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    enjoy watching horror films. Watching horror films always have me at the edge of my seat‚ just anticipating for something to happen. The unexpected plots and scenes always gets my adrenaline pumping. Although‚ it seems very cliché with some horror films‚ I still always find myself screaming and yelling. In my opinion‚ I believe that’s the whole point when it comes to watching horror movies. Many of us‚ seek out horror films to get that rush of adrenaline. Although‚ many of these horror movies are not

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    Submitted by Williams‚Sierra on 8/26/2014 3:19:29 PM Points Awarded 8.00 Points Missed 22.00 Percentage 26.7% 1. This writing outlines an ideal society based on justice and reason‚ but not on democracy. The ideal state was authoritarian. A) The Republic B) The Oresteia C) The Allegory of the Cave D) The Apology E) None of the above. Table for Individual Question Feedback Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s): A 2. The Song of Roland was inspired by A) the Vikings

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    Why do people have such a strong opinion on horror movies? Anybody you ask about horror are only going to say 2 things about it. People either love horror or hate it‚ and People who love horror can usually understand why people don’t like horror. But when it comes to the people who don’t like horror‚ they have no clue why someone would want to submit themselves to such tragedies. Steven king has proposed three reasons that people love horror‚ and they are to face our fears‚ to feel normal‚ and to

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    best horror films of all time. These two films‚ directed by Robert Wiene and F.W. Murnau respectively‚ share several key aspects in common‚ while still retaining their own uniqueness that has left people debating which film is paramount‚ even nearly a century after their releases. This paper will examine these similarities and differences‚ and will seek address them in light of the German Expressionist movement they each resonate. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu both tell the story of

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    Horror is able to face serious issues in a way that allows us to analyze the situation with a bird’s eye view. Zombies‚ vampires‚ wolves‚ and all other horror tropes are exaggerated and entertaining reflections of our human world and the problems in it. World War Z examines the fear of giant corporations‚ something many people worry about in our modern world. Horror is often so absurd that on the surface we are purely intrigued by the imaginary creatures with their made up problems. Underneath the

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    To what extent do you think gothic lit is characterised by a fascination with death ? Intro – certainly can’t discount this theory – very prevalent in gothic lit – resurrection in dracuula‚ Macbeth – centred around death‚ beginning and end // punter “Gothic literature enacts our fear of death but perhaps also our fear of immortality” – A03 link to old man “Knokke with my staf” 1. “O glutonye ful of cursednesse!” apostrophising – a02 in sermon digression – a02 emphasises the sin people have

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    Horror movies are a waste of time When I walk into a movie theater and I hear the scary climatic music‚ coming from inside of one of the theaters. I see people running out of the theater that cannot handle the gore with their eyes shut tight. To think that they just paid eight dollars to have an unpleasant two hours watching only a fraction of the horror movie. They probably watched about 50 cents if you divided the money into the time the movie

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    Briskly walking through the mysterious darkness of the menacing forest‚ grasping tightly my withering frozen hand‚ my petrified newly wed wife clung on for protection. It was pitch dark on a cold foggy night in the mid days of December. We were in search of somewhere to rest our staggering and lost bodies. My wife and I had been walking for miles through this never ending cursed old forest. Every step we made on the thin and almost transparent layer of snow had a sudden fall and we heard the snap

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    architecture now mastering the interior of buildings and structures. The first two periods of time that this shift was made was the Romanesque style and the Gothic style of architecture. Both of these styles have made great contributions that can still been seen in today’s architecture. With Romanesque being the first stylistic period in time with Gothic immediately following it there is much to be said about the similarities and differences. The Romanesque period of architecture has its roots deep into

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    How far is the pardoners tale gothic? The gothic genre‚ thought to be introduced in 1769 by Horace Walpole’s noel The Castle of Otranto‚ was remembered for its crude‚ grotesque‚ exaggerated nature. Although in medieval times the Gothic movement had not commenced‚ Chaucer’s can be considered a forerunner to this movement as many aspects in the pardoners tale are clear gothic‚ however Chaucer did not perceive his writing as Gothic‚ he did not intentional write a Gothic tale like later authors did.

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