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    first American naturalist writers‚ Stephen Crane injected his own philosophy on life in his realist stories. Some of Crane’s short stories‚ including The Blue Hotel‚ and The Open Boat‚ all reflect his negative anthropology. Crane displays this in different ways in his short stories‚ for example‚ by not giving many of his characters names‚ switching narrative perspectives‚ and by frequently using self-importance as many of his character’s driving force. Crane thinks humans are ignorant and insignificant

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    along with her son in war‚ and depictions of war. Such as‚ “ A field where a thousand corpses lie”. As the women in the poem is weeping because she has lost everything in the war‚ somebody keeps saying “Do not weep‚ maiden‚ for war is kind”. Stephen Crane has created a mood of sadness‚ and loss through the use of specific words and phrases.

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    CRANES Cranes are a clade of large‚ long-legged and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes. There are fifteen species of crane in four genera. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons‚ cranes fly with necks outstretched‚ not pulled back. Cranes live on all continents except Antarctica and South America. Most species of cranes are at the least classified as threatened‚ if not critically endangered‚ within their range. The

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    It may be as easy as hating the skin worn by a person with a beautiful heart. Stephen Crane’s The Monster proves that monsters can be heroes and anyone can be a monster. True friends stick together until the end‚ but the sad truth is‚ one does not know who the true friends are until they are at their lowest. They could be lucky and

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    Cranes Used in Construction written by:shoaib ameer A crane is a lifting machine that principally works with the use of pulleys and cables. For the construction industry‚ cranes are valuable assets because they make working with heavy machinery and construction materials easy. The invention of cranes made things easy for humankind because without them‚ loading‚ unloading‚ and lifting had to be done by human hands‚ would consume more time‚ and the entire system was not efficient at all. The

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    “Do Not Weep‚ Maiden‚ for War is Kind‚” was written by the poet Stephen Crane. The poem is a bitter and emotional protest of the horrors of war. It gets much of its strength from using simple but highly descriptive words in contrast with innocence‚ and also through the use of repetition and sarcasm. The poet portrays bitterness and innocence in the first stanza. It is strongly shown in the lines "Do not weep‚ maiden‚ for war is kind‚ because your lover threw wild hands towards the sky” (1-2). The

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    George Clooney once said “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak”. With a sharp tongue and an ego bigger than the Rocky Mountains‚ a man name Swede digs himself an early grave. In the “Blue Hotel” a short story by Stephen Crane takes place in a small town‚ at a little hotel called Fort Romper. The owner Pat Scully a short‚ stubby‚ Irishman does his best to receive any guest at his hotel. One wintry morning Scully conjured three guest‚ Swede‚ a cowboy named Bill‚ and quiet gentlemen

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    is usually the fight for power. Stephen Crane was always interested in the idea of war and the psychology of it. The Red Badge of Courage gives a first person view of war and uses Henry Fleming to depict it. Fascinated by war and influenced by his surroundings‚ Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage by using realism and naturalism and immersing himself in the subject. Stephen Townley Crane was born on November 1‚ 1871‚ in Newark‚ New Jersey. Stephen Crane was the fourteenth and last child

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    In "The Open Boat" Stephen Crane uses the sea and four men adrift in a dinghy as a framework for communicating his ideas about life. The story‚ in my opinion‚ is a metaphor for life. The four men are helpless against the indifferent‚ yet overwhelming forces of nature. In "The Open Boat‚" Stephen Crane not only comments on the role of nature and God in the life of man‚ but the importance of community and brotherhood‚ and the nature of an individual ’s journey to knowledge. "The Open Boat" was written

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    "Misery" by Anton Chekhov has a simple plot. The protagonist of this short story Iona Potapov‚ is a cab driver in St. Petersburg who is grieving his son’s recent death. Being a cab driver allows Iona to encounter many different people of various backgrounds‚ but he is unable to communicate his feelings. He desperately searches for the opportunity to talk about his grief‚ but nobody is interested in sharing the burden on misery. Each of his passengers rejects his attempts at conversation and depresses

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