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Shoot The Elephant George Orwell
1,409 words
The story that my evaluation will be based on is
Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author
George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a
British officer raised in England. He attended
Eton College, which introduced him to England's
middle and upper classes. He was denied a
scholarship, which led him to become a police
officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served
in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack
of respect for the justice of British Imperialism
in Burma and India. He w...
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Long Term Debt Bristol Myers
1,249 words
"A Critical Analysis to Disclosure in Financial
Reporting" Bristol-Myers mission is to be the
preeminent global diversified health and personal
care Company. Bristol-Myers seeks to achieve
success in the global marketplace. Product-
Bristol-Myers is a maker of many useful products
that people use and may depend on today. There
products range from Pharmaceutical ($ 8, 672
million), consumer medicines ($ 4, 278 million),
Clairol a well known hair care system ($ 1, 160
million), Matrix ($ 306 milli...
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Figurative Language Person Narrative
541 words
One of the most important decisions that an author
has to make when writing a story is how it is to
be presented to the reader. Whether its going to
be a first or a third person narrative, what kind
of language is to be used, and the writing style
of the author himself, play an immense role in the
story. In A&P, John Updike's detailed description
of the world through Sammy's eyes helps to bring
out the theme onto a level at which the reader
could relate to the story. The use of figurative
langua...
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Great Detail Make Sense
467 words
In the past years, one of my favorite books was
The Pilot's Wife, by Anita Shreve. It has action,
suspension, and mystery. It has my vote for a
great book for two reasons. First, it has the type
of mystery that is combined with suspension.
Second, the author writes with an interesting
style that always has a surprise around the
corner. The way that she writes the mystery and
suspense is intriguing and nice to read. First,
the reading has a smooth flow with the mystery and
suspense. For example, ...
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Ca Sage Statistical Analysis
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... aires tends to fall into two broad categories
- facts and opinions - and it is that at all
stages of using questionaire's the researcher is
clear about whether the information being sought
is to do with facts or to do with opinions.
Factual information does not require much in the
way of judgement or personal attitudes on the part
of respondents. It just requires respondents to
reveal (accurately and honestly) information:
their adress, age, sex, medical status, number of
children etc. Opini...
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Attention To Detail Nature Of Man
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When viewing the atrocities of today's world on
television, the starving children, the wars, the
injustices, one cannot help but think that evil is
rampant in this day and age. However, people in
society must be aware that evil is not an external
force embodied in a society but resides within
each person. Man has both good qualities and
faults. He must come to control these faults in
order to be a good person. In the novel Lord of
the Flies, William Golding deals with this same
evil which exists...
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Poem Beowulf Anglo Saxon
1,522 words
In both texts, Beowulf and Grendel, the main
purposes of the Queens are to serve the courts as
"weavers of peace." In Grendel however, Queen
Wealhtheow is described in much greater detail and
serves a further purpose. The reader gains insight
to a part Grendel that is not present in Beowulf,
his desire for a human. It was not unusual for
women to be offered as tokens of peace within the
noble courts. In the novel Grendel, Wealhtheow's
brother, King of the Helmings, Bestowed her to
King Hrothgar ...
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Black And White Amount Of Light
1,134 words
So, there you are at a wedding. The groom is in
his sharp black tuxedo and the bride is in her
beautiful white dress and they are ready to cut
the largest, most elegant white cake you have ever
seen. For this occasion you want to get the
greatest picture and everything has to be perfect.
Your try a few different angles and pick out the
one that is the great and then take a few
pictures. The next day, you run to the local photo
store to get your prints made. The person at the
counter says black a...
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Geometric Shapes Ancient Greek
1,116 words
Ancient Greek art set the bar for artists around
the world for thousands of years and still does
today. Its sophistication peaked during the
Classical Period which has been called the Golden
Age of Greek art. The idea of being able to make
the world and people around oneself seem flawless
was captured through their art. From the usage of
geometric shapes to the idea of symmetry helped to
give way to the idea of equilibrium, a balance, to
which the Greeks held as one idea of perfection.
Many scul...
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Asked Questions Deeper Level
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There have Cg Intro Introduction There have been
many experiments done on depth of processing and
the self reference effect. The Depth of Processing
model of memory maintains that how deep something
is encoded into a persons memory depends on using
certain types of processing. This relates to the
self reference effect because it is believed that
people have the tendency to remember something
better when they can relate it to themselves.
People who can personally relate to something have
the tend...
