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    The main argument of the reading by Paul Bogard is how we should take care of the natural darkness and how we should preserve it. HE tries to give very specific and detailed information to convince us that we should worry about the darkness and how it is really important. At the very beginning‚ he gives a personal experience and how he felt at the time. He says that "I knew night skies in which meteors left smoky trails across sugary spreads of stars". With that being said‚ what he thought of the

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    If I were the prince of darkness‚ I would want to engulf the whole world in darkness. I’d have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population‚ but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — thee. So‚ I would set about however necessary to take over the United States. I’d subvert the churches first‚ and I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent‚ I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” To the young‚ I

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    The Left Hand of Darkness was published in 1969‚ won both the Hugo and Nebula awards and is considered a monolith in feminist science fiction‚ as it dealt with an androgynous humanoid species. Overlooked and underutilized‚ science fiction as a genre largely originated from American pulp magazines‚ and became the underdog of literature despite its revolutionary potential for envisioning new worlds and other ways of living. The Left Hand of Darkness remains relevant in the world of literature‚ as

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    Narrative Style in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness The Heart of Darkness employs‚ broadly‚ a three framed narrative style. Conrad‚ the author‚ places an unnamed narrator aboard the Nellie with Marlow‚ who is the third narrator/frame. The unnamed narrator functions as both a teller of Marlow’s tale to us and a listener to Marlow. The significance of these frames can be analysed by looking at three effects which this arrangement produces. The usage of Marlow as narrator instead of Conrad himself became

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    Is education still the “way out of darkness and into the glorious light” for not only the African American community‚ but also‚ for all Americans? If so‚ how? If not‚ why? Yes‚ education is the only way out of the darkness in today society for all Americans. Education is pushed on everyone from day one. If you do not graduate high school‚ then you cannot get anywhere in the real word. Then the pressure comes even harder with college because everyone says that if you do not go to college then you

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    BIOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS IN CONRAD’S HEART OF DARKNESS Conrad wrote in his author’s note to Heart of Darkness that the novel was "authentic in fundamentals" and that it represented "experience pushed a little (and only a very little) beyond the actual facts of the case." In fact‚ many details and even characters in Heart of Darkness come from real life and also from some pages of Conrad’s Congo diary. Conrad started his career as a sailor on a French ship. In 1878 when he was at the age of 20

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    through a phase where they start doing drugs‚ and alcohol‚ Which sometimes turn into a bad error in their life. Some of us all don’t agree on the topic of YA literature‚ Some likes YA literature while others believes that it ruins teenagers. In Darkness Too Visible by Megan Cox believes that the classic books are better for kids. There’s nothing to be found in her books that compares to what kids can find through social medias and on the internet. Megan Cox responded in the article that teenagers

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    Heart of Darkness Essay In “Heart of Darkness”‚ by Joseph Conrad‚ Conrad explores his view of colonialism. He creates a view that colonialism is representative of man’s desire to dominate and evaluates the deceptiveness of the motives. Through these ideas he creates a feeling of the malevolency of colonialism. However‚ both Conrad‚ in real life‚ and Marlow‚ who represents Conrad‚ worked and lived in the world of colonialism and through Conrad’s syntax some‚ like Chinua Achebe‚ believe Conrad

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    utterly horrific. From small‚ blunt messages such as loves habits to intricate‚ complex themes such as evil will always endure‚ literature’s universal themes and messages withstand centuries and millennia. In one such book‚ Joesph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness‚ one of the main characters is the epitome of this bold justification. This man‚ Kurtz‚ is truly a sight to behold due to his elaborate works and powers; he could be labeled as Dr. Frankenstein: an evil genius. Likewise‚ Jim Jones‚ founder of The

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    Psychological Criticism    In  the book The Queen of Air and Darkness‚ we are introduced to a castle in Orkney‚ a  medieval  kingdom  in  Ireland.  There  lived  Queen   Morgause  with  her  four  sons‚  Gawaine‚  Gaheris‚  Gareth‚  and  Agravaine.  Morgause  and her sons  have an odd relationship with each  other.  Morgause  is  an  evil  witch  and  one  of  Arthur’s  half­sisters.  The  Orkney  children’s  destructive   behavior  increases  throughout  the  book  and  this  is  mostly  because 

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