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    making impression to his son in the wrong way by making himself as an excellent and superior one .For examples‚ he talked in Italian to waiters in one retaurant intending to show his education level ‚ shouting some impolite words “Master of the hounds!” and “Tallyhoo” ‚which is a word used by huntsmen when spotting a fox‚ in order to disdain and make a joke to waiters’ pink jacket uniform. The image of his father turned out to be so boisterous‚snobbish‚drunk and impolite that his son could not

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    Along with its fantasy world‚ Game of Thrones series have consistently depicted real life themes and characters. Ultimately‚ Game of Thrones can be claimed as a series based on real world drama illustrated in a fantasy world. In the present world‚ “we all have knowledge‚ love/hate‚ scheming politics‚ sex‚ isolation.” (Game of Thrones - Interview with George R.R. Martin). Similarly‚ Game of Thrones’ storylines revolves around these themes‚ in order to generate a world similar to ours. For instance

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    George Stubbs was born in Liverpool on August 25‚ 1724. He worked for his dad until 16 when his dad passed away. Then he was briefly apprenticed to a painter and a engraver‚ which is where he began learning about art. Since then‚ as an artist he was self-taught. In the 1740s he worked as a portrait painter in the North of England. Ever since he was a child he also had an interest in anatomy. He studied human anatomy for six years at York County Hospital. All of these things mentioned

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    27‚ March 1348 I have found it being of the utmost importance to inform you of all the ghastly things that are going on here in Florence‚ Italy. I have already buried my five children and wife‚ though I am sure that the hounds have unearthed them and devoured their putrid bodies. As we have just recently escaped a famine that had killed a huge crowd of the population here. Neighbors‚ mothers‚ fathers‚ brothers‚ sisters are abandoning each other leaving small children

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    Grendel’s mother and the battle against the Dragon‚ in the movie detracts from my understanding of the poem. When Beowulf went to face Grendel’s mother in the poem‚ the lair was described as a place where even a “deer hunted through the woods by a pack of hounds‚ a stag with great horns…prefers to die on those shores.”(Beowulf 433) instead of going into the lake. Alternatively the movie depicts the lair as a difficult place to reach‚ but not impossible‚ it appears to be less scary than that of the poem. Throughout

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    one so he thinks that there a minority and steals a pre-cog. Fahrenheit 451 and Minority Report are both set in the future so they have similar technology. In both stories the technology wasn’t perfect. In Fahrenheit 451 there was the mechanical hound‚ parlour walls and ear seashells. The parlor walls and the ear seashells are flawed because they were an alternate reality to the people in this book. They didn’t care about anything that was happening unless they stated it. The new technology in

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    objects to shocking effect‚ and in the process he questioned the very nature of art. In 1995 he won Tate Britain’s Great Britain’s premier award for contemporary art. Pieces: ‘Capaneus’ 2012 by Damien hirst insects and household gloss on canvas. ‘Hounds tooth’ 2012 Scalpel blades and metallic paint on aluminium. Opie Graduated in 1983 from Goldsmith’s School of Art‚ where conceptual artist and painter Michael Craig-Martin taught him. He emerged as an influential figure in the British art scene

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    Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a narcissistic-psychopathic devil. One quotes that shows this is when the General says‚ “I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships- lassars‚ blacks‚ chinese‚ whites‚ mongrels- a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.” This shows that General Zaroff was narcissistic because all of the people he lists as scum of the Earth take up the entire population of the world. He believes that he is better and more powerful than anyone else

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    Ray Bradbury originally wrote his novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ as an indictment against the censorship evident during the McCarthy era of America‚ and it has since become one of the few modern science fiction books that can be considered a classic. The adulation of this novel is due to its plethora of symbols‚ metaphors‚ and character development. Bradbury’s character development is singularly impressive in this book because he shows the evolution of the main character‚ Guy Montag‚ "from book-burner to

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    You were not allowed to leave whenever you want and your families were separated into different groups. Their dependency on the Counsellor was all they had. When Hector was disorientated in the baffling labyrinth he could only depend on his basset hound‚ Stewart. Once Diana offered to take Hector back to the lake‚ they both knew they had to rely on each other and that there was no turning back. Hector trusted Diana that she will take him to a safe location and in good condition. Diana also trusted

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