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    An female Israeli officer comes to his aid he can tell by the star of David on her helmet she helps him up and carries him off. Then in a separate nightmare a pretty girl is being attacked on the streets of what looks like a European city with cobblestone streets. He sees the blade of a knife whip out gleaming in the streetlight the girl screams as she is stabbed over and over again and then a bright

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    movie I chose to critique is Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. The story is an animated musical that puts in a world where Halloween is always celebrated but also gives you a brighter side of the joy in the Christmas holiday. Although the movie is not directed by Tim Burton‚ Henry Selick brings an animated holiday musical to the big screen. Unlike other holiday movies like Rudolph the Red nose reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. The Nightmare before Christmas has a wide variety of misfit

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    Nightmare on Elm Street

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    A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger‚ a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams‚ resulting in their real death in reality. Nightmare on Elm Street 10 genre is horror he’s centralized looking down not facing the audience or giving eye contact gives a feeling of unease to the PTA as we don ’t know who the person or creature is so it causes ambiguity in the audience ’s eyes. Binary oppositions of dark and light so could

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    Starbucks A Worst Nightmare I was making a grande vanilla bean frappiccino while other customers were waiting in line to have their order taken. Business was slow that day‚ but heck‚ everyday at my job was a slow one. I would think to myself‚ Why the hell am I still working here? when this place gets no business at all. Of course‚ I work at Starbucks‚ not the ones that you see on the corner of the streets‚ but I worked at the one in Target. At my Starbucks‚ we would have one person working

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    A Nightmare on Elm Street A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the better horror movies. There are quite a few Freddy Krueger movies out there‚ and this movie all started in 1984‚ with A Nightmare on Elm Street. In 2010‚ there came a remake of the 1984 Nightmare on Elm Street movie. In these two movies there are comparisons and differences between these two‚ which include Freddy Krueger himself‚ music and sound effects‚ nightmares‚ and the graphics. Freddy Krueger is pretty much the same

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    THE RHETORIC OF SOCIAL HORROR IN THE Nightmare on Elm Street SERIES The Nightmare on Elm Street movie series has enjoyed six successful theatrical releases since 1984‚ and a seventh installment was released in time for Halloween in 1994. It and other successful horror movie series‚ such as Friday the 13th and Halloween‚ are frequently analyzed from Freudian psychological perspectives and characterized as allegories of the psychological dynamic underlying the return of the repressed. Although the

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    The Storyteller (Saki) by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Word Count: 2109 It was a hot afternoon‚ and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry‚ and the next stop was at Templecombe‚ nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl‚ and a smaller girl‚ and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat‚ and the further corner seat on the opposite side was occupied by a bachelor who was a stranger to their party‚ but the small girls and the small

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    The Bond of Nightmares by Rafi Mustafa‚ a gripping and touching email that later was published as a short story. Though‚ the story is written with simple language and short sentences‚ it entices it’s readers with its captivating imagery. Mustafa’s vivid imagery helps put the reader into his shoes. IN the beginning he tells us his experience living in India and Pakistan. There he faced people who felt indifferent about him and his family due to their religion. But even after leaving Pakistan and

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    Prester In his short story A City of Churches‚ David Barthelme explores the ideas of religion as a controlling force‚ individualism‚ and perfection. The city of Prester strives to achieve the unattainable attribute of perfection. The real estate agent‚ Mr. Phillips‚ blatantly states‚ “We are like other towns‚ except that we are perfect.” (123). He is lying through his teeth and knows for a fact that Prester lacks the vitality that is a necessary component in any society. In this story‚ religion is used

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    A Long Way Gone Analysis

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    other hunters in the same predicament.” (Ishmael Beah 218). This quote can be seen as a message about the novel‚ as Beah is trying to spread awareness with this book‚ and not let anyone suffer the way he did. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a true story about the author and his first hand experiences of the civil war in Sierra Leone. Theme is defined as the underlying idea or ideas projected throughout a novel. In this particular book the theme is the underlying ideas of humanity‚ innocence‚ and survival

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