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  2. A Tragedy of Two Ambitions - Wikipedia

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    "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" is a short story by Thomas Hardy and was published in his collection Life's Little Ironies in 1894. [1]In this story, Hardy tells the story of two brothers who are so ambitious to get out of their social environment that they ignore moral values and willingly accept their father's death and hide all that from their sister.

  3. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.

  4. Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion) - Wikipedia

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    Frederick and Anne fell in love and got engaged. Later, Anne broke off the engagement on the advice of her godmother, Lady Russell, who saw him as an unsuitable choice due to his lack of fortune and connections, as well as his enrollment in a dangerous profession. Further, Anne was young and might have more choices in her future.

  5. Life at the Bottom - Wikipedia

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    This conflict is shown throughout the collection, usually when an Indian or Pakistani woman is acting as a patient for Dalrymple, who then extracts the story for why the person is there. However, there are only a few stories told from the perspective of Indian Sikhs and Pakistani Muslims since the majority of the patients and prisoners that ...

  6. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross - Wikipedia

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    Confidential personnel file on Salvadore Ross. Personality: a volatile mixture of fury and frustration. Distinguishing physical characteristic: a badly broken hand, which will require emergency treatment at the nearest hospital. Ambition: shows great determination towards self-improvement.

  7. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The original story is set in 2185 A.D., 102 years after the invention of a medicine called anti-gerasone, which halts the aging process and prevents people from dying of old age as long as they keep taking it. Anti-gerasone is cheap and plentiful, made from mud and dandelions.

  8. Tom Sandoval Books a Lifetime Movie About Romantic Deception ...

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    Tom Sandoval‘s newest movie project feels strangely reminiscent of his infamous cheating scandal.. The Lifetime Movie Network announced on Thursday, January 4, that Sandoval, 41, has a role in ...

  9. Dangerous Games (Steel novel) - Wikipedia

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    Dangerous Games is a 2017 political-thriller romance novel by author Danielle Steel. The book centers on 39-year-old Alix Phillips, a television reporter who is investigating claims made against the Vice President of the United States .