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    The book Turtles all the way Down by John Green takes you through the life of a high schooler named Aza. Her best friend, and partner in crime, Daisy notices a $100,000 reward for the whereabouts of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett. They have an unfair advantage, Aza was friends with Russell Pickett’s son Davis. Throughout the story Aza and Davis grow in their relationship. She has to manage school, Daisy, and Davis. She does all of this will trying to function with her anxiety. Her anxiety…

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    Presentation 'The street not taken " ballad was composed by Robert ice. He was one of america's heading twentieth century Poets and a four time champ of the Pulitzer prize. His temperances are exceptional. His ballads are human, conversational, hilarious, and sentimental. In 1894, he had his first ballad "My Butterfly : a requiem", distributed in The Independent, a week by week scholarly diary situated in New york city. He composed this ballad 'The street not taken' when he was perched on a…

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    Atticus Is Racist

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    Atticus cannot be Simply Summed up as a Racist One line that is always used to describe the early 1900s is “that person is Racist”. This doesn’t truly tell the story of what was going on. A good example of this in TKM when Atticus is bringing Calpurnia home she sits in the Back. To understand this idea a backstory is needed. In TKM Atticus is a lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape. He puts much more effort in than any other lawyer would have, especially in the south. Some may stop and…

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    Chapter 4: Narrative Techniques in the Novels and the Films This study deals almost entirely with films derived from canonical novels. The novels chosen for the purpose of this research originate from varied parts of the world. One notices that they differ in their origin as well as the time period. Even though the novels are all chosen carefully from the best works of twentieth century, they have emerged at different points in time through the modern age. The places of origin differ too. One…

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    Miller successfully portray the dynamics of a dysfunctional American family during the 1940’s. The aspirations of an ambitious man in pursuit of his version of the American dream however became oblivious to the underlying concerns that was existing in his family. Willy’s strained relationship with Linda, his wife, Biff and Happy, his sons, was a result of his quest for the American dream. Willy experienced abandonment through the course of his life, leaving him in greater despair each time.…

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    OSCAR WILDE: A STUDY IN ART, MORTALITY, AND PLEASURE PURSUIT Hussein Jasim Mohammed Al-Husseini English Department University of Misan Amarah, Maysan, Iraq Abstract Oscar Wild's attitude to hedonism would not be of an ordinary variety. Thus, it becomes all the more necessary to focus this study on Hedonism - Its Philosophical Bases in intertwining connection with the extraordinary strange personality of Oscar Wilde. His mind during its vigorous growth of creativity for one decade and more…

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    John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, is a glimpse of the reality behind Americas historical Great Depression, though it’s intent is much deeper than that. Steinbeck reinforces the idea of family unity and fighting together with the Joads and their journey. The deeper message that Steinbeck wanted to make with the Joad family is unclear and their future beyond the last chapter is also left to the assumption of the reader. However, chapter thirty reveals a great deal of information when looked…

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    The Bicycle Thief Essay

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    The movie “The bicycle thief” is a neorealist Italian drama. The protagonist of the plot is an unemployed man, Antonio Ricci. The movie aptly depicts the state of post-world economic unrest. The lack of job opportunities resulted is alienation of labour, which Marx considers to be a state where labour is external to the worker. Under such a situation work is just a tool for survival. Given an option the worker would prefer not to work. This gives us the idea that such a kind of labour is more…

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    The novel The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger can be considered as one of the most successful, controversial and most influencing novels of the 20th century. Salinger´s protagonist Holden Caulfield has had a decisive impact on the success of the novel and is widely considered as a symbol for teenage rebellion. The impeccable success of the novel is therefore mainly due to the development of a clear theme (One´s attempt to resist changes in life can result in the life´s downfall)…

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    There's a motivation behind why James Bond has figured out how to stay so significant and still appear speaking to men all over in excess of fifty years. Notwithstanding who plays him or what decade the film happens, the thought of James Bond is an individual as well as a way of life. Since the James Bond Film Franchise has kept going almost sixty years, the characters don't age in connection to arrival of the first film. Rather, Bond is constantly mid-matured. In like manner, in Ian Fleming's…

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