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    Going Home Winter is disgusting in cities. Grey buildings blend with the equally grey sky, snow in the streets melts and the muddy puddles are so deep and big you’d have to hover for your feet to stay dry, even if you have the best shoes in the world. Traffic is terrible and taxis are almost impossible to find. I should have been looking forward to leaving the city for the holidays for the first time since I moved here twelve years ago. But I wasn’t. I was dreading it. I looked at my reflection…

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    The laugh out loud comedy that explodes with outrageous wit and slapstick humor from the Coen Brothers. Underneath Professor (Hanks) silver tongued southern gentleman person is a devious criminal who has assembled a motley gang of thieves to commit the heist of the century by tunneling through his church going landlady’s root cellar to casino’s vault of riches. But these cons are far from pros. As their scheme begins blowing up in their faces, their landlady smells a rat. And when she threatens…

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    In Chapter 1, T.J. makes fun of Little Man, when Little Man is angered by getting his Sunday clothes dirty. T.J. does not even make an effort to help Little Man out, when Little Man was struggling to get on the bank. When Stacey said to get up on the bank, Little Man didn’t, and he paid the price when the bus got his Sunday clothes drenched in red dust. Stacey says, “shut up” to T.J., as well as Cassie, but decides to go back to him, and forgive him once they are on the school grounds. This…

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    “Let him feel that he is one of us; once fill his mind with the idea that he has been a thief, and he's ours, - ours for his life!” - Charles Dickens Charles Dickens is considered as one of the greatest writers of all times. His great writing technique, the wise mind, and fluid language made his works survive till nowadays. His novels serve as a valuable source of that period. He wrote more than twenty novels, and all of them are very appreciated and valued from book-lovers since the day they…

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    The Old Man From The Story A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings And Esteban From The Handsomest Drowned Man In The Same World Are Opposite Of Each Other. First They Are Different In Terms In Terms On How They Are Portrayed. The Man Who Was And Angel, Was Portrayed As An Ugly Old Man Who Doesn’t Even Resemble And Angel. In The Handsomest Drowned Man He Was Handsome As The Title Says. Chronicles These two short stories "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" and "A Very Old Man with Enormous…

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    The title of the book that I have read for the book report is Cinderella Cleaners: Change of a Dress. The author of the book is Maya Gold. There are two settings for this story which is in New York and Cinderella Cleaners but most of the action took placed in Cinderella Cleaners. The author chose this settings because it is where Diana found out the ticket and where she went. Diana Donato is the main character of the story. She studies at the Weehawken Middle School and great at acting but…

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    London and westminster bridge The two poems both portray very different images of london. Westminster bridge by William Blake is focused around the beauty of London and the sublime emotions of romanticism. On the other hand, London by william Wordsworth focuses more on the people, society and dark corruption of the city; this fits into the more radical and change side of romanticism. Its written as if a voice is walking London, describing the tragedies they are seeing such as ‘blackening…

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    was one of the characteristics of this period. Many 19th century authors recognized themselves by first publishing original fiction in serial format. Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, George Meredith, Brontë´s sisters and more, published some serial novels, either in monthly magazines or as discreet serial parts. Charles Dickens was well-known because of the serial form, concept that surged during Britain´s Victorian era, in which Dickens used this concept in a…

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    Philip Pullman is one of the greatest British writers . He was known as children books writers. Northern lights, is one of the most important books in Philip Pullman's trilogy " Dark Materials". I my essay I will write about Northern lights and Lyra growing up in the novel.(Northern lights, Pullman,1995) Pullman’s works have an oral feel which, coupled with humor, verbal dexterity and skillful view setting, makes them perfect for reading. The lead part is often taken by powerful girls, such as…

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    The novels "The Jurassic Park" and "The War of the Worlds" were written by Michael Crichton and H.G. Wells respectively. The former was published in 1990 and the latter in 1898. Both novels belong to the science fiction genre and deal with issues related to survival of mankind. Wells's novel might have influenced the film version of "The Jurassic Park (1993)" although there is almost a century difference between their creations. An interesting fact is that Steven Spielberg, the director of the…

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