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The Life And Work Of Anthony Burgess

"Autobiography: Story of one's life, written by oneself."(Halsey 64). Everyone knows what an autobiography is, but not so many people realize that although not all authors write a book that can be called a factual autobiography, many authors frequently allow personal, real life experiences to ...

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A Lesson From Oliver

Like any other morning I was up at four, the day Oliver met with his violent death. At four in the morning the grass is wet. Now, it's still wet at 6 a.m. and even at seven, and these tend to be the hours of choice for most people wishing to appreciate the phenomenon of grass ...

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Venomous Creatures Of The West Pacific

The terms venom and poison are often used interchangeably. Although both venomous and poisonous animals have potentially dangerous toxins in their bodies, the way that toxin is delivered differs. Venomous animals have an active delivery system and may use their toxin for protection or to help ...

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Araby

Araby NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground The other houses of the street, conscious of decent ...

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Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra was the last queen of Egypt. She was born in 69 BC and died in 30 BC by committing suicide. She had two husbands, Ptolemy XIII and Mark Antony. She also had an affair with Caesar. In spite of all her love affairs and the wars during her reign, some people still think Cleopatra was the ...

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How Does H.G. Wells Create Tension In: The Red Room

"The Red Room" is a short story that identifies fear and the power of suggestion. The story focuses on how the power of suggestion can cause fear, and how the setting of the story or of a place can cause fear even if the main character is cynical and is not initially ...

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All Quiet On The Western Front

Paul and the other members of the Second Company are resting after being relieved from the front lines. When they went to the front, their company contained one hundred and fifty men. Only eighty returned. The quartermaster requested rations for a full company, but on the last day, they suffered a ...

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Streetcar Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is a controversial film classic, adapted from Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1947. This film masterpiece was directed by Elia Kazan (his first piece of work with Williams), a socially conscious director who insisted that the film be true to the ...

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The Red Tent (all You Need To

The initial incident occurs when Simon and Levi, two of Dinah’s oldest brothers, enter the city of Shechem and murder all of the resident men, including Dinah’s beloved husband, Shalem. Cursing her entire family, a pregnant Dinah is taken to Egypt by Shalem’s mother, Re-nefer. ...

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Aleins Among Us

He was always punctual, at least for his own agenda. Each evening Jim would run through the forest just for fun. This summer night was no exception. The night had grown dark but he was not worried, for he knew the woods well. He sped across an old beaten path and glided over rotten old fallen ...

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Diffraction And The Debye-Scherrer Camera

Many scientific applications have made great use of the wave nature of light. Until the first half of the century the nature of light remained completely a mystery. Some thought light to be a particle while others believed it to be a wave. Scientists now know that wave exhibits properties of ...

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A Comparison Of Framing, Light

The folowing essay is a comparison of the films Citizen Kane (1941) dircted by Orson Welles and Josef Von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress. (1934) Specifically it will concentrate on how the two directors use set design, framing and lighting to comment upon the psychology of their principle ...

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Gustave Courbet's Reclining Nude

In the Philadelphia Museum of Art are five paintings by Gustave Courbet; of all of these I found Reclining Nude (1868, Oil on canvas, The Louis & Stern Collection, 63-81-20) the most interesting. It depicts a nude woman lying on the beach beneath a billowing canopy. A dark, but tranquil sea ...

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Alfred Hitchcock

is one of the most well known directors of all time bringing murder and mystery to a new light. His films, starting in 1925 with \"The Pleasure Garden\" and ending in 1976 with the film \"Family Plot\", set a precedent for all other directors in the film industry. Many story lines and ...

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Frankenstein Biography, Settin

Most people know of Mary Shelley as the writer of Frankenstein and the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. However, she was far more than that, and parts of her life were just as dramatic and tragic, if not more so, than her famous gothic novel. Mary's parents were themselves well-known in ...

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Alfred Hitchcock

is one of the most well known directors of all time bringing murder and mystery to a new light. His films, starting in 1925 with "The Pleasure Garden" and ending in 1976 with the film "Family Plot", set a precedent for all other directors in the film industry. Many story lines and techniques ...

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Derek

lifted the large plastic tub, which he had just filled with ice, level with the counter, dumped the ice into the stainless steel container, and sighed. He looked at his watch: 10:25, it said; almost mid-morning, and five eternal minutes left until his fifteen minute coffee break. Fuck it, he ...

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The Tragic Demise of Olaf the Vampire Hunter

Olaf the vampire hunter trudged warily through the dense undergrowth of the forest in the gloom of the night. Olaf was a young, tenacious man with good skill in the dual silver shortswords that were sheathed on either side of his waist belt. He also carried various potions of condensed garlic and ...

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The Time Machine By H.G Wells

Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, a few miles from London, the son of a house-maid and gardener. Wells died in 1946, a wealthy and famous author, having seen science fiction become a recognized literary form and having seen the world realize some of science fiction's fondest ...

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