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    My interest in communications dates back to elementary school, though I didn’t recognize it as such at the time. I had always been fascinated with sharing ideas and opinions. I spent years on the debate team, and found joy in typing key points across countless index cards. Any possible argument and counter-argument was concisely outlined and neatly filed in an old brown recipe box festooned with sparkly stickers. I was equally happy being ‘pro’ or ‘con’, much to the chagrin of my family when I…

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    The Masque of the Red Death Can you dominate death? People believe that if they are rich they won’t die but if you are poor you will die. No matter if you are poor, rich, handsome or not everybody will die because death is a stage of life. In “The Masque of the Red Death” Poe uses as symbols seven rooms and a clock to represent death. Poe demonstrate his readers Prince Prospero running through all the rooms and the clock ticks slower every time he gets closer to the seventh room. The prince…

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    The Masque of the Red Death, written by Edgar Allan Poe, contains many symbols. All of the symbols affect Prince Prospero. Edgar Allan Poe makes it easy for the reader to find the symbols. Each symbols that Poe uses helps him convey his message. There are at least three symbols that are easy to identify. In Poe’s, The Masque of the Red Death, death is surrounding everyone because the Bubonic Plague, the clock striking a new hour, and the welded gate. The Bubonic Plague is a major symbol because…

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    of immigration. And so, I used various sources from journals, books, blogs and T.V. interviews to get information from a broad range and an insight of different perspectives about the subject of the impact immigration causes. Card, David. "Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?" The Economic Journal 115.507 (2005): F300-323. The National Bureau of Economic Research. Blackwell Publishers. 13 Nov. 2016. David Card writing for The Economic Journal acknowledges how in the recent times the public…

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    Edgar Allen Poe’s Gothic Fiction “Mask of the Red Death” takes place in a kingdom struck by plague in Prince Prospero's abbey. Prospero hosts his party in his isolated abbey to try and protect himself and his rich friends. Eventually a character known as the Red Death shows up and kills everyone. Within Prospero’s abbey there are seven colored rooms which are blue, purple, red, green, orange. white, and finally the black room representing death. The colors of the room’s represent the different…

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    techniques to trick their brain into lucid dreaming. The first is to stay in control; “Once someone loses a grip on what’s going on the dreamer will lose their ability to control the dream” (Tuccillo, Dylan, et al.). The second is to keep a dream journal; once someone starts to write down their dreams it helps the brain realize the difference between fantasy and reality. This is very important, once the dreamer starts to question reality it will soon become a habit and sooner or later the…

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    Poe uses symbolism to further aid in the development of his short story, "The Masque of the Red Death." Since a deadly disease by the name of the Red Death is terrorizing where he lives, Prince Prospero decides to lock the gates of his palace to prevent the illness from spreading. Several months after he isolates himself from the rest of the world, he organizes a rather elegant masquerade ball, inviting a multitude of his fellow nobleman to participate in such an event. During the ball, Prince…

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    “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe tells the story of Prince Prospero and his failed escape from the Red Death. When the plague strikes, he believes hiding away in his castle with a party of nobles will keep them healthy and happy in the isolation. However, death cannot be avoided. In his story, Poe symbolizes life, the countdown to death, and the fate everyone shares through colored rooms, an ominous clock, and the personification of death in his short story “The Masque of the Red…

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    Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” is about the wealthy Prince Prospero who tries to protect himself and his friends from a deadly plague by taking refuge in his castle. The story take place in the 1300s in England. During this era, a lot of people died because of the Bubonic plague. The events of the story take place in Prince Prospero’s castle, which is important for three reasons. Castle acts as a protector; Castle that is made by gothic style that mirrors Prospero’s…

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    Prince Prospero's Death

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    The “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story of fear and death. The protagonist of Poe’s story is Prince Prospero, and he is portrayed as a “God” of his civilization because he was the richest amongst all of the people and was seen as a public figure. The Red Death brought death to Prince Prospero’s city and he was afraid. His fear caused him to run and hide from death itself but no one can escape from death. Prince Prospero’s fear led to his downfall and ultimately his…

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