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Vallon Pont D'arc Pont D'arc Cave
415 wordsAt the foot of a cliff in the Apache Gorges, in south-eastern France, amateur speleologists discovered the world's oldest painted prehistoric cave. Discovered on December 18, 1994, this cave features art that dates back thirty-one thousand years. Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps and Christian Hilaire, were the amateurs who discovered the cave that has come to be known simply as the Chauvet cave. The explorers were in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France some thirty feet below ground. While expl...
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Song Of Roland Seven Years
1,674 wordsCharles the Great invaded Spain in the year 778. He had been invited in by the governor of the strategic city of Zaragoza, who had promised to turn the city over to him. He entered through a pass in the western Pyrenees Mountains and marched through the lands of the Basques, a people who had managed to maintain their freedom from Muslim domination and who were not too pleased with the Franks entering their land without even asking permission. Charles took care of their objections by seizing host...
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Hollow Cedar Tree Love With Hatsue Ishmael
704 wordsIn the novel Snow falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, the theme of the novel is the love conflict between Ishmael and Hatsue. Ishmael is in love with Hatsue from when they are very little to when they are grown up. Ishmael thinks that Hatsue will love him just like he loves her. As children Ishmael and Hatsue play together in a hollow cedar tree. They have many memories in the hollow cedar tree, which turn into many complications about racial issues. Ishmael is in love with Hatsue as soon as h...
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Dominant Hegemonic Reading Dominant Hegemonic House
696 wordsCultural norms and dominant ideologies determine the manner by which our culture encodes / decodes images. Encoding is the process by which the creator of a work, through conscious or unconscious means, inserts certain meanings into their work. Encoding also takes into the account the context of the work-where it is displayed and by whom it is seen. Decoding are the interpretations that the viewer comes up with, whether they be "intended, unintended, ... (or) even merely suggested meanings." Acc...
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Male Dominated Society Male And Female
1,657 wordsAfter reading Trifles, one may think about the book called, Men Are from Mars and Women Are from Venus by Dr. John Gray. Both works tend to illustrate the vast differences between the two sexes. Due to such differences, women are often pitted against men. Mention the word feminist and most people think of the modern womens movement. Long before the bra burning of the 1960 s, however, writers were writing about the lives and concerns of women living in a male dominated society. In Trifles, the wo...
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Critical Thinking H J
1,087 wordsEducational Practices / Innovations There exist a great number of innovative educational practices that were introduced not so long ago and become more and more popular and widely used by teachers. It is necessary to make a thorough investigation of all aspects of these techniques and assess the validity of their proponents claims. Before implementing this or that teaching practice we should have a deep insight into it, should clearly understand its logic and its main stages, should figure out a...
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Voice Over Script Photography And Video Game
834 wordsNecronomicon Ex Mortis Jay A With Multimedia is present in almost all aspects of life, entertainment, learning and instruction, information, and sales. This paper will focus on only one of these, the field of entertainment and will show how each aspect; text, graphics, animation, audio, photography and video not only relate to one another but also are dependent on each other to bring about a successful game. Entertainment software is designed to submerse a player in a new environment, be it fant...
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Rest Of The Family Negative Thinking
968 wordsFlannery O? Connor? s story: ? A Good Man is Hard to Find? is the tale of a vacation gone wrong. The tone of this story is set to be one irony. The story is filled with grotesque but meaningful irony. I this analysis I will guide you through the clues provided by the author, which in the end climax to the following lesson: ? A Good Man? is not shown good by outward appearance, language, thinking, but by a life full of? good? actions. The story begins with the grandmother trying to persuade the f...
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Possessions Reveals Sherlock Holmes Watson
657 wordsWhich Of Your Possessions Reveals Most About Which Of Your Possessions Reveals Most About You And Why? Observe, Watson. An unfamiliar voice caused me to stop dead in my tracks as I was coming back my table. Surreptitiously glancing through the foliage, I noticed two men pointing at something. Hesitant to announce my presence, I was very perplexed by the fact thatthe object they were staring at was my backpack! I was studying in the park and walked off to get a drink of water, and when I came bac...
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Gold Bracelet Asked Body
576 wordsThe Cask of Amontillado: Creative Writing Itzkowitz, David 11 / 26 / 96 period 1 At precisely 10: 30 A. M. I got a call from a Mr. Machiano saying while renovating a palazzo his men found the bones of a human. When I got to the scene one of his employees showed me to the bones. The clothes were still on the carcass. I asked Mr. Machiano how the body was discovered, My men were knocking down the walls and one of them found a skeleton with its clothes on, and thats when I called you. I asked whom ...
