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    Hill Stations

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    diseased developed by this industrial phenomenon. J. B.Shaw‚ a great thinker in U.K in his famous Essay "where the wealth accu- mulates and the men decay" rightly pointed out mecha- nism of human talent. Doctors in Europe advised people to visit at hill station for mental relaxation. It was the correct remedy to come out form boredom and mental tension. In this millennium age‚ tourism has become a prominent part of human life‚ which gives synergy and energy to keep pace with the present com- petitive

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    Shooting an Elephant

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    Shooting an elephant Author: George Orwell   BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE ORWELL George Orwell ’s three major books of travel writing--Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)‚ The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)‚ and Homage to Catalonia (1938)--revived the tradition of excursionary literature as social and political analysis. "Into Unknown England" books were initiated by reform-minded Victorian and Edwardian authors. In his three travel books Orwell‚ who casts himself as a representative of English "lower-upper-middle-class"

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    Shooting an Elephant

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    DISCUSS ORWELL’S USE OF PERSUASIVE TOOLS SUCH AS‚ SYMBOLISM‚ METAPHORS AND IRONY IN THIS ESSAY AND EXPLAIN HOW HE USES EACH OF THESE TO CONVEY HIS ARGUMENT OR MESSAGE In the extract‚ "Shooting An Elephant" Orwell conveys his message through the use of various persuasive tools. He wants the reader to identify when somebody assumes power. This technique is used to show that the powerful are also a captive to the will of people they control. Everyone involved in the situation becomes affected. In

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    Elephant the Movie

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    Gus Van Sant’s Elephant was at once critically praised and denounced by both film reviewers and filmgoers alike. The cinematography takes you on a waltz throughout a seemingly typical day at an unnamed high school‚ stopping through the journey to focus on the stereotypes of school. The jock‚ the quirky artist‚ the cliqued girls‚ the skateboarder‚ they are all represented and representative of his film. Van Sant created a film‚ seemingly without a staunch opinion on the horrors of the Columbine

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    Irony in"the Lottery"

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    Irony in “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” offers an almost classic study of irony of situation: the reader expects a celebration; she gets a stoning. Such a reversal is the work of careful planning by the author. The reader expects the lottery to be a celebration of some sort because Jackson describes the setting‚ details the activities of the townspeople‚ and refers to the lottery itself in terms that belie the outcome of the event. First‚ Jackson establishes a setting which suggests

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    Forest Hill

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    Forest Hill Paper Company Thomas L. Albright University of Alabama Introduction Forest Hill Paper Company (FHPC) is a small‚ closely-held paperboard manufacturer that produces a broad line of paperboard in large reels‚ termed parent rolls. These parent rolls are sold to converters who further process them into containers used for a diverse line of consumer products‚ such as packaging for microwavable meals. The owners of FHPC have long pursued the strategy of producing a full range of products

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    The House on the Hill

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    1) The House On The Hill The rain; its heavy drops beating on me like bullets in quick succession; the wind; it is trying to blow me down… will I fall? Or will I remain unbeaten‚ only to be taken down by those monsters with loud and grating voices; those monsters that spew out foul‚ black smoke; those monsters that took down my friends below me with their humongous claws? Drip‚ drip‚ drip. My roof is leaking again. Soon I’m going to rot away until my legs can no longer sustain my weight and finally

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    Against The Lottery

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    Against the Lottery – Should it be banned? Back in the 1930s and the 1940s when most of the population was poor‚ people had no source of income and wondered how to take care of themselves and their families‚ the lottery became a popular trend. Officially‚ the first modern government run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934 (encyclopedia). The odds of winning are 1 in 176‚000‚000 (Humphries). If you are lucky enough then you can strike big and win prizes up to $10‚000‚000. It can help

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    Lottery Ticket

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    Summary: An older couple with a family holds what could be a winning lottery ticket‚ but resists checking the numbers while they daydream about what they might do with the money. It examines how‚ at first‚ their reaction to the possibility of wealth is joyful; but rather than share their dreams and communicate their wishes‚ it looks at how Ivan Dmitritch and his wife‚ Masha‚ recede into their own worlds. It attempts to show how money definitely does not buy love and how‚ in fact‚ it has the

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    This essay analysis of “The Lottery Ticket” by Anton Chekhov will mainly review the changing attitudes of Ivan towards his wife and family as the short story develops‚ and the techniques that the author uses in order to build tension and interest in the story and in the fate of the couple. Anton Chekhov gets to the action of the short story very quickly. A brief but information packed first paragraph tells us without embroidery‚ what we need to know as readers.The author tells us that Ivan is  middle-class

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