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Real Life Liam Sara
886 wordsR. L. Stine who is one of Americas best-selling authors and the devilish creator of the Fear Street and Goosebumps series of horror stories for kids. Stine is who wrote the book I read, but he came back with a book for the older generation. All of Stine's ideas in his books are suggested from real life. Most of his ideas came from his imagination and his memory. He now lives in New York City with his wife Jane, and teenage son, Matthew. The story took place on a small Pennsylvania College campus...
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Victor Frankenstein Henry Clerval
1,283 wordsAuthor: Mary Shelley Country England Title Frankenstein Genre: Fiction/Horror 1. Characters, with a brief description of each. Victor Frankenstein: He is the main character, a paradigm of ambition and curiosity. He does not know when to stop, and therefore loses everything. Elizabeth Lavenza: She is the sweet sister-bride of Victor. With flawless personality, she represents the hope for escape to a good future. Caroline: As Victor's mother, she is as generous as can be. A bit controlling, she de...
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World War Ii Second World War
1,005 wordsMichael C. C. Adams book, The Best War Ever: America and World War II, attempts to dispel the numerous misconceptions of the Second World War. As the title suggests, Americans came out of the war with a positive view of the preceding five turbulent years. This myth was born from several factors. Due to the overseas setting of both theaters of the war, intense government propaganda, Hollywood's glamorization, and widespread economic prosperity, Americans were largely sheltered form the brutal tru...
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Stand Trial Female Body
821 wordsEd Gein was born at the turn of the century into the small farming community of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Gein lived on his family homestead with a weak, ineffectual brother and domineering mother who taught him from an early age that sex was a sinful thing. Eddie ran the family's 160 -acre farm on the outskirts of Plainfield until his brother Henry died in 1944 and his mother in 1945. When she died her son was a thirty-nine-year-old bachelor, still emotionally enslaved to the woman who had tyranni...
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Order To Protect Heart Of Darkness
1,111 wordsIn the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the seaman Marlow tells a big lie to Kurtz's Intended. To Marlow [there] is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. He hates and detests those who lie but lowers himself to doing it himself at the end of the novel. There are many reasons why he does this. Unlike the lies the Manager and the Brickmaker might tell to further their own selfish agendas, Marlow's o...
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The Cask Of Amontillado Irony And Symbolism
1,208 wordsIt is Edgar Allan Poe's intense use of symbolism and irony throughout the Cask of Amontillado that establishes the short story as an indeed interesting candidate worthy of thorough analysis. The skillful use of these devices are utilized by the author to create this horrific and suspenseful masterpiece. The Cask of Amontillado is a horror short story, which revolves around the themes of revenge and pride. The plot involves two men: Montresor, the narrator, who is an Italian aristocrat seeking re...
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Victor Frankenstein Mary Shelley
1,215 wordster> Examine the way in which characters are portrayed in the novel. In the novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the characters have been portrayed effectively. Much of the interactions between characters, and characteristics of the characters have been based on events which have occurred in Shelleys own life, or they represent what she believes is important. For example, Victor is portrayed as having a strong passion for science, and a poor understanding of relationships. Eliz...
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Kurt Cobain Jim Morrison Poets Of A Generation
1,117 words... ost passionately identified, and it was to their standard he aspired. To be a poet, to be an artist, meant more than writing or painting or singing; it meant having a vision and courage to see that vision through, despite any opposition. What didn't kill you made you stronger, and if you had what it took you were rare and wondrous, and if you didn't it couldn't be faked. (p. xiii) Kurt once said "That's what music is entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out...
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Humans And Animals Timothy Findley
1,466 wordsSigmund Freud once argued that "our species has a volcanic potential to erupt in aggression... [and] that we harbour not only positive survival instincts but also a self-destructive 'death instinct', which we usually displace towards others in aggression" (Myers 666). Timothy Findley, born in 1930 in Toronto, Canada, explores our human predilection towards violence in his third novel, The Wars. It is human brutality that initiates the horrors of World War I, the war that takes place in this narr...
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Primal Scene H 2
795 wordsAccording to Kristeva's theory, in order to become a subject in the symbolic realm it is necessary to reject / abject that which gave us our existence - namely, the mother. Moreover, within patriarchal cultures women are reduced to the maternal function and therefore women, maternity and femininity are affected along with the maternal function. This misplaced abjection is one way to account for womens oppression and degradation within patriarchal cultures. For Kristeva, the process is helped alo...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Froth Corrupted
1,729 wordsINTRODUCTION In the poem, Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, the social climate of the World War I era is reflected through the poets use of vivid imagery and poetic techniques. The poem itself presents an a blunt impression of the world through its linking of ideas and language in its text. The poem addresses the falsehood, that war is glorious, that it is noble, it describes the true horror and waste that is war, with the aim of changing the way in which society thinks about conflict. THE P...
