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    Braden Jarrell Mr. Dengler English 1010 30 October 2013 The Most Advanced IPhone Yet Get connected with the best cell phone 2013 has to offer. The new IPhone 5s is the most advanced phone out‚ yet apple kept the new IPhone very simple. If you have been a previous iPhone user or apple user this phone would be perfect for you‚ but if you previously used an android the switch of software’s is a difference. The iPhone 5s is an all-around perfect and simple phone for anyone. The users of this

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    Poe as a Gothic Writer

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    most of all from early gothic traditions themselves. Neo-gothic interests greatly sparked the minds of many 18th century writers‚ Edgar Allen Poe being one of them. Poe is classified as an American Horror author of the romanticism era who wrote many short stories and poems of weird‚ gloomy‚ and haunting concepts. The ideas behind many of his stories relate to the minds of many people who have felt like Poe’s stories imitate. In Poe’s famous‚ “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart”

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    Royse Ap English 12-13-12 Gothic Essay Over the centuries‚ the American fascination for the grotesque and mysterious elements of Gothic literature never died off since its beginnings with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto in 1764. The novel was a success; its creative usage of a remote and obscure setting‚ the supernatural and medieval motifs were found so attractive that its imitations began rapidly publishing across America. Very soon‚ the Gothic genre was an established classic

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    whole story why he decided to pick Emily Grierson as the protagonist. “A Rose for Emily” allowed me to experience romance‚ misfortune‚ gothic horror‚ and dismay of the antebellum south in that time period. This story was very different from any other story by William Faulkner because it had many elements of Gothicism. Since the short story is filled with gothic elements‚ it made the story even more interesting to read. In “A Rose for Emily” there are several prominent themes throughout the story. Out

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    believe that the gothic element were important during the early to mid-nineteenth century. First‚ Edgar Allan Poe’s work was dark and can be unappealing to most people or at least to me. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” Poe uses gothic element through death or decaying. For instance‚ “His eyes resembled that of a vulture—a pale blue eye‚ with a film over it… my blood ran cold; I made up my mind to take the life of the old man.” Secondly‚ Washington Irving’s demonstrates the gothic elements more in my opinion

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    Southern Gothic literature has many of the same aspects as Gothic literature; Southern Gothic literature‚ which is a sub-genre of the Gothic writing style‚ is unique to the American South. It focuses on topics such as death‚ madness‚ and the super natural as well has having many mystical‚ bizarre‚ violent‚ and grotesque aspects. Gothic literature has left a deep impression to the people. Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O’Connor wrote stories filled with grotesque characters‚ violence‚

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    Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature MARY ELLEN SNODGRASS Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Copyright © 2005 by Mary Ellen Snodgrass All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚ without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File‚ Inc. 132 West

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    American Gothic American gothic literature became popular in the 19th century when writers started to captivate reader’s attention with stories of mystery and tragedy. This literary scheme was most effective due to it being able to compare real society in a more bizarre sense. In all great Gothic stories‚ the writer is proving a point on what society needs to realize. In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” (553)‚ Hawthorne shows the journey of a young man who is slowly being corrupted and robbed

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    GOTHICISM and GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN COLERIDGE’S POEM "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER"           Gothicsim is a style in fictional literature characterized by gloomy settings‚violent or grotesque action‚ and a mood of decay‚degeneration.The Gothic begins with later -eighteenth-century writers’ turn to past; in the context of the Romantic Period the Gothic is a type of imitation medievalism.When it was launched in the later eighteenth century the Gothic features accounts of terrifying expeirences

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    The first references to physiognomy occur in the narrator’s initial description of Roderick Usher. The narrator discusses almost every distinct area of physiognomy‚ stating‚ “an eye large‚ liquid‚ and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model‚ but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin‚ speaking‚ in its want of prominence‚ of a want of moral energy; hair of a more

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