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    You want to know why Red Kayak is Realistic Fiction? In this essay I would tell you. The first reason why Red Kayak is Realistic Fiction is because it has real characters and real places. Realistic Fiction is when something that could be real but never happened in the book. Like when J.T. went to court for killing Ben. One other element that happened in Red Kayak was when Ben ran away. Realistic Fiction uses credible events that can happen in real life. For example ‚ in the

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    Stephane Crane wrote the book “Red Badge of Courage‚” in the year of 1895‚ and a lot of critics have reviewed his work. Over the years the critics have been agreeing and disagreeing about this little book that told a story of a young solider in the civil war‚ and his experiences of the war itself. Some people think that it is one of the greatest works of its time period‚ but others think that it has some problems along with it. Every critic gives their opinion on what they believe is going on in

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    states make their strategies. Among these‚ literature on balancing strategy has the longest tradition‚ dated back to the writings of British historian E. H. Carr (1946) as an equilibrium of powers. Kenneth Waltz‚ the founder of neorealism /structural realism scientifically analyzes balancing strategy regarding a constructed international structure‚ locating the thesis of ‘balancing versus bandwagoning’ systemically. The study of international relations after Waltz has been directed to the discussion of

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    When compared to the lifestyles of Greece’s ancient heroes‚ modern life appears uneventful and repetitive. This is why Edith Hamilton’s belief that “Greece’s great men let all their acts turn on immortality of the soul. We don’t really act as if we believed in the soul’s immortality and that is why we are where we are today” perfectly describes the difference between Greeks and modern man. When Hamilton says that the great men of Greece let their acts turn on immortality‚ she describes the desire

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    A foreign policy analysis based on the neo-realist framework differentiate itself from the traditional realist approach which emphasizes the ubiquity of power and the competitive nature of politics among nations. According to the majority of classical realists the state‚ which is identified as the major player in international politics‚ must pursue power in a continuously hostile and threatening environment. That leads to the conclusion in a realist’s assumption that the survival of the state can

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    Robert Hobbs tells us in his article Early Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism‚ that over the years the Abstract Expressionists were stumbling through a number of half understood truths about modern art and attempting to find a way to communicate their feelings about the apocalyptic state of the world. The Abstract Expressionism movement is similar in many ways to the 1920’s Surrealism movement. There are similarities and differences between the two styles. Hobbs tells us that although both Surrealism

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    Magical Realism in The handsomest drowned man in the world Magical realism is a genre that portrays both reality and fantasy. As defined by Faris (2004) in Ordinary enchantments‚ magical realism is a genre of writing that includes an irreducible element of magic and details that suggest phenomenon (Faris‚ 2004‚ p. 7). He describes the irreducible element as: “…something we cannot explain according to the laws of the universe as they have been formulated in Western empirically based discourse…” (Faris

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    styles of Modernism in his novel‚ Kafka uses Gregor’s transformation into a bug as a means of manifesting Gregor’s psychological condition. Modernism was a movement that took place at the turn of the 20th century; modernist literature focuses on realism‚ psychological experiences of characters‚ and isolation. Authors‚ through their written works‚ redefined what could be considered art. Kafka was definitely considered a modernist author‚ because he

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    the most. The story shows acts of realism in its sense that his fictional story is able to relate in the real world and that Ernest Hemingway’s point isn’t obviously. To truly understand “Hills Like White Elephants” the reader must dig deep to find the underlying meaning. Realism began very well known in the 19th and 20th century. Realism plays very close attention to detail‚ and its affective ways of making a story realistic while still remaining fictional. Realism is unique in the way that it can

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    It is said that George Eliot ’s style of writing deals with much realism. Eliot‚ herself meant by a "realist" to be "an artist who values the truth of observation above the imaginative fancies of writers of "romance" or fashionable melodramatic fiction." (Ashton 19) This technique is artfully utilized in her writings in a way which human character and relationships are dissected and analyzed. In the novel The Mill on the Floss‚ Eliot uses the relationships of the protagonist of the story‚ Miss Maggie

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