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Netflix’s To The Bone is Honest but Sometimes Uninspired To The Bone is a drama written and directed by Marti Nixon and starring Lily Collins that is Netflix’s latest shot at creating real and insightful programing targeting an audience of young adults. Ellen, a twenty-year old artist, struggles with anorexia nervosa. She comes from a dysfunctional family that includes her half-sister (If I Stay’s Liana Liberato), her talkative and often overbearing step-mother (True Blood’s Carrie Preston),…

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…

Roald Dahl was a short story writer, a poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. One of his books was called “The Landlady”. In his story, it talks about a lady around forty-five to fifty years old, living in a house by herself until someone came around. She seems too nice at first but later on in the story when the main character, Billy, comes around and stays with her, you will find out why the landlady usually never gets guests to stay at her house. In this story, “The Landlady,” Billy Weaver…

In Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, the protagonist is a young naïve girl who is not a very good judge of character. She falls in love with a man much older than her, named Henry Tilney. Henry enjoys Catherine’s ignorance and educating her of things she doesn’t know. This essay will examine a passage from volume two, chapter nine wherein Henry finds out Catherine has been accusing his father of murdering his mother. Through the use of satirical tone, the implementation of odd…

Wallace’s analysis of Northanger Abbey focuses on the reader’s relationships with the narrator and the author. To highlight this relationship, Wallace chooses to concentrate on the character of Henry Tilney. More specifically, Wallace shows how Henry Tilney’s satire relies on reductive generalizations of other characters, particularly female ones. Wallace then connects this trait of Henry’s to Austen’s tendency to reductively generalize her readers and manipulate her reader into becoming an…

Ragnarok by A.S Byatt is a novel about the experiences and internal struggles of a young girl who grew up in England during the World War II. The young girl, known as The Thin Child, lives in the England countryside as a result of the raging war in the city and of its surroundings. Throughout the novel the Thin Girl ponders many questions concerning why is the war happening?, is her father coming back? and whether or not the germans are good or bad people? To make sense of these questions, the…

writing strategies and wise words used by Dahl help the reader form clear pictures throughout the story about his life. However, there is more than just his superb writing tactics used in the making of this book. Explained by the novelist William Somerset Maugham, “There are three rules for writing a good book. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” Although the truth of this quote is evident, there are three rules that can be followed in Dahl’s autobiography. Being able to connect…

your country). In comparing Somerset County population, age, sex, and ethnic demographic data with the U. S., Somerset County based on its population is a midsize community with a small percentage of children under the age of five. Also, when comparing those who are 65 years of age or older, Somerset County has less of an elderly population than the overall U. S. However, the population of females and males are not much of a difference when you compare Somerset County to the U. S. The…

that any exposure to high risk of failure is reduced. Somerset as a company taken advantage of outsourcing and transferred it product manufacturing to China leveraging low cost labor and raw material. The labor cost and other cheap material reduces Somerset overhead cost, but there is always risk of not delivering product on time due to the foreign country political climate, change in tax and tariff and local economy. Initially the Somerset furniture company established China as a…

1772, the Somerset case had begun it was Somerset Vs Stewart. Stewart was once upon a time Somerset 's slave owner. This was a case over chattel slavery, what is chattel slavery? Chattel slavery is the slavery in the British Isles. The Somerset case was one of the most significant points in the Abolition Movement. Because of James Somerset who escaped the plantation and was caught and imprisoned in a ship that would be headed to the British Colony of Jamaica. Charles Stewart wanted Somerset to…