The smell of rotten corpses invades the air as I bolt down various alleyways, praying for an exit. I know it’s hopeless. I know I will hit a dead end… I was right. My eyes scan the alleyway, and I reach for a rusty sickle buried deep into an emaciated corpse. Multiple humanoid shadows appear on the blood stained brick wall. Walking backwards, I tumble over a corpse.. My eyesight is lost due to the fact that the blood from the corpse is oozing into my eyes. I hear the sound of metal blades dragging
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The Murder of Oetzi An unexpected visit in the night led to the devastating destruction of the Italian Alps village. The wind gusted across the entire village as it took with it clumps of orange, red, and yellow crunchy leaves which spread the smells of decomposed leaves. While the hooting owls softly accompanied the soothing sounds of the winds. The trees that surrounded the village stood eerily still where most of them were naked and barren with only a few lonely leaves attached to their arms
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REGION 1 SHORT STORIES Authors Biography Carlos Bulosan was born in the Philippines on November 24, 1913 and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17 on July of 1930. He arrived in Seattle, Washington where he would struggle against discrimination and poverty. He traveled up and down the west coast of the United States chasing after work. After years of harsh living and working conditions, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and went to Los Angeles to have surgery at the Los Angeles
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"Poor thing is truly out of it." Shaking his head, Billy stared at the back of the woman's head with pity as the thought came to mind. Perhaps she had some condition, war was always tough for those with loved ones lost. The young man's curiosity only grew as the Landlady scrambled to the drawers, fiddling for some object. "Now," the Landlady turned to face him, a knife in hand, "do not be alarmed. But do watch closely." Her warning did not keep Billy from trying to reach out to
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In Grip of Cold, Afghan Family Buries 8th Child By ROD NORDLAND Published: February 8, 2012 KABUL, Afghanistan — The war refugee Sayid Mohammad lost his last son on Wednesday, three-month-old Khan, who became the 24th child to die of exposure in camps here in the past month.ß “After we had dinner he was crying all night of the cold,” Mr. Mohammad said. The family had no wood and was husbanding a small portion of paper and plastic that his daughter had scavenged that day. He said the boy had
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THE RIGHT ONE First, we must allow our Heavenly Father to do the picking. And second, the decision for a mate must be made on a spiritual and intellectual basis before it's made on an emotional one. "What about love? Shouldn't that be the third? You ask. No, and I'll tell you why. "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9). The heart is willful and is driven by its own agenda. It does not consider things rationally and intelligently it
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there until either the world ended or he died. Eventually though his bladder won out and if he didn't move in the next 2 minutes he was literally go to piss himself. As carefully as he could he lifted Nicks arm off him and set it down against the man's side. Then as slowly and gently as possible he slid backwards to the edge of the bed where he could slide out. As he stood from the bed he was surprised at the lack of ache in
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“Field of Bull” Realism is all about showing the truth. A realist will try to defend the assumptions that their film ideas are not influenced, but are a true mirror of the actual world. We rarely notice the style in a realistic movie; they often aim for a gritty look, with the idea that if it’s too pretty, it’s false. Their films are about everyday people and everyday situations. At the opposite side of realism, we have Formalism. Formalist directors have no desire to show reality. They want to
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“Field of Bull” Realism is all about showing the truth. A realist will try to defend the assumptions that their film ideas are not influenced, but are a true mirror of the actual world. We rarely notice the style in a realistic movie; they often aim for a gritty look, with the idea that if it’s too pretty, it’s false. Their films are about everyday people and everyday situations. At the opposite side of realism, we have Formalism. Formalist directors have no desire to show reality. They want to
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the famed serial monogamist Henry VIII married six times; even introducing divorce, yet Hamlet is troubled by his mother’s single remarriage, even before learning of his uncle’s treachery, despite the fact that his father is dead. Perhaps then, it is the line ‘or ere these shoes were old’ that demonstrates his trouble with the hastiness of the remarriage, rather than the concept of the marriage itself. Throughout, the Duchess is defined not through her ideals, as noble as they may be, but through
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