located right ...
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Huck Finn: Essay On Each ChaptCHAPTER 1
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In the opening paragraph, Huck introduces himself to us as the
narrator of the story. He talks to us in a relaxed, matter-of-fact
tone that makes him ...
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Come HomeA History of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Growing from its humble beginnings as an ash dump in the late 1800's, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has come to represent today the very best in urban gardening and horticultural display. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden blooms in the middle of one of the ...
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Combining Individual Stories Into Larger WholesThe inclination to combine individual stories into larger wholes goes way back into oral tradition. In the literary world this kind of story linkage is known as a short story cycle, or sequence (various other names exist but these have caught on). It is not a collection of isolated stories but ...
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Creative Writing - Fiction - TI remember a place was crowded when the dance-floor was full. I remember hunger was when it was dinner-time and I hadn't eaten since lunch. I remember when pollution was a brown cloud coming out of a car, dispersing and disappearing soon after. I remember when a house was where a family lived, and ...
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