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    loneliness, it often results in frantic guiltiness due to the self-absorbed ambition. The short story, the Painted Door by Sinclair Ross is about the fluctuating emotions of a farmer’s wife, Ann, while her husband was away from home during a double wheel blizzard. In the story, Ann has significantly reveals that she cannot deal with the restricting life as a wife of an unambitious and dull-witted farmer. She was extremely desired to discover the undermined personality of herself and to live a…

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    distractions that lead you away from happiness are seen through Ann, Steven and John. This story is a story of adultery and betrayal. One of the main characters, John, goes out to walk the five miles to go see if his father will be alright for the pending blizzard. It was on this journey to go and help his father that we see Ann, John’s wife, not be able to handle being alone, so their neighbour, Steven, comes over and him and Ann break the sexual tension that they had for each other. John then…

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    trying to find his hounds even though it was dangerous and he could not see through the blizzard (pg 173). Finally, when he was in town, he was willing to fight the gang that picked on Little Ann in the beginning of the book. before the marshal came and broke them up. These three examples shows that Billy is Brave and that he would do anything to keep his dogs safe from harm by saving them from gangs and blizzards and even hunting with them in the…

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    Theme: The theme of this book was the danger of ignorance. I learned that I need to be careful who I choose as a friend. I also learned that I can never really tell a person’s true intentions. Stacy trusted Jerry to take her home while walking in a blizzard. Jerry took advantage of Stacy’s trust and it cost Stacy her life. Years later Jerry would try it again, but with Kirsten. Recommendation: I gave this book five out of five stars. I gave it a five, because it was such a good thriller. I…

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    My Big Red Research Paper

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    I create suspense in the beginning of the second paragraph talking about weather saying,”When coming back from practice the weather started to change. The snow started blowing around like crazy. I was amongst a blizzard. “ In chapter twelve page, two hundred twelve Hale says create different variety of sentences from simple, compound , and complex sentences. This creates rhythm in the parallel structure. In my introduction paragraph I display sentence variety by…

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    Character Analysis: I Am David Escaping a prison camp, teaching himself to read Italian from a newspaper, and climbing a mountain in the middle of a blizzard when he was half starved! Do you think you could do these amazing things? Well they are all things the character David did in the novel I am David, written by Anne Holm. The character David is a very courageous boy. At one point in this intriguing novel (pg.107), he finds himself watching three Italian children playing a game they…

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    a brown and red patterned poncho and a short, matching, form fitting under dress. The fire was out, the dress cleaned away and the tent with nothing but small torches hung from support beams. It was quiet, the only sound coming from the growing blizzard outside. Nabu could only stare at the entrance, her back to the wall. It was to the point where she heard nothing but the screaming wind outside. Her eyes drifted up, looking at the tent as it flapped violently. She pressed her back harder…

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    When Michael Devlin had to overcome obstacles In Snow and August he used imagination to get over the obstacles. Michael Devlin had to go to Eight O’clock mass during a huge blizzard. When he was walking through the blizzard without his mittens in freezing temperatures he used his imagination to get through that very tough time. “The moving over a piled ridge, Michael imagined his father in the snows of Belgium. Many Americans had been killed there…

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    The World Wide Web, also known simply as the Internet, is a place of constant controversy. In this day and age it is the most influential piece of technology on the current and upcoming generations. With a flick of the finger tips people have access to almost any information they desire. Ranging from the news of natural disasters that happened seconds ago to viral videos of cats doing stupid things; the Internet has the power to convince people that sky is actually red. But moreover, it gives…

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    culture that has developed from the personality of its residents. Minnesota and New Mexico are two states that, from all appearances, are completely opposite. The very nature of both states are very different. Minnesota is known for its humidity and blizzard like winters, while New Mexico, a desert, is hot and dry. The differences continue to extend to its landscape and landmarks. With all these differences, it’s a wonder…

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