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    from one place to another. In the United States, ships were one of the earliest forms of transportation that had a significant effect on trading. As the country became more industrialized however, fewer products were carried on ships because other modes of transportation grew in popularity. Today, most commercial goods are carried throughout the United States in freight trains, semi-trucks, and cargo planes. Despite recent favor directed towards other methods of transport, there could be a…

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    One key element to any story is the point of view in which the author uses to voice their work. As characters, setting, and plot are introduced, readers are often unknowingly influenced by the narrator 's viewpoint written by the author. This power of point of view allows the author to control exactly how much information is given to the audience by limiting or providing boundless knowledge to the speaker. This element can be expanded upon by an author providing multiple narrators with different…

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    In his article, “The Pain of Police Killings Can Last For Decades,” Ben Greenberg states that the grief that comes from an unjust police killing can last in the family for generations. His thesis statement is, “But long after the demonstrations end, the streets go quiet and the cameras leave, families of those killed have to find ways to cope with their loss” (Greenberg, 2016, para. 1). The audience for this article is anyone who might be interested or uninformed about unjust police killings.…

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    Data 6 is taken from personal dialogue of Don Corleone when he tells his suspicious about Solozzo to his people. Even though there is no direct response, the interlocutor was understand the intended meaning, Presuppositions that can be derived from part of the dialogue are: 1. Don Corleone known person called Solozzo 2. Solozzo was his threat or dangerous person. From the first presupposition on this data it include on existential proposition. It shows that Don Corleone knows and realizes the…

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    It is odd to see an author propose a topic that contradicts his or her writing choice and beliefs , to path readers on a trail of uncertainty, doubt, and speculation. Many would find it peculiar to pose an argument on oneself; however, Jeffrey Cohen does exactly this to the readers of his essay “monster culture”. Cohen sends his readers on a crumbling path of ambiguity when he asks readers a question that puts his readers either at one end of the path or the other asking if monsters truly exist.…

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    though he wonders that maybe it is just an echo. The story is narrated by the third person, but with Jonas’s point of view. In my opinion, Lowry has chosen this viewpoint because she wants to us to understand more about the main character. Readers get to learn about Jonas’s society and his thoughts about it in his own view point. If the author had chosen a different viewpoint, we would not have learn about what he feels when he receives the memories The Giver gives him, when he sees snow…

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    The word character has two meanings, it can refer to a person in a work of fiction or their characterization. Characterization is the process of how the author presents the character to make them seem real to the reader. Characters are an important element in short stories, books or graphic novels, because characters drive the story as a whole. The types of characters that are included in a story make the story flow. They also create different types of tensions and conflicts, as well as…

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    Daniel Quinn

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    “It was the wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of the night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not” The story is, in this section, introduced by an unknown third person omnipotent narrator, who has experienced the entire story and reflects upon in past tense. Furthermore, by adding “he” at the end of the phrase, he excludes himself from being Daniel Quinn. However, the reader must read further along the page to discover this.…

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    Discussion and Findings Given what the surmised literary sources reflect, Moore’s work offering the commentary that it does, what has been established is that his graphic novels do attempt to incorporate some sort of social and cultural cometary into their narratives. That having been firmly established, what has also been highlighted is the commentary offered up by his two seminal work’s Watchmen and V for Vendetta. What is left to be elaborated upon now is their pertinence to audiences, more…

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    Post Apocalyptic Analysis

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    By looking up at common dictionaries two definitions of the phenomenon, fiction, is given: 1. Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people. 2. Something that is invented or untrue. Fiction is the classification of any ilk of writing propelled by imagination; it varies from play, short stories, novel, novella and so forth. Fiction constitutes an act of creative invention, so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed; in other words,…

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