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Great Gatsby 3

NICK CARRAWAY has a special place in this novel. He is not just one character among several, it is through his eyes and ears that we form our opinions of the other characters. Often, readers of this novel confuse Nick's stance towards those characters and the world he describes with those of F. ...

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Charles Dickens 2

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the greatest and most popular writers in the history of literature. In his novels, Dickens combines masterly storytelling, humor, pathos, and irony with sharp social criticism and acute observation of people and places, both real and imagined. On February 7, ...

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A Report On Japanese Culture

While most countries have business cards, Japan has taken it to a higher level. For in Japan everyone has at least one. Known as ‘Meishi’, these cards are an important part of social interactions. They are used for starting conversations, for if you know what the other person you are ...

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Trigger Effect (movie Review)

Kyle MacLachlan, Elizabeth Shue, and Dermot Mulroney star in this West Coast power-outage thriller. Telephones, broadcast signals, and all things electric flicker out in seven US states, but all 50 states become targets of writer/director David Koepp’s social themes. Koepp, author of scripts for ...

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Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years Of Movie Magic

Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art film-making with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than could be asked for. The consistency of quality plot-lines and technical ingenuity earned him ...

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Grand Avenue Masks

Many Characters in the novel Grand Avenue, by Greg Sarris, are wearing masks. Masks that conceal themselves and their culture in an attempt to fit into the world that has enveloped their history and stifled their heritage. The key to these masks is the eyes. The eyes of the characters in the ...

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A Background Of Argentina

In the beginning of Argentina, we recall two major tribes; the Diaguita and the Gaurani who constituted the agricultural origins. During the 1500’s, Spain discovered Argentina, and quickly claimed it for its own. Spain reigned until the 1800’s when it was at war with Britain. In 1816 ...

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Stephen King: The King Of Terror

“If you have an imagination, let it run free.” - Steven King, 1963 Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these ...

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The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, And Melville

The Romantic period (1750-1870) was a time characterized by reliance on the imagination, freedom of thought and expression, and an “idealization of nature,” Along with this came a sense of romantic melancholy, and a feeling that change was indefinite and “a way of life was being threatened.” ...

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The Christian Gospels

The Christian Bible has been a mainstay in society for the past two thousand years. At the heart of this ancient work, one finds the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These Gospels serve as a religious foundation for Christianity as well as a historical record of the time. Faithful ...

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Creative Writing: X-Men

When many people hear about the X-Men, they think of a silly kid's comic book, but that is not so. X-Men, actually most comic books in general, are a unique blend of two classic art forms; drawings, sometimes even paintings, and storytelling. A comic artist must be able to convey the right mood ...

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is one of today’s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a ...

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is one of today’s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a ...

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Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years Of Movie Magic

Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art film-making with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than could be asked for. The consistency of quality plot-lines and technical ingenuity earned him the ...

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Mark Twain

Jones 1 Michael Jones Mrs. Smith American Literature 1.20 Dec. 2, 1999 It is indisputable that, during his many years of writing, established himself as a literary genius. It is also indisputable that the primary reason for his success as an author was his quick wit and sense of humor. During ...

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Irving's The World According To Garp: Analysis

When referring to John Irving's book The World According to Garp, it has been said “His style is simplistic, almost childlike..."(55), and “ Irving's prose is the prose of a poorly educated man-his vocabulary is uninspiring, his grammatical proprieties is severely limited."(51) It has also been ...

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The Unabomber: Is He Serious?

There comes a time when everyone has something to say. The next step would be to find someone to listen. If that doesn't work, I suppose you just have to make them listen. The Unabomber's Manifesto was probably one of the most interesting and thought provoking points of view that I have read in ...

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The Gilded Six Bits Critique

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s and early 1930’s was a period of immense African American literary and intellectual activity, centered in Harlem, New York City. During this time many writers emerged, among them Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright. Respectively their works ...

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An Analysis Of Roddy Doyles Wr

An Analysis of Roddy Doyle’s Writing Style Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist from Dublin, Ireland, who has written several award winning anovels. Through the use of a variety of literary techniques, Doyle has been able to delve into the thoughts and minds of his characters, so that the reader can ...

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The Albanian Virgin

ALICE MUNRO’S IN OPEN SECRETS EXEMPLIES HER CHARACTERISTIC APPROACH To try to trace Alice Munro’s narrative techniques to any particular development in the short story would be difficult. This could be because it is simply written from careful observations as are many of her other short ...

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