crack! We shook together the bits and pieces, parts and samples, textures and tastes, humors and distillations that would move her compass needle north to cool us, south to warm and comfort us, east and west to travel round the endless world, glide her eyes to know us, mouth to sing us asleep by night, hands to touch us awake at dawn. Grandma, O dear and wondrous electric dream ... When storm lightnings rove the sky making circuitries amidst the clouds, her name flashes on my inner lid. Sometimes still
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Vampires. Some people believe in them, some people don’t. Well especially in There’s this whole buzz about them everywhere you go. I’m April Jennings and IM a 16 year old vampire. So were my parents before they got disintegrated by the Overlords. Okay so a few facts about me: I live with my Aunt Cathy, a normal human. From what I’ve picked up so far humans aren’t the nicest of people. They may be the strongest species on Earth at the moment but me and my species will soon takeover. When the time
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UNIT ONE THE GIFT OF THE MAGI By O. Henry I. Introduction O. Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter (1867 – 1910), is famous chiefly for his short stories. These stories are usually set amid the poorer working – class life of the cities, the characters being ordinary simple people with their daily living to earn, a life which O.Henry knew well. But the stories are not mere realistic sketches. O. Henry had both the craftsmanship of a writer and the compassion of a man. As a writer he constructs
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Bugs Bunny has and continues to be a standing favorite all, his popularity spans generations crossing over form one millennia to the next, he is iconically global and can be viewed in many languages in thousands of homes. True to form the creation of this character has spawned within our culture a love for such a character that he has become not only a welcomed spokes person but an undying legend whose roots can possibly be traced back hundreds of years he is everybody’s hero we laugh and cheer
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Chapter 1: The Death Note I stared at the teacher who was currently blabbering stuff about algebra and irrational numbers. I don't really have anything against Math, except that I have low grades in it. The only subject I'm ever good at is Physical Education. Even so, I am still beaten at it by the ever so perfect “Allen Walker”. What's with him, really? He's good at everything, even in Cooking Class. Although he can't par with me in cooking commoner's food, he always cooks exquisite viands. People
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hurry for his new office in Chiyoda-ku where the best shops for sports wear in Tokyo can be found. He was going to miss the ski season this year and this made him a little angry. Until he has accepted the management of the company from his father – the old Takiyoshi Yoshino, he was a "cool" guy exploring the fashion world, a person whose mission was to keep abreast of the ever-changing fads of Tokyo. "The people in the streets are very creative and we have to be even more," Fusahiko thought while entering
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One day this spring, a psychiatrist named Dorothy Lewis got a call from her friend Betty, who works in New York City. Betty had just seen a Broadway play called "Frozen," written by the British playwright Bryony Lavery. "She said, 'Somehow it reminded me of you. You really ought to see it,'" Lewis recalled. Lewis asked Betty what the play was about, and Betty said that one of the characters was a psychiatrist who studied serial killers. "And I told her, 'I need to see that as much as I need to go
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hurry for his new office in Chiyoda-ku where the best shops for sports wear in Tokyo can be found. He was going to miss the ski season this year and this made him a little angry. Until he has accepted the management of the company from his father – the old Takiyoshi Yoshino, he was a "cool" guy exploring the fashion world, a person whose mission was to keep abreast of the ever-changing fads of Tokyo. "The people in the streets are very creative and we have to be even more," Fusahiko thought while entering
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Plato’s Republic and Machiavelli’s The Prince are each hugely important texts in the history of philosophy. Even though they were written approximately 1900 years apart, they represent two of the most valuable commentaries on political philosophy. They are of course, very different in their discussions of philosophy, yet some similarities are evident. Plato writes about philosophy through the mouth of Socrates, illustrating indirectly through a lengthy dialogue his own ideas and opinions. As
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In Latin America, the popularity of the sport is growing rapidly and the most recent of talent into the NBA is migrating from Latin America. The cultural popularity of the sport was growing exponentially and is well documented in China with the likes of Yao Ming and Jeremy Lin who are Asian sensations. With Latin American backgrounds integrating into the game of basketball, I wonder how these international translations are in turn changing the game we see at home. In Latin America, where the climate
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