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    Carmilla left her class early. She needed to grab a shower, plus she had to pick out something to wear. She power walked back to her room just so she could be ready for 6:30. She managed to get back to her room by 5:45 which gave her plenty of time to shower, and fix herself up. She jumped into the shower and got out 10 minutes later. 'What the hell do I wear? Are we going somewhere nice or casual? Should I text her and see? Fuck it, I 'll surprise her. ' Carmilla decided to wear her black…

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    Siddiqui Mr. Devine ENG 1D1 Jan/8/16 Causes For Romeo And Juliet’s Death “From Forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives”. Romeo and Juliet is an 16th Century play written by William Shakespeare. The Play Portraits the life of two star-crossed lovers as they live hiding their love in fear and secret from their feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. This Path ultimately leads to the two lover’s horrible death, but what were the factors and…

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    In Mandy Hale’s novel, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass, Hale declares that “Change can be scary, but what’s even scarier is allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” Hale shares stories about her life and gives advice on how to become more independent, confident, and how to realize your self-worth that may have laid dormant for so long. In the graphic novel version of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Jane learns who she is through a series of macabre…

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    George Henry Burgess

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    His was a recognized family, one that followed its parentage back to Sir Fredrik Broke, a Dutch migrant who was knighted by William of Orange in 1691, and his English spouse, Lady Jane Marman, a woman in-holding up at Court. Brookes father was a recognized botanist who spent significant time in the investigation of products of the soil a London nursery where he managed in colorful imported plants. On the off chance that the…

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    The novel “The Castle of Otranto” is written by the well-known predecessor of the gothic fiction – the author Horace Walpole. He contributed greatly to the Gothic genre and inspired a lot of famous authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Daphne du Maurier. His novel was published in 1529, but it is well-known that it was written a lot earlier, supposedly around the era of the first Crusade. In his work, Horace Walpole attempts to combine Old Romance with New Romance – supernatural elements and…

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    Literary Period

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    Important works of this time are ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ by Thomas Hardy in 1891, and ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James in 1881, James creates a sense of really describing thing by the minute. In realist books the psychology of the main characters was more important than the plot of the book. Social Realism was a subgenre of Realism, which is…

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    Miguel Hidalgo (Hidalgo) was a foremost a man, and secondly a priest. He did not like to be controlled by outside forces, but forcibly conceded to working under the watchful eye of the Catholic Church. Through this Hidalgo was presented with many conflicting ideas regarding the importance of faith of which the standards were set by the Catholic Church, and reason, which was influenced, by the ideas of the Enlightenment. Hidalgo, the historical character is presented as being someone who saw…

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    When does the Rococo begin in France? What historical events help influence the rise of Rococo style? Roccoco style is a style of structural planning, starting in France around 1720, advanced from Rococo sorts and recognized by its rich refinement in utilizing distinctive materials for a sensitive general impact. It is described by softness, class, and a rich utilization of bending, characteristic structures in ornamentation. The word Ornate is gotten from the French word rocaille, which…

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    Videos and social media posts pour out of East Aleppo, and the world weeps. For the seven-year-old girl facing her death, for the man seeking prayers as a bomb explodes in the distance, for the activist pleading, “Save Aleppo. Save humanity.” The aerial footage of the city is apocalyptic, but it is the images of individuals grasping for hope as they face death that has truly captured and horrified the masses. We have seen this before: the figures leaping from the World Trade Center, the story of…

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