Collin has a great deal of hobbies‚ one of them is reading. Reading stimulates the mind and helps you gain critical thinking skills. Mystery is one of the many genres he enjoys. His favorite mystery novelist is Agatha Christie‚ who is in the book of work records as the best-selling novelist of all time. Another genre he enjoys is biographies. One he particularly likes is The Disaster Artist written by Greg Sestero. Another one of Collins hobbies is cooking. With all
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ENGLISH-A CLASS XI Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P) Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence
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"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing. That to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." - Agatha Christie We as people never stop to think about war and its definition. Accroding to the dictionary‚ war is defined as a state of hostility‚ conlict‚ antagonism and death. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque tells the story about Paul Baumer‚ the narrator and protagonist of the book ‚ a neneteen year old German soldier who fights in the front lines
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Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Upon creating a new generation of horror and mystery‚ Edgar Allan Poe also wrote detective stories. Edgar Allan Poe’s work with detective stories also influenced later authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Edgar Allan Poe not only influenced authors in the United States‚ but he also was a big part of a new form of storytelling internationally. Influencing authors in other countries such as French authors‚ Italian authors‚ and also writers writing
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Tahirih Osborne 11.16.11 HHIS 101 Jeff Bibbee Tutankhamen: Anatomy of an Excavation.Howard Carter’s diaries.The first excavation season in the tomb of Tutankhamen.Part 1: October 28 to December 31‚ 1922 © Griffith Institute‚ Oxford OX1 2LG Otter Box This document provides an in-depth description of Howard Carter’s initial discovery of the ante-chamber to King Tutankhamen’s tomb. November 26th describes the discovery of an unidentified room filled with artifacts‚ while November 27th describes
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- Geography Matters... Geography shapes society which in turn shapes characters‚ setting‚ themes‚ tones‚ and so forth. This concept is also seen in reality. When I went to Key West‚ it was evident that the geography shaped those that lived there. Surrounded by water‚ paralyzing heat and humidity‚ those that lived there are relaxed and slow walkers and talkers‚ extremely frustrating for an impatient person such as myself. This concept applies to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. The Jungle takes place
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but Dickens was a genius. We aren’t all Dickens and that brings us to the deciding factor of almost every profession these days; the financial part. If you are an adult you must make a living and to do so as a writer you must be no less than Agatha Christie or Louis L’Amour. It is no wonder that all authors have other jobs. The moral of the story is simply -you MUST get a job that gets you so much money a month and that’s the part that I don’t like about the whole author business. Getting a book
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Death of an expert witness by P.D James English C Background Phyllis Dorothy James or more commonly referred to as P.D James was born in Oxford in 1920. James attended Cambridge High School for Girls. Her first published work titled Cover Her Face which she began writing in the mid 50s introduced the public to her most iconic character; investigator Adam Dagliesh. Dagliesh is a well-known character who is a reoccurring presence in a series of detective novels one of which I have had the pleasure
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Emerson 1 Nick Emerson Professor Wilson English 115: 1 30 November 2010 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
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Agatha Christie says‚ “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law‚ no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. “. Mother being the supreme lover‚ loves her child like nothing. A mother dissipates the clouds of darkness‚ and cause peace to return to our hearts when we are helpless in the wilderness life with her kind precepts and counsels. From the moment we are born till we are cradled in the chariot of death‚ we
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