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    The Winchester Mystery House is one of California's most interesting attractions. Rumors say the owner built the house to confuse evil spirits and appease pleasant spirits. During the 1900's it was estimated to cost five million dollars to construct but no one knows the true value of the house today. You can now tour the house and decide for yourself if the house is truly haunted. Sarah Winchester was married to William Winchester; son of the inventor of the repeating rifle. The couple lost their infant daughter to a protein deficiency disease. Fifteen years later, Sarah lost her husband to tuberculosis and fell into a deeper depression. She inherited her husband's money and stocks in the Winchester Company. After speaking to a psychic medium, Sarah believed that she had to move…

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    Brother to Brother Brother to Brother all throughout history that has been the question. It's always a competition between them, they constantly fight for the approval of their father. Which one is greater? Which one is stronger? Which one is smarter? That's is the evil deep inside of us all. The constant battle between each other for greatness. All the death and sorrow it has caused and yet we still have not learned from our mistakes. We constantly struggle with one another for these…

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    The story of Cain and Abel played a major part in the theme of East of Eden. The biblical tale of brotherhood jealousy was used to emulate the relationships between the “C-Characters” and the “A-Characters”. The story of Cain and Abel depicted two brothers fighting for the affection of God, which ends with Abel being murdered by Cain. Steinbeck uses this story to create the narrative that ends up pitting the “C-Characters” against the “A-Characters”, in which the A-Characters are usually on the…

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    One Corpse Too Many is a mystery book by Ellis Peters and is the second book in the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. The book is a murder mystery centered around an extra dead body amongst other dead bodies about to be buried. As there is no specific moral or theme highlighted in the book, I would say it’s not a great book for teaching a lesson. However, with the great characterization and way of immersing the reader into the setting, it is definitely a great book to read just for the sake of…

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    attempts, this suggests that she is independent and determined not to be led astray by Alec in order to remain pure. However, despite Hardy 's attempts, Tess is ultimately weak. As Alec "was inexorable" until he "gave her the kiss of mastery", it shows how she unable to resist his desires. Therefore Hardy fails to portray Tess as a tenacious woman but rather, one who is susceptible to the allure of male dominance. Austen also endeavours to portray strong females through the negative…

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    The CW’s cult television show Supernatural tells the story of brothers Dean and Sam Winchester, played by Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, respectively, who hunt a variety of supernatural monsters from vampires and demons to sirens and ghosts. The show is one of the longest running shows for the network and for it’s genre; it entered its twelfth season on October 13. Supernatural has employed narrative elasticity in several episodes throughout its tenure, and these episodes tend to become the…

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    Do you ever spend time roaming around the Tv channel guide to search from a show to watch? If so here’s a solution. Supernatural deals with two brothers, Dean and Sam, on a journey to hunt down a powerful demon that killed their mother but encounter major obstacles along the way. Later they realize that their journey has now turned into a war between God and Lucifer; they must fight along God’s side but not for the reason they think. Supernatural is a well thought out television show because it…

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    Supernatural is a popular T.V. show on CW that currently has a total of eleven seasons. It is about two brothers named Dean and Sam Winchester who go around hunting monsters but as the seasons progress that all changes. It isn’t just about two brothers hunting monsters anymore. They have a lot going on along with hunting monsters such as stopping the apocalypse, getting Sam out of the literal Hell where he is being tortured by Lucifer, getting Sam his soul back, stopping Leviathans, Eve, and the…

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    look interesting to me. It was living rocks that can move, grow, and reproduce, so I drew again. I drew the Anjikuni Lake in Canada. I looked through a couple of sites and decided that I would keep it because it looked interesting to me. I looked at more sites and each site helped me understand the disappearance of the people more and more. It is an unsolved mystery of the disappearing people of Anjikuni village. Joe Labelle, the person who discovered this mystery, had a few guesses, but his…

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    Supernatural is a popular T.V. show on CW about two brothers named Dean and Sam Winchester who go around hunting monsters. Being a popular T.V. show comes with many things such as fans shipping two characters together. Fans see two characters that aren’t specifically kissing as being a couple through even the smallest hints that the T.V. show provides. A T.V. show that is a great example of this is Supernatural since it proves that Dean and Castiel are in a relationship. Misha the actor who…

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