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Romantic Suspense Classic Mystery Detective
660 wordsEssay on Mystery The classic mystery story contains many key parts, and some of these are present in my novel, while some are not. I think the major and most important similarity between mine and that of a classic is the fact that they both deal with murder. Homicide. Assassinations. The ole bump-off. Killing. Manslaughter. Anyway you look at it, both my novel and most novels from the Hounds of Baskerville to Murder on the Orient Express. My novel deals with this murder in a more dramatic sense,...
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Hale And Mrs Common Bond
1,001 wordsDiscovering Mrs. Wright The play Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, is an examination of the different levels of early 1900 s mid-western farming society's attitudes towards women and equality. The obvious theme in this story is men discounting womens intelligence and their ability to play a mans role, as detectives, in the story. A less apparent theme is the empathy the women in the plot find for each other. Looking at the play from this perspective we see a distinct set of characters, a plot, and a f...
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Bury Her Brother Tragic Flaw
433 wordsAfter examining the play, Antigone, for tragic characters, it is seen that there could be many different possibilities. One character is clearly shown to be the tragic character though, and that is Antigone. She plays this role so great because she has all of the correct characteristics of a tragic character including her tragic flaw and her downfall. A tragic character is defined as a person who suffers a downfall in the course of the play, this character also has a tragic flaw which is the eve...
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Hills Like White Elephants End Of The Story
1,070 wordsHills Like White Elephants Hills Like White Elephants, is a short story, written by author Ernest Hemingway. It is a story about a man and a woman waiting at a train station talking about an issue that they never name. I believe this issue is abortion. In this paper I will prove that the girl in the story, whos name is Jig, finally decides to go ahead and have the baby even though the man, who does not have a name, wants her to have an abortion. It is the end of the story that makes me think thi...
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Fairy Tale Sleeping Beauty
415 wordsIn a nutshell: Briar Rose is the story of the Holocaust intertwined with the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. The story begins with the death of the Gemma, the grandmother of Becca. Through out Becca? s life Gemma told the story of Sleeping Beauty many times to her. Now, however, after making a promise to her grandmother, to find her past, the once insignificant fairy tale might be a clue to her actual past. Before her grandmothers death Becca had vowed to fulfill her grandmothers promise, which w...
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Life On Earth Newly Discovered
881 wordsUntil recently, scientists believed that the sole source of energy responsible for life on earth was the sun. In 1977, a group of scientists researching the theory of plate tectonics, traveled to the floor of the equatorial Pacific Ocean and discovered something that could possibly explain how life began on this planet. From the Galapagos Rifts thermal springs, scientists discovered densely populated communities of several species never before observed. Since that time the Federal Government has...
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Solovon Bar Fuse Box Mckensey
992 wordsThe year is 1912. The so-called unsinkable ship has been lost at sea. Everyone in the States was horrified by this tragedy. This was the same night my partner and I hosted poker night at the office downtown. This was the first night Mckensey had me down by five games. I was just dealt an unbelievable hand when we heard someone pounding on the door downstairs. I didn t want to leave my hand alone but I knew I had to see what was the matter from the faint cries for help. I rushed down and opened t...
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Nature And Nurture Men And Women
1,322 wordsNature vs. Nurture The controversy over what determines who we are, whether it is Nature (heredity, our biological make up) or Nurture (our environment) is taking a new shape. Through the past decades, psychologists have developed different theories to explain the characteristics of human-beings; how we feel, think and behave. Usually, these theories were one directional in the nature / nurture question. Today, a new approach to deal with this question is emerging. This new approach finds a midd...
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Third Person Omniscient Omniscient Point Of View
854 wordsPoint of View Essa In the short story Through the tunnel, Doris Lessing describes the adventure of Jerry, a young English boy trying to swim through an underwater tunnel. Throughout the story, the author uses the third person omniscient point of view to describe the boys surroundings and to show us both what he and the other characters are thinking and what is happening around them. By using this point of view, the author is able to describe the setting of the story, give a detailed description ...
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Black Or White Jimi Hendrix
1,142 wordsToni Morrison? s essay, ? Recitatif? is about two girls, Twyla and Roberta, who grow up in an orphanage because their mothers could not properly care for them. The underlying theme in? Recitatif? deals with racism. An interesting twist is the mystery of the girls? race. Leaving clues, but never stating whether Twyla or Roberta was black or white, Morrison makes it clear that the girls come from different ethnic backgrounds. At one point in the essay Twyla comments, ? that we looked like salt and...
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