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    Shining House Theme

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    Theme is a lesson which can be learned from a story and sometimes two different stories can share the same theme. Story “Shining houses” and movie “Up” also share one of the theme‚ theme of how conflicts between young and old generations can evolve and how destructive it can be. In both works one of the character would face misunderstanding from modern society. In “Shining houses” the young generation wanted to build new community‚ visually perfect community‚ however they were so focused on physical

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    the third section of the book‚ Stephen King describes his love of writing and offers advice on how to succeed as a writer. King’s first point about writing is that constantly reading and writing will help someone become a better writer. Reading can provide a writer with an extended vocabulary‚ as well as a taste of many different writers’ styles. Writing often will help a writer practice‚ and the writer can experiment with what works. This is important because King explains that success as a writer

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    Reggae‚ Rastafari‚ and the Rhetoric of Social Control (A Review) Soren Sigmar Book By: Steven A. King 3/3/2014 Rastafarians‚ Rastas‚ Sufferers‚ Locksmen‚ Dreads or Dreadlocks‚ call them what you want‚ what are the common themes surrounding these people? They are thought to be a dirty cult of outcasts that smoke marijuana all day in a tropical paradise. For the most part‚ people have an image of the stereotypical Jamaican guy with dreadlocks down his back wearing green‚ gold and red

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    Examine the Gothic Elements in the Novel Wuthering Heights‚ by Emily Brontë Gothic literature originated and was very strong at the time of the Romantic Writers Movement. They were very popular and had authors such as Horace Walpole who wrote “The Castle of Oranto”‚ and novels such as “Frankenstein” and “Dracula“. Gothic novels all had a similarity between each other. They always had typical Gothic features which alleviated the novel in one way or another. For example‚ most Gothic novels involved

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    The story the Jaunt is written by Stephen King. Stephen King is a well-known writer‚ who has written a lot of famous stories. The story the jaunt is written in 1981. There are two parallel storylines in the story. In the first storyline there is a father who is trying to calm down his two children. In the parallel story‚ there is a storyteller‚ and he is talking about how this teleport machine is made. The man who made the teleport machine is named Victor Carune‚ he is an eccentric guy‚ who has

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    MY SHINING MOMENT

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    NAME: SAMUEL OLATUNDE ADEFOWOKAN COURSE: READING 096 SECTION: SEC 096 TOPIC: MY SHINING MOMENT (WON A SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP) DATE: 17 NOVEMBER‚ 2014 My shining moment was one of the most memorable days of my life when I helped my team to win the Inter-school Soccer Championship. It was also an awesome day for my school. Many dignitaries such as the Mayor came because it was such a big event in the county. The atmosphere was great; the crowd was wild‚ cheering‚ whistling‚ blowing trumpets‚ and

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    believe that the gothic element were important during the early to mid-nineteenth century. First‚ Edgar Allan Poe’s work was dark and can be unappealing to most people or at least to me. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” Poe uses gothic element through death or decaying. For instance‚ “His eyes resembled that of a vulture—a pale blue eye‚ with a film over it… my blood ran cold; I made up my mind to take the life of the old man.” Secondly‚ Washington Irving’s demonstrates the gothic elements more in my opinion

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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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    In Stephen King’s short story “Survivor Type”‚ King uses imagery‚ setting and irony to ask the question “What will a person risk in order to survive?” In this short story‚ Richard Pine‚ a medical school graduate‚ surgeon and a pill pusher is on his way back home to the United States with 2 Kilos of heroin‚ when the cruise ship that he is on sinks after an enormous explosion. Dr. Pine manages to get onto a life boat that takes him to a deserted island which Pine describes as small enough to spit across

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    Gothic Architecture

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    GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE Basilica churchearly Christian churchRomanesquegothic - Religion grew more population - complete opposite of classical architecture - called "barbaric"; gothic age is considered one of Europe’s outstanding artistic eras Features of gothic architecture: 1. Plans- arranged for convenience rather than for symmetry (utilitarian) 2. Walls- rubble masonry not laid in horizontal courses -materials were in small pieces -walls were no longer load-bearing which contributed

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