novel The Long Goodbye‚ Chandler uses the tropes of corruption and femme fatale to demonstrate the social impacts they have had on the dark and pessimistic postwar era of the 1940s. Despite the disheartening historical context of The Long Goodbye‚ Raymond chandler uses Heroism the motif of heroism to contrast the prevailing darkness that The Great Depression and World War II had encroached on the city of Los Angeles. The juxtaposition of Heroism and Darkness in the novel enthralled the readers of the
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These Dead Hands: A Study of Crime Fiction Since the form has never been perfected‚ it has never become fixed. The academians have never got their dead hands on it. It is still fluid‚ still too various for easy classification.(Horsley 1) While Raymond Chandler‚ the author of those words‚ would surely be against the classification attempted here‚ these “dead hands” of mine will attempt to share a study of what has been described as the most widely read type of literature: crime fiction. Crime
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community of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Scout is able to see the true personalities of Dolphus Raymond and Boo Radley by seeing things from their perspectives‚ instead of seeing them by the stereotypes placed upon them. This book is told from the point of view of Scout‚
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Pop songs have a way of conveying a lot of themes and messages throughout the song‚ such as having strength through loss and pain. “Superheroes”‚ a well known pop song‚ by The Script‚ shows the themes of perseverance and empowerment‚ and how to get through the hard times in life. In a way‚ this relates to the protagonist of “Raymond’s Run” written by Toni Cade Bambara‚ Squeaky‚ who deals with a lot of hardships in life‚ for though “all the kicks and all the blows/ he won’t ever let it show” At an
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WRITTEN ANALSIS OF CASE # 1 RAYMOND MUSHROOM COMPANY PROBLEM STATEMENT: Raymond Mushroom Corporation (RMC) objective is to increase the number of pounds sold and the profit per pound. CONCERNS: In early 1980’s RMC started realizing losses. The prime factors of this loss are lack of advertisement‚ brand recognition; lack of knowledge about consumer behaviour; lower yield of 2.8 pound per sq. feet as compared to industry average of 3.1; the proportion of production for each style
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The Big Sleep- The depiction of Marlowe as a modern-day knight The novel “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler was published in 1939 during the heart of the Great Depression. The novel is written in a very sinister‚ dark and kind of a gangster tone and carries much of the cynicism of 1930s America. The Big Sleep is a story of intrigue‚ corruption‚ delinquency and obliquity with a rather complex plot which can be very confusing. The main character in “the Big Sleep” is the private detective Philip
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Abdullrahman Al - Abdulghani HUM205 Film Deliberation #04 Rear window ( 1954 ) Director : Alfred Hitchcock Stars : James Stewart ‚ Grace Kelly ‚ Thelma Ritter ‚ Raymond Burr The movie talks about an injured photographer who is stuck in his apartment and all what he can do is look at his neighbors throat his rear window where he noticed that the neighbors wife disappeared so he start to prove that his neighbor killed his wife . In the scene where Jeff calls Thorwald as the phone
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Culture Raymond Williams suggests three broad definitions. First‚ culture can be used to refer to ‘a general process of intellectual‚ spiritual and aesthetic development’… second use of the of the word ‘culture’ might be to suggest ‘a particular way of life‚ whether of a people‚ a period or a group’… Finally‚ Williams suggests that culture can be used to refer to ‘the works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic activity’. In other words‚ culture here means the texts and practices
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I think what I really like about Chekhov is the way he uses words: he does them justice by acknowledging the power they have and the impact they can convey. He lets everything speak for itself‚ he does not put in frills or excessive wording for added sophistication‚ and‚ most importantly‚ everything has a purpose in his tales. His pieces feel carefully crafted; every word and every object has been placed there deliberately and not as a space filler‚ nothing has been overlooked and everything speaks
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Dirty Realism “Dirty Realism” is described as a North American literary movement which can be traced in the 1970s-80s. According to this movement the narrative is stripped down to its fundamental features. It is actually a writing style which originated in the US and depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life. The term was coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine. It formed the title of the Summer 1983 edition of Granta magazine for which Buford also gave an explanatory
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