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    Then again, what Becca and Aaliyah doesn’t know is that Mya knows the code to the safe. How does she know, she’s been eyeing Aaliyah every time she goes to open the safe. Mya agrees to her wife plan; for the main fact that she wants to save her marriage. So together they created a plan to steal the money, but little do Mya know that Becca is plotting against them both. On September 9, 2016, the plans created on paper was now going to be reality. While Aaliyah was out on lunch, Mya sneaked into…

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    outside the door and dived on top of him. The intense heat had started to ignite the hair on my arms and head, and I was beginning to spontaneously combust. Someone in the hall had a blanket and kept the worst from happening, As I headed for the stairway I heard fire engines arriving and the prone man moved his arm imperceptibly and I knew he was alive.…

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    St Louis Monologue

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    Thirty-Five As usual, when darkness descends, the city comes to life. Clusters of carriages travel Rue Saint Louis. Many are headed to Antoine’s or other fine restaurants, some, like ours, maybe leaving the city. Seeing Boudreaux waiting for me in front of Antoine’s caused other feeling to stir… what am I doing- why am I running away. Do I truly want to do this? Do I? Indecision could be the death of me. As if he could read my mind, and maybe he could, Myles took my hand and gazed into my…

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    Jane’s husband pushes her over the edge, from depression to insanity. New mothers have up to a 20 percent chance that they may experience postpartum depression within months following the birth of their child. Unless properly treated, the symptoms can worsen over time. In Jane’s journal entries, her rapid progression into insanity is very visible as she goes from seeing an unpleasant yellow wallpaper to finding that there is a woman trapped inside it. Gilman carefully illustrates the huge impact…

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    Skylight Short Story

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    A skylight! It had to be, what else could be up there that would need to be covered like that. It was so faintly irradiated, the casual observer would have to wonder how he could be so sure this was a skylight, but the man had hope. Nothing else empowers the human will quite like hope does. So with this hope in his heart, the man set out to reach for the sky. He kept the fires going, but drew them in closer to maximize the lighting he needed. He then began to stack books. One by one, he took…

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    Trajan's Forum Analysis

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    On the third day ashore, I made my first visit to Trajan’s Forum. The forum is two centuries old and was built by Emperor Trajan after their successful wars against the Dacians. Using the riches acquired during the wars, the Emperor rewarded the Roman citizens with the building of the forum. Construction was started in 107 CE and completed in 112 CE. The Emperor used architect Apollodorua of Damascus to construct the forum. The forum which is the largest in Roma, is a vast complex which has…

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    Dr Caligari Essay

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    properties, such as doorway, windows, mirrors or chairs, using in the scene were also created asymmetrically, for instant, those chairs and tables which were set in the scene with civil officers or town clerks are unnaturally tall, while the doors or stairways used by characters in film are such unrealistically distorted. Moreover, light is also projected through painting in this film, to draw the highlight in the scene. In every scene, besides using paint on the walls, Weine also designed to…

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    complained. She was never mean to anyone, she never made a rude remark against someone, and everyone loved her. She lived for the Lord, and did everything she could for him. I believe in my heart, when she took her last breath, she went straight up the stairway to…

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    Despite going through a stairway to other world, death is feared in every living being but is not a pleasurable experience by some to be in after it occurs. In the film, the fear of death was shown on the faces of many characters in Peter’s world. For example, when Peter jumped off the plane and landed on the beach, he feared that he was in the afterlife because of the place he was in until he saw a plane that flew over him. June, in the majority of the film, feared for Peter’s life as he was…

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    The company was bleeding from every orifice. It decided to do the most capitalistic thing humanly possible, in the least laissez-faire way possible. It saved itself by killing the business’s struggling brands; and stacking their carcases into a stairway to fiscal flexibility… though that required accepting government money (shudders). In 2009 GM was…

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