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    The California home David and Louise Turpin held their 13 children captive in‚ dubbed “The House of Horrors” was filled with torture and cruel taunting by the parents. David and Louise Turpin shackled their children to furniture with chains so they couldn’t escape‚ slowly starving them to death‚ and only allowed them to shower twice a year‚ as previously reported by Dearly. The children suffered at the hands of their parents for years until their 17-year-old daughter bravely escaped from her home

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    The Basics of Supernatural Horror Movies A genre such as supernatural horror is meant for an audience that desires to feel that rush of adrenaline running through their bodies. The purpose of this genre is to satisfy the curiosity of people that let their minds wander off about the supernatural world. The audience expects to get goosebumps‚ and to be on the edge of their seats while chewing their nails. If that is what a movie of this genre causes the audience‚ then the producers have done their

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    The girl stumbled and rolled down the grassy hill‚ pulling her fiancé with her. For a few minutes they fell‚ rolling on top of each other before landing in a heap on the soft sand below. The woman looked at the man below her‚ affection filling her eyes as she smiled subconsciously. “What are you smiling at?” He inquired flipping her over so he was on top of her. “Just wondering if why on earth I’m marrying someone as ugly as you; do you think it’s too late to pull out?” The girl answered giggling

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    literature assumes that there is a collection of symbols‚ images‚ characters‚ and motifs that evokes basically the same response in all people.   According to the psychologist Carl Jung‚ mankind possesses a "collective unconscious" that contains these archetypes and that is common to all of humanity. When an author uses the archetypal approach‚ he selects a universal theme through which to tell his story. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Paradise” uses the dynamics of the mother-son relationship throughout

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    watching a movie in a cinema. To really experience a film it must be seen on the big screen. The darkness‚ the high-quality presentations‚ the thriving sound‚ and the size of the screen generate an atmosphere that augments the joy of seeing a film. But I consider there are only a few genres that are capable of making the theater experience meaningful and eternal. The three top categories to see in a cinema are‚ without doubts: suspense‚ horror‚ and action. Suspense movies are the most attention

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    Horror King Stephen King

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    Horror King Stephen King Known as the Horror King‚ Stephen King has earned that title with his award winning novels such as Carrie‚ The Dead Zone‚ and The Shining. Stephen King has written more than two hundred works of literature including his novels‚ short stories‚ and poems‚ one hundred and seventy eight of which were turned into works of film. Born on September 21‚ 1947 in Portland‚ Maine‚ Stephen King was raised by a mostly single parent. Stephen’s father “left the house to buy a pack of

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    Topic 1: The animal in horror and/or sci fi. Piranha 3D (2010) The piranha hunt in packs. The first bite draws blood‚ blood draws the pack. (Mr. Goodman – Piranha 3D) It is no doubt that humankind have always thought themselves to be on top of the food chain. It is all about the survival of the fittest and although the humankind may not be able to out-run‚ out-swim or over-power certain animals in the animal kingdom they are able to invent devices which may assist them in being on the “top”

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    Rocky Horror Picture Show

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    because he was trying moving forward. It’s really what we’re all doing‚ searching for answers‚ healing pain‚ and trying to be the master of our own destiny each day. As funny as it sounds‚ the book made me want to learn about Rocky Horror Picture Show. I had never seen the film‚ but I am willing to

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    Lightning Thief Archetype

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    In The Lightning Thief and Twilight‚ different experiences occur within both main characters Bella Swan and Percy Jackson. Both characters follow a path that will guide them into a new world. Bella and Percy are new to almost everything they discover within their new journey with the help of some close friends. Though from different mythologies‚ Twilight and The Lightning Thief share an archetypal pattern that requires a mentor’s guidance; as the protagonist becomes aware of a previously unknown

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    away from her forever? It may be hard to understand this from ones point of view. Toni Morrison‚ in the novel Beloved‚ uses the character Beloved to function as a mythic archetype in the society to help the reader understand things and answer complex questions in the book‚ like Sethe’s actions and why she did what she did. Archetypes represent universal patterns of human nature. In Beloved‚ the character Beloved is the anima; she is a projection of the other characters’ desires. To Sethe‚ Beloved comes

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