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    Flannery O ’Connor ’s short story collection A Good Man is Hard to Find has many elements of a southern gothic work. Images of ancient castles with sliding panels create suspicious themes and settings that lead the readers into the dark and gloomy world of the southern United States. With all of the violence‚ horror‚ and dismal surroundings presented in O ’Connor ’s stories there is too a moral message given. Later gothic work did not always explain horror like this‚ holding little moral value

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    Psychology Short term and Long term memory studies… Short Term Study… I have researched a study into short term memory and found the following information which focuses on encoding. The purpose of this study was to find out whether people are able to have better short-term recall for words alone or pictures and words presented together. For the methods of this project the researchers selected 20 participants at random to form two groups of 10 . The mean age of the participants was 25.3 years

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    Critical Analysis of "The Rocking-Horse Winner" In the short story "The Rocking Horse-Winner" by D. H. Lawrence it is illustrated that money cannot buy happiness. The short story displays the way people allow money to control their lives. The passage includes the literary devices; character development‚ contrast‚ suspense and dramatic irony. "The Rocking-Horse Winner" is written giving the omniscient point of view. The thoughts and motives of all of the characters are told when D. H. Lawrence finds

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    is more than just a selection of short stories. Discuss. Joyce’s Dubliners in many ways fulfils many of the literary criteria for the Irish short story‚ with each of the fifteen stories having the literary power to stand alone as members of the genre. However there is a continuity and connectivity between the stories‚ and indeed in Joyce’s work as a whole‚ which when exploring Joyceian works would be impossible not to discuss. Whilst it can be claimed the short story is impossible to define‚

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    A Responds to a Short Story Entitled “We Might As Well Be Strangers” by M.E Kerr Sofyan Widianto 0909032 English Literature Indonesia University of Education 2012 Based on my understanding to the short story Entitled “We Might As Well Be Strangers” written by M.E Kerr‚ after close reading and deep thinking to the short story I bravely assume that the short story shows the independency of a woman. The independency of a woman is shown through the main character in this story. The main problem

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    (1) Chunking which means breaking long items into smaller‚ manageable chunks or pieces - you can expand your mind’s natural 7-item limit. If you enfold multiple‚ individual items into a single‚ larger item (chunk)‚ you’ll free extra slots in your short-term memory. For example if you have to remember a

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    Tribal Ties Sherman Alexies short story “This is what it means to say Phoenix‚ Arizona” tells a story about Victor‚ a broken‚ lonely young Indian man‚ who is shaped by the circumstances of the reservation. He not only finds out that he lost his job but also that his father has passed away due to a heart attack. These series of unfortunate events lead Victor his childhood friend Thomas Build-the-Fire to embark on a journey to Arizona to obtain Victor’s father’s ashes. Although the two former friends

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    The True Meaning that Hidden in a Short Story by Shirley Jackson‚ The Lottery “The Lottery” (1948) is a short story written by American author Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is best known for this short story which suggests a secret behind the annual event that has been done by the people in a village for years. The central theme of this story is a mysterious old black box that is used in the lottery drawing. I found that “The Lottery” is a story that actually brutal‚ scary‚ and horror but the

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    Abstract Fergus I. M. Craik and Michael J. Watkins conducted two experiments which oppose many widely accepted models of memory‚ stating that an items length of stay in short term storage (STS) has an effect on the item being transferred into long term storage (LTS). Previous researchers postulate the more an item is rehearsed in STM there is a better chance of the item being transferred into LTM‚ for recall later‚ this can explain the negative recency effect in free recall; items presented at

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    PORTRAYAL OF MALE CHARACTERS IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S SELECTED SHORT STORIES ABSTRACT This study analyzes the male characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s three selected short stories. The formalistic theory chosen to dissect the texts has enable readers to be objective in their interpretation by separating the elements of theme‚ plot‚ point of view and the setting of the story. By concentrating only on the characterization factor‚ the characters of each of the male characters were revealed. Using

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