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    Cirque Du Freak Essay

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    recommend you read. A boy named Darren used to be a normal boy until he became a vampire and received tips from Mr. Crepsley on how to survive as vampire. On his way to become in the circus he meets some of his now new friends. He wants help to becoming a vampire and ask someone.Darren Shan finds out he’s a vampire and ask Mr. Crepsley for help on becoming a vampire after he finds out he’s also a vampire. We can conclude that Darren is a vampire when he said “I’m a half-vampire “(pg. 1). When he needed help on how to survive as a vampire he asked Crepsley who was his teacher. The reason he asked him is because on (page 9) he stated “I watched as Mr. Crepsley searched the leg for a vein, then cut it open – a small slice – using one of his fingernails.…

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    The Black Swan is a very twisted story about a young ballerina looking to become the best dancer possible. She wants to have the perfect body and performance as a dancer. Nina, the main character, is portrayed as an innocent and pure character. From the beginning, Nina shows signs of mental instability. As the movie progresses, it reveals deeper into her character as she develops and shows many symptoms of schizophrenic behavior. According to the DSM; Schizophrenia is a serious mental health…

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    “You can get off now Callie” I slid off and Caramel jumped a little bit. Caramel Is a big scaredy cat, She hates new things and things she has seen at the barn one hundred times before. I walked caramel back to her stall to un-tack her. She goes straight to her food bowl like always. I took off her bridal and I heard the clinking of metal on her teeth as I took the bit out of her mouth. It felt slimy but I did not hold on to it for long. I slid her halter on to her head and walked her to the…

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    Black Swan was a thriller that displayed the struggle for perfection of being a ballet dancer and as an overall person .Throughout the film Darren Aronofsky used the idea that certain techniques are suited to the treatment of themes such as how perfection is unattainable and how obsession is destructive. The movie is inspired by the ballet production Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky where a princess is turned into a swan she fell in love with a prince and is put under a spell by the evil…

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    Hsi Lai Temple History

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    Los Angeles is known for many of its sites; whether it be The Grove --known for its retail and entertainment complex-- or the Getty Center—notorious for its free art exhibit—the city of LA is a place for many cultures to unit. One site in particular, the Hsi Lai Temple, does not have the entertainment as the grove or the sculptures of ones work, however it offers much more to one’s knowledge about the meaning of life. Whether it is its history that intrigues one’s mind, the structure and design…

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    Demonata Lord Loss

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    The Demonata Lord Loss By. Darren Shan SPOILERS I am reading the horror story, The Demonata Lord Loss by Darren Shan. It's a very interesting story about a boy and his family moving into a new house. He’s very good at sports, but absolutely despises them. He loves pranks, and gags. In the first chapter even he puts rat guts in his sister's towel when she comes out of the shower. After his sister beats the absolute living crap out of him he's grounded for a month. During the (Super boring)…

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    The book that I did my project on is “Cirque Du Freak”, by Darren Shan and the book tells a story about a boy named Darren and how he came across the circus that changed his life. For the book project, I made the flyer that was used in the story to influence Darren and his friends into deciding to go to the circus. This flyer has a lot of importance in this story because this flyer is what convinced Darren to go to the circus and see the performance. One day, Darren’s friend named Alan came…

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    Ecstasy: A Short Story

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    my own and threw it into the hammock. “Ah, there was no harm in travelling in an aircraft for several hours, was there?” I pulled on a displeased frown. “No, I just missed four hours of the only three days Evra has left in the Circ!” I snipped back. Mr. Crepsley ran his hand through his hair and slumped his thin shoulders. “I am sure he did not mind,” He sighed, “as humans say, it is better to be safe than it is to be sorry…” I held back a laugh and plonked myself down on my mesh…

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    One way being that the girl in which he pursues on a day to day basis is not nearly as aware of the mere existence of the boy. Not only does the girl not pay attention to the lad, but there is a form of isolation from his family as well. One being that the uncle does not care enough about the child to remember to do him a favor, the boy is on his own. For example, the uncle says, “ I am sorry I had forgotten.” This leads to the story of a boy names Grubbs in a series called The Demonata by…

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    there are many different ways that man view Nature with. In “Zom-B Family” and the essay “Handed my own life” the authors show how many different views man has on Nature. In “Zom-B Family” a female named B was captured and experiment on after she became a part of Nature, in the form of a zombie, after she was experimented on, she escaped with her life but had to continue living on as herself but as a different race entirely, a zombie, but who was still herself just like herself in the past. In…

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