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especially prominent in the film. The film does also focus strongly on the aspect of romance particularly with Kong and Ann. One of the highlighting moments in the film is when character Carl Denham reveals that he will incorporate some sort of romance in his picture, because that is what the audience wants. Whilst the film heavily concentrates on the relationship between King Kong and Ann Dowry, Cynthia Erb argues that, “crucial to the film’s dynamic is the masculine exchange between nature…

"Character Studies for Les Miserables." Stuartfernie. Stuart Fernie, n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2015. Stuart Fernie is one of the most famous writers, that's why I choose his article from his own website. In this article Fernie talks about the main characters, he focuses on the way of how they act, think and gives background about each one of them. He mentions many examples, and I'm interested in Valjean character because he is the most famous character in this novel. Fernie focuses on…

“The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”- Jane Austen Northanger Abbey. Growing up around books influenced the way Jane Austen incorporated symbols into her own writings, sometimes even using books to build her characters and themes. Prominently shown through Austen’s Northanger Abbey and seen in her other pieces, she expertly uses engaging realism, subtle irony, and effective parodies of what was going on during her lifetime,…

killing is premeditated. To eliminate other types of killings like terrorism or assassinations, the murder itself must be the primary motivator. Once serial murder is adequately defined, a deeper look can be taken into the life of the murderer” (Georgie Ann Weatherby, Danielle M. Buller, Katelyn McGinnis, 2009). Ted Bundy was a very interesting person to try to understand. He had a way of himself that others could only view as charming and having a sense of overwhelming confidence and…

Theodore Robert Cowell also known as Ted Bundy who was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile. He confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978 yet the confession, the number of victims could be much higher and remains unknown. After ted died the man who defended ted which would be his lawyer confessed ted had killed more than 100 women. He also revealed that even though ted was a necrophile,…

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., left his family to attend Harvard University. After Harvard, he returned to Kenya where he died due to a car accident. His mother, Ann Dunham moved to Indonesia to do field research. Obama mother sent him to live with her parents in Hawaii because she was concerned about his education. He attended Hawaii's prestigious Punahou School from fifth grade until he graduated from high school. After…

combination of the supernatural realm and Romanticism. Jane Austen’s novel, Northanger Abbey, is an attempt to critique the seventeenth-century Gothic novel by identifying Catherine’s sensibility through her over fascination and addiction to reading—such as Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho. Austen utilizes Catherine’s obsession with novels as a means to highlight how such fascination has caused Catherine to become naïve and unaware of the real world. Moreover, due to the historical…

A Discussion of the Gothic tradition in the novels “Northanger Abbey” by Jane Austen and “The mysteries of Udolpho” by Ann Radcliffe. The genre of Gothic fiction has been a strong writing tradition since its birth in 1764 with the publishing of Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto”. The genre is a mix of both romance and horror with its clearest distinctions being a love of foreign setting and gloomy old buildings, a strong hero, swooning heroine and the constant looming of a monster or…

Theodore Robert Cowell, more commonly known as Ted Bundy, is undoubtedly one of America’s infamous serial killers. Before Bundy was executed in 1989, he confessed that he killed at least thirty women. However, Bundy’s former defense attorney John Henry Browne recently revealed that Bundy had confessed to him that he had killed more than a hundred people, including both women and men. Bundy also admitted that his first victim was a man, who differs considerably from Bundy’s preferred victims:…

Bye Bye Birdie, written by Michael Stewart with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. This musical created the foundations for a movie adaptation written three years later, starring Dick Van Dyke of the original Broadway production and Ann-Margret. The show’s quick jump from stage-to-screen filled the need to create a version…