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    “Porno-violence.”He believes that authors use morbid crimes for their own self gain by attracting people who otherwise would not read it. Wolfe believes that Truman Capote uses porno-violence to glorify the murders of the family to appeal to readers in his nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood. Capote utilizes the murders by Dick and Perry as a tool to gain interest from the readers and distorting the point of view the audience reads through to understand the killer’s motives.…

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    Well, many people like nonfiction story. The story would be easier on the author to make this up as he/her goes on. Having dreams of her flash back, she tries to wake up. Thinking if her grandmother was a princess still comes across her mind. Anish wanting to know more about her…

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    Salem Witch Trials Witches The word witch comes from the Celtic word 'wicca' meaning 'wise one' or 'magician'. Witchcraft was made a capital offence in Britain in the year 1563. Witchcraft is still illegal in various areas such as South America and India. Most of witchcraft today is practiced in the United States, Back in the times of Salem, witches were people who had seen the devil. During the trials themselves, they were able to identify witches by the witches' mark. The witches' or devils'…

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    “You are in the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited, but whose safeguards are not”- quote by Citizenfour. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is an utopian and dystopian fiction novel that is very similar to the film called, Citizenfour. Both pieces of work have different ways of displaying their own versions of their world’s, but in the end both seem to be the same exact one. Both stories display a scenario in which the people are censored by the government to hide the truth of what is going…

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    The Sixth Extinction

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    The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is by Elizabeth Kolbert. Kolbert is an American journalist, observer, author, and staff writer at The New Yorker. The Sixth Extinction won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015; I chose this nonfiction book because I hadn’t heard of the concept of a sixth extinction. I had previously learned of multiple extinctions that occurred in the Cretaceous, Ordovician, Permian, and Triassic-Jurassic periods, but I became curious just by the thought of what Kolbert meant by…

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    Vine Deloria Jr. was born on March 26, 1933 in Martin, South Dakota. He was from the Sioux tribe of South Dakota. Deloria Jr.’s early elementary education was at school on the reservation. His high school education was obtained from the St. James School in Minnesota. He studied geology for two years at the Colorado School of Mines before enlisting in the Marines. Deloria Jr. served in the Marines from 1954 to 1956. (Bellini, 2008) Upon leaving the Marines, he attended Iowa State University in…

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    Today, young adults and adults themselves cannot fully explain the difference between imagination and reality. We think of imagination as a world filled with dinosaurs or breathing underwater, however these are the things are able to be performed in the outside world. There was a time when we could walk with dinosaurs and tanks to breathe underwater. For those who have seen the movie Big Fish can see the exaggeration between reality and imagination. Main character, Edward Bloom, tells many…

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    Harvest Gypsies Analysis

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    Steinbeck wrote extensively on the plight and the struggles of the migrant worker, using both fiction and nonfiction to expose the horrific treatment and the horrific conditions of those affected. In Harvest Gypsies, a series of editorial articles covering the migrant workers, Steinbeck describes the conditions of the workers who live on these large farms, stating…

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    Every work of literature can be classified as belonging to several categories, be it fiction, nonfiction, etc. Maus, however, exhibits features of several of these categories, and, because of this, it is harder to classify it as belonging to just one of them. Elements that commonly form part of both biographical and autobiographical works are found in this book, along with those of the novel. The book tells two stories at once; it shows the author dealing with his father, Vladek, after his…

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    No Angel Sparknotes

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    The non-fiction book titled No Angel follows the story of Jay Dobyns in his attempts to infiltrate the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang. The first section of the book follows Jay under his new undercover alias “Bird”. He travels to Bullhead City, Arizona, to meet a illegal arms dealer, leaving behind his wife Gwen, daughter Dale, and son Jack. When Jay first leaves for Bullhead City, I feel a strong feeling of sympathy for his family. The people that Jay deals with in the first part of his…

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