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    I almost stepped foot into what I thought to be my watery grave, but I hesitated as my foot broke the surface of the water. I thought back to the boat ride out here and my feelings of uneasiness as we rode the waves. The small boat contained six rows of benches for the tourists to sit at the front of the boat. Directly behind the last row, a captain’s station sat with the controls to steer the boat. Behind the control room, or the back of the boat, sat one long bench. A metal railing encircled the

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    his mother’s death, Sherwood Anderson writes, “I have seen my own mother stand all day over a washtub, washing the dirty linen of the pretentious middle-class women not fit to tie her shoelaces, this just to get her sons enough food to keep them alive, and I presume I shall never in my life see a working woman without identifying her with my mother (Letters)” (Colquitt 19). Sherwood Anderson was born in 1876, but wrote this short story in the 1930s (“Sherwood Anderson” Dictionary 1). He grew up in

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    Moonrise Kingdom is a coming of age indie art film by director Wes Anderson. The tale begins with the setting and climax of the film laid out by narrator Bob Balaban. The setting being a fictional, secluded, New England island only accessible by ferry. The climax, an impending storm that will strike in only three days. We are then introduced to the two leading lovebirds. A pair of twelve years olds, Sam and Suzy played by Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward. Despite the rushed nature of their relationship

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    The Daily Show pronounces itself as a fake news program, and it pulls its comedy and satire from current news reports, politicians, media companies, and often, features of the show itself. The show usually begins with an extended monologue from host, Jon Stewart, communicating new headlines and regularly includes discussions with several correspondents, who assume ridiculous or amusingly overstated takes on recent events against Stewart's straightforward character. The concluding segment contains a

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    Stefanie A. Thomas Professor Judith Angona English 152 9 October 2012 Character Comparison – Two Repressed Women Both “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” center around two women who are repressed by their lives’ circumstances. However, outside of their feelings, their situations could not be more different. Miss Emily Grierson is trapped in a life of solitude, despondency, and desperation. The girl, or “Jig”, is equally as desperate,

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    Cry, The Beloved Country

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    Throughout the novel Cry, the Beloved Country, one of the major themes is the contrast between hope and fear, light and dark. Author Alan Paton juxtaposes theses contrasting ideas by using literary devices, such as vivid imagery and rich dialogue. Personification, similes, repetition, diction, symbolism, antitheses, dramatic irony, and allusions also supply the varying moods of the novel and distinguish the “light” of hope from the “darkness” of fear. This story, set in South Africa, is about how

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    The Postbellum Southern Disillusionment in “Wash” According to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, exercising and expanding one’s personal power is “all that one wants” (Nietzsche 36). He argues that “we hurt those to whom we need to make our power perceptible, [and] we benefit and show benevolence toward those who already depend on us in some way” (36). Per this logic, individuals who exhibit generosity feel content with their current influence on the world while those who act injuriously

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    Stylistic prose technique 1: IMAGERY Authors who use imagery wish to give the readers a physical feeling of literature while reading any sort of piece. It allows for the audience to connect to the characters on a deeper level by having them experience the same feelings, smells, noises, etc, as did the roles in the novel. Alan Paton uses a strong voice packed with imagery in his passage, “For they grow red and bare; they cannot hold the rain and mist, and the streams are dry in the kloofs. Too many

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    Tenenbaum(Gene Hackman) who wants to reconnect with his children and be a better father after distancing himself for several years. At the same time also trying to rekindle his relationship with his ex-wife Etheline Tenenbaum(Anjelica Huston). The Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums, is a great film that explores different views through cinematography. The film has an amazing theme, character development, and dark humor. The theme in the film is depression giving it an almost dark feeling. All three

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    top 5 of the middleweight rankings. He’s coming off a first-round TKO and dismantling of Daniel Kelly in June. Prior to defeating Kelly, Brunson was on a two-fight losing skid with losses to interim champion Robert Whitaker and long-time champion Anderson Silva. The loss to Silva was highly controversial, as Brunson landed more

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