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Soames found other clues in his office: pencil shavings, a broken pencil lead, a fresh cut in his desk surface, and a small blob of black clay speckled with sawdust. Soames wants to uncover the cheater and prevent him from taking the exam, since it is for a sizeable scholarship. Three students who will take the exam live above him in the same ...
The Great Automatic Grammatizator. The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories [1]) is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally ...
Past medical history: "the patient's past experiences with illnesses, operations, injuries and treatments"; Family history: "a review of medical events in the patient's family, including diseases which may be hereditary or place the patient at risk";
A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging. Some scholars also call such a technique a ...
The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even whole books. [2] [4] The three elements together are known as a triad. [5] The technique is used not just in prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising.
American students in a computer fundamentals class taking an online test in 2001. An examination ( exam or evaluation) or test is an educational assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs ). [1] A test may be administered verbally, on paper ...
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of 43 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1989. It begins with a foreword by Charles Scribner II and a preface written by Bruccoli, after which the stories follow ...
Then we fell in love. I told him he was too short for me. Then we fell in love. I was 57 years old — divorced almost 25 years — when I met Jim on Match.com. He was a year older than me ...