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    In The Monkey’s Paw‚ W. W. Jacobs interprets foreshadowing to create tension and suspense by doing the following: creating tension by Sergeant-Major warning them about the paw‚ Herbert saying that he wouldn’t be alive to see the money‚ and lastly Mr. White having the habit of doing before thinking. Will interfering with your own fate really do so until your own sorrow? Does that sound suspenseful and make you tense? Jacobs demonstrates the use of tension and suspense by foreshadowing in his story

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    Tevlin GD II 05/12/11 How does "experience" (including failures) help to stimulate growth in any of the characters from Monkey? Do they have regrets?  Should They?  Do you think "experience" is essential to the development of young people today?  Explain.  YOU MUST USE AT LEAST 3 DIRECT QUOTATIONS FROM THE BOOK WITH PAGE NUMBERS to get full credits. According to Monkey‚ although each character has different personalities‚ they find the same spirit to reach enlightenment when they are on the

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    1. How does the Stone Monkey become King? The Monkey clan challenges him to go through the waterfall and find whats on the other side and if he does he shall be king. 2. What does the Stone Monkey see on the other side of the waterfall? A paradise{iron bridge‚chamber filled with stone items} 3. Why does the Stone Monkey leave his brethren? His Brethren told him that he could not go and to find his way alone. When monkey heard this‚ he saw nothing for it but to say goodbye. 4. What does the Patriach

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    ERICA DIOKNO‚ BSE Member Member DENISE V. QUIBAEL Chairman Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Secondary Education. ______________ MARIA VERICA S. MANABAT‚ Ed. D. Date Dean‚ Institute of Education BIOGRAPHICAL DATA The researcher Sarah Mae C. Ervera was born in Sta. Ana Medical Center. She is the second child of Mr. Raymundo and Mrs. Dominga Ervera. She has two siblings named

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    Can Monkeys Pick Stocks Better than Experts? — Automatic Finances 頁1/3 Can Monkeys Pick Stocks Better than Experts? by Jason Unger We’ve spent plenty of time explaining why investing in passive‚ low-cost index funds will out-earn actively managed funds in the long-run‚ and that most fund managers can’t even outperform the indexes they’re trying to beat over time. 33 tweets retweet The underlying theme of these posts is that stock market "experts" aren’t really experts at all

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    short story? Comparing the Red Room and the Monkey’s paw Gothic horror (Gothic Fiction) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. As a genre‚ it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole‚ with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror‚ to thrill and scare the reader. The Red Room‚ by H.G Wells and The Monkey’s Paw by W.W Jacobs are both good examples of Gothic Horror

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    In Macbeth‚ Shakespeare shows how the witches’ prophecies‚ Lady Macbeth’s desire for power‚ and Macbeth’s yearning to be king‚ affect the fate of the play. In Act I‚ the witches’ chant show how Shakespeare gives the fate of Macbeth‚ “Thane of Glamis”‚ ”Thane of Cawdor”‚ “that shalt be King hereafter”.( Act 1 scene 3‚ lines 48-50) He has no other choice‚ but to believe them because there first two predictions were true. They call him the

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    and succeeding in society. In a new culture‚ people become dependent on those around them more fluent in the new society’s ways and lose their connection to the humans around them who seem too challenging to comprehend. The excerpt from the novel Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao exposes readers to this world through the eyes of a girl from Saigon who must help her mother orient herself to American life. In the excerpt‚ the girl describes the contrasts between her mother’s great shopping abilities in the

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    The characters in Oedipus the King express many different views on fate‚ prophecy‚ and the power of the gods. Characters like the chorus and the leader have solid beliefs in the gods and prophecy‚ but their faith is shaken many times and is changed based on the events that happen. Other characters like Jocasta refuse to accept the prophecies as truth. Towards the end of the play‚ however‚ all have no hesitation in their minds that the power of the gods and prophecies are valid. Everything that was

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    The Monkey’s Paw By: Hrithik 1. What is the conflict and the climax of the story? There is a man vs. self-conflict when Mr. White uses the paw to make his first wish he experiences an inner conflict because he is afraid of the consequences‚ while at the same time there is an external conflict with both his wife and his son Herbert who keep urging him to make the wish. A man vs. supernatural conflict is a conflict between a character and a force of magic. That is‚

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