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    between people of completely different cultural baackgrounds‚ all while inspiring them to become mathmaticians‚ biologists‚ or astrologists. It can also encourage the next SSA Reid to read more‚ so that they can too grow up to be a genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legacy still lives on when the enigmatic master of deduction‚ Sherlock Holmes is joined in London through a screen; it teaches many enthusiastic young Watsons the importance of observation and the importance of details. Although fictional

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    Theatrical Reason In Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia‚ Sherlock Holmes uses his famous reasoning abilities to read a woman in order to solve a problem. After all‚ according to Holmes a woman’s emotions always give her away‚ making it easy for him to find Irene Adler’s hidden photograph. The apparently rational assumptions about women lead Sherlock Holmes to overconfidently use those generalizations in his reasoning to find the photograph. Theatricality is the main tool used by

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    only educates himself on matters that are “useful to him” (Doyle 17-18). Rather than unrealistically try push the boundaries of the human mind‚ Sherlock understands that the mind is an “attic” with limited space (Doyle 17). It is for this reason‚ he says he fills his metaphoric “attic” with the “tools” which will “help him in doing his work” (Doyle 17). This stops him from crowding out useful information or having a “jumbled up” mind (Doyle 17). Another aspect to take note of‚ is that Sherlock’s practice

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    pretty good case to be made that this is Holmes at his finest; in any case‚ it’s a great introduction to the master detective and his faithful chronicler. The plot moves along at a good pace‚ the quality of the writing is excellent (even if Watson and Doyle are a bit wordy by today’s standards)‚ and none of the potential pitfalls that crop up elsewhere in the canon and might require parental intervention‚ from Mormon-bashing to drug use‚ is in evidence here. Holmes and Watson are well portrayed and have

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    listened to Jethros advise and “And Moses chose able men out of all Israel‚ and made them heads over the people‚ rulers of thousands‚ rulers of hundreds‚ rulers of fifties‚ and rulers of tens” (Exo 18:24-26‚ KJV). The creator of Sherlock Holmes‚ Canon Doyle certainly was someone in

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    I Survived

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    In a book series entitled “I Survived” there was once a book written where a summary would sound ridiculous. This summary would be along the lines of‚ once there was a family of four including a father‚ mother‚ sister‚ and brother. The sister a mere six years old had been a genius in finance and accounting. Her brother‚ around eleven years older than her‚ had however not been a genius. The events of this book were as follows; first there was a family vacation with a hotel under construction‚ next

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    A Scandal in Bohemia

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    Tammy Coleman Dr. Wilson The Bohemian Scandal In Conan Doyle’s short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1888)‚ Sherlock Holmes can tell that the stranger possess great wealth before he speaks a single word. Sherlock Holmes analyzes everything when it comes to people. He uses their appearance‚ how they carry themselves‚ and what kind of objects they have on them. The author uses descriptive words to describe the way the stranger looked. This essay will prove that Sherlock Holmes is so observant

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    Loch Ness Monster Essay

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    Origins The term "monster" was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by Alex Campbell‚ the water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part-time journalist‚ in a report in The Inverness Courier.[9][10][11] On 4 August 1933‚ the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man‚ George Spicer‚ that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the loch‚ he and his wife had seen "the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life"

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    In the lecture Henry Moore was described as the most famous British sculptor in the the 20th century. He was very well known for his many statues made of stone‚ wood‚ and bronze in the 1940s and 1950s. One of his statues portrays a reclining female made of various curves with some negative space and a very visual hole in her midsection. Many people thought at the time that the hole stood for the spiritual emptiness of men in which also meant that they were misguided in their faith. Others thought

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    The book The Monopolists is above all else about the hidden and untold truth behind the popular and legendary Monopoly. By giving earlier examples of the board game‚ The Monopolists piece by piece unveils the history of game through its many forms and varieties. It is well implied that the overall goal of the book is to give a complete history‚ like never told before‚ of how it came to be. Due to the ambiguous nature of the exact founding and development of the game‚ the author gives other historical

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