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    Jose Alcantar Prof. Gurfield English 102 5/ 20/ 14 What Motivated Joyce Carol Oates to Become a Gothic Writer? It is common in many gothic writers to have a dark past‚ using their writing as an outlet for coming to terms with their experiences. One of the most notable contributors to American gothic literature is Joyce Carol Oates. She lived a happy childhood in a small farming community‚ and attended the Catholic Church with her family. Oates has shown exemplary talent in writing even before she

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    defeated in 1799. Roughly from here had commenced the prolonged history of British architecture that was rule in India for the next 200 years. With this elevated status the Britons also gauged the need and responsibility to govern territories under their control and to be viewed as a powerful‚ civilized force by the Indians. The Military Boards established by the English contributed to the majority of secular architecture‚ like barracks‚ forts‚ mess for soldiers and other assorted buildings. However

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    Paris” in French. When one thinks of Gothic architecture‚ majority will think of Notre Dame as it is one the most significant French catholic cathedral that is distinctively Gothic. Because Notre Dame has seen many reconstruction in its days‚ its early construction in the period 1160s is characterized as Early Gothic and adopt similar pointed arch that transcends from late Romanesque. Notre Dame’s early gothic style then slowly evolved in 13th century when High Gothic began to achieve further light‚ tall

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    How does Angela Carter’s use and manipulate the Gothic form. Why? Explain? Angela Carter manipulates and uses the Gothic form in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ to demean stereotypes in patriarchal society. The narrator’s subconscious desires are revealed through descriptions laced with sexual connotations‚ ‘caressingly thrusting.’ Carter highlights the young girl’s sexual anticipation‚ portraying women in a more sexualised way than that typical of a fairy story. The narrator innocence is also questioned

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    How does the term ’Protestant Gothic’ help us to understand Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray? Even though his last years were horrible for him‚ being sent to prison and criticized by lots of people because of one of his own novels‚ one can’t deny that Oscar Wilde lived a really interesting life. His wittiness -shown in his numerous epigrams‚ like «The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about»-‚ sense of humor‚ vividness and way of thinking made him one of the most

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    MIPS Architecture  MIPS stands for ’Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages’  RISC Instruction Set Architecture  32 bit general purpose registers  PC (program counter) holds address of next instruction  all MIPS Instructions are same length  Few Instruction formats and simple addressing modes Implementing MIPS • • Implementation of the MIPS instruction set Simplified to contain only – arithmetic-logic instructions: add‚ sub‚ and‚ or‚ slt – memory-reference instructions:

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    Networking - Client/Server Architecture Introduction to 2-Tier Architecture 2-tier architecture is used to describe client/server systems where the client requests resources and the server responds directly to the request‚ using its own resources. This means that the server does not call on another application in order to provide part of the service. Introduction to 3-Tier Architecture In 3-tier architecture‚ there is an intermediary level‚ meaning the architecture is generally split up between:

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    Edgar Allan Poe; one of the most famous gothic writer known to America. His work consists of dark mysteries which mostly revolve around death. Many say that the reason of Poe’s gothic writing style would be because of his past. It is well known that Poe’s work would reflect himself in one way or another. As a matter of fact‚ according to a short story written in 1839 titled‚ “An overview of the ‘Tell Tale Heart‚’” John Chua mentions that “Critics who have studied Poe sometimes suggest that his characters

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    reinforce the genre? ‘The Bloody Chamber’ is a short Gothic story‚ the sentences are long this is because big ideas are needed to be put across in a short space of time. A lot of information is needed in the sentences to convey the right idea/point to the receiver. Long sentence structure also increases the paced in which the text is read‚ this makes the reader feel the anxiety/excitement that the narrator is feeling. This nervousness supports the Gothic genre as it creates mystery as to what is going

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    GOTHICISM and GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN COLERIDGE’S POEM "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER"           Gothicsim is a style in fictional literature characterized by gloomy settings‚violent or grotesque action‚ and a mood of decay‚degeneration.The Gothic begins with later -eighteenth-century writers’ turn to past; in the context of the Romantic Period the Gothic is a type of imitation medievalism.When it was launched in the later eighteenth century the Gothic features accounts of terrifying expeirences

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