Time. Macmillan‚ 2002) Chiasmus A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. * "You forget what you want to remember‚ and you remember what you want to forget." (Cormac McCarthy‚ The Road‚ 2006) * "In the end‚ the true test is not the speeches a president delivers; it’s whether the president delivers on the speeches." (Hillary Clinton‚ March 2008) * "I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job
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Korriban was as red a planet as Cormac had ever seen. The planet boasted a complete lack of foliage according to what little information the Repulbic had been able to gather on the Sith planet. Cormac leaned out of the open door of from drop ship‚ holding tightly to the railings above‚ and marveled at the rocky terrain below. Intel also claimed there was little fauna native to the planet‚ just the monstrous scorpion-bugs things with a lot of teeth. It was depressing‚ drab‚ and dead. No wonder they
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Philip Zimbardo‚ a psychologist of Stanford University‚ famed for the notorious Zimbardo Prison Experiment once said that “Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives‚ or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.” In hindsight‚ it’s a greatly fitting reflection on the Zimbardo Prison Experiment when so many otherwise innocent people started abusing their power simply because they could. However‚ the quote‚ in other words‚ means
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Business Plan 25/4/13 Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 Company Profile ........................................................................................................................... 4 Foundation ..................................................................................................................................... 5 Board of Directors
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No Country for Old Men In the novel No Country for Old Men‚ written by Cormac McCarthy‚ a perversion of the American dream is presented as the relinquishment of power. Power is defined as the influence one has over people and in McCarthy’s novel he demonstrates three ways to posses this: money‚ authority‚ and the ability to strike fear into the hearts of others. Every thing is swallowed by a money-induced apathy lately‚ leaving nothing else of any importance. Moss‚ a main character
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is conveying the theme of death without the story being daunting are‚ No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy) and A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O’Connor) . The two authors convey death in their stories in similar context that are parallel to each other but also different as well. The parallel similarities that in both stories is how death actually occurs in these two stories. Both McCarthy and O’Connor utilize an antagonist who is a type of the story in which they take the lives of
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Dance‚ Dance‚ Dance by Haruki Marukami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Marukami Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Life of Pi by Yann Martel On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Facts about the Moon by Dorianne Laux Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann What is the What by Dave Eggers The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Milke White Oleander by Janet Fitch Leaves of
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(Fiction) • Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger (Fiction) • The Good Earth‚ by Pearl Buck (Fiction) • One Hundred Years of Solitude‚ Love in the Time of Cholera‚ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Fiction) • All the Pretty Horses‚ by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction) • The Kitchen God’s Wife‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan (Fiction) • Lord of the Rings Trilogy‚ by J.R.R. Tolkien (Fantasy Fiction) • The Man Who Sold the Moon‚ Starship Troopers‚ by Robert Heinlin (Science Fiction)
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film making include plot convergence of characters‚ cinematography‚ their casting‚ and dark comedy. No Country for Old Men had 92 nominations and 165 wins‚ and was the first movie the Coen brothers directed based on a novel‚ which was written by Cormac McCarthy. By the Coen’s choosing this novel to direct‚ “It is a sign of their willingness to give up some of their ironic detachment‚ to
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Scene Comparison: The Coin Toss The award winning film‚ No Country for Old Men‚ adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s 2007 novel‚ is a riveting tale of a brutal chain of events related to money‚ murder‚ and drugs‚ which rolls through West Texas in the 1980’s. Told through the perspective of the stories three main characters – a soulless killer‚ an old time sheriff‚ and an experienced country boy – both the novel and the film keep the audience anxiously waiting for the next gun fight or brutal killing
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