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Alice In Wonderland Main Character
1,464 wordsREMARKABLE a whimsical and ingenious mystery novel that also happens to be the history of Philosophy. Jostein Gaarder made his Norwegian literary debut in 1986 with a collection of short stories, followed by two young adult novels. In 1990 he received the Norwegian Literary Critics Award and the Ministry of Cultural and Scientific affairs Literary Prize for his book The Solitaire Mystery. Mr. Gaarder taught high school philosophy for eleven years in Norway, giving him a strong basis for writing ...
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Simple Rational Explanation Providing Just Enough Information Vivaldi
1,519 wordsIn Ann Radcliffe's "The Italian", the very first thing that we see described is a veiled woman: "It was in the church of San Lorenzo at Naples, in the year 1758, that Vincent di Vivaldi first saw Ellena di Rosalba. The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but her face was concealed in her veil. So much was he fascinated by the voice, that a most painful curiosity was excited as to her countenance, w...
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Cold Blood Ten Minutes
1,202 wordsLucy Wainwright Roche September 2000 Contemporary American Fiction In Cold Blood Beloved These days when a reader settles in to read a book, it is hard to know what to expect. In the past, there may have been a more rigid idea about what makes a novel or a story, now, there are many ways in which a modern writer can choose to portray a happening or a feeling. This development in fiction writing creates an exciting concept. It turns reading into a wonderfully intriguing activity where nothing can...
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Bermuda Triangle Coast Guard
1,229 wordsThe Bermuda Triangle is a triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Many people believed that people, ships, and planes have mysteriously vanished in this area. The size of the triangle varies from 500, 000 square miles. Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. Bermuda Triangle estimates range from about 200 to no more than 8, 000 distress calls in the area and that there have been more than 50 ships and 20 planes to go down in the Bermuda Tria...
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography
1,571 words... told J. E, Snodgrass, "that the best thing his best friend could do would be to blow out his brains with a pistol he was ready to sink into the earth" (Krutch 5 - 6). On October 7, 1849, Poe whispered, "Lord Help my poor soul, " and died forty years old (Wright 35). When Poe died he was buried in the Presbyterian graveyard where his grandparents and brother, Henry, were buried. After Poe's death Nathaniel Parker Willis said, "Poe is no more. He died at Baltimore on Sunday last, in the fortie...
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Miles Per Second Speed Of Light
1,615 wordsOur universe is a vast abyss, always expanding without bound. Many objects in space are exciting and intriguing. Mysterious surround many findings and cosmologists, astrophysicists, and astronomers work to obtain a better understanding of these strange phenomena. One great mystery is that of the black hole, which since the early 1960? s has been the object of many scientists? work, but has been dated to be the topic of discussion since 1783, when a astronomer named John Michell first recorded hi...
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Commedia Dell Arte 21 St Century
1,345 words"Masks have served humankind for centuries as artistic instruments, educational tools and have often reflected and magnified human nature while revealing the inner desires and fears of the human heart. However, as we stand in the 90 's we have little or no need for masks. Theatre has developed and moved swiftly, parents and schools educate children and humankind no longer feels the need to see their true feelings interpreted and portrayed by performers. Masks and mask work must take their place ...
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Goddesses Often Tempt Odysseus Is An Epic Hero Fagles
668 wordsThe question has been raised as to whether or not Odysseus, the hero of Homers The Odyssey, is an epic hero. An epic Hero portrays many classic properties, including being very strong and courageous. Odysseus is an epic hero, because he portrays many of these and other traits, such as having a goal that is foremost in his mind, and having descended into the underworld. An epic hero is almost overwhelmed with difficulty, often beyond that which a normal man could withstand. Not only is he confron...
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Space Ship Years Ago
1,340 words... ng that the temple was built thousands of years before the estimated time. His calculations proved that the temple was properly aligned when the earth axis was on a tilt of 23 degrees, 8 minutes, 48 seconds whereas it is currently tilted 23 degrees and 27 minutes (Posnansky, 1945). This difference indicated that the temple was built in approximately 15 000 bce, which would also explain the change in sea levels that occurred during the Pleistocene Extinction around 12 000 years ago. These mas...
