Unexpectedly, Mulan’s father, who was old and weak, was chosen. Know that her father was not equal to the mission, Mulan decided to dress gerself as a man to join the army instead of her fater. During the time in the army, she became acquainted wiht the captain, Li Shang, and she was deeply moved by his care for her. After they won th ewar, she told the truth frankly to him, and Li Shang asked the king to spare her life for disguising herself as a soldier. In time, they fell in love with each other, got
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SHORT STORY COLLECTION Historical Short Stories… © Copyright, Peter Stone, 2010 www.inscribedinstone.blogspot.com Dreams Forsaken ―So why am I here, exactly?‖ queried my nineteen-year-old niece as she sat next to me. The lantern I had placed beside us cast flickering light throughout the abandoned tannery‘s darkened interior. Eerie, dust-laden cobwebs clung to every wooden beam, workbench and table, causing her to shudder. I glanced at her innocent face untouched by grief, and wished yet again
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"SAVING PRIVATE RYAN" By : Robert Roday (Early Draft) Typed for the Internet By: DAVID PRITCHETT SCREENWRYTER@HOTMAIL.COM FADE IN: CREDITS: White lettering over a back background. The THUNDEROUS SOUNDS OF A MASSIVE NAVAL BARRAGE are heard. The power is astonishing. It roars through the body, blows back the hair and rattles the ears. FADE IN: EXT. OMAHA BEACH - NORMANDY - DAWN The ROAR OF NAVAL GUNS continues but now WE SEE THEM FIRING. Huge fifteen
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needs you!’ Yeah that’s what they told us. Don’t get me wrong I love the service. The friends that I have met in this brigade will be my friends forever. Civvies just don’t understand
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The Wreck of the Hesperus A skipper and his daughter climbed aboard a boat named Hesperus, Too bad I'm cooking up a cruel storm today, Ha!Ha! This captain thinks the waters will be calm, They better get more than just a winter coat because they'll need more, so hopefully they pray. I observe that the daughter had blue eyes like the skies in the Midsummer of July, Her skin looked as if it were soft and delicate as the Thomson Mountain's fluffy snow, Like the glowing sun, the maiden's beauty
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girls, tremendous drama, and so much false security. My dance coach always favored one girl specifically. Her name was Lindsay and she was the daughter of the doctor in town. She was a very nice girl, I will admit, but her dancing skills were not up to par. About one month into my third season, our new coach announced she thought it would be a good idea to have a captain. That night all of the girls gossiped about who they thought would be the captain. We all concluded it would be the best dancer on
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followed every rule at Vermont boarding school; however, Mr.Keating teaches his students to not go by tradition but by thinking for themselves. In the movie, Mr.Keating was telling the kids to rip out the pages from their textbooks, he mentions, “In my class you will learn to think for yourselves again”. Mr. Keating explains that the students should think for themselves rather than following a scale by J. Evans Pritchard. This is similar to the writings of Henry Thoreau, a transcendentalist writer
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The last day of college, finally I get to spend my summer break with my two best friends Amanda and Bethany. We have planned to travel to three different countries this year, the most exciting part about it is that all the countries we are visiting are islands. With seas and oceans as clear as a pure diamond, so we get to tan and get some Vitamin D. We have organized to travel to the Maldives, Bora Bora, and Bali. We arranged to meet at our local Starbucks to finalize everything for tomorrow. At
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0 TREASURE ISLAND By Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher’s Notes This eBook is designed, edited and published by PDFBooksWorld and can be accessed & downloaded for personal reading by registered members of PDFBooksWorld at http://www.pdfbooksworld.com. Though the text, illustrations and images used in this book are out of copyright, this unique PDF formatted edition is copyrighted. Readers of this book can share and link to pages of our website through blogs and social networks, however
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General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Examination June 2010 English Language (Specification B) Unit 1 Categorising Texts 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm Thursday 27 May 2010 For this paper you must have: l a 12-page answer book. ENGB1 Time allowed l 2 hours Instructions l Use black ink or black ball-point pen. l Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Examining Body for this paper is AQA. The Paper Reference is ENGB1. l Answer two questions. l here are two
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