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    Byatt is certainly familiar with and clever at handling these newer critical approaches, as the more academic stretches of Possessions demonstrate. However, she remains committed to the idea that literature has a moral dimension, and that language can in fact get abstract truths and felt experience. As she says of her days at Cambridge, she learned that writing “was taught, in order to make the world better, more just, more discriminating.” Reflecting back on her experience at “Leavis…

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    “It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies” (Abraham Lincoln, November 10, 1864). Though Abraham Lincoln was aware of the events after the articles of Confederation. This statement is still relevant in many ways because despite the articles of Confederation were in some cases successful. The overall effectiveness was disastrous, many times the articles of…

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    The 1939 screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by William Wyler, tells the story of two troubled souls destined for a life of failed happily ever after. The story opens with Mr. Lockwood, the new garage tenant, appearing at Wuthering Heights to take Shelter from a storm. While there, he encounters the haunting spirit of Cathy, calling out to her love, Heathcliff. Unnerved, Mr. Lockwood tells his tale to Ellen, the housekeeper, who then…

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    also see the author using the setting to increase the mystery in his story with the description of the forest. He describes the forest as being “entangled” (254). This can be interrupted as being confusing and difficult to maneuver through. His changeling effort to journey through the forest provokes mystery to the readers. Is he going to make it through? What is going to happen next? The author also sparks fear in the readers by adding the horrid thunder storm during his attempt to get through…

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    Hughes’ work has drawn up the old battle lines of poetic engagement between those who trust fictions of the everyday world and those who have been visited by truths unavailable to ordinary, jaded senses. It is important to analyze the poet’s own subjective relationship to his writing and the problems this presents to the reader. The dramatic relationship between two narrative voices1 – self and senses, body and spirit- which is typical of Hughes’ work, rests upon existential questions. The…

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    According to Joe Lambert, Digital Storytelling is more simply a framework for the discussion of the aesthetic quality of this particular form. (Lambert, 2012). The Digital story has a setting in classrooms because it can improve the students educational level and somethings that many people would not say or admit. Many classrooms do not get involved with each other and you finish the semester without knowing the person’s name that sits next to you. In this class, it helped the students…

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    delweiss, at first glance, appeared to be nothing more than a natural occurring valley, buried at the bottom of some cliffs, but looking closer, gentle curls of smoke floated up above a cluster of pines. “Come on, then. Down we plunge,” said Finn. “You don’t mean jump…Do you?” Grace stared back with alarm. “I can’t!” Finn hooted with laughter. “Of course not! We’ll use the stairs,” prancing through a patch of wildflowers, Finn revealed a spiraling set of stairs cut into the side of the cliff…

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    adoration. In Shakespeare's day pixies were known to be unequipped for bearing youngsters and rather took human posterity as their chaperons. The pixie royals squabble sharply and their adoration for each other is eclipsed by their want for the changeling kid. Oberon's pining for of the kid exceeds his adoration for Titania, as does Titania's want not to surrender him. They exchange allegations forward and backward. Titania blames Oberon for cherishing Hippolyta; accordingly Oberon levels his…

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    The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is a book by English writer Terry Pratchett. This book presents to the reader a marvelous story about a talking—or very intelligent and clever, as he puts it—cat, a clan of educated rats, and a stupid-looking kid, who go from town to town to scam the villagers by producing a fake plague of rats, and then the kid would play the piper that leads the rats away with his music. That plan leaves Maurice as the master mind behind the act. The story begins…

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    Civil engineering is the professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, and construction, and built something like rods, bridges, dam and building. It’s also called one of the oldest engineering disciplines. This discipline also gives an opportunity to educator to use knowledge of applied mathematics s and sciences in order to solve the complicate problems in the real world. Three years ago, my parent decided to build a property, so we need to hire some civil engineers to…

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