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    It earned Jackson seven Grammys and eight American Music Awards, and the Award of Merit, the youngest artist to win it. Thriller became the best-selling album of all time worldwide, with an estimated 65 million copies. It was the first album to have seven Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles, including Billie Jean, Beat It, and Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin. Thriller is the first and, as of 2009, the only music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry. On May 14, 1984, he was invited…

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    Ken Follett Essay

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    Ken Follett: Introduction Ken Follett is one of the top thriller writers of the present generation. Over a career spanning 3 decades Ken Follett has written some of the best books in the genre of historical fiction. Born in 1949, Ken Follett has sold over 100 million books worldwide. He is a writer with a worldwide following from the UK to India and USA to Australia. Follett’s “On Wings and Eagles” Ken Follett wrote ‘On Wings of Eagles’ a novel which has the background of the Iranian…

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    Early life Roman Polanski was born on August 18, 1933, in Paris France. At The age of three, Polanski moved with his family to his father's home city of Krakow, Poland. In 1941 his parents were imprisoned in multiple concentration camps, though Auschwitz was his mother's last, In order to escape from being sent to the camps young roman lived with several polish families over the years until in 1944 he was reunited with his father. As a teenager, Polanski developed acting skills in films and…

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    express love and his feelings. The lyrics “I want to rock with you” is Jackson saying that he wants to dance and make love. Jacksons “Beat it” was released on April 30, 1983 and spent three weeks on the Hot 100’s top slot. This song is feature on this Thriller album with only two weeks separating the last of seven weeks on top for Jacksons "Billie Jean". This song sends out a message telling people to spread the peace and stop violence. Jackson truly made a masterpiece with this song, he has a…

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    Citizenfour Film Analysis

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    What makes Citizenfour successful is that it takes a would-be traitor and turns him into a heroic icon. The director and filmmaker, Laura Poitras, seemed perfect for the role to construct such a thought provoking thriller. Her past basically speaks for itself; Citizenfour is the third film in her post 9/11 trilogy. Because of the type of film’s she’s worked on, she was placed on the government secret watch list. In a way, her past film from 2006, My Country, My Country, was something that helped…

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    into our homes the phenomenal success of house of cards, the third series, of which was released this week, is testament to that, Frank Underwood and his wife Claire is fast becoming the greatest super villains of our television age. Our thirst for thrillers goes unabated-especially in written form. Paula Hawkins’s novel The Girl on the train has topped the UK and US bestseller lists. While Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl has apparently become 25th bestselling book of all time”. She was right about…

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    While specialists scan for an approach to desensitize an individual from fears and nerves, this can be an immaculate stage for such medications. Tips to avoid the negative effects of viewing a horror film are to maintain a strategic distance from thrillers, which depend on real life stories. All the loathsomeness scenes introduced in the film are embellishments. View the motion picture with a sprightly tune out of sight; enjoying other negligible exercises, for example, a portable PC occupies a…

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    copies of his novels and has had a major influence on the world of literature during his career. Ken Follett’s influence on literature mainly consists of his enhancement of the writing style prevalent in the world of modern popular fiction and the thriller genre specifically, which he manages to make while still maintaining the objective of entertaining his readers. Follett’s childhood love of reading and his early foray into the occupation of journalism heavily influenced his writing and…

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    Maureen Johnson

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    Maureen Johnson, brilliant writer, gorgeously written book, a chilling and beautiful thriller. New York Times Bestselling Author, shows Johnson’s ability of writing. Johnson, has become my favorite author. She has very beautiful books, she knows how to explain stories, very well written, The Madness Underneath, is the second book, the first one is The Name of The Star. At first, I had trouble relating to the book, and character. The main character, has a special ability, called terminus, this…

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    Bluthund is an anthology that includes two psychological thrillers written by the author recently, sharing, albeit partially, their characters. The two books are separate pieces and can be read in any order, although the author prefers given in the book. The synopsis of the works are as follows. I Ching- Ten Wings: An old Chinese scholar living in Buenos Aires instructs a young niece and her boyfriend to interpret the I Ching (the Chinese oracle and book of wisdom). In China a powerful drug…

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