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    DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little, published in 2003, was immediately met both critically and positively due to the taboo language used. According to Wardhaugh (2000, p.234), taboo is the prohibition or avoidance in any society of behaviour believed to be harmful to its members in that it would cause them anxiety, embarrassment, or shame. Examples of taboo include: bodily functions, body parts, illness and death, etc. The extent of taboo differs according to various countries, including all the…

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    become the main concern for the students. The school administration has required all schools to practice lock down drills, having anti-bullying zones, zero-tolerance policies and the practice of A.L.I.C.E. On April 20,1999 two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had planned to bomb and kill as many students in columbine high school. They have made over 99 explosive devices and had made a propane tank into a bomb, which was left in the cafeteria where…

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    Columbine massacre was the first major school shooting that paved the way for many other violent attacks on masses of people in the future, left a scar on the community, and allowed smarter thinking to be implemented into active shooter situations. Eric Harris, aged 18, and Dylan Klebold, aged 17, committed an act against humanity that sparked a violent uproar consisting of mass shootings. The beginning…

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    The previous season of “American Horror Story” may seem a deep exploration of the show’s past seasons. Indeed, it makes noise for its unpredicted storyline but its ending is quite monotonous. With that, there are some believe that “American Horror Story” Season 7 will be the anthology’s final offering. According to Movie Pilot, it looks like Ryan Murphy runs out of original idea thus “American Horror Story” Season 6 is a retell of the past events. Although the show is already renewed, there are…

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    Another mass shooting that occurred long before this one was also just as devastating. On April 20, 1999, two teenage boys one Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, woke up that day knowing that they were about to commit a mass murder at their Columbine High School and that it was going to be their last day. Before the shooting the pair’s original plan was to blow up the school with their homemade explosives but when that didn’t work out, that’s when they started to go on a shooting rampage.…

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    Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold have made history with the massacre at Columbine High School the rate of death is 15 including themselves and the wounded survivors 23. Since they were white male that was in the surborn school it was the society, both of them make a statement their parents were not at fault. Eric was a psychopath while Dylan was suicide it huge role one that. Eric and Dylan have made a statement about their parents were not at fault, they the ones who is not responsible but…

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    Dylan and Eric did what they did and how many signs were missed. Dylan was not a happy teen although he was a social and had many friends. He often wrote about how miserable and depressed he was. In the book he wrote,¨i get more depressed with each day.¨ (cullen,2009) Dylan was a hopeless romantic, who would also write about his crush and how he felt as if she didn´t even notice him, which made him want to die. This could have triggered something more sinister within Dylan. Eric was…

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    constantly wondering if the murderers were evil. The quote, “Inside of us, there is the speed of both good and evil. It is a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other” relates to the texts main characters (Burdon). Capote uses informed opinions and vivid descriptions to debate the good within evil, and how Perry and Dick relate to this. By the use of these rhetorical strategies, Burro’s quote is proved valid through Capote’s text. Perry Smith could be…

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    Erik In Tangerine

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    him as one of the biggest criminals in Tangerine. As there are many characteristics in a villian in Tangerine the one that puts a picture in my mind to me the most about Erik is abusive. In the story he shows his abuse to others. For example, When Eric told Arthur Luis Cruz with the blackjack he was physically abusive by hitting him, also mentally…

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    The Morality War In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the boys who attend the Devon School constantly fight between doing what is right and what is wrong. Eric Burdon, an international singer-songwriter, describes this fight by saying “Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.” In A Separate Peace, war and internal turmoil are important underlying themes. Both main characters, Gene and…

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