eight days. I crept out of the room quietly and tried to make my way through the cottage without waking the Bertram family. I stepped outside and onto the silky sand that seemed to stretch on forever. I jogged to one of the beach’s most powdery sand dunes and jumped in feet first‚ sand rising around my shins. Running the sand through my fingers as if to tell if it were real‚ I was deep in thought. Whether or not I was dead and this was heaven was probably my
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The Hardest Lesson The year two thousand eight was the hardest year of my life‚ the year I lost the one thing that meant the most to me and the one thing that could never be replaced. It all started with an argument with my father I was fourteen at the time and was hard-headed and arrogant. I thought I could make my own money to help support the family; my father had been laid off of work the year before. When he found this out he was furious with me‚ he didn’t understand why I would do such a
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Lake Michigan is the world’s third largest lake by surface area. It is the world’s sixth largest lake. Though we consider Lake Michigan and Lake Huron separate lakes‚ because they are connected by the straights of Mackinaw‚ by definition they are considered one lake (great-lakes.net). Michigan is more than four million years ago‚ glaciers covered and moved across what is now the United States Mid-West. Michigan experienced the last great ice sheet. This glacier was a mile thick and four million
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Subject: Harbor Dunes Golf Course Problem Statement: Harbor Dunes Golf Course was recently honored as one of the top public golf courses in South Carolina. Harbor Dunes targets the upper end golf market and in the peak spring golfing season‚ charges fees of $160 per person and golf cart fees of $20 per person. Under their current plans‚ Harbor Dunes is able to sell a maximum of 20 afternoon tee times. Harbor Dunes was able to sell every morning tee time available for every day last spring golf
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This method was effective in calming me down literally every time. He may or may not have been making them up‚ but he was my hero. Remembering the days by the seaside put a smile on my face. When my grandfather would bury me in the sand‚ make sand dunes and sand castles for me‚ but most importantly‚ I
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In Abe’s novels‚ plot and character are usually subservient to idea and symbol. This makes The Woman in the Dunes something of an anomaly. Its plot is devious‚ addictive yet straightforward. An amateur entomologist arrives in a remote area of sand dunes with hopes of identifying a type of sand beetle. Night falls and the villagers offer him shelter in a ramshackle house at the bottom of a funnel-shaped pit of sand. Descent is possible only by means of a rope ladder. The occupant of the house‚ a young
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in the short story The Rocking-Horse Winner through: "the terrible mother" Hester‚ "the anti-wise man" Oscar Cresswell‚ and "the sacrificial scapegoat" Paul. Hester is portrayed as cold and shallow‚ accurately demonstrating the terrible mother archetype. Thus‚ she is a perfect example of the theme of tormented family relationships‚ present in the short story The Rocking-Horse Winner. When the authour describes what‚ "Everyone else said of her: ’She is such a good mother. She adores her children
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“Explain how the poem “not my best side” portrayal of its characters‚ leads to archetypes being gone against.” This poem is inter-textual in a sense that it is based on the painting “St. George and the Dragon”. It takes a humorous role in portraying each of the characters found in the painting and goes against theirs common archetypes of a dragon‚ princess and knight. This poem is a parody on the archetypes that the characters of the painting should have‚ it goes against them completely in a humorous
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The characteristics of a sandy shore at Pallarenda beach‚ Townsville‚ North Queensland. Introduction: The sandy shores of beaches can be considered as a very harsh environment to live in (Ted Klenk‚ 1999). Survival in such a habitat requires an organism to withstand strong wave and current action‚ tidal rise and fall‚ unstable substrate‚ heavy predation and wide variations in salinity and temperature (The Otter Island Project). Any organism found in this type of harsh environment is specialized
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Introduction This paper will survey and review the overall environment of the Bellagio Resort & Casino located in Las Vegas in order for me to understand the services and activities of the hotel. Most importantly I wanted to get an overview of the appearance of the hotel. This will‚ therefore‚ help me to put into use the knowledge‚ skills‚ and tools that I obtained from the hospitality management class. This means that I will be able to apply the class theorem to the real work environment. I will
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