Full Circle and the speckled Band are two very different examples of murder mysteries. ... In 'Speckled Band' as the story comes form Dr Watson Conan Doyle sustained a sense of mystery in not telling us what Holmes is thinking directly, where as in the full circle the story comes from Kinsey Milhone and it is exactly what she is doing and what she is thinking. Sue Grafton wrote "The Full Circle" in the 1980's. ... Kinsey Millhone is a female private eye who needs to work for a living, as needs an income. ... She is willing to help the police and unlike Sherlock Holmes she work...

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The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. ... She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. ... Her mother, Pauline, reinforces this belief by dedicating her life to this rich white family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. ... The first example would be to compare and contrast the treatment of beautiful light-skinned, light-eye...

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In the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses abuse and hardship to show the tragic consequences that come from racism. ... The Bluest Eye shows ways in which white beauty standards hurt the lives of black girls and women. ... The characters in the Bluest Eye are faced both directly and indirectly by racism. ... Pauline is full of self hatred and takes all her anger out on her family instead of loving them. Toni Morrison shows us what racism produces in the Bluest Eye. ...

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Setting in "The Bluest Eye" Time 1940-41 The novel is divided into the four seasons Place Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's home town) It is more preciously set around Broadway, Twenty-First and Thirty-Fifth Streets. ... Autumn 1940 The European part of World War II had just begun full force Implicitly Morrison is using the Nazi Regime as a distant background to the novel's events Americans of 1940 treasure blonde hair and blue eyes in both dolls and little girls These features reflects the Aryan ideal The connection is reflected by the three prostitutes Sea...

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Pi remembered that tigers could drink saltwater, and the survival manual taught him he could poke a fish in the eye to paralyze it and that he could drink turtle's blood for water. ... He prayed to the gods of his three religions, and although it is expected for one to be depressed, Pi became grateful for and happy from the small things, such as a solar still full of freshwater. ... She finds this terribly funny. She giggles and buries her face in the crook of his neck. ...

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Dolores is fascinated by the dead whales, and goes to the beach to have an eye-to-eye encounter with one of them, which she describes; "The eye stared back at me without seeing. ... A cataract eye, an eye full of death". ... Still obsessed, she goes to Vermont to find him. ... Stronger now, she is able to tell him the truth about her life, and that she does not need him. ... While she had been in her grandmother's home, she also made peace with her. ...

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She has sold over millions of copies of all of her hit songs and according to her she also sold her soul to the devil. ... She has also been spotted putting up the symbol of the all seeing eye of Horus in a super bowl ad as well as a photo shoot with fellow illuminati worshiper Madonna. ... "And round about the throne, were four beasts (creatures) full of eyes before and behind. ... The "All Seeing Eye" is originally symbolic of a higher or spiritual power or god. ... The "All Seeing Eye" is also known as the "Eye of God....

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It was Lindsey's first full year on the force, and no amount of training can prepare someone for four homicides in four weeks. ... " Turner and Lindsey crashed through the front door with guns drawn, only to find a young female receptionist staring wide-eyed at them. ... " she said. ... How did she know it was strangulation?... " he winced With a face of pure rage Turner leapt down all four patio steps and ran full speed after the receptionist. ...

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Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye provides insight into the injustices of racism and poverty in America in the mid-1900s through the perspective of nine-year-old Claudia and ten-year-old Frieda MacTeer. ... The Bluest Eye contains elements of ironic tragedy. ... Pecola lives in Lorain, Ohio, a county full of crime, poverty, and inescapable injustice. ... She clearly wants to belong to this society as she would do anything to be considered beautiful. ... In The Bluest Eye the morals the adults of the neighbourhood follow can be seen as...

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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." ... This movie is about a man named Hal that only tried going out with dense, beautiful, skinny women instead of full figured, nice, intelligent women. ... Gracie was forced to change the way she dressed, the way she looked, the way she eats and even the way she walked. ... Unlike Benonca, Kat does give into the effects of per presser, she wears what she likes not what is popular. ... "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." ...

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Make eye contact to show that you are paying attention. ... When a person is talking to you, nod your head or acknowledge by saying something that tells the person that you understand them and that you know what he/she wants you to do. ... This tell the person that you are talking to that he/she has your full and undivided attention. Also you need to make eye contact with the speaker. ... If you fail to make eye contact you may give the speaker the impression that you are not interested in what they are saying. ...

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"But I don't want to go home" exclaimed Amanda tripping as she unsteadily attempted to jump the small moat that contained hundreds of used cigarettes floating aimlessly like miniature swans. ... On entering the estate the eye would be flooded with so many colors that one could receive a rather unpleasant migraine on just looking around. ... Emerald green, her dress exposed her naked thigh for sally's husbands full viewing pleasure. ... Goblets of champagne adorned the marble bar where women possessing long hair stood and eyed bob cuts enviously. ... she blew a kiss back to he...

