craziest stories or lies‚ but in real life you often find stuff that happens that is so crazy and unbelievable that it just seems that no one could have made that up. Things that happen in real life can be more unbelievable than those an author makes up. Fiction demands reasoning and truth does not. Fiction has to abide by more expectations in order to keep a reader in a believable state more so than real life simply because real life is has unexplainable exceptions. We live in a world ruled by fictions
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Fake Violence Creates Real Violence A man gets into a violent fight in 1914. In the midst of the brawl‚ he receives a deep cut in his upper cheek. This is before the invention of penicillin and sulfa drugs (Encyclopaedia Brittanica). He has never heard of such a thing as antibiotics. The cut becomes infected‚ and develops a severe fever. His eye is lost to sepsis. He comes close to losing his life…from a cut. In the same situation a hundred years later‚ losing the eye would be unimaginable…much
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Live Music vs. Recorded Music As Mark Morris addresses the people at the Midwest Arts Conference in 1998‚ he explains how deeply he feels about the importance of live performances as opposed to recorded performances. He feels that each time tickets are sold and a performance takes place it is a true miracle. In today’s world live performances are separating farther away from society and recorded performances are taking control. This needs to change. Live performances and recorded performances are
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This essay will discuss the differences in the ‘real’ courtroom‚ versus the ‘fictional’ courtroom‚ which is the depiction most of us are exposed to. In order to accurately compare the differences between the two different courtrooms‚ a brief summary of each must be presented. Once each of these is portrayed‚ an attempt to compare and contrast the two styles and the differences that exist between them can be discussed. Lawyers: better in the abstract than in person? Maybe. Studies indicate that
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Introduction: I chose the Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost. I chose the poem An Old Man’s Winter Night * The poem is written in third person point of view‚ the narrator is omniscient. * In this poem Frost illustrates the troubled life of an old man who’s memory is slowly fading away. * Throughout the poem Frost uses various literary devices to emphasize the idea that the old man is secluded from everyone. * The poem is written in one stanza following a fixed meter and
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being such a special case‚ Chris was asked if she would be interested in having a movie made about her life. Chris and her family decided to peruse the movie‚ but not to use her real name. The directors of the film decided to give her the name of Eve White. However‚ there were parts of the movie that did not happen in real life or were twisted in the making of The Three Faces of Eve. Having a disorder like Chris was diagnosed with is not only hard to the patient‚ but also hard for friends and family
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Real News Versus Satire News Conceive of a time of an active shooter situation was occurring somewhere around the USA an instead of CNN’s Anderson Cooper report the news‚ a comedian such as Jon Stewart is the newscaster. Most likely viewers would shake their heads and change the TV channel to another news channel. An article by student Christopher Moore called “Information Plus Satire: Why The Daily Show and The Colbert are Good Sources of News for Young People” in the anthology Writing Arguments
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When listening to music‚ do you prefer a live sound and setting‚ or a clean studio version on a cd? Well there are many benefits to the artist on both sides‚ however‚ with benefits of financial aspects and ticket sales‚ visual experiences by the listener of the performance‚ and artistic credibility onstage‚ live performing artists have become more successful in the music industry. When an artist is out on tour‚ the fans benefit from more than just the music. When a fan buys a ticket to a concert
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The New Madrid Earthquake lasted from 1811-1812 in New Madrid‚ Missouri. Geophysicist Mark Zoback had noted that the earthquakes were possibly caused by fault movement. On December 16‚ 1811‚ everyone in the New Madrid region was awaken at 2:15 AM by a big earthquake. The earthquake was felt from New England all the way over to Canada. Loud noises‚ and strange animal behavior were a part of the New Madrid Earthquake. House animals that had been tamed were acting crazy‚ while wild animals became tame
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