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    can easily out maneuver any ship. They spend the next year traveling the world underwater. While on this adventure‚ they get trapped under an iceberg. After one year on the submarine it is finally in the North Atlantic. The vessel is attacked by a giant squid! The crew tries to kill it with axes and spears eventually driving the squid away. After that‚ the vessel gets trapped in a whirlpool and they use this opportunity to escape. Land‚ Aronnax‚ and Conseil take the small boats that they find on the

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    cannot simply coast by in marriage and parenting without grounding their actions in a love that constantly manifest itself through sincere “I’m sorrys” and subsequent “I love yous.” At the heart of Ken Sande and Tom Raabe’s work is an in depth exposition of guidelines

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    The Happy Prince

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    started writing the children’s book ’The Happy Prince’ in 1988‚ the remarkably written book is wildly popular even still 23 years later. Wilde’s collection of children’s story books consists of The Happy Prince‚ The Nightingale and the Rose‚ The Selfish Giant‚ The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocket‚ all with different meanings‚ all just as funny and all just as heart wrenching. I think Wilde not only wrote these books for children but he made sure they are comedic and entertaining for adults too

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    The rain came

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    Introduction The title of the story is The Rain Came by Grace Ogot. The author of the story is Grace Ogot or also known as Grace Emily Akinyi. She was born on 15 May 1930‚ near Kisumu‚ central Nyanza Region in Kenya. In achievement‚ she became the first African woman writer in English who published fiction by the East African Publishing House. Her stories such as Land Without Thunder (1968)‚ The Other Woman (1976)‚ and The Island of Tears (1980) provides the traditional Luo life. Most of her fiction

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    The Elements of Plot in “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell has his own ways‚ that I am going to uncover‚ of controlling the plot of “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ which is an attention- grabbing fiction book. The short story starts off with an exposition‚ that introduces Rainsford‚ the protagonist‚ and how he feels about hunting; the author uses a lot of detail to show the story was under a considerable amount of amplification. Richard Connell has several conflicts leading up to a suspenseful climax

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    form? The three basic forms are called: Exposition‚ development‚ and recapitulation. 2. What musical events occur in each section? The main thematic substance for the movement is the Exposition: one or two melodies commonly called theme one and theme two. They are frequently in opposing styles and in differing keys. Due to the different keys they are usually interwoven with a modulation section‚ and may be repeated. Stereotypically the exposition ends with a final refrain‚ a codetta‚ or both

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    with his wife‚ Myrtle. It is also where Myrtle is brutally killed in a hit and run accident towards the end of the novel. The Valley’s bleak and barren nature provides a contrast to the loudness and brightness of New York‚ which represents wild and selfish behaviour‚ and the pursuit of pleasure‚ illustrated by the fact that Tom and Myrtle’s affair occurs there. The drunken debauchery of Tom and Myrtle’s party demonstrates New York’s lack of moral depth‚ and the idea that people feel that they can act

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    Self’s the man Oh‚ no one can deny That Arnold is less selfish than I. He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she’s there all day‚ And the money he gets for wasting his life on work She takes as her perk To pay for the kiddies’ clobber and the drier And the electric fire‚ And when he finishes supper Planning to have a read at the evening paper It’s Put a screw in this wall - He has no time at all‚ With the nippers to wheel round the houses And the hall to paint in his

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    kleine Nachtmusik” can reveal the similarities of the two pieces. As both pieces are composed in a sonata-allegro form‚ they are divided into three main sections: the exposition‚ the development‚ and the recapitulation. Both works begin with an exposition‚ a major theme that will be prevalent throughout the song. The exposition is followed by a second theme that contrasts with the first‚ but still retains the main theme of the song. Both pieces have a second theme that incorporates a slower rhythm

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    highlight mankind’s faults. The symbolism of the color green varies in mythical meanings. The expression of the color is seen frequently throughout the medieval romance‚ it is first shown in the exposition of the story. “Splendid that knight errant stood in a splay of green (Gawain poet.1.230).” A giant knight came into King Arthur’s kingdom on Christmas day; the knight was abnormally large and entirely green. The other knights feared him due to his unusual characteristics however‚ he was unarmed

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