Articles for category: CREATIVE WRITING

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Top 8 Spanish 21 Gambling Tips

When people go to a casino they only have one thing on their minds. WIN! The only way you can win at the casino is if you beat the casino but unfortunately a casino is not designed for you to win. The odds of you winning big at the casino depends on four things; what ...

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How to Make Homemade Baby Bibs

Letting children feed themselves and make a big mess is part of the fun of learning to enjoy food and to be independent. But what a mess it can be! On a recent shopping trip I went to buy some baby bibs to have at grandma’s house for our granddaughters and couldn’t find a single ...

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Is There Evidence that Mermaids Exist?

  Mermaids Exist! A Case Supporting Mermaids: The Body Found When Mermaids: The Body Found aired on Animal Planet in May of 2012, it stirred all sorts of controversy. The first reaction from many viewers was that the program staged a hoax to attract viewers. A few viewers of the program embraced the information as ...

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T.S. Eliot: The Modern Poet

Even if you have never read a poem by T.S. Eliot you will have read something influenced by him. He is perhaps the most influential poet of the last century. The innovations that Elliot brought to poetry caused a dramatic change to virtually every art form. This includes novels, films, and poetry. T.S. Eliot worked ...

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Margaret Atwood: A Novelist with Perspective

When I first read The Handmaids Tale in 1987 I didn’t know who Margaret Atwood was or that the novel was already two years old. I thought I’d just discovered the most amazing new book by some woman I hoped would write more stories. At twenty-seven years old I just was just awakening to some ...

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Bram Stoker: The Life of a Irish Gothic Novelist

Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847. He was the son of a civil servant, and later followed reluctantly in his father’s footsteps, becoming a clerk at Dublin Castle. Unhappy with his menial job, he pursued a career in writing, starting with the publication of The Chain of Destiny which appeared in four ...

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Haiku Poems of Nature’s Overlooked Gifts

I have not written a Haiku in years and it was quite relaxing and enjoyable to get back in touch with nature on a different level. Nature’s gifts to us are plentiful but to know it we must visit it…even if it’s just our own backyard (or balcony, whatever the case may be). In today’s ...