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    Southern Horrors

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    The excuses whites used during Reconstruction to torture and murder newly freed African Americans were as false as they were numerous. In Southern Horrors and Other Writings‚ Wells relates many of these. Excuses ranging from sassing whites to rape to murder prove that "colored men and women [were] lynched for almost any offense" (Wells 78). According to Wells‚ the three most common excuses used to victimize African Americans during and after Reconstruction were that the victim had participated in

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    attempt to create to maximum amount of suspense by keeping evil as unknown as the victims state and even why were they chosen specifically which is very important for letting the audience imagination work a little bit to guess what actually happens .. But we are often surprised by the scenario. Duffer brothers begin the film by a confusing scene in which a scientist is running away from an unknown danger but we don’t know what did actually happen. Then the story leads to the disappearance of a little

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    end of the story. Tessie’s late arrival at the lottery instantly sets her apart from the crowd‚ and the observation Mr. Summers makes—“Thought we were going to have to get on without you”—is eerily prescient about Tessie’s fate. When Mr. Summers asks whether the Watson boy will draw for him and his mother‚ no reason is given for why Mr. Watson wouldn’t draw as all the other husbands and fathers do‚ which suggests that Mr. Watson may have been last year’s victim. Jackson builds suspense in “The Lottery”

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    Horror In Dracula

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    Jonathan Harker “was aghast with horror” (Stoker‚ 40) from the moment he realized who Dracula really was. Stoker develops the sense of horror In Dracula with a combination of Internal and External Dialogue‚ as well as description of setting. Jonathan Harker goes to settle business with Count Dracula he has no idea the trouble he is getting into. His stay quickly goes from visitor to prisoner. The reader is able to sense Harkers fear through the first four chapters because of how Stoker uses Internal

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    Horror Movie Conventions

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    The horror genre is perhaps one of the most identifiable aspects of the American film industry. So established is the genre that for many watching their first truly scary movie has become a rite of passage into adolescence. Though the horror genre has changed and evolved as have the times‚ the phenomenon of experiencing that first horror movie‚ or any good horror‚ is timeless and ageless. Even the location of this experience has changed but no matter whether a horror movie is experienced at a drive

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    Poe's Horror Stry

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    Terror and Horror in Short Stories (Martynova Ann) Edgar Allan Poe‚ an American poet‚ critic and writer of the XIX-th century‚ is a world- recognised master of the horror genre. Poe’s Tales of Arabesque clearly demonstrate his talent for cultivation of mystery‚ terror‚ and macabre. The process of this horror cultivation is very subtle and complicated. Poe‚ like an artist of arabesque who intertwines and interlaces flowers into an elaborate pattern‚ weaves a net of mystery and horror and entangles

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    Suspense begins in Roskolnikov’s thoughts There are times where we find ourselves living in suspense‚ feeling insecure about what possibly can occur next. So many things that surround us‚ at times‚ foreshadow what may happen next. When this happens‚ we crave to know what is the next event that will arrive. In the book of Crime and Punishment‚ there are many parts in which the story becomes suspenseful. Well‚ how does Dostoyevsky achieve and sustain the suspense in his novel? It

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    one of the best horror directors of all time. He is considered the "Master of Suspense" for his very well written and directed horror films‚ which have left his mark on the movie-making industry. Hitchcock told his stories through intelligent plots‚ witty dialogue and just the right amount of mystery and murder with his works Vertigo‚ Psycho‚ The Birds and Rear Window .The films revolutionized the Horror/Thriller genre‚ other filmmakers began mimicking his recipe for a great horror‚ making him a legend

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    characters‚ which creates Thriller-Suspense. Like in the case when Joyce is about to be killed‚ the audience can see the white shadow emerging from his back yet the character could not. “Secret”-Suspense and Detective-Suspense can also be created in the narration adopted omniscient Narrator strategy‚ yet omniscient Narrator is not the main reason to create these suspense. 5.1.2 Deviating from Chronological Order By deviating from chronological order‚ “Secret”-Suspense can be created due to the fact

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    Horrors of War

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    Brian Tolomeo Ms. Rotchford AP Language/Composition 17 October 2012 Horrors of War Men returning from the trenches on the frontlines of WWI were the first men to truly experience the magnitude of sheer power and what destruction artillery could wreak when used in mass numbers‚ forced to sit in trenches and bunkers for hours on end while being hit by barrage after barrage of battery fire. Some of those who lived through this may have returned home much different men than when they left

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