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    In the book, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is a mad scientist who gathers human corpses’ body parts which he acquired from charnel houses and graveyards. He composes a creature so hideous that he himself refrains from being anywhere near him. Everyone is frightened of the creature and the creature realizes that it is because of his appearance. He reminisces how even Frankenstein – his creator, his God – ran away from him. The creature feels rejected and promises to exact…

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    her father. Her father rapes her constantly and she questions God as to why this is happening. www.shmoop.com 7.How contrasting places (for example, two countries, two houses) represent opposed forces or ideas a.In Celie’s father house, she was constantly raped and feels as if no one loved her; when she moved into Mr. Albert’s house, everything was still much the same. She was treated more as a thing than as a person. www.shmoop.com 8.Arguments for or against the work’s relevance in today’s…

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    According to Mark Twain, “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.” In other words, people can find joy in causing harm in others. Murderers and serial killers are seen to be people that are evil, dangerous and heinous. A murderer is a person who commit an unlawful killing of another person or animal. A serial killer is an individual who murders three or more people over a 30-day period. Some murderers and serial…

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    Fear And Fire Short Story

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    us light, light drove away beasts in the darkness, And even if the feeling of safety was brief, it was satisfying nonetheless. Then we made houses to keep the dangerous beasts away from us. They gave us feeling of safety that lasts as long as we remain in the house, therefore giving us comfort of being safe. But what if the fire will extinguish and the house will crumble down? That is when feeling of safety disappears and with it comes fear. BAM! One of the big pillars that…

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    The Most Dangerous Game contributes to the tone and mood of the text. This short story can be described as mysterious, suspenseful, intriguing and a little bit gloomy. The setting greatly affects the tone of the story. “Although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle.” (Connell 12). This affects the tone because it shows it’s gloomy and dark setting. Hence, there is always a suspense build up because Rainsford never knows what obstacle he will have to face next. Connell uses the…

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    worry about having to marry one of the suitors. This shows how she is faithful and loyal because she wanted to wait for as long as possible to see if Odysseus would return home; she did not want to marry again since she only has eyes for Odysseus. 4. LITERARY DEVICES Once the omens were sent by Zeus, Halitherses stated that Odysseus is “‘somewhere near… breeding bloody death for all these suitors’”(2.184-185). Halitherses foreshadows that Odysseus is doing well. This reveals that the audience…

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    I selected three primary sources, The Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868, Ku Klux Klan, 1868, and Kamikaze Attack, 1944. The trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868 is mainly about how the Judiciary Committee finds a way to impeach Andrew Johnson, but Johnson got to stay as a president by one lucky vote. The Ku Klux Klan is about an organization killing slaves and carpet baggers for fun, and how their organization got big in the south. The Kamikaze Attack was a battle between the Japanese and the American Navy…

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    Clarisse react and treat the censorship in the story. I will also be writing about how the censorship leads to each character’s end. In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451, Montag is a fireman. Montag’s job as a fireman was to burn books while inside the houses. Montag had been doing this for ten years! He enjoyed his job, he never thought he’d begin thinking about how his job works. That is until he met a young girl named Clarisse who changed his mind. In the story, there are signs of Montag…

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    Criticisms of Nanook of the North and Dead Birds: Worries of Authenticity and Lasting Implications Films have been seen as windows for everyday people to experience and see new and different things. With ethnographic documentary films, people are able to see real parts of the world that are not always visible in their current, everyday lives. Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922) and Dead Birds (Robert Gardner, 1963) are both ethnographic documentaries, revered as revolutionary for their…

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    Synopsis The drama theater The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of an opera singer Christine who has been performing at the gala was held in Paris. Raoul is a sign of old and had been friends with Christine since childhood had heard Christine sing and have fallen in love with him. At the time it also became a rumor that there are ghosts who have stayed in Opera. After the gala dinner held to have committed Faust Opera Paris by presenting the prima donna Carlotta. During the show Carlotta…

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