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    Edmond Rostand wrote one of his most famous novels Cyrano de Bergerac, a novel that included drama and love. His main character was Cyrano an ugly man who was in love with a beautiful woman.It is easy to identify each character by who they seem to be and how they truly are.Cyrano seem to have a strong self-esteem, he is intelligent and humorous. A drunk man insulted him by saying he has a big nose but Cyrano just laughed and said twenty more things that the drunk man could of said.This is not…

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    Clockwork Orange; Burgess proves Alex’s violent personality and passion is innate and not learned. Alex makes the choice to rape a woman instead of run from the robbery his friends and himself committed, the time and experiment he endured in the prison, and when he realized his best friend from his youth had pulled his life together yet stayed the same the violent, thoughtless man. Burgess’…

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    Speech #1 Edward R. Murrow, a CBS reporter and war correspondent delivered a report from Buchenwald, Germany on April 16, 1945. He delivered this dialect upon seeing the atrocities committed by the Germans towards the Jews. He addresses the American people, describing the scene he had witnessed at this labor camp, which he found the scene to be so unbelievable that he is rendered speechless many times through out his speech. Murrow’s outrage is so apparent through-out his account, that it is…

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    The gang enters the Chen building, sneaks into a titanium vault and sees rows and rows of shelves filled with every volume of the Liao Zhai. Chen enters the vault and grabs Mia as a hostage, demanding him to leave the Imperial Sword. Then, they run to another floor of the chamber, and sees all kinds of Liao Zhai’s ghosts. They meet Chen again, and Chen reveals his plan to destroy Americans because his son died by overdosing drugs and he believes the Americans caused all these, by providing…

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    Prepare an analysis of Clockwork Orange by identifying how theoretical concepts of crime causation and criminal behavior. This film, to some, is very troubling as the depictions of some behaviors and activities are graphic. The film may be offensive but it must be viewed from an academic perspective. The reality is that there are people who engage in these behaviors on a regular basis and become a part of the everyday professional involvement of criminal justice practitioners. To ignore that…

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    Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange is well discussed in the fourth chapter. Anthony Burgess, the British novelist is considered to be one of the newest and most talented of the younger British writers. Many critics have rated his novel A Clockwork Orange as one of Burgess' most brilliant achievements. The ability of an individual to make moral choices is the major theme of A Clockwork Orange. The society presented by Burgess deals with experiments and behaviour modification techniques on…

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    supporting theories. It is the structure that can hold or support the theory of the research study. The theory chosen is the psychoanalytic criticism and it matches with the problem formulation found in a novel entitled A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. In order to support the research and provide evidence, a literary work are supported by the intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The research is to help the readers understand more about the writers perspective and overall context. 2.1…

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    “God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us,” these words of Machiavelli pertains to Anthony Burgess’ thoughts on the importance of free will. In the daunting novel, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess uses the story to tell the audience that free will is a right to everyone and the government can’t take that away. The novel is set in an English town in the 1960’s. A Clockwork Orange is a blunt novel about Alex, a…

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    each have. My four authors I picked to write about are Anthony Burgess, Louise Erdrich, Lorraine Hansberry, and Helen Keller. All of the authors come from different backgrounds and have very interesting poems, and unique trades in their life. Out of the four authors I picked, I only knew one of the four and decided to choose three other authors with totally different backgrounds. According to www.goodreads.com, Anthony Burgess was born on February 25, 1917 in Harpurhey, United…

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    As Anthony Burgess eloquently put’s it, English is a curiously expressive language. Living in a multi-racial country like Singapore, where the majority of the people speak their own mother tongue, English is the common ground we have, that binds us when we come together to express an idea or play. I fell in love with this subject because it is everywhere. Look around you, and you’ll notice people full of fun words, phrases and idioms. Constructing a word or a sentence is basically rearranging…

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