The Shining‚ by Stephen King‚ is about a man and his wife and son staying in a hotel during the winter. The man is named Jack Torrance‚ who will be the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel from the months of November to April. Jack was notorious for losing his job‚ mostly since he had a bad temper and drank excessively. Thankfully though‚ his good buddy Al knew the owner of the Overlook‚ who needed someone to stay there when everyone else left; so‚ he was able to get him the job. Jack’s son‚ Danny‚ has
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Desperation‚ a recent Stephen King novel‚ is not just a book‚ but an experience that leaves the reader frightened‚ paranoid‚ and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture‚ if you will‚ a lone‚ crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesn’t kill immediately‚ he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family‚ whose RV is sabotaged on
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man‚ tub shaped‚ with a puffy face and lanky brown hair. “She tripped and fell.” “That’s not exactly how the complainant remembers it‚” counters the magistrate. “How do you explain the multiple bruises and lacerations on her upper arms and neck?” Stephen Finlay turns yellow. It’s his way of blushing‚ having succumbed to Pansy’s full pouty lips‚ ponytail‚ capacious tank top‚ and jeans cut off at mid-thigh. The magistrate stares down at Finlay. “You know what you need to recite in order to plead guilty
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MEMORANDUM From: Stephen Haas To: Reader Date: July 8‚ 2011 Re: Divulging Confidential Information About our client Ener G. Traidor Relevant Facts Our client‚ Ener G. Traidor (“Traidor”)‚ has retained our firm to assist with his acquisition of an oil drilling company. During the course of the representation‚ we discovered that Traidor’s plans involved drilling in a manner than could produce dangerous results for a nearby town’s water supply. We have presented Traidor our concerns about the impact
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On February 14‚ 2018‚ nineteen-year-old Nikolas Cruz went to a high school in Florida and shoot and killing about seventeen people and injuring multiple people in the process. This left Florida in such a tragedy after the shooting. The school didn’t go back in session for over a week or two. It also left many schools around the United States in tear and fear thinking they would be next. Many students all around the United States are walking out of schools and protest gun laws. The cartoon “The Root
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proposed philosophies challenging the traditional musical expectations of their day and‚ thus‚ revolutionizing music. Music continues evolving even today‚ as modern composers break tradition and reshape societal and cultural attitudes toward music. Stephen Reich in particular was one such composer. Known as the “Father of Minimalism‚” Reich adopted minimalistic techniques that first came to musical prevalence in the early 1960s. His musical style and philosophies first received attention when
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Essay: The inspiring life of Juana Ines de la Cruz Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is not a typical women that lived during the 17th century in Mexico. There is much more beyond her beauty and authenticity. In her early years she was already considered to be a “child genius“1‚ taking into account her intelligence‚ and “polymath“ would also best describe her‚ since she wrote various poems‚ along with plays‚ also including her studies in music‚ philosophy and natural
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Sor Juana Ines De la Cruz was an incredibly talented writer and contributed greatly to the literary works of her country. As a playwright and poet‚ she poured her ideas and her feelings into her words‚ creating beautiful and eloquent pieces of work. She fought to obtain an education‚ and suffered a tremendous amount to be respected and given the right to express herself. Sor Juana Inez de La Cruz has become an inspiration to women throughout the years‚ and an idol to fellow poets who have learned
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Stephen Dobyns (1941) Kansas THE BOY HITCHHIKING on the back-country Kansas road was nineteen years old. He had been dropped there by a farmer in a Model T Ford who had turned off to the north. Then he waited for three hours. It was July and there were no clouds. The wheat fields were flat and went straight to the horizon. The boy had two plums and he ate them. A blue Plymouth coupe went by with a man and a woman. They were laughing. The woman had blonde hair and it was all loose and blew
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Higher Education in the USA and the UK USEFUL VOCABULARY admission board – приемная комиссия admission n - прием в колледж (университет) applicant n - претендент; соискатель‚ абитуриент apprenticeship n - обучение‚ ученичество (процесс обучения на производстве) Associate’s degree – диплом/степень кандидата в бакалавры/младшего специалиста (в некоторых университетах и колледжах – степень‚ получаемая лицом‚ прослушавшим неполный курс‚ обычно двухгодичную программу из четырехгодичного курса‚ требуемого
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