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All Quiet On The Western Front
1,049 wordsAll Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel is to illustrate the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to change the popular belief that war is an idealistic and romantic character. The story centers on Paul Bamer, who enlists in the German army with glowing ent...
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Harold Bloom Victor Frankenstein
823 wordsFrankenstein is an intriguing novel in respect to its haunting and powerful story and its effective development. From the monsters murders to the monsters need for companionship the story is truly diverse. The story itself is about a man who created a "monster" that messes with nature, and nature comes back to mess with him. After all, nature is more powerful than a single man. The reader is manipulated to feel compassion for the dejected monster, as well as sympathy for the agonizing Victor Fra...
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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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Light And Dark Tim Burton
1,205 wordsIt makes you realize how abstract the film industry, and life in general, really is how much of it is just based on things that Tim Burton is just a man like any other man, except any other man is not Tim Burton. Tim Burton is a filmmaker. As a filmmaker, Burton has creative power over what he produces, directs, or even writes. His auteur, a term in film criticism that is applied to a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or aut...
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Stephen Edwin King Novels And Short Stories
1,169 wordsThe most haunted of houses is the human mind. When you read that quote, what does it make you think? Well, it makes me think of one thing. It makes me think of all of the terrifying stories Ive read by the master of the macabre himself, Stephen Edwin King. His mind has conjured up countless novels and short stories to do none other than to scare you out of your mind. His style and vivid detail meticulously planted in every work he does is the reason for such reactions to his horrific books. I in...
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Lord Of The Flies Literary Critic
1,178 words... station was going bankrupt. He was appalled. So he drove down to the radio station and he bought it right then and there. The station is WZON and is still on the air right this very minute. King is also in a hard rock band where he sings and plays the guitar. The band, called The Rock Bottom Remainders, puts on many concerts to benefit different charities (Beahm 72 - 73). Perhaps the most inspiration comes from the numerous towns that King has lived in over his lifetime. For example, the tow...
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Young Characters Of Clean Characters Of Clean And Lance Jungle
716 wordsApocalypse Now is a vivid account of Vietnam, and the damaging effects of the war, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad. The film takes the view down Nung River into Cambodia, where the darkness is discovered and civilized war ends. A separation is formed in this film, between the soldiers and society and likewise morality and confusion. Throughout the movie the viewer is witness to the changed man. Although we see definite discrepancies to the degree of this change, it is apparent in all of the ...
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Chopin Vs Poe A Wifes Death
899 wordsIt is common for two short stories to have a similar portion of their plots. How the author presents that particular component of the story will vary each and every time. This will result in a different effect on the reader for every story. The Kate Chopin story immediately starts with some very obvious foreshadowing of what is to come. The first line of the story says Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the new...
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Colonel Lloyd Slaves Talbot County Maryland Gore
1,593 wordsMr. Hopkins remained but a short time in the office of overseer. Why his career was so short, I do not know, but suppose he lacked the necessary severity to suit Colonel Lloyd. Mr. Hopkins was succeeded by Mr. Austin Gore, a man possessing, in an eminent degree, all those traits of character in dispensable to what is called a first-rate overseer. Mr. Gore had served Colonel Lloyd, in the capacity of overseer, upon one of the out-farms, and had shown himself worthy of the high station of overseer...
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'i Didn't Touch 'i Didn't Touch You There' Song
530 wordsAs the echoing screams and painful cries die down, take a moment or two to snap back into reality and realize, it's only a song. The incessant bellows and whines of Korn's Jonathan Davis move some of us, and we are never the same; others hit the stop button and change the CD, before the song is really over, and never understand what's going on. As Jon screeches out moving lyrics like, "'I didn't touch you there', Mommy said she didn't care, 'I didn't touch you there', that's why Mommy stopped an...
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19 Th Century Evil Spirits
1,181 wordsToday over 60 million people practice Vodun worldwide. Religious similar to Vodun can be found in South America where they are called Umbanda, Umbanda or Candomble. It is widely practiced in Benin, where it is the official religion. Vodun (a. k. a. Vodun, Voudou, Voodoo, See Lwa) is commonly called Voodoo by the public. The name is traceable to an African word for "spirit." Vodun's roots go back to the West African Yoruba people who lived in 18 th and 19 th century Dahomey. That country occupied...