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Edgar Allan Poe Pit And The Pendulum
1,047 wordsElements of Suspense Becki Cox The literary genre known as horror has intrigued readers for centuries. One of the masters of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, uses many elements to horrify and captivate his audience. These elements include sense of sight, and sense of hearing. In the stories The Tell Tale Heart, and The Pit and the Pendulum, Poe uses the above elements to add suspense, and meaning to the theme of each tale. Edgar Allan Poe uses the theme of eyes, and the loss of sight in The Tell Tale He...
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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allen Poe
2,783 wordsThe influences of Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be one of the best when it comes to Early American Literature. He is most famous for the short stories and poems that he had written. The question posed here is why did Edgar Allen Poe write poems and short stories that are filled with horror and the presence of Death. Many believe that it was his addiction to alcohol and the events that he had to endure during his lifetime. Events such as the death of his mother and abandonment ...
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Wife And Son Forest Fire
1,366 wordsIn Jack Hodgins latest novel, Broken Ground, the inhabitants of the small forest community of Portuguese Creek are deeply affected by its extreme conditions. Matthew Pearson, a local farmer and former soldier, has his life utterly transformed from living in Portuguese Creek. For Tanner Pearson, Matthews ten year old son, living in Portuguese Creek has nothing but negative consequences. Lastly, Charlie MacKintosh, Tanners friend, is adversely affected by his time spent in the harsh wilderness of ...
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Three Years One Part
3,511 wordsPhilip Hoy (Interviewer) " The contemplation of horror is not edifying" : Hecht describes his experiences as a soldier in WWII " [Hoy] Youve described your three years as an undergraduate at Bard as unquestionably the happiest of [your] life up to that time. How did it feel when, three years into your studies, aged 20, you were drafted into the army, and sent off to fight in the war? Was it something youd been dreading? [Hecht] I admit with shame that I felt neither brave nor patr...
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Art New York Van Gogh
1,554 wordsExpressionism art movement in relation to Film In this essay, I will be looking at the art movement of expressionist style in relation to the development of German expressionism film. I will also be looking at how drawings and paintings have been bought to life within the use of film. The expressionist movement began mainly around Dresden in Germany before the First World War I. This was the same year the organization group Die Bruce (The Bridge) was formed. The artists Fritz Bell, Erich Hockey,...
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House Of Usher House Of Usher Pg Poe
514 wordsDuring the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens as the shades of the evening drew on with the view of the melancholy House of Usher Pg. 234) With these words, Edgar Allan Poe begins one of his most famous works. Poe was infamous for his constant imagery of death and decay that he used to produce a sense of terror in his stories. In order to achieve this horror he implemented many images of the latter in the descr...
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Heart Of Darkness Eliot
1,438 wordsThis is a paper I wrote on the Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot for an english class of mine a few months ago. I am currently enrolled at The Uni. of So. Cal. Hope you enjoy: Eliot starts his poem The Hollow Men with a quote from Joseph Conrad? s novel the Heart of Darkness. The line Mistake Kurtz-he dead refers to a Mr. Kurtz who was a European trader who had gone in the the heart of darkness by traveling into the central African jungle, with European standards of life and conduct. Because he has no m...
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Keenen Ivory Wayans Writers Of The Original Movie
615 wordsScary Movie Review By Michael Cattana Release Date: November 16 th, 2000 Not to be Confused With: Another horror spoof heading to theaters this summer is I Know What You Screamed Last Summer. This isnt that movie. Also a note to sir even though this movie isn? t released till the 16 th of November this year I have seen it on VCD from the internet. Title Note: Anyone who knows their horror movie law knows the significance of the title, Scary Movie. Its the original title of the first Scream movie...
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Writing Career Stephen King
923 wordsStephen King often called; Master of Horror is a well-known author for his horror stories, and science fiction novels. He had many influences on how has written his books. King has also faced many hardships within his life. King was born in Portland, Maine on September 21, 1947 to Nellie Ruth King and Donald Edwin King at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen was the only natural born child in the family, as his brother David was adopted at birth in 1945. The Kings were your average family until o...
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