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Light And Darkness Plants And Animals
2,553 words, and again now, we heard that wonderful bass hum of the heating system as it whirs away up in the ceiling. In the silence of this room the sound of that motor became very prominent in our consciousness. Usually, while talking and listening, thinking and worrying, we don't notice it. That motor reminds me of a wonderful realization I had in the hotel room where I'm staying a couple of blocks from here. There's a refrigerator in the room, and of course the refrigerator goes on and off as its ther...
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Underlying Meaning Peoples Lives
1,126 wordsWhen a country is at war it is the common people who suffer. In Walt Whitman's poem, Beat! Beat! Drums, the speaker signifies the sounds of war. The speaker, listening to the banging of war drums and shrill sounds of bugles, relates the interruption these war sounds have on the harmony of peoples lives. Whitman uses the sounds of drums as an audible image to show its effects on the common people. Whitman uses two types of imagery to express the cold indirect and direct effects of war. Whitman us...
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Introduction To Literature Edgar Allan
908 wordsIn Edgar Allan Poe's short-story, The Tell-Tale Heart, the speaker of the story tries to convince the reader that he is not mad. But by the speaker telling the story as he does, he answers his own question that he asks the reader at the start of the story, ... why will you say I am mad? ( Introduction to Literature, page 415). He attempts to tell his story in a calm manner, but as he describes various parts, he begins ranting with a great The speaker pays particular attention to emphasize specif...
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Walking Down The Street Pit Bull Bulls
831 wordsThe soccer ball hit the grassy field with a minor thump, while screams centered attention near the goalies post. The childs puny hands showing little resistance to the canine incisors planted deep within his pierced left arm. The Pit Bull only winced his eyes to squeeze the blood laden arm beyond the shattering point. The Pit Bulls head shaking as a crocodile with mornings breakfast, forced his meal to lifelessness on the soiled grass. The childs lame arm dropped, signaling the lost battle. Why ...
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' Darren Socks Elisa
820 wordsIn this piece I create a particular day with a girl and her pet. I intend to cause a deadly scene where the supernatural is involved. I also plan to allow the reader to make the story believable by setting it in the real world. This piece is aimed at all ages. The sound of glass shattering onto the kitchen tiles was enough concern for Socks to investigate. He pounced immediately out of his personal rug and in a matter of seconds he was at the scene. It appeared that broken pieces of glass were s...
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Toilet Paper Plastic Bag
1,269 wordsMy pulse raced. My mind traveled in a thousand directions at once. Quickly and senselessly I followed closely behind my friends, Joey and Reid. My hands became drenched in a cold sweat from loosely grasping a plastic bag full of Charmin Ultra toilet paper. The hundreds of consequences from getting caught circled around in my head from the moment we left Reid's house. The darkness covered the streets eerier than usual. It differed from the normal, I need a flashlight darkness. It served the purpo...
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The Tell Tale Heart Mind Games Narrators Madness
879 wordsThrough the first person narrator, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" illustrates how mans imagination is capable of being so vivid that it profoundly affects peoples lives. The manifestation of the narrators imagination unconsciously plants seeds in his mind, and those seeds grow into an unmanageable situation for which there is no room for reason and which culminates in murder. The narrator takes care of an old man with whom the relationship is unclear, although the narrators comment of "...
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Rooftops Of Our Domiciles Plead Insanity From The Rooftops Fuck
337 wordswe plead insanity from the rooftops of our domiciles... we know nothing or we know little of what we are saying... we have been no - nos and handshakes and shaken heads and shaken glances and puckered lips and twisted necks and broken backs away from that slow grinding of salt filtering into the lower half of a thirty degree tilted sand timer... obscurity... what do these words mean... louder... ; ... louder... fuck... fuck... scream it in all of its high pitch... falsetto... it gets louder... w...
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The Tell Tale Heart And Edgar Allan Schizophrenia
972 wordsEdgar Allan Poe is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious, dreamlike, and often macabre forces that pervaded his sensibility. He is also considered the father of the modern detective story. The Tell Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator remains nameless and sexless in the story. H/she takes care of an old man with whom the relationshi...
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Maged Saleh Professor Ferguson Jazz Maged Saleh Professor Ferguson Piece
492 wordsDon? t worry, be happy Don? t worry, be happy was by Played by Bobby Mcferrin in the seventies. The in this piece the texture changes a lot as the work progresses. Every time the music would take a slower beat the texture would become thicker and the dynamic or the volume becomes lower. When the dynamic slows, one instrument would only be playing, and all at once when the tempo picks up more, and than three or more instrument would be playing. It seemed that when there are more than one instrume...
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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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Doesn Acute T Don Acute T
3,955 wordsThe play Macbeth´ was written by William Shakespeare as early as 1606 and is thought to have been written for King James I who was especially afraid of Witches, who are important characters and affect many of Macbeth´ s decisions throughout the play. Macbeth starts the play as a noble in the service of King Duncan I of Scotland. He starts as Thane (noble) of Games and soon becomes Thane of Cawdor, after putting down the rebellion in that region. Macbeth is favourite of Duncan but mur...
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Edgar Allan Poe Lord Of The Rings
1,051 wordsThe human imagination is a very powerful thing. It sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures that roam the planet by giving them the ability to make creative choices. The imaginary world is unavoidably intertwined with the real world and there are many ways by which to illustrate this through literature, either realistically or exaggerated. Almost everything people surround themselves with is based on the unreal. Everything from the food we eat to the books we read had to have been thou...
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American Dream Second Half
630 wordsLangston Hughes is a key figure in the vision of the American dream. In his writings his African-American perspective gives an accurate vision of what the American dream means to a less fortunate minority. His poetry is very loud and emotional in conveying his idea of the African-American dream. Most of his poetry either states how the black man is being suppressed or is a wish, a plea for equality. He does not want the black man to be better than everyone else, but just to be treated equal. Abl...
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White Men K K
565 wordsThe steady Root 2 Roots The steady murmuring that went on in the hold whenever the toulon were gone kept growing in volume and intensity as the men began to communicate better and better with one another. In this sentence from Roots, by Alex Haley, the author used specific words to produce an effect in the reader. For example, Haley used murmuring instead of the more usual talking Haley used murmuring rather than the more usual talking because Kunta and the other prisoners developed a deepening ...
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Narrator Imagination
901 wordsThrough the first person narrator, Edgar Allan Poe? s The Tell-Tale Heart illustrates how man? s imagination is capable of being so vivid that it profoundly affects people? s lives. The manifestation of the narrator? s imagination unconsciously plants seeds in his mind, and those seeds grow into an unmanageable situation for which there is no room for reason and which culminates in murder. The narrator takes care of an old man with whom the relationship is unclear, although the narrator? s comme...
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