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    The Quiet American‚ by Graham Greene‚ implements a number of techniques to persuade the reader to believe that taking sides is human. This is done mainly through character development‚ events‚ narrative and setting. Using these techniques‚ Graham Greene is able to successfully create invited readings which support his views. Important to this process‚ character development is the center of this novel‚ and a powerful force behind the beliefs and invited readings presented by the text. Using characters

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    The Last Taboo What unites the Vatican‚ lefties‚ conservatives‚ environmentalists‚ and scientists in a conspiracy of silence? It’s midnight on the streets of Calcutta. Old women cook over open fires on the sidewalks. Men wait in line at municipal hand pumps to lather skin‚ hair‚ and lungis (skirts)‚ bathing without undressing. Girls sit in the open beds of bicycle-powered trucks‚ braiding their hair. The monsoon’s not yet over‚ and grandfathers under umbrellas squat on their

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    Taking Sides Essay Fonseca‚ Ricardo English Period 5 October 3‚ 2012 In the story "Taking Sides" by Gary Soto‚ Lincoln Mendoza‚ the main character‚ faces many conflicts that you may think that they won’t affect him but when these problems become a major role‚ the result of them cause him to act differently. Lincoln deals with these problems in different ways. He tries to resolve them by talking to the people he has problems with. Another thing he does is that he tries

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    Taking Sides Discussion Points Assignment: Issue #18 Should Female Circumcision be Banned? Summary: The main issue being discussed in the Taking Sides article is that of whether or not it would be right for anthropologists to work to eliminate the practice of female circumcision. This culturally debatable topic was discussed by professor of the history and philosophy of science Merrilee H. Salmon and Professor of anthropology Elliot P. Skinner; Both taking on very different sides in their discussion

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    Victorino Mapa High School Quiapo‚ Manila The Quiet American By: Graham Greene Danielle May P. Basilio IV-4 Mrs.Ballinan I. About the Author Graham Greene was born in 1904 and educated at Berhamsted School‚ where his father was the headmaster. On coming down from Balliol College‚ Oxford‚ where he published the book of verse‚ he worked for 4 years as a sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth novel‚ Stamboul Train‚ which he classed as an ‘entertainment’

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    "The Quiet American" How long can you sit on the fence and not get involved? How long before you’re forced to choose sides? Thomas Fowler learns the answers to this dilemma the hard way. Fowler at the onset of our story‚ describes himself as being an objective observer‚ purposely not taking sides‚ just telling over the facts. "My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw‚ I took no action- even an opinion is a kind of action. (20)"

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    The Quiet American: Choose a novel which explores in an effective way a theme which is important to you. A novel of which explores a certain theme‚ the abusive corruption of American power is Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American”. Greene’s novel is set in the French colony‚ Vietnam‚ which is soon to be lost to the Communists. His narration and description of characters such as Alden Pyle the titular “Quiet American” of whom is proud to be American and is working for the Economic Aid Mission of which

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    Name: Vo Thi Huynh Nhu Student code: 7116773 Instructor: Truong Thi Kim Lien Literature and movies (XH541) Group 1 Reflective journal 2: The Quiet American April 4‚ 2014 The Quiet American: A wartime love triangle One of the famous novels written by Graham Green‚ The Quiet American was adapted into the film with the same name directed by Phillip Noyce in 2002. The themes of the film mention not only war‚ but also love setting in Saigon‚ Viet Nam‚ in 1952‚ during the First Indochina War where

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    Introduction of the Novel Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American in 1955. The book is a novel based on Greene’s experience traveling and reporting on the war which the Vietnam were waging against the French colonial army in Vietnam in the early 1950’s. (Donaghy‚1983) The Quiet American Summary Vietnam is only understood by living there‚ it is very beautiful until something happens that you might have expected to happen. Not many care about the death of a US citizen for they are causing most

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    The Quiet American is an anti-war novel by British author Graham Greene‚ first published in United Kingdom in 1955 and in the United States in 1956. It was adapted into films in 1958 and 2002. The book draws on Greene ’s experiences as a war correspondent for The Times and Le Figaro in French Indochina 1951-1954. He was apparently inspired to write The Quiet American in October 1951 while driving back to Saigon from the Ben Tre province. He was accompanied by an American aid worker who lectured him

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