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    Loud‚ aggressive‚ and fast‚ metal music has been accepted worldwide as an acceptable genre of music. Yet‚ some people cannot comprehend a genre of music that thrives on being the horror movie of music‚ and purposefully creates controversy at nearly every turn. “The media has irresponsibly finger-pointed” (Sterngold). One of the most recent examples of metal being blamed for a national tragedy was in the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Here‚ a song by Drowning Pool was blamed as the

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    1984-George Orwell How does the writer use language to create a sense of place? Orwell uses a solemn tone for the foundations of anguish in the extract from Nineteen Eighty-Four. This tone is used to firstly set the scene with the use of adjectives: ‘vile’ and gritty’ to describe the poor weather. These have negative connotations and therefore allow the reader to understand the melancholy and depressing scene that is being set. The effect of the pathetic fallacy when the wind is described as ‘vile’

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    In his classic short story‚ "Flight‚" John Steinbeck uses many examples of symbolism to foreshadow the conclusion. Symbolism can be anything‚ a person‚ place or thing‚ used to portray something beyond itself. It is used to represent or foreshadow the ending of the story. Steinbeck uses colors‚ direction‚ and nature symbolism to help presage Pepé’s tragic death. Let us now more closely examine the ways that Steinbeck uses colors to foreshadow the ending of his short story. Perhaps the most repeatedly

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    violence. In the Bacon Rebellion‚ this ongoing tension caused farmers to kill many Indians‚ even friendly ones. For many Native Americans the clash of the two races resulted in tension as the white settlers tried to change the Indian way of life. This was true of the Pueblo Indians in present day New Mexico who felt threatened by the Spanish because they were trying to impose an unfamiliar‚ Christian life on the Indians. With both groups we see a common tension: people are feeling threatened as a result

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    River in St. Petersburg‚ Missouri. In the novel‚ there are two points in which the tension is the highest. One happens to be when Huck is trying to escape his drunken father in the log cabin where he has him trapped. Another high tension part is when Sherburn gets on his roof protesting with a gun while an angry mob outside of his house is seemingly ready to lynch him. A good example of a part that has low tension is when

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    How Does Steinbeck Create Tension in Chapter Three in Of Mice and Men Steinbeck creates tension by making the atmosphere before Curley’s dog gets shot very awkward. He does this by writing about how small noises draw everyone’s attention in the room to it: “He rippled the edge of the deck nervously‚ and the little snapping noise drew the eyes of all men in the room‚ so that he stopped doing it.” This quote gives a sense of tension‚ since tiny things like rippling cards can drew everyone’s attention

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    In the story "Of Mice & Men"‚ John Steinbeck creates a pair of low-class companionship as the story ’s main character. This pair of companionship‚ George and Lennie is very different from each other‚ nothing alike‚ no matter talking about their figures‚ personality‚ IQ‚ etc‚ except that they both carry the same American dream as they spend their hard days traveling together and working in the ranch. Lennie is portrayed as being childlike. He looks up on George as a parental figure: "Lennie ’s lips

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    which John Steinbeck wrote in the midst of the Great Depression. In this essay‚ I am going to show who loneliness impacts the three characters‚ Crooks‚ Lennie‚ and Candy. Firstly‚ throughout the novel‚ Of Mice and Men Crooks appears to be a private man‚ when he is actually a very lonely and depressed man. We know that he was lonelier than anybody else because of what he told Lennie‚ “A guy gets too lonely and he gets sick.” (p73) Though he is a very intelligent man from what Steinbeck describes‚

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    is how three out of the five students do not talk‚ and the other two make remarks at one another. This causes primary tension within the group; and increases as such derogatory words like “asshole” and “jerk” are used to reference others. The primary tension really begins when one of the characters say‚ “Let’s close the door and impregnate the prom queen.” As time goes on‚ we see the students begin to talk to one another more; but we also see a power for

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    How does Priestley hint at the tensions within the group that later become more clear in Act 1? In Act 1 of An Inspector calls‚ Priestly makes it crucial that he sets out hints of conflicts and tension that later become clear to the reader. He is careful in his creation of tension through themes that occur throughout the play‚ which guide the reader through the text in what reveals itself to be a cautious downfall of an apparent secure and wealthy family structure. As the scene begins‚ Priestley

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