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    The writer, Edgar Allan Poe, utilizing figment or confusion keeps the peruser is tension all through this story called "The Masque of the Red Death". Imagery, for example, the shaded rooms, the amazing clock, the sentiment festivity being at a gathering all influences this story to feel like a tall tale. Poe utilized this children's story style and changes over it into a bad dream in the mask. In the "Masque of the Red Death," the main sentence, "The Red Death had since quite a while ago crushed…

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    A governmental agency is a public authority in control for exercising independent authority over human’s action in a controlling or managing capacity. An independent regulatory agency is a regulatory agency that is independent of other branches of the government. The governing of health care plays a big and important role in the management of medical organizations. Within the range of laws and all health agencies with its tasks and all health organizations follow one of these agencies and their…

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    Fairytales adopt extreme, unrealistic measures to mesmerize readers while also conveying a life lesson to its readers-typically children. These exaggerated stories are intended to instill a clear distinction between right and wrong and to spark a high sense of morality in children. However, beliefs and standards are obscure. In Lin Lan’s Cinderella, virtue is portrayed as a characteristic to be rewarded, but in reality immaturity is awarded at the end. The story opens with the introduction of…

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    We young folks in Cusco were very much concerned with poetry as much as Bolano’s visceral realists did in Mexico City but unlike them, Octavio Paz was not our enemy. We loved discussing the labyrinth of solitude but It was the poetry of Cesar Vallejo, Arguedas, Garcilazo that matter to us. It reflected our Andean traits. Cusquenhos are different from coastal Peruvians. We are because of our cultural traits. We are visual, silent, introverts, stoic and very much good listeners and enjoy jokes…

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    in fear due to his legal status which leads him to make unlawful decisions, made in order to create a future for himself whom can live like any other person. He mentioned “This deceit never got easier. The more I did it, the more I felt like an impostor, the more guilt I carried — and the more I worried that I would get caught. But I kept doing it. I needed to live and survive on my own, and I decided this was the way” (Vargas, 20) showing us the difference between legal citizens in which do…

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    aspirations and as a result defy Tartuffe for attempting to control them. Gutwirth explains that “the totalitarianism of spirituality is correspondingly deflated, this being the slipping of the mask on which W. G. Moore hangs the comicality of Tartuffe the impostor.” Unquestionably Christianity is mocked by Tartuffe's behavior. Chastity is a characteristic of Christian piety that in a comedic play, has to be overtly acted so that the audience can fully comprehend sentiments that are normally…

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    The medieval people often talked of Rota Fortunae, a vertical-standing wheel of fortune spun by a Lady Fortuna, or the female personification of fortune. As she spun the wheel, men are depicted sitting upon the edges. At the height of the wheel’s rotation, men are blessed by fortune. However, just as quickly as he reached the top, a man will no sooner fall to his gruesome death as the wheel continues to rotate around. This wheel of fortune was the people’s fate, an unknown force that could bring…

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    Confucianism was originated by Confucius, an ancient Chinese philosopher, and was then championed by both Mencius and Xunzi. During the same time period roughly, Shang Yang and Shen Buhai developed a new ideological system known as Legalism. Both philosophies found popularity in ancient China, though they hold very different ideals. At first glance, the ancient Chinese philosophies Confucianism and Legalism seem to be polar opposites in regards to government, education, and social relationships.…

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    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) was a horror/science fiction film that responded to the Cold War and Atomic Age anxieties of the 1950s. On the surface, this was a typical 50s B-movie (low-budget commercial film), but it became one of the best science fiction thrillers of the period because it highlighted contemporary fears. The movie’s title was taken from Jack Finney’s source novel, The Body Snatchers (1955). Under Allied Artists, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was directed by Don Siegel…

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    Considering white supremacy shaped society in American 19th century, texts like Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Frederick Douglass’ The Heroic Slave reveal that white individuals rely on performance to interact with others, and thus, blacks are also forced into performing specific roles. The traditional white role, as seen in the two texts, is to uphold the superiority of the white race by uniting against the black one. Contrastingly, the black race is expected to play the part of a dutiful…

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