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In "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison, the reader is led to question if society actually does try to predict events by seasons. ... Instead she compares childhood to the colorful dancing leaves of autumn, full of carelessness and lighthearted pleasure. ... She initially refuses but after Junior offers her a kitten, she accepts. ... However, once she met Geraldine, she saw that the prettiness of the house was just a cover. ... Because she didn't fit into the cookie-cutter shape of society, she was mostly left alone. ...

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Later on, she begins to experience new feelings at Guangzhou that make her wonder if she is really Chinese, and finally, the eye-opener of acceptance of her Chinese roots. ... Jing-mei's height was also different in compare to the average Chinese height "I stand five-foot- six, and my head pokes above the crowd so that I am eye level only with other tourist"(Tan 266), another reason for her to believe she is not Chinese. ... At last, the recognition rises like a new day transpire that her family is really not that different than her, an eye opener of acceptance of her Chinese ro...

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Of course she would terrify. ... Plath tells us how at the age of ten she almost died, she says it was an "accident" but the second time she meant it. ... ------- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? ... "The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth" also make reference to being burned. ... She goes on to make circus references in the lines that follow: "There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart--It really goes. ...

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Of course she would terrify. ... Plath tells us how at the age of ten she almost died, she says it was an "accident" but the second time she meant it. ... ------- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? ... "The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth" also make reference to being burned. ... She goes on to make circus references in the lines that follow: "There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart--It really goes. ...

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Here Keith displays America as a person who has been stricken and is now injured with a black eye. ... Besides being injured, America also has "people" standing by her side with full support. ... Here, the Statue of Liberty not only gets outraged by the injustice done to America, but she also might distribute revenge on the attackers of America. ... Keith explains how America's bite is just as big as her bark and she will attack when provoked. ... "[M]y daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died." ...

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From that, he/she can begin narrowing in on the type of lenses best suited to the patient. What are the eye conditions? ... - Full blurry image (astigmatism) uses cylindrical corrective lenses. A refractive error is an error in the focusing of light by the eye. ... It made an eye test very easy and comfortable for the patient....

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EMDR emerged in 1987 when Francine Shapiro, while walking through a park, accidentally discovered that eye movements decreased the negative emotions associated with distressing memories she had. ... She realized the eye movements were not the only component that produced the therapeutic effect. ... She called this new procedure Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD). ... In 1991 she changed the name from EMD to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). ... EMDR's popularity with therapists is slowly growing, but with no full understanding on how it works, it is hard for people...

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Surely, her third marriage with Tea Cake is full of flowers since it contains love... Even though Killicks looks like "some ole skullhead in de graveyard" (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.13) to Janie's eye she has to marry him to obey her grandmother's wish. ... Janie's second husband, Joe Starks, is a man full of leadership. ... Maybe he skeered some de rest of us mens might touch it round dat store" (Their Eye Were Watching God, Pg.47). ... She slept with authority and so she was part of it in the town mind." ...

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The mall is full of people in all shapes and sizes, young and old, beautiful and ordinary. ... You may see a group of teenage boys walking by like a gang of insecure criminals, too unsure of themselves to look each other in the eye. ... The cane he leans on is a prop for his weak and fragile legs, and the woman hooks her arm through his as if she has the strength to keep him from falling. ... She keeps her head down, failing to make eye contact with anyone. What has she been through that's made her so self conscious and insecure. ...

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The play is full of events and personalities, natural and unnatural. ... Lady Macbeth's conscience is revealed when she is seen talking in her sleep. ... When she says, " What's done cannot be undone" she realizes that now it's to late to "wash" away the blood, it has stained her soul forever. ... This tells us that the night was full of evil and everyone was aware of it. ... One physical event that is very disturbing to the natural eye was Macbeth's outburst at the banquet. ...

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"She made me feel alone, in a house full of people". ... Had the wisdom to know what her limitations where and how to adjust when she knew that she had to, and that she wouldn't" be going home "Well I guess I" m here to stay". ... Was a very astute character, noticing little things such as how cleaning the windows in the studio would alter the light, also helpful of her good eye. She was not necessarily artistic, as this was never explained, however was evident she had an artistic eye for color and composition etc. ... She learnt to dissemble in order to better cope in the house, howe...

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The plot revolved around two local boys from Tennessee, Rafe McCawley played by actor Ben Affleck and Danny Walker played by actor Josh Hartnett, both very eye appealing. ... Although Evelyn loves Danny now and soon discovers she is pregnant with his child, she has never quit loving Rafe. ... A triangle that came full circle. ... (www.CNN.com) Entertainment is in the eye of the beholder. ...

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She is a figure, which represent the recent raise of power that independent women have undertaken. ... She seems envious of her and the attention that is given to Lara. ... Her writing suggests that she did most of it over a tape machine. The piece is far to long and is full of media buzzwords. It seems that she is undermining men by giving the impressions that all men purely went to watch the film essentially to live out there fantasy of women in tight clothing regardless of the fact that the film lacked "pace and originality" but that "at last they've an action heroine whose short short...

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