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    awareness of tradition‚ and the tension between the acknowledgment of literary influence and its rejection’. Nowadays‚ writers are judged according to their originality and uniqueness. However‚ as T.S Eliot in ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ and Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of Influence suggest‚ a writer should not be evaluated in these terms‚ but rather‚ on how he produces art by acknowledging his predecessors. Nevertheless‚ they declare that the poet must not imitate blindly previous poets. Henceforth

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    pain. Fear can also be conquered; it requires risks to be taken and sometimes sacrifices to be made. Harold Crick in the film‚ “Stranger than Fiction” conquered his fear like how I conquered two of my fears; one which was the fear of deep waters and the other‚ which was the fear of heights. Fears hold us back and prevent us from enjoying the moments. Conquering fears creates a full life. When Harold Crick found out that he was going to die in the film‚ he goes to his closest friend Dave. He talks

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    messages‚ characters and storylines involved in the novels and plays they wrote. For instance‚ Harold Pinter uses his theatre of absurd writing style to demonstrate part of his life story through two of his plays‚ The Homecoming and The Caretaker. In these plays the characters are confined to one room as a way to face what society expects everyone to act like. Even like the characters in his plays‚ Harold Pinter had to seclude himself from society in order for him to understand the unrealistic‚ pointless

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    humans for profit is a controversial topic. The one contributor of society that one would find astonishing to find opposing vaccines is doctors. One such doctor that found‚ in his experience‚ vaccines to be ineffective and arguably harmful is Dr. Harold Moskowitz. In a detailed argument published in 1983 in the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy‚ Moskowitz uses detailed scientific evidence and personal anecdotes of cases he has handled to present his case on the ineffectiveness of vaccines

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    The play “Master Harold”... and the Boys”‚ by Athol Fugard‚ illustrates life in South Africa under the apartheid rule. The play is written in the South African context and the issue of apartheid is central in the play. The play is an informative and autobiographical one-act play about the relationship between Hally‚ Willie and Sam. Throughout “Master Harold”.....and the Boys‚ Fugard describes many emotions that take place between the characters‚ to which different reactions are noted. The primary

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    November 23‚ 2008 NAME Danny Harold Rolling shall remain within the history of our criminal justice system as the most diabolical figure to emerge into society since his predecessor‚ Theodore Robert Bundy. Rolling had not managed to accumulate the same amount of murders as Bundy. However‚ he embarked upon a brutal tour‚ which succeeded to administer profound unrest into the heart of a community. Rolling was eventually apprehended by police and stood trial for the awful actions

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    there are various examples of character development that proves you can control your own fate. One of the biggest examples is the extensive character development of Harold. During the beginning of the film Harold Crick is very simple and dull‚ not much a character at all really. As the film progresses you can see drastic change to Harold as he evolves into a completely different character. This is because of his discovery about his fate from the narrator. He becomes more open‚ more appreciated for

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    two years on the field of World War I to the ordinary everyday life of a small Oklahoma town can be tough. Harold Krebs in Ernest Hemingway’s Soldier’s Home‚ has a tough time adjusting to his home life than most soldiers would when they return home. Krebs was expected to conform back into society’s expectations with not much time to adapt back into his life not being surrounded by war. Harold Krebs ignores his surrounding

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    http://www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165 Multidimensional dialogues in Harold Pinter’s Old Times Dr. Dinesh Panwar‚ Department of English‚ Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College‚ GZB‚ India Pinter ’s dramatic dialogue is based on both the colloquial and a neatly structured manipulation of the vernacular. In reviewing the Brimingham‚ Repertory Theatre ’s 1993 production of Old Times‚ Michael Billington stresses the important theatric

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    person was their elder. In “Master Harold.... and the Boys” Sam illustrates this separation clearly: “I couldn’t sit down there and stay with you.” referring to the “whites only” bench where Sam left Hally with the kite. The typical relationship between blacks and whites during the apartheid years‚ were very distant. The relationship between Hally and Sam however does not follow this natural pattern. Sam’s colleague Willy refers to Hally as “Master Harold”‚ while Sam simply calls him Hally.

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