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    El Patron Analysis

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    He gets glass shards all over his feet, calves, and hands, and, admirably, Steven and Emelia carry him back to Steven’s house, followed by Maria. There the adults begin to help him but soon after realizing what he was, a clone, they all begin to treat him as if he were an animal. He gets thrown into the servants quarters and doctored but is treated like one would treat…

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    The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the story of Nick Carraway, who moves next door to a man by the name of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, in love with the woman he was once with, Daisy, climbed the social ladder to fame and riches in an attempt to win her back. The novel follows Gatsby’s progress to a relationship with Daisy, then his downfall when she rejects him. The Great Gatsby explores fallen dreams and the emptiness of wealth, through the display of violent actions of humans and the…

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    galloping on the winds of a violent revolution, stretching straight letter I, a storm of churning voices collected into a single spine. i am radical rapid turning, uprooting houses blasting open government offices, swarms of solid atmosphere and saltwater rising against the pyramids rearing on the horizon blackening out whole suns collective thun der (Tornado 1-17) Using a tornado as an image effectively conveys the way the speaker feels in terms of their actions. The form conveys the…

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    Misconceptions About Sex

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    She has random electronics just laying around her house that she is not using at all. In some weird way having these things make her feel comfortable and complete. Her happiness meter is on 10 when she has everything she wants. Well, as a human being, you should feel complete without these things. Material…

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    Other Significant Structural Elements- Liesel comments on a quote from her book, The Last Human Strange., “The sun stirs the earth. Around and around, it stirs us, like stew.” She adds that the world is an ugly stew and says that she can’t stand it, and that the world does not deserve the good that it gets. Characters 1. Protagonist a. Name and significance- Liesel…

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    Short Story: Empire Island

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    “Sir! My parents were never near your land! We were very low on food, and all they wanted was to find something to feed me with!” the young adolescent shouted miserably from behind the tall wooden fence. His dirty, ill-fitting clothing, which was threadbare from the countless patches, attracted no attention from the royal guards as they tied up his parents to the ground. His face was as pale as winter; tears were streaming down his face as he shouted continuously at the unforgiving nobleman who…

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    “It’s okay,” Joe said. “I can't imagine not smelling cow shit every morning anyway. It’s soothing.” We started laughing until we were both standing there looking at the other, crying. It was the first time Joe and I had spoken that deeply about being an Albert— what it meant and what it felt like. We crumbled at the same time and sat by the wheelbarrow and wiped at our tears and sweat, the liquids hard to tell apart. I ran my palms over the dry grass in the field like it was water, inviting and…

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    “old money” and this makes him filthy rich. Nick makes it a point in the novel to explain to the readers how wealthy the Buchanans are, “.. on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay” (Fitzgerald 10-11). Nick states, “Why they came East I don’t know. They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then…

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    Creative Writing: Pitgorm

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    On maps, some maps anyway, there is a spot where mapmakers usually write the label Pitgorm. A tavern and trading post stands there under the “g”—in the south of the dale halfway between the Forbidden and Gaulaghast mountains. They’re one building, a large building as these things go in the region, with no name or sign. It doesn’t need one; after all, not much is there. When outsiders say they are going to Pitgorm, that is where they go. The locals call it many things depending on their mood, but…

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    Ecotel Hotel Case Study

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    Rationing nature by considering all parts of green activities like 'reusing of waste water, transformation of ordinary lights into CFLs/ LEDs, water collecting, establishment of sun based water warming framework' and more are a reasonable methods for managing what's to come. "Targets incorporate a 15% diminishment in water utilization, ten every penny decrease in vitality utilization and carbon discharges and a 100% boycott on…

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