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TenTHE NEXT DAY, MY guardian duties with Christian resumed. Once again, I found my own life put on hold for someone else’s. “How was your penance?” he asked as we…

NineWITH SO MANY MOROI tracing their roots back to Eastern Europe, Orthodox Christianity was the dominant religion on campus. Other religions were represented too, and I’d say all in all,…

Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since…

EightFOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS, I followed Christian around without incident. And as I did, I found myself growing more and more impatient. For one thing, I was discovering that…

I have chosen to do my MIS paper on holograms. I have chosen this topic because it is a technology that has been around for sometime now, but has become…

SEVENWHEN THE FIRST WARNING for curfew came around, the Moroi packed their things up. Adrian took off right away, but Lissa and Christian took their time walking back to the…

The responsibilities of individuals in the society are clearly highlighted in the book, to heal a fractured world. Religious thoughts have been used as a tool to guide on the…

SIXTHERE HAD ONLY BEEN THREE other witnesses to what had happened out on the quad. Yet, unsurprisingly, everyone seemed to know about it when I returned to the commons later…

FiveMOST DISCIPLINARY ISSUES AT the Academy went to Headmistress Kirova. She oversaw Moroi and dhampirs alike and was known for her creative and oft-used repertoire of punishments. She wasn’t cruel,…

FOURIT BEGAN. At first, things weren’t too different from any other day. Dhampirs and Moroi attended separate classes in the first half of the school day, then joined up after…

Three”WHY SO GLUM, LITTLE DHAMPIR?” I was heading across the quad, toward the commons, when I detected the scent of clove cigarettes. I sighed. “Adrian, you are the last person…

The Y2K problem : A global threat or a business opportunity? It is a couple of minutes before the midnight on 31st of December 1999. A huge mob of people…

The structure of the poem is mainly incorporated in the crucial context of Keats’s imagery, even though the poet did not evidently label it as such. Imagery in the poem…

TWOOr, well, it looked like mason. He – or it or whatever – was hard to see. I had to keep squinting and blinking to get him in focus. His…

OneHIS FINGERTIPS SLID ALONG my back, applying hardly any pressure, yet sending shock waves over my flesh. Slowly, slowly, his hands moved across my skin, down the sides of my…

The Net, a feature film from Sony Pictures, details the high-tech drama of Angela Bennett (played by Sandra Bullock) who is a computer systems analyst. When she accidentally gains access…

Twenty-threeTHE WEATHER WARMED UP ON the day of my molnija ceremony. In fact, it was so warm that a lot of the snow on campus began melting, running down the…

TWENTY-TWOHORROR AND SHOCK CONSUMED ME, so much so that I thought my soul would shrivel, that the world would end right then and there- because surely, surely it couldn’t keep…

Twenty-oneTHIS WAS SO NOT WHAT I needed right now. I could have handled anything else Adrian did: hitting on her, getting her to smoke his ridiculous cigarettes, whatever. But not…

TwentyWe NEEDED AN ESCAPE PLAN, and we needed it fast. Unfortunately, my only ideas called for things that really weren’t under my control. Like us being left completely alone so…