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    The Cask of Amontillado and A Poison Tree are two different types of writing but are very similar in context. They both show what anger can lead to but in different ways. The poem and the story have main characters who are mad and they both get revenge on the person. The main similarity in both texts is the main characters being angry and wanting to get revenge.” I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.” that quote from the poem shows the hatred and how it started to build up…

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    The year is 2045. The world is overpopulated, unemployed, short of energy and basically falling apart. The only thing that keeps the world going is a simulation game called OASIS, a virtual reality simulation game created by James Halliday. Ready Player One is a book by Ernest Cline which falls in the genre of Sci-Fi and dystopian. The book starts out introducing Wade Owen Watts, the main character. Wade is 18 years old and wants to find the Easter Egg in OASIS, which Halliday left behind as…

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    quote is from the book The Hot Zone Richard Preston and the ebola virus is kinda like Scfi in my mind. When you think of Scifi you think of awful scary things that could wipe out the whole human population. Thats what ebola is, but its real. Science fiction or Scfi is something that is fictional that uses future technological advances or changes to the environment. I have learned many things about Scifi and writing techniques that talk about Scifi from the movie Unbreakable, the book The Hot…

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    relationship with Monty’s daughter, Victoria Kipps which brought drama to both families. Although the family settles their beef, they soon cross again. Jerome father, Howard Beasley is an English writer who is working on a book that will allegedly decipher Rembrandt (On Beauty). His wife, Kiki is a strong African American woman and has a son and daughter name Lori and Zara. When Monty Kipps is invited to join Wellington University, the conflict between the two takes over the whole…

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    The Fly (1986)

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    Review of The Fly (1986) Seth Brundle, a research scientist, has created a once in a lifetime teleportation machine. He shows how to transport objects and in the beginning is not able to transport anything with skin, for example, the baboon that was horribly turned inside out. Veronica Quaife, a beautiful journalist is very intrigued with his work and inspires him to further his teleportation device. Later, he decides to transport himself through the transmission booth that goes horribly wrong,…

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    Cat’s Cradle In Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, the reader is faced with the juxtaposition of religion and science. In this book, it sees that science represents the characters with discovering the truths in life whereas religion creates lies. This contrast between the two themes makes readers question how to react to the book. One end of the spectrum, is religion being represented by Bokononism, Christianity, and Nihilism. All three of those religions have extremely different ideas, beliefs,…

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    The English writers, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, offered contrasting visions of the future in their novels. Orwell imagined a future in which what we hate—authoritarian government, police, constant spying—will ruin us. However, Huxley imagined something different, in which what we love—technology, constant amusement, “Soma”—will ruin us. This essay examines the degree to which both writers were correct and incorrect. In my view, Huxley’s vision is closer to the way we live today, although…

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    Fiction of relationship; is a relationship really a fiction which the relationship holders have or create about each other or their surroundings. This fiction just a conjecture of the creators; such a firm belief the creators hold in the fiction that they defy all the rules of rational or logical thinking. Manon Lescaut & Des Grieux story is a point to prove that a relationship is nothing but a fiction. Although the story as told by Des Grieux is colored by his narration, focusing more on his…

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    The Doors of Perception Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. Best known for his novels such as Brave New World and in this case, The Doors of Perception; Huxley authored eighty-two pieces of literature in his lifetime. A family man, Huxley had five siblings, married twice, and had one child. Huxley identified himself as a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, later becoming interested in more spiritual topics such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism; Universalism…

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    Brave There were many easily observable variances between the society shown in this film and the culture the writer is most familiar with, and these differences cover a variety of areas like magic, gender, combat, and customs. When given thought, it seems unsurprising that these variations between the cultures should lead to variations in the psychological factors of this culture from others. Likewise, it seems obvious that there are changes which should be made to the way a professional…

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