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    Many of us have seen scary movies about zombies and mummies, but which is scarier? That’s easy—a zombie is more frightening than a mummy. A zombie is faster, has a scarier appearance, and is a bigger threat to humans. Speed can be a scary characteristic, because naturally, when we are faced with a problem (such as a monster), our instinct is to fight or flight. If we choose flight, speed can be the determining factor between life, and death. The speed of a mummy is not one of its scary…

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    the setting was simple and did not change very often. An example would be, like in the Monkey’s Paw, when they were waiting for the Sergeant Major. Outside the weather was gloomy and wet. The roads were all messed up and it was hard to get around. This was not shown during the play. In the play all they did was start out in the house where the Sergeant Major’s wife was waiting for her friends to arrive. The house scenery never changed. One more difference that i observed was that the book had…

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    The Crusades is defined as a medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. The Question surrounding the crusades is whether it was caused by the devotion of religion or for the desire of political and economical gain. The crusades may of seemed like they were based around the idea of greed throughout the Catholic church but really it was based on God and how he got the people through such tough…

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    Throughout the movie the Wizard of Oz the Scarecrow would say “if I only had a brain”. However, the Scarecrow didn’t even need a brain; he already had what he wanted. This was shown in multiple scenes of the movie; one being when Dorothy tries to pick apples from the tree. In the movie, the Scarecrow’s smarts are shown by how he gets apples for Dorothy. Dorothy tries to pick apples from a tree and they yell at her and Dorothy is frightened. Next, the scarecrow pulls Dorothy away from the trees…

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    Jeep Wrangler Sport vs. Jeep Grand Cherokee “Born in the heat of battle, the Go-Anywhere, Do-Anything Jeep.” The first Jeep slogan that came out when Jeeps were first introduced to consumer ownership. This slogan describes the versatility of Jeeps and how they are the type of vehicle that will do anything you want it to and will go anywhere you want it to (Jeep). Jeeps have been around for over 50 years. They are the car that adventurers typically drive if they want to have fun. There are quite…

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    lion to see the wizard of Oz. On this journey she encounters many people, some friendly and some not. Dorothy and her friends go to see the wizard each for their own purposes, but all had intentions of stopping the Wicked Witch of the West. There are many entertaining scenes in this play. Two of them are the flying monkey scene and when she first arrives in Oz. When Dorothy first lands in Oz, she is very confused with where she is. She soon meets the people of the land, the munchkins, and they…

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    Ts Eliot Preludes Essay

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    Furthermore, the suffering it brings. This is included by first describing the setting in which the poem takes place on line 6 Eliot writes, “The grimy scraps,” and line 7, “Of withered leaves about your feet,” show it. Eliot uses words like grimy and withered to show a setting that is bleak. Then, in the third stanza of the poem Eliot switches to a second person point of view. That means the reader is then the speaker, which could mean the audience of this could have been people outside the…

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    eternal Glory for their efforts. This to any man is too much to resist, so thousands upon thousands flocked to fight for the cause, with a hope to gain some of their own land on the side. The Crusaders captured many of the mediterranean…

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    172).” This essay helps the readers to understand the political events in the country from the perspective of the book. First, it represents the sectionalism and race relation as the important political issues during the time when Baum wrote the book. The essay…

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    Why Dorothy Must Die

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    Die would probably be Nox. Nox was one of those characters that you really didn’t learn much about until the end of the story. I think that’s why he seemed so appealing to me whilst reading. He would go from being nice to having a hard backbone in this story. Also, the fact that he had a different form of magic than everyone else set him apart, which is one of the reasons that he stood out rather than the rest of the witches. 2 I can predict, based on the ending of the story that Amy and The…

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