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    Gothic Novel Picture of the Title Page of the Second Edition A Dossier by Luisa Hiller‚ Johannes Klein‚ Benjamin Priebst‚ and Claudia Haack Table of Contents: 1. Introduction – The Gothic Novel 2. Horace Walpole 2.1. The Life of Horace Walpole 2.2. The Works of Horace Walpole 3. “The Castle of Otranto - A Gothic Novel“ 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Index of Characters 3.3. Summary of the Plot 3.4. The Characters ’ Appearance 3.5. The Character Constellation 3.6. Gothic Elements

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    Maddie Dickson 2/10/13 Betz per. 5 Critical Book Review: A Coal Miners Bride; The Diary of Anetka Kaminska Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the author of picture books‚ novels‚ and nonfiction for children‚ including Newbery Honor book Hitler youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow‚ The Sibert Medal-winning Black Potatoes‚ and Dear America: A Coal Miners Bride. Her work has received dozens of awards and Honors‚ including the NCTE Orbis Pictus award for nonfiction‚ the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction

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    ABSTRACT The study is about the conditions of the small-scale miners in Barangay Bukal‚ Nabunturan Compostela Valley Province. Looking at the situation of the small-scale miners nowadays‚ the miners are really pitiful to look at because of the big issues that the sector had encountered through the generations. These self devastating issues give very big impacts to the miners. The public had been blinded by these issues especially to the miners’ health which is the bait of the gold hunting. In their economic

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    Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto‚ is acknowledged by many as the first gothic novel. It was the first of it’s kind and many of the conventions used by Walpole‚ which put it in a literary genre of it’s own‚ were continued by authors such as Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. Many of these defining characteristics can be seen within the very first few pages of the text and for the purposes of this essay‚ to identify some of these conventions used and the relevance of this text to modernity I shall

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    “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” What the Roman poet Horace was saying was that when there is an obstacle in our way‚ our true colors will radiate. I could not agree more. When we as human beings feel passionate about achieving a goal‚ we may learn something new of ourselves‚ maybe a new trait that we did not know we possessed‚ when we reach new heights we did not know we could push ourselves towards. Challenges are similar

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    Body Ritual among the Nacirema Kelsey White Ivy Tech Community College Abstract Horace Miner wants his readers to learn the value of what a real culture should be and how Americans today are really like. In his article‚ Body Ritual among the Nacirema‚ Miner writes about a cultural tribe that has strange rituals and values that would seem unethical to anybody else. He describes how important culture is to them and portrays that Americans think their culture is so

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    In the article “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner‚ he writes about a North American group known as the “Nacirema”‚ who were described by Professor Linton in the early twentieth century. In the article described‚ the “Nacirema” are a cultural group who seem to be obsessed with rituals they perform in regards to the human body on a day-to-day basis. These people believe that the human body is ugly and debilitating and are described to waste great portions of their days performing the

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    Date 6/12/2013 Body Ritual among the Nacirema Horace Miner in the article‚ Body Ritual Among the Nacirema depicts a society that is growing naturally‚ but which has transformed itself into a ritual tribe. In this article‚ the tribe‚ Nacirema‚ is a tribe that has transformed itself naturally and which has incorporated a lot of beliefs and religious tendency for good living. More evident in the arguments given by Horace Miner is the fact that the societal people of Nacirema care and have

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    the Nacirema Summary Body Ritual Among the Nacirema is an article written by anthropologist Horace Miner‚ that depicts a society whose focus is solely on the enhancement of the human body. In the text‚ the characters are the their Nacirema people‚ who live in northern America. The Nacerima people center around this idea that the human body is ugly and that it is prone to sickness and aging. Horace Miner describes several rituals the Nacirema people partake in to better their physical health and

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    written by Mr. Horace Miner. Miner was a graduate of the University of Chicago‚ with a degree in anthropology. Throughout his life‚ Miner was dedicated to his studies ranging in anthropology to sociology. He was very interested in the study of anthropology‚ but Miner disagreed with the way that other cultures were represented. He thought American anthropologists believed that the American culture was "normal" and‚ that the other studied cultures were misrepresented (Hoogland). Miner was convinced

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