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    Pogo – Lead Breakfast (‘Pulp Fiction’ Remix): That’s a Tasty Remix! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Ad1AuHriI) Nick Bertke‚ aka Pogo‚ is an Australian electronic music producer and remixer who specializes in remixing movies in both audio and video ways. Extracting specific sound effects from the movies to create beats‚ and chopping dialogues to create vocals for his songs‚ Pogo always succeeds at creating a new interesting piece out of old material. This particular remix‚ titled “Lead Breakfast”

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    An example of a mystery is whether there is proof that God exists. C .An example of a mystery is how exactly people came to be. D .An example of a mystery is a situation where it is unclear who committed a crime. First detective storiesThe earliest known example of a detective story was The Three Apples‚ one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade ni the One Thousand and One Nights Arabian Nights). In this story‚ a fisherman discovers a heavy‚ locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to

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    how do these texts challenge the conventions and values for the traditional crime story? The purpose of each text and stylistic features Many crime fiction texts are produced to reflect and explore certain aspects of different societies‚ and developed conventions have allowed the development of the hard-boiled school. The Golden Age of crime fiction tends to focus on the plot‚ the setting and the intricate method of detection‚ while the hard boiled relies more on force and “gut-feelings” than ingenuity

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    Twin Peaks stand-alone film version (1989) Twin Peaks (1989) is a successful drama mystery television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. This postmodern text exemplifies Lynch’s unique cinematic style and plays with traditional crime fiction tropes and character archetypes. Several themes found in Lynch’s previous work‚ Blue Velvet (1986)‚ are present in Twin Peaks (1989) and will be discussed throughout this film analysis. The Twin Peaks stand-alone film version was created and intended

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    how the officer is handled by his own department following the devastating event. In this case regarding Detective Casey‚ it is as simple as his department failing him‚ in their lack of communication and empathy. Question One The important concerns of this case are highlighted by Detective Casey’s department failing him when he did nothing wrong. The fact that after the shooting Detective Casey received minimal contact arguably when he needed it most in sense of validation is unacceptable. To

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    The detective agency has been around in the United States since 1850 thanks to Allan Pinkerton. Eleven years later‚ Zebulon Brockway created the first parole system. The world’s finger classification system was used in 1892‚ by Juan Vucetich while working for the Central Police Department in La Plata‚ Argentina. He first used it to identify a bloody fingerprint from a double homicide of children. Then in 1908‚ Lola G. Baldwin was hired as the first woman police officer. Also in 1908‚ Charles Bonaparte

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    out ‘who dunnit’‚ often feeling as though they are working side by side with the detective to solve the crime and find the murderer. As well as effective characterisation‚ character motivation‚ and settings‚ crime writers must know the conventions of their chosen sub genre and more importantly how to use and subvert these conventions to achieve their intended purpose. To emphasis the timeless nature of crime fiction we can take a look at two film texts that exemplify how older texts can still entertain

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    PRIVATE DETECTIVES AND INVESTIGATORS By the time I am grown and have a family‚ I want to be a Private Detective and Investigator. This is something that I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid. I know it will be hard‚ but it is my dream job. Private detectives and investigators assist many people and businesses by finding and analyzing valuable information. They connect clues to revel facts about personal matters. The assistance of a private detective and investigator can include being a celebrity

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    Case 6 The Financial Detective‚ 2005 Health Products Company A has a much higher ratio of Cash & Short Term Investments‚ Receivables‚ and Inventories (24.2%‚ 12.8%‚ 7.0%) as compared to Company B (16.1%‚ 8.1%‚ 5.4%) which is lower in every asset category ratio besides Intangibles and Investments & Advances‚ 46.1% to 22.2% and 3.1% to .1%. This proves that Company A has cash on hand from the sale of side divisions and that they have a large production facility. Company B is a more diverse company

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    interests are Liquor‚ women‚ reading‚ chess and working alone. He is educated enough that he can speak English ‘if he’s required to’. Marlowe used to work for the district attorney‚ but was fired for insubordination. Philip Marlowe‚ a private detective. Tall‚ dark‚ and rugged‚ with a poker face and a quick wit‚ he is attractive to women but wary of them and of all entanglements. Though cynical and hard-boiled‚ and a heavy drinker capable of violence‚ Marlowe is idealistic‚ even puritanical. Contemptuous

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