If you’re looking for a quick‚ entertaining and juicy read‚ the Pretty Little Liars series could be a good companion for a rainy afternoon. We won’t be chattin’ philosophy‚ science or complex issues by the close of the final (cliffhanger of a) page‚ but that’s not what this is all about. This was cotton candy: fluffy and fun. And with six additional books in Shepard’s series‚ there’s plenty more where this snack of a story came from.Pretty Little Liars is a series of young-adult novels by author
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Barbra Lazear Ascher’s “The Boxman” is a composition about loneliness and different aspects of it. Ascher takes loneliness and portrays it in different characters such as the Box Man‚ the lady in the coffee shop and the lady in in her apartment. She shows that the simplicity of chosen loneliness is less painful than the complications of loneliness forced upon you. Ascher describes the Box Man to be content with his life. His boxes are more than enough for him and are described as
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Almost all people are fond of travelling. It is very interesting to see new places‚ another towns and countries. People may travel either for pleasure or on business. There are various means of travelling. For me there is nothing like travel by air; it is more comfortable‚ more convenient and‚ of course‚ far quicker than any other means. There is none of the dust and dirt of a railway or car journey‚ none of the trouble of changing from train to steamer and then to another train. With a train
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Realist vs. Opportunist Life is filled with opportunities; some are life changing however most are not. An individual faces opportunities everyday of their life actually‚ but what makes them decide whether to follow through with it or simply keep going about the life they have? That is the difference between an opportunist and a realist. Realist defined as: one who is inclined to literal truth and pragmatism (dictionary.com). Opportunist being the opposite of that as someone who is inclined to
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Ladder by Pawel Kuczynski Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski uses art to convey serious issues people face in the world today. He attempts to shed some light on issues that he considers to be a big problem. Often‚ people will call the poor lazy and careless‚ but‚ in reality‚ they do not have an opportunity to rise up. While the better off are gaining success after success‚ those less fortunate are giving their all to earn basic comforts. In Ladder‚ he explains class struggles in countries where freedom
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Sniffing‚ Scurrying‚ Hemming and Hawing After beginning the story “Who Moved My Cheese?” I was instantly hooked. This book was such an easy read but I felt like I took away great lessons and advice. The story was in such simple terms and the lessons seemed so obvious‚ but many people‚ myself included‚ often overlook the beauty of change. I identified with several characters in the book‚ in different aspects of my life as well as throughout the different stages it took to become who I am today
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Robert Browning’s "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish‚ the Arab Physician" is a dramatic monologue in which Karshish writes to Abib about his experiencing the miracle of Jesus‚ when he raises Lazarus from the dead. "Karshish" is a dramatic monologue containing most of the tenets of Browning. Although "Karshish" is in the form of a letter‚ it is still an excellent example of a dramatic monologue. There is a speaker‚ Karshish‚ who is not the poet. There is a silent
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A Place to Call Home People always want to live and travel abroad‚ to experience new sensations and create life time memories‚ but as the cliché goes “you can take the boy out of the town but not the town out of the boy” pertains to be very true. When people go abroad they bring with them little things that remind of them home. Sometimes its pictures‚ sometimes its lucky coins or tokens‚ but when people move abroad they tend to adjust their entire living space to what makes them feel most
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An Everyday Hero By 10/11/2012 Everybody has an everyday hero. An everyday hero‚ though who they are and why they are our hero may be different from the person next to us‚ have at least one thing in common‚ they make a difference in our daily lives. Everyday heroes can be intelligent‚ brave‚ kind‚ loving‚ or anything else that you may consider as a heroic trait. For me personally‚ I consider my mom to be an everyday hero in my life. One of the heroic traits I see in my mom is that
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“Who Moved My Cheese?”‚ written by Dr. Spencer Johnson entails a story about four characters and their mission to acquire new cheese‚ with cheese being used to represent things in life that we desire which in return provides a sense of happiness and comfort such as a job‚ healthier lifestyle or spiritual peace. The author allows the characters to display a well-known fact about the cheese‚ which is that each individual person has different taste of cheese and thus have different desires. The characters
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