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    Life is tough. No one is going to deny it. Instead‚ everyone finds a place they can go to escape from the problems and anxiety of life. It doesn’t matter what you may be suffering from‚ or how happy and nice a person you are‚ everyone needs to flee from life. When life is getting tough‚ I love to retreat to the football field. The football field is my sanctuary‚ during a game. All the turmoil and troubles that may be swirling around us‚ on the outside world‚ don’t matter. Everything is just right

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    by Tennessee Williams‚ Blanche Dubois finds her way to the chaotic city of New Orleans in hopes of an escape from her painful life‚ and to find refuge with her younger sister Stella‚ as she is her only living relation. In light of her efforts to forget and shed her illicit past‚ she utilizes the bathroom and resorts to the act of bathing. Blanche’s continuous desire for the bathroom manifests escape from those around her and a need for cleansing away her wrong doings. Blanche‚ a bewildered woman

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    again. This was over 50 years ago‚ but the escape is still significant today. Society today still cares about the escape from Alcatraz because of its presence in the media‚ Alcatraz’s reputation as “escape-proof”‚ and natural human curiosity. First of all‚ the escape from Alcatraz has had a significant impact on American media and culture. The presence of this event today is still evident‚ especially in popular American media. For example‚ movies Escape From Alcatraz (1979)‚ Birdman of Alcatraz

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    <center><b>Examine each opening sentence carefully. To what degree does each sentence give a clue as to the story‚ which is to follow‚ and the use of language within it? Refer to the sentences of "Full Stop"‚ "Why Apes Look Like People" and "The Escape".</b></center> <br> <br>A captivating opening is half the success for any story. The opening may be descriptive‚ full of sarcasm‚ unusual or exciting. It is the same with the opening tune to a song. Besides memorable lyrics and a beautiful melody‚

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    To survive one has to have the courage to be mentally strong and determined to achieve survival. A biography of Farah Ahmedi "Escape from Afghanistan.” Also‚ a fiction by Richard Connell “The Most Dangerous Game.” Both have similar themes as the story is being told. One of the selection‚ "Escape from Afghanistan” portrays how a mother and a daughter‚ are fleeing from their home country. To take refuge into another country and being able to survive during the war. Compared to “The Most Dangerous

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    Driven by fear and strengthened by instinct‚ Sanger Rainsford fights valiantly‚ in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game‚" to best General Zaroff at his own game. Although rather undeveloped‚ the characters in the story still give the reader something to connect to. The theme‚ although presented in a unique fashion‚ depicts yet another reiteration of the epic struggle between good and evil. Regardless of the few twists and turns‚ Connell’s use of plot manipulation still leaves room for a great

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    mainly due to other individual’s control of her life and to the wider pressures of societies’ expectations of a female both in the 1840s when it was written‚ and in 1801 when it was set. Regardless of the sources of her suffering‚ her attempts to escape from it resulted in an untimely death which did not release her spirit from suffering until reunited with that of Heathcliff’s following his death some eighteen years later. In analysing Catherine’s suffering‚ the trustworthiness of the narrator

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    In the first extract (Huckleberry Finn) Twain shows the theme of escapism by describing how Huck fakes his own death in an attempt to escape from civilization. In the second extract (Catcher in the Rye) Salinger shows the theme as escapism as Holden is running away from Pencey to go into a Hotel for a few days. Salinger shows that Holden is emotional about staying and leaving Pencey as he had got the ‘ax again’. ‘It made me too sad and lonesome’. This quote shows that Salinger is trying to portray

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    Usually she sings or talks about all that unrealistic fantasies. 1. When she lost Belle Reve‚ she’s having "intimacies" with strangers. At last‚ she got kicked out of the school for having an relationship with 17 year old boy. 2. At first Stanley tried to rip off her fantasy‚ she quickly got along with Stanley’s best friend‚ Mitch. Finally‚ she put Mitch on her side instead of Stanley’s. 3. When Stanley firstly mentioned about ’the flamingo’ she got all nervous if her secrets would be

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    STYLISTIC ANALYSIS William Somerset Maugham «THE ESCAPE» William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. The trend he belongs to is realism with slight ifluence of expressionism. A novelist‚ a dramatist‚ and a short-story writer‚ he gained an outstanding reputation with his prominent books “Of Human Bondage”‚ “The Moon and Sixpence”‚ and “The Razor’s Edge”. The observer of the first decades of the 20th century‚ Maugham is deeply critical of the morals

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