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    Truman won by a 49% to 45% margin and in his surprising victory decided to create a change when he became president. He modified the prior “New Deal” with his version of the “Fair Deal.” He created more public housing‚ increased minimum wage‚ encouraged and helped spread education‚ protection against natural civil rights‚ and created national health insurance. Sadly‚ all this really did was unintentionally create tension that eventually started the Cold War. During this time though‚ Chinese Communists

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    back and how the story can keep you up at night. Giving you goosbumps also relates to one of the famous authors being R.L. Stine writing the novel of Goosbumps on different scary topics. But this is not the person that we are focusing on‚ How do horror writers create suspense? By Percy D Aco and August Heat by W.F. Harvey. One of them writing about how they get there idea of suspense and the other writing about suspense. The How do horror writers create supense? Is very interesting how these writers

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    How does Steinbeck create tension in the fight between Lennie and Curley in Chapter 3? Steinbeck cleverly builds up the tension throughout Chapter three to foreshadow the fight. It is important to note how Steinbeck builds up the tension beforehand‚ as he jumps from scene to scene which has conflicting emotions for both the characters and the reader‚ to perhaps manipulate us to believe that Lennie will be in grave danger‚ due to the violent and discriminatory characters present in the early-mid 20th

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    How does Edgar Allan Poe create atmosphere and build tension in The Tell Tale Heart?   The Tell Tale Heart is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe‚ the story is written using  the ‘gothic’ style language and fits into this genre because Poe builds up the  atmosphere‚ suspense and tension this way‚ the story is set at night in a house‚ the  gothic style contributes to the readers mind and reaction of tension in several different  ways‚ Poe uses a narrator to tell the story and who murders an old man that he is living 

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    directions. Walter is a thirty-five year old man and is Mama’s son. In the play Walter depicts the antagonism and despondency of the African Americans during the 1940s. Walter is best characterized as depressed and opinionated. Walter in the play creates tension in the family because he wants the insurance money to invest in a liquor store. “A Raisin

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    Almost every day people with great intentions try to create a utopia of any kind. In the path towards a utopia there are many things which one must sacrifice in order to achieve the utopia which has always been a dream of many. However‚ sometimes the price to create a utopia is too much to pay and in ‘The Giver’ the price is definitely too much to pay. Therefore‚ the ‘community’ is definitely more of a dystopia opposed to being a utopia because everyone behaves as if they are incompetent of feeling

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    Moreover‚ within anyparticular society‚ groups may differ in the degree of anomie that besets them. Social change may create anomie either in the wholesociety or in some parts of it. Business crises‚ for example‚ may havea far greater impact on those on the higher reaches of the social pyramid than on the underlying population. When depression leads to a sudden downward

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    Rebellion was unthinkable because your parents would kick you out and in this time a woman was unable to get a job and with no money it would be hard to find a husband; this is why Romeo and Juliet’s marriage was secret. How a play is structured is an important way of creating tension for the audience like in Act 1 of ’Romeo and Juliet’ it introduces the theme of love and hate between the two families Montague and Capulet. There is also a fight between the two family’s servants because they hate each

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    How does the writer show the frustration and tension of the men’s lives in this section? (Page 57 - 63) In this section the men are constantly in frustration which creates a tense atmosphere because of the fear of becoming “sacked” by Curly’s old man‚ although the only place that enables the men on the ranch to repose whilst still working on the ranch is by going to “Susy’s place”. The brothel is strongly depended on by the men because it gives the men happiness; their attachment with the brothel

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    The 1961 film used the correct amount of cinematic techniques‚ such as limited close-ups and non-diegetic sounds to portray tensions present in the Younger family. The 2008 film failed to use an adequate amount of techniques and does not depict the tension as well as its older predecessor. Early in the scene‚ Walter follows Ruth around while she makes breakfast‚ trying to persuade her to tell Mama about his dreams. While standing over her‚ he goes far enough to try to make her participation beneficial

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