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I arrived at home at dusk and found Lexi perched on the couch, her arms folded over her chest, and her foot rapidly tapping the floor. She looked like a…

Blyth (3) defines a crisis as an unstable condition that can affect the political, social or economic aspects of a group or a populace, causing significant changes that affect goals….

The next morning, I woke as someone shook my shoulder.”Go away,” I murmured. But the shaking was insistent. My eyes snapped open, and I realized I was lying curled up…

I ran past the shanties set up around the circus through the deep woods, following the tracks of the wagon until I lost the vehicles scent completely at the outskirts…

International conflict has been a subject of political debate in various circles. A lot of research is carried out in the field; however, getting to these data may prove difficult…

As soon as Id taken every last ticket and accepted every last dollar, I slipped into the tent behind an overweight man clutching a sweaty wad of Confederate notes in…

Chapter 16I searched in vain for peaceful sleep but never found it. Instead when I closed my eyes I saw Damon, his legs curled around a hard wooden chair, his…

Chapter 14My hands still in the air, I pressed my lips together. Id already learned that any sign of stress caused my fangs to bulge and my pupils to grow…

Introduction In this essay, I will discuss the welfare state since World War II and how it has impacted society in England and Wales. In addition, I will discuss the…

Damon. Death.The words swam in my mind as I tried to make sense of what I was seeing. Damon was alive. But who knew for how long? If he had…

Chapter 11Outside, I let the girl lead me away from the drunken crowd and toward a side alley beyond a bar called Calhouns. “Im sorry,” she said breathlessly. “I dont…

I awoke next as dusk was settling over the city. From my window, I could see the goldfish-orange sun sinking low behind a white steeple. The entire house was silent,…

Chapter 8October 4, 1864 As a human, I’d thought it was my mother’s death that had shaped the men Damon and I would become. I’d called myself a half-orphan in…

Information technology is a rapidly growing part of today’s society. It affects everyone’s life in many aspects. Every human endeavor is influenced by information technology and the increasing rate at…

The next evening I gazed contented at the sun setting over the harbor. Miss Molly hadnt exaggerated: The girls at her house were hospitable. For breakfast Id had one with…

Chapter 5A day later, the train screeched to a stop. “Baton Rouge!” a conductor called in the distance. We were getting closer to New Orleans, but the time was creeping…

The car was pitch black, but our eyes, now adapted for nocturnal vision, allowed us to pick out a path through the piles of sooty coal in the caboose. Finally…

Chapter 2Damon and I crouched in the cemeterys hemlock grove behind the mausoleums that housed the bones of Mystic Falls founders. Despite the early hour, already the townspeople stood stoop-shouldered…

It was October. The trees of the cemetery had turned a decayed brown, and a cold breeze had whistled in, replacing the stifling heat of the Virginia summer. Not that…

And the TV series developed byKevin Williamson & Julie Plec Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world….