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    The Secret Garden

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    “The Secret Garden” written by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a fantastic children’s Literature book. There are several critics on what is the real metaphoric meaning behind the novel. There are several themes that exists amongst which is the theme of “Utopia”‚ which can be defined as a perfect society‚ a place of perfection and happiness‚ and the opposite to that happiness‚ “Dystopia”. As a reader who has read the book I couldn’t agree less on the ideal idea of the secret garden in the novel that is

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    Secrets (Speech)

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    Right now there are over 7 billion people in the world who are lying and keeping secrets the average person has kept or is still keeping at least over 100 and in a world of over 7 billion people that is a lot of secrets and lies people are keeping or telling people often ask "why do people keep secrets?" there are 3 main reasons people do; the first one is the fear of being rejected‚ people dont want to face the feeling of being rejected by the person it is just an awful feeling to have two is

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    The Moonstone Commentary

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    A Focus on Setting The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) Part 1 – Lines 1 to 16 From the very first description of the story’s setting‚ the audience is already presented with a comparison of mood to atmosphere. “Our house is high up in the Yorkshire coast” (line 1) is the very opposite of the “low cliffs of the loneliest and ugliest little bay” (line 3-4). This contrast in landscape cleverly demonstrates the characters’ contrast in mood‚ behaviors and mindsets. Although the word high may

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    Commentary on Feet

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    his sister’s death. We can see this from his action and his mind. First‚ we know that he is hiding himself under the table‚ this shows that he doesn’t want to face this tragedy. Secondly‚ in paragraph 4‚ we can see the child’s flashback of his past life with the uncles. This showed that he is trying to think of other things so not to remind himself of his sister’s death‚ which is an action of evading. Last but not least‚ in the ending paragraph‚ the sentence “Smoky shook under his fur and whimpered

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    This passage is taken from the book Songs of Ourselves. This poem written by Sujata Bhatt is written post the British colonisation of India and importance of religions and culture in India. It is a poem written about the social and political concern of the lost of cultural identical renunciation of Indian identity. The poem is based on Religion and a bit of Greek Mythology. All the lines are not of the same length. This shows us that the poem is meant to be read slowly with understanding. The effect

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    Victoria Secret

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    Kaplan University Victoria Secret‚ a subsidiary of Limited Brand LTD‚ began its operations in the United States in the 1970’s. The company has faced many uphill battles and many successes. Victoria Secrets American operations are head quartered in Reynoldsburg‚ OH. Currently the successful lingerie and beauty product store has more than 16‚000 employees domestically and operate over a thousand retail stores domestically. To accurately measure the success of Victoria Secrets operations domestically

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    Secret Recipe

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    1.0 Secret Recipe Background Top 10 Malaysia brands in Malaysia from the top are McD‚ Starbuck‚ KFC‚ Oldtown‚ Burger King‚ Sushi King‚ Secret Recipe‚ MarryBrown‚ A&W‚ and Kenny Rogers. Secret Recipe is class in the seventh of the Top Ten (Top 10 of Malaysia‚ 2014). It my most favorite cake store ever. That’s the reason it been chosen. Secret Recipe is a popular lifestyle cafe chain in Malaysia‚ with Halal certification awarded by Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM). It first outlet was founded

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    INTRODUCTION TO TRAVEL AND TOURISM TRAVEL BOOK REVIEW TRAVEL ETCETERA THE WORLD ON ANOTHER PLANE STEPHEN SCOURFIELD Travel Etcetera: The World on Another Plane. By Stephen Scourfield. First published in Australia 2005. St George Books‚ Newspaper House‚ 50 Hasler Road‚ Osborne Park‚ Western Australia 6017. ISBN 0-86778-07101. 182 Pages. $19.95 (Paperback). [i]Stephen Scourfield is a professional full-time Western Australian writer and photographer

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    Edgar Allan Poe

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    Viewing Romanticism through Poe “I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow” (The Fall of the House of Usher 162) could practically sum up nearly all of Edgar Allan Poe’s works and his life. Throughout his many short stories‚ among which I read The Fall of the House of Usher‚ The Murders in the Rue Morgue‚ The Pit and the Pendulum‚ The Black Cat‚ The Purloined Letter‚ and The Cask of Amontillado‚ the constant theme conveyed is that of darkness. Some of his works‚ such as The Fall of the House

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    Secret River

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    accepted by most people during the colonisation of Australia. Kate Grenville’s story The Secret River is set during the time in which Australia was colonised. An understanding of the historical context in which The Secret River is set‚ shapes your reading of the text because it helps you to understand issues in the text such as class‚ race and gender. Firstly‚ knowing about the class structure of the period that The Secret River is based on‚ gives the reader a greater understanding of the text. They believed

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