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Simple Rational Explanation Providing Just Enough Information Vivaldi
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Bront Uses The Plot Element Bront Uses The Plot Rochester
1,033 words... is her protection and that she has somewhere to go when trouble rises. This is better for Rochester because he knows that this is the first and only secure place that she has known of and if trouble arises she will come to him for help as her guide and mentor. Men realize that they can input their vibes into young woman and often do this in order to either please their own lustful wants or fulfill their needs. Bront uses the plot element of general events to show that as corrupter's advance ...
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Sula Toni Morrison Poetic Language
1,984 wordsAccording to Aldous Huxley, the life of any epoch can only be synthesised by poets: Encyclopaedias and guides to knowledge cannot do it, for the good reason that they affect only the intellectual surface of a mans life. The lower layers, the core of his being, they leave untouched. 1 I like this, particularly the idea of the intellectual surface - a mere surface, with much beyond it - and combined with Jacobson's aforementioned theory, I take this as my starting point: the idea that poetic langu...
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The Great Gatsby Nick Analysis
601 wordsThe novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of Jay Gatsby, as Nick Carraway perceives him. Nick has a special place in this story. He is not just one character among several; it is through his eyes and ears that the story takes place. In this novel, Nick goes to some length to establish his credibility in telling the story about this "great" man called Gatsby. For example, He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across ...
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White Witch Human Beings
2,500 wordsC. S. Lewis Aslan in, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, exactly mirrors Jesus Christ. Aslan's sacrifice for a crime committed by Edmund is an exact mirror of Christs ultimate sacrifice for our sins. When Aslan is killed on the stone table and comes back to life he says, That though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know (Lewis, pg 185). Christians see this deeper magic as the fact that Aslan, like Christ was there since ...
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Rose For Emily Miss Emily
520 words"A Rose for Emily" is a mysterious short story written by William Faulkner. He uses many techniques to enhance the story's mysterious setting, such as foreshadowing and an out-of-order time sequence to alter the mood and perception of the story. The setting of Faulkner's story is very similar to that of his own in his adolescent years. The time is shortly after the Civil War, early 1900 's, and the setting is definitely in a Southern atmosphere. Faulkner might have written the story to portray a...
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Degrees Fahrenheit Surface Temperature
1,087 wordsOur planet Uranus. Uranus is the seventh planet of our solar system. Uranus is the mysterious blue planet that circles the sun, far from the Earth. A man named William Herschel first discovered this mysterious planet in 1781, he was a German musician living in England who had a great interest in Astronomy. He believed the sky held secrets he wanted to know. He couldnt afford to buy a big telescope, so he made his own. One night in March 1781, Herschel was studying constellations of Gemini. He sp...
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Makes The Reader Legal System
1,138 words... goes on to talk to the farmers wife about why he is going to Casterbridge but doesnt actually tell you what he has to do for work in Casterbridge. When the farmer asks what the two strangers do for work and the second stranger does not reply immediately it makes you wonder what he has to hide. When the first stranger says very suddenly Anybody may know my trade I, a Wheel wright. It could either make you think that he was proud of being a wheel wright or he wants to tell people what he does ...
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Aunt Ester In Gem Of The Ocean
699 wordsAunt Ester in "Gem of the Ocean" The Gem of the Ocean takes place in 1904 in Pittsburgh. It is the ninth part of August Wilsons cycle of dramas, where he speaks about the struggle of black Americans against slavery. The slavery is exposed not only as a physical slavery, but also as emotional one combined with slavery on a government. It forces people to protect themselves, to defeat their ideas and beliefs. The drama shows us rather the slavery of soul than the slavery of body. The play is a bri...
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Avant Garde Dizzy Gillespie
2,137 wordsJazz, John Coltrane John Coltrane Jazz, taking its roots in African American folk music, has evolved, metamorphosed, and transposed itself over the last century to become a truly American art form. More than any other type of music, it places special emphasis on innovative individual interpretation. Instead of relying on a written score, the musician improvises. For each specific period or style through which jazz has gone through over the past seventy years, there is almost always a single pers...
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