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    Necklace Diary Entries

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    invited to a grand ball with my husband, I had an exquisite time!~ I do remember it as if were yesterday. .. It was just last night come to think of it. But! The way the lights shone and the way all the men and women smiled at me, all of them loved me! I felt quite like a princess, as I should. Oh, how I radiated! Ah, I fear I’ve gotten off topic, when my husband and I had arrived home, I realized the bedazzled set of jewelry was missing from where it lay on my bosom, much to our horror! I was…

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    Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of Saints, and a good name. The Puritan goal was to figure out if he/she was apart of the elect. The Scarlet Letter and Rappaccini’s Daughter both by Nathaniel Hawthorne were written in the 1800’s. Hawthorne was not a fan of Puritanism; he felt it was too strict and demanding in one’s life. He used his beliefs in the creation of The Scarlet Letter, which was set between 1642-1649 in Boston, Massachusetts. The novel demonstrates the typical behavior of the…

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    Edmund, the illegitimate younger son of Glouster is overcome with greed and the thirst for power. Throughout the novel King Lear written by William Shakespeare Edmund has a constant need of revenge. Edmund finds himself taking everything from Edgar, and still wanting more. The play starts off stating how King Lear has grown old, and that he must divide his kingdom up into three sections. The daughter who shows the most love and affection gets the largest part of the kingdom, so naturally the…

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    Mess Of My Life Analysis

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    Maybe I’m experiencing a true mental crisis. I took out the unsettling and uncanny letter from my purse and unfolded it. Capitalized black ink titled the page and stared at me directly in the face, “7 DAY NOTICE OF EVICTION!” That title, oh god did it mock me. My sense of helplessness was overwhelming. What I wanted to do was pull some…

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    My New Dress Analysis

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    even if it is bad on our behalf. Parents are not always at fault. We in general have to look at the picture from both sides. My life style along with this story have the same titanic but different meaning. Ten years ago I lived in a huge four-bedroom home raising my two kids along…

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    The Scarlet Letter Written in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , The Scarlet Letter reflects on the themes of guilt, shame, and the self-inflicted physical and psychological pain that the characters felt as a result of their life choice. As the story begins, Hester Prynne is put on trial for the crime of adultery. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth had sent her to America ahead of him to prepare their home. However, Chillingworth was lost at sea and presumed dead. Trying to survive on her own in…

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    is not. Growing up as a white female, I never once guessed I would end up dating a black guy. My parents never really told me I couldn't date a boy of a different skin color, but then again, they never really advised me to either. It all started last December. This was when I first mentioned the idea to my mom. Actually, she was the one who mentioned it to me. My dad always leaves for work before all of us others in the house even wake up. Most mornings we are rushed getting ready for our…

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    When people think of the Bible, they think of religion. People have to stop and think that the Bible is not only religion, but it’s also about literature. People question why to put literate styles because they think it will be easier to be straightforward with God’s message? The answer to that is that God used different people in different ways. The people God used wrote in the style they are known with as how the Holy Spirit encouraged them. There are so many types of literary means used by…

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    1917 when the country entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million troopers who battled with U.S. military in the trenches of France and Belgium, some a large portion of a million and about one out of each five men were foreigners. In The Long Way Home, David Laskin, creator of the prize-winning history The Children's Blizzard, recounts the stories of twelve of these settler legends. Beginning with their childhoods in Europe, Laskin unfurls the adventure of their trips to Ellis Island, their…

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    Suicide Monologue

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    top of the page, but decide it’s a bad way to begin your letter, your suicide letter. You try again, start over, again, but you don’t know how to begin. No one understands you; no one knows what you are going through, you’re alone or, at least, that’s what you think. Nobody would care if you’re alive or not, you mean nothing to nobody. It’s night and you slip into bed. ‘Goodbye,’ you whisper into darkness. And with that, you take your last breathe and end it all. NOBODY CARES RIGHT? WELL, YOU…

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