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Mrs De Winter Watching The Movie
878 words
As Daphne du Maurier finished her novel, she said
to herself, So it was. A finished novel. Title,
Rebecca. I wondered if my publisher would think it
stupid, overdone. Luckily (for me) he did not. Nor
did the readers when it was published. Little did
du Maurier know, her novel ended up becoming a
great success. Soon after, Alfred Hitchcock made a
film version of Rebecca that soon became an even
greater success than the novel itself. There are
many opinions as to which version is more
effective. I...
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Town People Shoot The Elephant
1,414 words
The story that my evaluation will be based on is
Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author
George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a
British officer raised in England. He attended
Eton College, which introduced him to England? s
middle and upper classes. He was denied a
scholarship, which led him to become a police
officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served
in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack
of respect for the justice of British Imperialism
in Burma and India. He ...
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Ernest Hemingway Catherine Barkley
2,891 words
aa The theme that Hemingway emphasizes throughout
the novel is the search for order in a chaotic
world. Hemingway conveys this through Fredericks
own personal search during the chaos of World War
I. Catherine has found strength within herself to
lead her through life. This is what Frederick must
come to realize. Through his involvement with
Catherine, Frederick slowly finds his own inner
strength. Fredericks affair with Catherine prompts
him to leave his wild life of prostitutes and
drink. He be...
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Wilsons Garage Tom Buchanan
1,850 words
When F. Scott Fitzgerald turns on the heat in
Gatsby, he amplifies a single detail into an
element of function and emphasis that transforms
neutral landscapes into oppressive prisms. Through
these prisms which distort and color the lives of
Fitzgeralds characters, we see why humans
elation's are, as Nick Carraway describes them,
short winded (Gatsby 2). Heat is the antithesis of
Jay Gatsby. It is symptomatic of his undoing, his
nemesis. As he suited up in his cool demeanor time
and time again, p...
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First Person Narrative Point Of View
2,524 words
With reference to Araby, discuss the importance of
Joyce's narrative technique. Pay particular
reference to: ? Point of view? Imagery? Everyday
Detail Narrative Technique is the way in which an
author tells a story in prose or verse, looking at
the specific grammatical usages. Araby, by James
Joyce was the eleventh story written that later
formed the compilation of The Dubliners. Joyce's
narrative techniques in this short story are
profound, and present in detail the banal daily
life in Dublin, ...
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Point Of View Kill The King
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Hamlets Delay We often wonder why Shakespeare's
character Hamlet, in the play Hamlet, waited so
long after bring told by the ghost, about the evil
deed, before carrying out his plan. Everyone
contains a tinge of Hamlet in his or her feelings,
wants, and worries. Hamlet is not like other
tragic heroes of his period. He stands apart from
other Shakespeare's heroes in his much discussed
innocence. Is this supposed tragic hero maybe an
ideal hero, one without the tragic flaw, which has
been a part o...
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20 Th Century Attention To Detail
4,026 words
The Life and Legend of Howard Hughes Throughout
the 20 th century, it has been the media? s job to
pinpoint what events and people would prove to be
an effective story. This was certainly the case
for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard
Hughes Sr. , Howard became the interest of the
American people and newspapers for most of his
life. Being deemed one of the most famous men of
the mid- 20 th century was greatly attributed to
Hughes? s skills as an industrialist, aviator, and
motion-pictu...
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Clich Sexual Desires
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Vladimir Nabokov, one of the 20 th century's
greatest writers, is a highly aesthetic writer.
Most of his work shows an amazing interest in and
talent for language. He deceptively uses language
in Lolita to mask and make the forbidden divine.
Contextually, Lolita may be viewed as a novel
about explicit sexual desire. However, it is the
illicit desire of a stepfather for his 12 -year
old stepdaughter. The novels subject inevitably
conjures up expectations of pornography, but there
in not a single ...
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Human Body Renaissance Art
583 words
From 1300 to 1600, Europe saw the Renaissance, the
rebirth of art and learning. Worldliness was a key
part of their artwork through the individualism
shown in the portraits with earthly backgrounds
and through the glorification the human body.
Realism was a major part of the artwork; a lot of
attention was given to detail and setting. The
artists were influenced largely by humanistic
ideas such as human potential and achievement.
Artists portrayed many different kinds of people,
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Stark Contrast John Singer
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A Survey of Romantic and Realistic Paintings
Fantasy and reality occupy our worlds everyday.
One sees this world around himself and he retreats
to what he wishes it was. Why shouldn? t he paint
about it? The portrayal of fantastic and realistic
notions occupied the activity of painters from the
mid 1800? s to the 20 th century. The period of
Romantic painting lies roughly from the mid 1700 s
to the mid / later 1800 s, while paintings from
the movement of Realism are grouped from the mid
1800 s t...
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