Long‚ long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged‚ widowed mother. They owned a bit of land which supplied them with food‚ and their humble were peaceful andhappy.Shining was governed by a despotic leader who though a warrior‚ had a great and cowardly shrinking from anything suggestive of failing health and strength. This caused him to send out a cruel proclamation. The entire province was given strict orders to immediately put to death all aged people. Those were
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The room was filled with blood. Covering the floor in disturbing streaks of crimson‚ the wall painted in its shiny hue. The detective walked through the gruesome murder scene‚ taking particular care not to touch any of the evidence labelled with the little yellow cones. The brutality that caused such mayhem made her heave‚ shuddering as she tried to keep down her breakfast of decaffeinated coffee‚ and half a banana. No one had seen anything. But then again‚ no one ever did. The victim was identified
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Biography of Uma Pemmaraju Background Uma Pemmaraju was born on the 31st of March‚ 1985. She was born in the city of Rajahmundry‚ which is in India. But‚ grew up in San Antonio‚ Texas. She was 6 years old when her parents relocated to Texas from India. At as then‚ they were the only Indians in the San Antonio region and among the small. Her father specialized in the control of birth and a research scientist. He mother on the order hand was a housewife and was brought up from a well-recognized family
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One day in a far away land of Olympus‚ Hercules‚ the son of Zeus‚ was strolling through his house and overhears his father say‚ “I cannot believe what Prometheus did. Stealing fire! From the gods! Oh‚ I will punish him. Him‚ his brother and the whole human race!” Hercules was in disbelief of what he just heard. He could not believe that Zeus would be so cruel over a small act‚ one to help the humans! After the gods left and sent Pandora down to Earth for Epimetheus‚ Hercules stormed in to talk to
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’Mistakes and misunderstandings are painful when they occur." nevertheless as life goes on‚ these occurrences turn into experience that add value to relationships and life. When asked to define what a mistake really is‚ one would say it is an act of misdoing or perhaps even an error of judgement. However‚ as the word itself suggests‚ such misdoings are unintentional and the doer cannot be fully blamed for his/ her inaccurate action. on the other hand‚ a misunderstanding maybe elucidated as an unfortunate
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In the semi-autobiographical poem‚ ‘The Story of Lost Friends’‚ Ruskin Bond chronicles all the important incidents in his life which lead to friendship being made and then broken. In this poem he narrates a brief story of his childhood‚ of promises kept and broken‚ friends made and lost‚ joy and sorrow‚ set against the war years in India. The poem starts with him standing on the edge of the railway- cutting‚ looking for someone among the hundreds of people in the station and reminiscing
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I remember despising dresses. Despite popular belief though‚ my revulsion did not stem from the view that dresses were dainty or feminine. No‚ you see my disgust in dresses came from what they stood for; things such as social dinner parties‚ religious Sunday mornings‚ and worse weddings. At the time‚ the presence of dresses only meant one thing; misfortune was waiting to strike. I knew this to be a fact because the morning we received the phone call I was wearing a dress. A summer dress to be precise
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could not see him. Ten minutes later‚ the police car came to us. Because of this the driver opened the door and he got out the bus to talk with the policeman. Until now I do not know what happed and where was the strange man gone! Anyways‚ in the end the driver told us not to worry the police caught the strange man and he was a crazy man. Fifteen minutes later‚ we arrived to school after the two policemen had helped the driver to repair the bus. And we found all the staff of our school waiting
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answered‚ so she went to the kitchen and started making supper. While she was chopping tomatoes‚ she heard knocking upstairs. The knife fell out from her hand. She picked it up with shaking and went to the stairs. The noise was going from bathroom in the end of the hall. She turned on the lights and went straight on‚ holding the raised knife. The door was ajar. She was very frightened‚ her heart beating was very loud. She opened the door and turned on the lamp very quickly. For her surprised there wasn’t
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Vacation to remember On a beautiful day in July‚ the sun shone brightly above the ocean where a sail boat leisurely floated. A pirate‚ named Nabarun who is the captain of his own boat‚ along with his friend Paandu were sailing on the coast of Vancouver. Nabarun and Paandu had come from India and had been best friends for 10 years; they had big dreams of travelling the world together because Nabarun was a pirate and owned his own sail boat which made it easier for them to travel and see family
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