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    “A Retrieved Reformation” Jimmy Valentine is the main character of this story. Jimmy was a criminal‚ intelligent‚ and clever. Jimmy was sentenced to prison for four years because he robbed banks. After only 10 months‚ he was pardoned by the governor and released. He had returned to his home and gathered his safe-opening instruments. Jimmy then proceeded to burglarize a bank in Richmond‚ Indiana. And again‚ he robbed a bank in Jefferson City and purloined five hundred dollars. Ben Price was a detective

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    text the life and crimes of harry lavender; Marele day has formed an incredibly distinctive voice in crime fiction. By subverting the elements of the hardboiled detective genre. Day has startled her audience with the distinctive voice of Claudia valentine‚ a 1980’s female private investigator in Sydney. The composer has used a range of techniques including first person narration and idioms to successfully make this text distinctive‚ and by doing this she has subverted the chauvinistic male‚ and changed

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    Fang Xiangning Prof. Qu 15 March 2015 12300120182 The Theme of Valentine by John Fuller The poem Valentine by John Fuller depicts a man’s unrequited but intense love and passionate desires for a lady in the first person. First of all‚ by “unrequited‚” I mean that even though the man confided his profound love for the lady in the poem‚ the lady does not seem to feel for him in the same way. Secondly‚ by “intense‚” I mean that his love for this lady is so strong and great that he cannot help observing

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    Valentine” is a controversial love poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the poem the poetess compares love to an onion and she does that by using a variety of techniques such as imagery‚ symbolism‚ word choice and structure. All these techniques justify why “Valentine” is an unusual love-poem as they help the poet express her different point of view. Overall‚ the poem is unusual as its title mistakenly leads the reader into thinking that the poem will be typical. I felt deeply moved by the

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    “A ROSE FOR EMILY”----WILLIAM FAULKNER Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical)‚ mystery‚ the supernatural‚ ghosts‚ haunted houses and Gothic architecture‚ castles‚ darkness‚ death‚ decay‚ doubles‚ madness‚ secrets‚ and hereditary curses. The stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants‚ villains‚ bandits‚ maniacs‚ Byronic heroes‚ persecuted maidens‚ femmes fatales‚ madwomen‚ magicians‚ vampires‚ werewolves‚ monsters‚ demons‚ angels‚ fallen angels

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    Wars of the Roses was not just one war‚ it was a series of ongoing wars between two parties‚ The Lancaster Party and the York Party. They were fighting over the English throne. The Lancaster party had a red rose‚ York had a white rose‚ and the Tudor rose was both red and white. This is why the series of wars that were named the War of the Roses. They did not name the wars until several years later. Some might say that the marriage of Margaret and Henry Tudor had been why the War of the Roses ended‚ but

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    11/14/13 Scene Breakdown The scene I chose to write about is from one of my favorite movies‚ Blue Valentine. Directed by Derek Cianfrance‚ this movie is an examination of a marriage on the rocks‚ as well as the beginnings of a new one‚ by the same people. Ryan Gosling plays Dean‚ a high school dropout trying to make ends meet without any support from his family‚ and Michelle Williams plays Cindy‚ a pre-med student living with her unhappy parents. On an off chance‚ Dean and Cindy meet one another

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    “Love” in Carol Ann Duffy’s Valentine Many people usually see “love” only one side especially when they deeply fall in love with someone. There are a lot of poems that respond the feeling of these falling in love people about how beautiful love is. It is true that love is beautiful. On the other hand‚ for me sometimes love is also painful. I really like the sentence that “love is color-blind” because this sentence can show not only the positive side of love but also the negative side of love. So

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    The poem Valentine is written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the Poem she shows the positive and negative sides about love by comparing love to an onion. She does this by using different techniques such as language features such as metaphors‚ simlies‚ Imagery and word structure. All these techniques make it interesting because she uses an onion as a girft to represent love and relationships. In the begining of the poem Duffy starts off with a negative in opening line. "Not a red rose or a satin

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    In the poem Valentine‚ written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the author uses and extended metaphor of an onion. Instead of a cute love card‚ flowers or even chocolate‚ Duffy suggest more of an originality is needed. Carol Ann Duffy creates impacts through an unusually gift of the onion. She challenges our minds about love‚ in a surprising‚ creative and unique way. Carol Ann Duffy starts off the poem with a negative‚ “Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion.” Duffy takes the usually gifts away

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