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    The Drowsy: A Short Story

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    Oh yeah‚ there’s just something about singing with a huge chorus‚ you know? I’ve been very fortunate to be in things like The Producers‚ The Drowsy Chaperone‚ Urinetown--quite a number of stuff‚ I guess. It’s just great to be on stage singing with a bunch of other people. I’ve not had the opportunity to actually be in a musical‚ but I was a music teacher‚ and I have gotten to direct musicals‚ and be the choreographer‚ and teach the music. Oh my gosh‚ you’re never sleeping. Definitely a tough gig

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    Kim's Short Story

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    “I disagree with your interpretation of the main idea.” Kim said to Austin as they sat on the cement stair in Austin’s backyard and discussed about their short story analysis work from English class. It was just after rain‚ the sky was still filled with gray clouds‚ but at least the temperature had cooled down a little bit. Kim secretly felt bad for Austin‚ that now he was stuck with her for this “working buddies” thing in English. Why would someone stupidly arrived class late and became my deskmate

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    COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY

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    NAME  : FATIN NAZIHAH BINTI ABDULLAH  STUDENT I/D : 2014177579    Compare and contrast raising children in a small town and raising children in the city.    Children  who  grow  up  in  the  city  are  prone  to  gain  adaptability skills at a tender age‚   develop  acute  social  awareness‚  and  have  consistent  coverage  to  culturally  diverse  populations  and  experiences.  A  University  of  Virginia  research  found  that  cities  are  in  fact  much  safer  places  to  live  than  small 

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    Kevin Ellebrecht Mrs. O’Keefe English IV- 1st hour 22 September 2014 Compare and Contrast Paper The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd are pastoral poems. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love was written by Christopher Marlowe and The Nymph’s reply to the Shepherd was written by Sir Walter Raleigh. The Nymph to the Shepherd is written in response to The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. It is a woman refuting man about his request for someone to marry him. There

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    Compare and Contrast: A Friend His name is ______. If you ever met this individual you would certainly have a good or bad impression of him. I’ve basically grown up with him. We attended the same school all from elementary through high school‚ grew up in the same neighborhood. You could say that we both had a common thing. I’m not sure if meeting this person was a way to teach me a few things or not. I always wanted to think that him and I would get along and be good friends. Maybe that’s the reason

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    The Lottery

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    Shirley Jackson’s‚ The Lottery‚ has raised questions in the back of every reader’s mind towards the destructive yet blind rituals of mankind. A reflection of ourselves is what we see when looking through the pond of Jackson’s mind. The Lottery clearly expressed Jackson’s feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story‚ opened the eyes of its readers to properly classify and question some of today’s traditions as cruel‚ and allowed room to foretell the outcome

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    History of Short Story

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    The Short Story History: as a form dates back to the oral tradition of the tale written tales emerge in poetic forms - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Boccaccio’s Decameron (1351-1353) often cited as the precursor of the short story form‚ as is the French translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1704) short story really begins to emerge as a form in the 19th century Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1824-1826) an early collection of folk stories that paved the way for the development of the genre of short

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    What Is a Short Story?

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    What Is a Short Story? Short Stories are very interesting to read and can have many different meanings. Usually just one plot or theme‚ but can carry much more significance to reader than given credit for. Short stories are one of the most distinguished types of literature there is. Since they are different‚ they fall into a genre that implies certain expected conventions or traits. A short story is a fictional read which can be exciting because it usually is not going to bore you to death‚ and

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    Short Story Analysis

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    Emergence of a New Woman in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories The turning of the 19th century instilled a desire in all women to be free and liberated from their husbands. They desired freedom‚ liberation and happiness. Such characteristics were portrayed throughout the short stories written by Kate Chopin. For the majority of Kate Chopin’s life‚ she was brought up without a male figure and was constantly surrounded by females (Toth‚ 1999). Kate Chopin was a woman whose feminist viewpoints were far ahead

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    Compare/Contrast Essay

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    The short pieces Monday and Tuesday by Virginia Woolf and A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway are both proper examples of Modernist writing. Generally‚ the two stories contain very ambiguous‚ or seemingly non-existent‚ themes‚ which complement their pieces. The authors both achieve this by not really having an obvious protagonist‚ having this character be without motive or a subjective opinion of their situation‚ and finishing the piece with unresolved ending and meaning. Virginia Woolf’s

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