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Source Of Power Machine Guns
949 words"The Sniper" places a strong emphasis on the evils of war, and yet paints a vivid image of mankind's qualities and their society. Employing the technique of describing one particular sniper to symbolism a general subject, readers are able to gain a deep insight into the evils of war. In this story, the assembly of setting, contrasting characters and themes of fanaticism and division of loyalties are vital to conveying the horror of war. On the other hand, The Sniper also discusses the power of w...
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Mass Media Television Violence
1,399 wordsCRITICALLY ASSESS THE WAYS IN WHICH THE MEDIA CAN BE SAID TO INFLUENCE OR HAVE EFFECTS ON SOCIETY. The Mass Media is a unique feature of modern society; its development has accompanied an increase in the magnitude and complexity of societal actions and engagements, rapid social change, technological innovation, rising personal income and standard of life and the decline of some traditional forms of control and authority. There is an association between the development of mass media and social ch...
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Back To Civilization Ivory Trade Kurtz
972 wordsThe nightmare of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is found in its stark portrayal of madness under the influence of an environment filled with desolation. Its protagonist, Mr. Kurtz, was raised amongst civilized people, adapted virtues that were regarded proper in society during the Victorian era, yet when he travels into the Congo, where these qualities are of no consequence, he abandons them to become wild. To understand how Kurtz fell to this emotional corruptness, a reader must be aware of ...
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Sexual Perversion Bad Faith
1,551 wordsI would like to take this opportunity to discuss Jean Paul Sartre's philosophy and it's integration into his play "No Exit." Embedded within the character interactions are many Sartre philosophical themes. Personal attributes serve to demonstrate some of the more dominant ideas in Sartre's writings. Each of the three characters in the play show identifiable characteristics of sexual perversion, bad faith, and interactions of consciousness. This play takes an interesting setting, that of the afte...
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Slave Traders Olaudah Equiano
797 wordsThe Middle Passage was almost inconceivable. Hundreds upon hundreds of Africans were abducted from their homes to go on boats to America. They were stacked like books on shelves in order to bring enough Negros for a profitable slave trade. The life on the boats on the way to the New World was so bad that the Africans preferred death to their gruesome future. The conditions on the boats were hellish. The slaves on the ships were packed like sardines and chained together. Among the gripping words ...
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Poem Tells Robert Pinsky Shirt
577 wordsBefore reading this poem one doesn't completely realize the details and stories behind an object as basic as a shirt. I had no idea that so much detail could be found in such a simple object, much less an entire poem. This poem presents a very good example of how we can easily overlook terrible things which happen, but choose to ignore. Even though we know bad working conditions exist in small countries which produce products we need, we choose to buy these products and support the inhumane work...
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Sentenced To Death Charles Dickens
1,659 words... Pip is conducted inside the prison and imagines that convicts are going to be executed in the same way as animals are in Smithfield. Mr. Jaggers, the sinister lawyer, has a strong character in the exercise of power. He provokes horror on Pip as Pip notices his unpleasant tone when arguing with his clerk, Mr. Wemmick, and the way he threats his clients. The description of his office suggests that a large part of his work as a solicitor consists of manipulating evidence and he is always seen f...
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National Association For The Advancement Racial Differences
1,198 wordsThere is surely no nation in the world that holds "racism" in greater horror than does the United States. Compared to other kinds of offenses, it is thought to be somehow more reprehensible. The press and public have become so used to tales of murder, rape, robbery, and arson, that any but the most spectacular crimes are shrugged off as part of the inevitable texture of American life. "Racism" is never shrugged off. For example, when a White Georgetown Law School student reported earlier this ye...
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Police Station Extraordinary Man
1,382 wordsDostoevsky used confession as a path to forgiveness throughout the novel. From his first thought after the murders to the time that he actually confessed to the crimes. Whether it be from Raskolnikov to Nikolay, the act of confession made then feel better about themselves removing the weight that they had placed upon their shoulders. Confession is to the ordinary man the first step to forgiveness. Through confession, the ordinary man can share his burdens with others. Moreover, let known the dar...
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