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Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Childhood memories

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A FINE VINTAGE WINEI placed the tattered box onto the dining room table and pulled out an object that made my grandfather's weathered face beam with delight. Taking it from me he sat thoughtfully in his wheelchair, wiping the dust from its antique body and reflecting in silence." My goodness, has it really been this long?" he... More..

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Into the Wild (2007)

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Directed: Sean PennStarring: Emile Hirsch, Vincent Vaughan, William Hurt, Marcia Gay HardenInto the Wild is one of those rare gems that when they come along they will really take your breath away.Based on a true story concerning a young man by the name of Christopher McCandless who, in 1992 after graduating from Emery Univers... More..

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Bad days

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BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE, DARLING?Bad days? Well, they just keep turning up, don't they? Like the proverbial pile of horse crap you step into when you feel like an imaginary moment in a lush green meadow as you get back to the oneness of the universe. Four weeks ago i took the brave and daring step to tell my supervisor to stick... More..

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Work

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Is it me or has the world dissolved into mayhem in the last 10-15 years? Gone are the days of easygoing travel to work. The alarm clock argues you out of a nice dream and a warm, cosy bed. You haggle your braincells into some semblence of order just so you don't end up putting your clothes on inside out or sticking weetabix i... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Tales of horror

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SYBILIA ~ ANGELIQUE August 1876Bolting the last of the seven horses into their stalls aboard the 'Sybilia-Angelique', I was to find this was the beginning in a sequence of most horrifying events. I, Francisco della Scurenti, and my Captain, Rudy Santiago, along with ten other shipmates loaded the lower deck with the cargo of ... More..

Arts & Humanities > Playwrights & Plays Play reviews: Traditional themes in Shaw's Pygmalion and Euripedes' Medea

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Beginning with Pygmalion, Shaw exploits the tradition and convention firstly in the title. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion falls in love with the statue he brings to life. The premise of this sets up a fairytale structure to be played out in Shaw's stage play. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins, the creator, takes a lower class g... More..

Arts & Humanities > Political Philosophy Rousseau and government

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Rousseau argues that obedience to the general will increases our liberty because he believes that the particular will, the personal desires of an individual, holds back the people in a society. A group of people expressing their particular will would prevent, he believes, a State moving forward in a free and democratic way be... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: The church

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CHAPEL OF THE WOLDSQuaint empty chapel sitting there all aloneAmidst mighty fern trees and a graveyard overgrownDusty hall with stained windows of fractured glassLonely as the tawny owl who sweeps o'er this windswept passRickety fence of wires to hold you in its jailA flock of rooks sit staring from a broken wooden railLittle... More..

Home & Garden > Home & Garden (Other) The benefits of converting your swimming pool to a saltwater system

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BENEFITS OF CONVERTING YOUR SWIMMING POOL TO A SALTWATER SYSTEMIt's that time of the year again when you ask yourself if converting your swimming pool with a saltwater system is the better option. But, what do you really have to take into consideration before you finally decide to, pardon the pun, dive in to a swimming pool o... More..

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