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    regularly sending human beings off the planet entirely. And, ideally, bringing them back. And that, of course, is the story at the heart of the movies The Martian and The Right Stuff. These movies are masterpieces that tell the story of fearless American astronauts and test pilots who went above and beyond, conquering the sound barrier and space. the essence of the core of the story of the martian, in case you missed it, is; Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is left stranded on Mars when the…

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    difference about the two stories were that they have different writers. One of them likes to make the story creepy at the beginning and the other hides the horror till the end of the story.The stories both have suspense, darkness, horror, and mysteriousness in the stories.Obviously the writers have different writing styles and have a different way of appealing the evil in the charachter and it make the story more interesting.The other way of writing is telling the bad stuff about the person from…

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    my opinion. In the case of the short story “Meteor” by John Wyndham, the story was about how people aren’t really caring about other things but themselves in my opinion. They’re really lazy to find out what type of species they are and also they have a little bit of initiative. Meanwhile, the second story is about robots who conquer humans and the human race does not exist. Technology overthrows the human mind and body. Only the dog is talked about in the story, the only thing that actually…

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    Funny Trail Tales

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    where one of the thirteen humorous stories takes place. Funny Trail Tales discusses what you are supposed to do in wilderness and funny stories. It has a multitude of funny little snips of funny stories, falsehood stories and mostly stuff to do with outdoors. Theme for this book is camping and outdoors. Editor purpose of this book is to make the readers laugh. The rising action of this work how it gets funnier by each story. The climax of this story is the story by Howard Tomb from “Fine Points…

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    connect with their readers during the telling of their story. They don’t make it a point to go out of their way to write a whole chapter on how they wrote the book. There aren’t many instances of a reference to how the reader is feeling or would feel if they were put in the situation of the characters. Tim O’Brien writes an intricate novel including many uses of metaphors, symbolism, and personification, all while telling different war stories that may or may not have been real. However, what…

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    The landlady is a story written by Roald Dahl. The tell tale heart is written by Edgar Allen Poe. These two stories are very different but also in some ways similar. These two writers have written many stories and they were great. In these two stories there is a twisted and scary sort of theme. Also the main character in each book have the same kind of insanity. Edgar and Roald are also have created a theme of stories from their childhood which was not very good. So Edgar Allen Poe and Roald…

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    Facing It Analysis

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    Previous poems and short stories regarding the war era have been similar for the most part. Authors all spoke through a voice different than theirs, used symbolism to represent larger war aspects, and simply soaked their literature with painful descriptions. However, after the war and with the entrance of postmodernism into American literature, authors such as Yusef Komunyakaa, Tim O’Brien, and Kurt Vonnegut were introduced as their literature targeted more personal war positions/experiences.…

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    Is Edgar Allan Poe Crazy?

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    Allen Poe was insane? Would you say he is not ready for schools? Well we just might have a problem this story is not too graphic for kids like us we can handle it. Kids like us will not even think about killing someone.If they do they will think of the bad things that will happen to them.Unlike Allen Poe he couldn’t control his own self but we can. My first reason that we can watch stuff like this is we can control our actions. Have you ever hard a kid killing because they seen the tell…

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    to run away from home whenever they would like, and that they're allowed to carry deadly weapons around with them. All this stuff that kids learn from reading The Outsiders will carry on with them thru life. Maybe kids aren't allowed to purchase deadly weapons now or kids aren't allowed to drink alcohol or smoke, but when they're older or when they're adults, all this stuff will carry on with them. They might do the activities they learn from the book in real life. The book The Outsiders, by…

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    memorize the past by it. In the story of “Everyday Use”, Dee and Maggie both think the heritage is significant, but from different aspects. For example, Dee wants to show off the heritage and emphasize her African root. However, to Maggie, heritage is more like a representation of who she is and her past with family. “Everyday Use” is a story that happened in 1960s to 1970s, in which there were numerous movements about black people’s struggle for civil rights. The story begins with Mama and…

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