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    It can be devastating when you find out that your favorite pair of jeans, coat, or handbag has a broken zipper. You may feel like your only options are to pay an arm and a leg for a professional seamstress to fix it or throw the item away. Thankfully, you do have another option, and it isn't difficult to do from home. The only supplies you need are your hands and some pliers. Here's how to fix a zipper that no longer closes in just three easy steps: 1.Figure out the exact point the problem…

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    The short film Gould Meets Gould is an example of seamless realism. This short film opens with a black screen and white letters showing the film’s title, Gould Meets Gould. It is literally about Glenn Gould, who argues with himself about the roles of artist and audience. Gould Meets Gould is a film written by Gould in which he interviews himself. Since seamless realism tries to disguise the illusion of realism, this film is an excellent example of the form. In the film, Gould is…

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    Stephen Crane revolutionized writing forever because of his realist outlook on writing yet he only lived for 28 years. Although Crane started out wanting to forgo a military career, he found writing more appealing and fulfilling and worked as a freelance writer in New York newspapers for a short period of time before becoming a full-time writer. Crane then became a journalist and poet. Crane was known for writing a number of novels including Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of…

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    From the beginning of short story, there have been many great writers whose work will go on for years to come. One of the great writers and most remembered was Richard Connell. Connell was a popular author and journalist whose short stories were regularly published in magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post” and “Collier’s weekly”. Connell’s writing was different from other authors and screenplay writers in his lifetimes, which allowed his work to stick out. Connell’s childhood, college…

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    Desponde’s selected short stories A Liberated Woman and It Was the Nightingale Shashi Desponde , an Indian woman writer in, was born in a small town of Dharward in 1938. Her father, the famous kannada playwright, was described as ‘the Bernard Shaw of the ‘Kannada theatre’ .She acquired an M.A. in English from Mysore University. She married Dr. Desponde, A Neuro-pathologist in 1962 and visited England in 1969. Inspired by this visit, she published an account of her experiences as short stories…

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    stories this week was how they were all about a character, and what the character wants, and how the character gets or does not get what he or she wants and how the character changes and also about a world the author creates for me as the reader. In the short story “The Lottery,” the author was consistently giving the assumption that someone was going to win something; and also gave the sense of hope of nothing wrong was going to happen. But as the narrator calls what the town’s people do each…

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    Edgar Allan Poe Biography

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    Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell Tale Tell Heart. He is best known for his poems and his short stories, mostly the tales of mysteries and the macabre. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 and died on October 7, 1849. He was the first well known American writer to try to earn a living with writing alone which is normally very difficult. It resulted in a financially difficult life and career. Edgar Allan Poe had many accomplishments. One of them was The Raven. It was The…

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    published his first book. He worked as a critic in his early life which impacted American, and international literature. When Poe published his works the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond hired him to write for them. During this time Poe wrote short stories, and book reviews making the magazine the most popular in the south. Poe’s criticism on famous works named him a reputation of a fearless critic.(www.Biography.com ,www.Poets.org, and www.Softschools.com) On January 3,1892 John Ronald…

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    trying to find someone to love” (Brainyquote). By this, Marilyn Monroe was trying to describe the way she felt about herself. She grew up living a tough life, but found a way to get herself out of it. And succede doing so. Even though her life was short lived, she remains a legendary sex symbol today. Born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California, Marilyn Monroe was given the name Norma Jeane Mortenson. As a child, she lived a very troubled life (Marilyn Monroe). Norma never knew her…

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    Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville is a short story that provokes readers to question what it truly means to be human. The depiction of Melville’s characters and emphasis of specific objects throughout the story become symbolic representations of human existence. Readers are compelled to understand human existence through the narrator’s recollection of Bartleby’s character. The relationship shared between the narrator and Bartleby plays an important role in the development of the story…

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