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  • Short Story

    Short Story

    I looked around the roaring arena, at all the faces gazing back at me, and a painfully large smile spread across my face. At that moment my life felt flawless. I heard our manager yelling from the side of the stage for me to exit the stage. I thought to myself just a little more. I felt so invincible, nothing could ever be so right in my life. I heard the tone change in my

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    Essay Length: 2,455 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • A Cool Story

    A Cool Story

    It was a typical Saturday afternoon with nothing to do, and nothing going on. Michael, my cousin, had nothing to do, none of his friends were home, except for Joe who was at his house with him. Desperately searching for something to do before the day was over they went into his backyard. On his porch, and started to play war, a simple card game that practically never end's. Then out of the blue michael

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    Essay Length: 299 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: July
  • Afgahn Stories

    Afgahn Stories

    Crying.., was my reaction after I saw this movie. It is unbelievable how people of the same nation could touchier each other and have no pity what so ever. I found it inhuman how someone can make a persons be in “wings” and touchier him none stop for six months, and that is probably not the worst thing that they could do to their own people. I also wanted to cry when an Afghan family

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    Essay Length: 387 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Max
  • Short Story

    Short Story

    Mark English 9 A1 Mrs. Broadbent 11/17/07 "A Day to Remember" One day on a hot summer's eve, the town of Brink was the place to be. Its day life was very classical, meaning that it was very ordinary, dull, and boring. When it came to its night life, its streets are lit up like Christmas day and also the streets are full of people, so that if you dropped a penny it wouldn't be

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    Essay Length: 1,369 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: regina
  • A Codis Success Story

    A Codis Success Story

    A CODIS SUCCESS STORY On a Friday afternoon in March 1989, Debbie Smith, whose husband, Robert, is a police officer, was abducted from her home by a man she had never seen before. Mrs. Smith's assailant forced her from her kitchen to the woods behind her home. He proceeded to rape her. Before leaving the scene of the crime, the rapist threatened Mrs. Smith, saying he knew where she lived and he would kill her

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    Essay Length: 1,203 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The "young Goodman Brown" Story, an Act of Faith

    The "young Goodman Brown" Story, an Act of Faith

    In his story "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne cleverly projects his attitude about the Puritan religion choosing a Christian love over the Puritan religion in this story of a mans journey to a revival. The name Hawthorne gave to his character is also significant as it implied Goodman Brown was a good man and the color brown meant that he was not perfect nor was he evil. This story highlights Goodman's commitment and faith to his

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    Essay Length: 1,047 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Fatih
  • A Comparison of Two Stories: The Lottery & The Story of an Hour

    A Comparison of Two Stories: The Lottery & The Story of an Hour

    The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, and "The Story of the Hour" by Kate Chopin, both have similarities and differences when it comes to the elements of literature.  Particularly, when the authors use foreshadowing to manipulate the moods of the stories and add irony to cleverly deceive the reader. Both of these stories possess similarities and differences when it comes to their components of the story, specifically the authors’ usage of elements of mood and the

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    Essay Length: 1,332 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: regina
  • The Story of "outcasts of Poker Flat"

    The Story of "outcasts of Poker Flat"

    The Outcast of Poker Flat Bret Harte’s story of “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” Is a study in moral contrast, faced with calamity. The characters react indifferent and unpredictable. Theirs John Oakhurst who is a gambling man, uncle Billy who is a slues robber, the duchess tow sisters who sell their body’s, and last but not least theirs Mother Shipton a proper English woman. I rank the duchess number one, because their the two who

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    Essay Length: 329 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Kevin
  • A Very Touching Story

    A Very Touching Story

    THIS IS BEAUTIFUL ......AND YOU WILL CRY... Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I see him?" The surgeon said, "I'm sorry. We did all we could, but your boy didn't make it." Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer? Doesn't God care any more? Where were you, God,

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    Essay Length: 834 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Steve
  • Three Flood Stories

    Three Flood Stories

    The three flood stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Deluge and the Repeopling of the Earth, and The Flood Story from Genesis, have similarities and differences. All three revolve around supernatural beings destroying all living creatures and saving a select person as well as their family and animals. The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Flood Story are the closest, probably due to the fact that they are both from the same region, and more than

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    Essay Length: 801 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Story of an Hour

    Story of an Hour

    This short-story revolves around what goes through a person’s head when informed that a close family member has perished. However, I wouldn’t say that this is the theme of the story, which I’ll get back to. Louise Mallard is a young, yet married woman who suffers from heart trouble, and that’s why her closest relatives feel that they have to break the news to her as gently as possible. Immediately after hearing the shocking news,

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    Essay Length: 1,279 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Monika
  • Short Stories - Analysis of Power (ontario English Grade 12)

    Short Stories - Analysis of Power (ontario English Grade 12)

    “When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. “ P. J. O'Rourke, 1947 - While reading “Revenge Gardening” and “Bambinger”, one cannot help but notice the powerful albeit underlying theme of control within the stories. The authors use this theme, developing it as the plot carries on and the characters transform to create a sense of dynamacy and interest in the readers mind. The possession

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    Essay Length: 1,119 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: David
  • Apocalypse: The Story of The Book of Revelation

    Apocalypse: The Story of The Book of Revelation

    Apocalypse: The Story of the Book of Revelation 1. The word “Apocalypse” means revelation 2. The popular idea attached to the word “apocalypse”, however, is one of a cataclysmic end of all things 3. Few have actually read the Book of Revelation, but everyone is familiar with the idea of Armageddon 4. Some symbols and ideas correlated to the Book of Revelation include the four horsemen, the number 666, stars falling to earth from the

