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    Overall,I found the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by international award winning Stieg Larsson a gripping obsession which demonstrates many compelling compartments. It captures a murder mystery,the growth of a love story and family saga’s which make an intriguing combination that develops into a satisfying and complex atmospheric novel. This novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo could be highly recommended to year 12 students.This entertaining novel around the two main characters Mikael…

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    Stieg Larsson’s novel, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is an intense thriller that concentrates on the systematic violence against women in Sweden. The original Swedish title translated to Men Who Hate Women, the story revolves around solving the forty-year-old disappearance of Harriet Vanger. While looking into what seemed as a murder, Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist, and research assistant, Lisbeth Salander, began to uncover a series of violent murders of women from the past and…

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    Ignacio Pigna Ana Hernandez ACG2021 Honors 12/15/2014 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Violence, Corruption and Nazism The Girl with the Dragon tattoo expounds violence against women, Nazism and corruption in Switzerland. Lisbeth was being blackmailed and sexually harassed by her guardian. Harriet was also sexually and emotionally harassed by her brother, Martin Vanger, and father. While the author shows how women are discriminated, he also shows the power women have. Lisbeth eventually is able…

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    Have you ever been in the deep blue sea and come across seahorse or a leafy sea dragon. They may seem like they have a lot in common; however they very different. Their characteristics, diet, and habitats are all different. Also, both seahorse and leafy sea dragon have bodies to camouflage themselves from predators. A seahorse weighs around one gram to two pounds. While, a leafy sea dragon weighs at a quarter of a pound (4oz). However, they both have similar color such as red,…

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    Final Essay FGSS1104 Will Stange The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, a Must! It was, famously, the first of Stieg Larsson’s final novel series. “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” gave way to a thrilling literary and film trilogy of contemporary heroism and counterculture mystique. Lisbeth Salander, the novel’s subject, is different from other heroines. She wears almost exclusively black clothing, has multiple facial piercings and died jet-black hair. She’s exactly the type of girl you would…

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    is now trying to get revenge. As the poem continues, Beowulf kills Grendel's mother in her lair with a sword that giants used. After the victory, Beowulf returns home to Geats. Fifty years pass but there is still one obstacle in his way, There is a dragon that his people fear, all because of stolen treasure. More importantly, Beowulf now has to defend his people. He fails at first, but then with the help…

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    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a crime-filled novel which can be looked at from various perspectives. We must use a sociological perspective to examine these crimes due to the vast amount of crimes that occur, the way in which they are discovered, and the way in which they occur. The social conditions under which these crimes occur also contributes to a better understanding of the crimes themselves. This novel portrays libel, serial murder, sexual assault, rape, and white-collar crime. It…

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    In the movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander exemplifies the strength, loyalty and courage of a modern woman who has always suffered mistreatment and prejudice. Moreover, this movie is based on the first book of the trilogy Millennium, created by Stieg Larsson. Both, the book and the movie, narrates the story of Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist of the magazine Millennium, whose credibility is questioned when he publishes an article about a business man named Hans-Erik…

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    The Terracotta Warriors In 210 BCE during the Early Chinese Art period the Great Army of the First Emperor Qin was unearthed by local peasants that were just digging around. The dirt that covered the warriors had blended in with all the other dirt around it so its discovery was very unexpected, like any other discovery. What was discovered was nothing short of amazing and astonishing. Under the surface there was 3 large vaults or catacombs that contained 8 000 painted terracotta soldiers…

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    The Terracotta warriors were soldiers made by laborers for the emperor Qin Shi Huang. The laborers started building them when he was thirteen years old. The warriors were made to protect him from the afterlife. Villagers that were digging wells discovered them in 1974. When they were digging they first found hands and legs, and told more people, they kept digging and found statues, they had they had dug over seven feet they found blue brick. They were made from terracotta or yellow earth…

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