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    Frankenstein vs. Dracula When individuals are placed in an unusual situation, those singles deal with problems in different manners. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Victor Frankenstein and Jonathan Harker deal with their situations in different ways. To begin, Harker gathers information about his foe. Also, he seeks help and protects others as a number one priority while Victor does not. As well, due to his actions, Harker lives on with a joyful life. Therefore, faced…

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    My Journey to College It all started on a Wednesday around 4 o’clock pm, I was dozing in and out of sleep when my phone began to vibrate. I picked it up and realized it was a coach for the Upper Iowa wrestling team. From that day forward I could not wait to get to college and experience the college life. Many colleges wanted me to join their school. I chose Upper Iowa over two other colleges the two main reasons were: First, the way they do their scheduling is very nice, you only have to take 3…

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    Project 2: Social Reinforcement Field Observation Coaching is a difficult job to take on. From having to teach unexperienced athletes a new sport or to dealing with know-it-all parents that just want their child to play every minute. To be a great coach there has to be some careful consideration into how they are going to deal with the children they are given. This coach in particular that was observed had a very outgoing personality. He was extremely talkative with every person that walked…

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    1. It seems to me that Jonathan Swift 's true nature as a Satirist is coming out in the title. “A Modest Proposal”, gives off the feeling that this essay will be nowhere near what the readers were expecting. It was a searing and revealing piece that showed the problems of a country that even though was known to be poor; it was shown that it was exceedingly beyond realization. The reason for the word “modest” in the title is to almost lure the reader into thinking that the essay would not be as…

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    mockery, in that the core purpose of satire is to show the shortcomings of the subject through thinly-veiled metaphors and ironic humour. Satirical writing draws on sarcasm and wit to criticise it's subject in an intelligent and thought-provoking way. Jonathan Swift, author of 'Gulliver's Travels' is one of the best known and most widely appreciated satirists of the seventeenth to eighteenth century. His writing style holds many similarities with the satirical writing of authors and poets such…

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    In the novel, The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde, Wilde criticizes many aspects of the Victorian lifestyle. The constant criticism in the comedy is present through constant witty remarks and absurdity throughout the play. One aspect of the Victorian lifestyle that Wilde refers to frequently is writing and writers. Wilde conveys the message by using diaries and three volume novels frequently throughout the play that those individuals have dreams and secrets that they find dear to them,…

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    The term satire comes from the root word Sartre. The target of satire has been to reform a society by exposing the vices and follies of it. Satire deals with that which a man tries to hide. It is like a glass or a mirror that reflects its ultimate target that is self-deception and brings the hypocrisy and deception of a society to the foreground. The satirist himself condemns the social evils and ills. There is a beauty that can come out of the representation of the evil. This beauty, which is…

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    Blood sucker, dead, predator: These are all words that can describe a vampire. There have been several vampire stories throughout the years. Each author takes and gives them different characteristics but they usually are universally described as a creature that was once human that somehow has returned from the dead and preys on living humans by drinking their blood to stay alive. Dr. John William Polidori, an English writer and physician, is said to have created the first written vampire story…

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    Q) Lumuel Gulliver’s journey through the different voyages portray how distorted as ‘creatures’ human beings are. Argue. The book Gulliver’s Travel was written by Jonathan Swift in 1726 as tale of a man’s adventures into mythical world and it is satirical novel. Swift purpose of his writing was not for literary art, but to create a political and social account that would optimistically lead to positive action to help improve the lives of people. As Gulliver travels he encounters extraordinary…

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    In Jonathan Swift's novel, Gulliver's travels, Swift interprets the current political situation in England by adopting satire into each civilisation in the book, as a way of attacking the ideals of his country and representing the flaws in the monarchy. He approaches this by not only mirroring political problems in a bizarre fashion, but writes what ideally should be utopian lands as those that show the defects in what humans believe to be a perfect society. In each book the civilisation…

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