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    Essay Length: 422 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: regina
  • Write News Paper of the Story

    Write News Paper of the Story

    ON THE SIDEWALK BLEEDING The boy lay on the sidewalk bleeding in the rain. He was sixteen years old, and he wore a bright purple jacket, and the lettering across the back of the jacket read THE ROYALS. The boy's name was Andy and the name was delicately scripted in black thread on the front of the jacket, just over the heart. ANDY.. He had been stabbed ten minutes ago. The knife entered just below

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    Essay Length: 2,652 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Bred
  • Short Story Essay

    Short Story Essay

    Short Story Essay on “A Rose For Emily” and “Barn Burning” Human behavior is one of the most studied and talked about traits of human beings, for it makes us who we are after all. It is prevalent in books, movies, stories, and most importantly life, everything we do involves it. In all of the short stories we read, aspects of human behavior where the basis of the writings. The short stories “A Rose For

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    Essay Length: 1,059 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Simple Wedding Story

    Simple Wedding Story

    I had just gotten hired by the New York City Fire Department, I was working the morning shift when a call when out for a fire in a taxpayer with possible people trapped. Since I was on the ladder company our primary job was to find the possible trapped victims. We got on the road and immediately could smell the smoke, then dispatch came over radio and said police are on location reporting a 10-,which

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    Essay Length: 367 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Beowulf - a Story

    Beowulf - a Story

    Beowulf Beowulf is a story that takes place in medieval Europe, the main part of the story is about a knight, Beowulf, that has to fight evil creatures such as a dragon. No one is exactly sure who wrote Beowulf, Paleographers believe from characteristics of the scribal hands that wrote the soul surviving text, that the manuscript was copied down in the late tenth century or early eleventh. This early copy of Beowulf is still

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    Essay Length: 1,372 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Do Efficient Story Writers Make Efficient Story Tellers? Not Always!

    Do Efficient Story Writers Make Efficient Story Tellers? Not Always!

    Do efficient story writers make efficient story tellers? Not always! Thanks to the hype surrounding the film as also the fact that the real-life father and son duo of Feroz Khan and Fardeen Khan have been teamed yet again, expectations from EK KHILADI EK HASEENA run sky-high. But never judge a book by its cover... and a film by its promos. For, looks can be quite deceptive! Inspired by two Hollywood films, CONFIDENCE [2003; Edward

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    Essay Length: 551 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Story of a Dead Man

    Story of a Dead Man

    Story of a Dead Man By: Chris Key My name is Pierce Montgomery. I hail from a small village town just outside of London. Seven years ago I was a young boy who set out for adventure to the new world. Today I write this as an old man. The following is my story of our colony at Roanoke and the series of tragic events that beset it. The journey to the new world was

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    Essay Length: 1,172 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Compare and Contrast, "the Story of and Hour" and Richard Cory

    Compare and Contrast, "the Story of and Hour" and Richard Cory

    Compare and Contrast Criminals are tried in our court system everyday for crimes they are accused of committing. In these court cases, witnesses are called to give an account of what happened in the particular incident and then a jury of twelve members decides the criminal’s ruling on the case. The jury does not listen to just one witness; it takes into account the stories of many witnesses in order to decipher the truth. “The

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    Essay Length: 518 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: July
  • Cinderella Story

    Cinderella Story

    At 8 years old, the blonde Samantha Montgomery lost her father to an earthquake, leaving her to live in an attic, while her stepmother Fiona, and stepsisters, Gabriella and Brianna take over her life. With popular kids Austin Ames, Shleby Cummings, and their crew, then her house family, the only escapes she has are the Diner Staff, her best friend Carter, and an online buddy-Nomad. They both go to North Valley High and dream of

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    Essay Length: 502 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Victor
  • Story of an Hour

    Story of an Hour

    In the Story of An Hour, Mrs. Mallard seemed to me like an old misunderstood woman and as we are told in the very first line, afflicted with a heart trouble. I was surprised later, when it said that she was young. I think that Chopin is showing us a social situation of the times with the woman as a prisoner of her husband. Marriage was not always about mutual love between two people and

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    Essay Length: 712 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Story of an Hour/the Joy That Kills

    The Story of an Hour/the Joy That Kills

    Filmmakers are granted artistic license because filmmaking is an art and because film and literature are not always exactly compatible. There are many artistic components in the making of a film. The plot or the story behind the film is one the most important of these components. The makers of The Joy That Kills in making a film version of Kate Chopin’s short story The Story of an Hour took artistic license to its limits.

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    Essay Length: 904 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour

    Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour

    Kate Chopin: The Story of An Hour Born Katherine O'FIaherty into an upper-middle-class family in St. Louis, Kate Chopin married Oscar Chopin when she was twenty years old. She soon after moved into her husband's home in Louisiana. In the ten years that she lived in Louisiana she was aware of and interested in the Creole, Cajun, African American and Indian cultures. This is what influenced Chopin to start writing fiction. She included people of

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    Essay Length: 772 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Top
  • Mystery in the Short Story

    Mystery in the Short Story

    Mystery in the Short Story The term short story can be a bit deceiving. The idea of a short story seems that it may be lacking something, that some of the essential elements of plot and other aspects of literature may not be found in these stories as they would in novels. Eudora Welty in her essay “The Reading and Writing of Short Stories” states that “Every good story has a mystery-not the puzzle kind,

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    Essay Length: 509 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Mike

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