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    " That was how they came to hold the most splendid funeral they could ever conceive of for an abandoned drowned man." Thesis The author uses magical realism such as everyone worshiping a stranger this helps the reader understand reality because sometimes we treat the dead better than we do the living. The people of the town pampered him‚ treated him like a god and adjusted there lives around him even though he was dead. Conclusion The people of the town pampered the strange good looking dead

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    If I had been born a girl This topic could be interesting or some people believe that could be embarrassing‚ however‚ what I can see girls life nowadays is very worrying‚ the clothe they wear‚ the way they want to get attention from men‚ sometimes it’s not quite obvious what effect are they trying to achieve‚ are they trying to look hot and sexy or simply silly and funny? Both cases most of time are wrong. First at all‚ If I had been born a girl‚ I would have liked to make the difference among

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    People have dreams from a very young age. At first children believe they can be anything‚ but that isn’t the case. As you grow older‚ you realize getting your dreams isn’t as easy as you may think. When people figure this out‚ some give up on their dreams and some forget them. But some people decide to fight for their dreams. William‚ a young adult on the journey of becoming a rock journalist overcomes his struggle of keeping his dreams in the back of his mind when friendships‚ family and love get

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    ‘If I’d known‚ I wouldn’t have come’ The importance of information in the migratory experience Diana Mata-Codesal Final Paper January 2006 Brighton‚ United Kingdom “If I´d known‚ I wouldn´t ha ve come” Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................ 2 2. Literature dealing with information ........................................................ 3 3. Migrants´ networks ............................................

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    Introduction The orchestra concert that I had watched and enjoyed was the school concert‚ which has performed at 25th October 2014‚ 12:30 pm. The concert was conducted at PERTRONAS Twin Tower (KLCC)‚ MPO hall‚ which also known as Malaysian Phiharmonic Orchestra. The school concert has conducted for nearly 1 hour‚ which ends around 1:30 pm. The title for this concert was “The Mysterious Maestro”. There were total of twelve pieces that have performed by the orchestra. The first piece was named “Overture

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    The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World By Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa‚ Translator   THE FIRST CHILDREN who saw the dark and slinky bulge approaching through the sea let themselves think it was an enemy ship. Then they saw it had no flags or masts and they thought it was a whale. But when it washed up on the beach‚ they removed the clumps of seaweed‚ the jellyfish tentacles‚ and the remains of fish and flotsam‚ and only then did they see that it was a drowned man. They had been playing with

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    The Transformation of a Fishing Village A drowned man is anything but handsome. In the film “Castaway” made in the year 2000‚ the main character played by Tom Hanks pulls a drowned man who was his pilot from the sea. He is bloated and his skin is green. He is definitely not a handsome man. Why then would Gabriel Garcia Marquez write a story about a handsome drowned man? Marquez writes a magical story of a man from a faraway land washing up on the shore of a remote village. Though he is dead‚ the

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    "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is full of sea imagery‚ from the title on forward. When the dead body first approaches the shore‚ the kids playing think he is a whale; then‚ a ship. He even looks like some sort of funky sea monster: "when [his body] washed up on the beach‚ they removed the clumps of seaweed‚ the jellyfish tentacles‚ and the remains of fish and flotsam‚ and only then did they see that it was a drowned man" (1). And shortly after‚ we’re told that "he had the smell of the

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    The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World can be analysed as a parable for humankind’s need for meaning and the ability of ideas to transform the world. Written in 1968 by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ the short story follows a small village’s reaction as a drowned man washed up on their shore‚ where they proceed to create meaning within the man‚ effectively also evoking meaning within themselves. The readers are immersed by vivid imagery which‚ through magical realism‚ describes the absurd through a matter-of-fact

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    I Had a Job I liked. Once. Guy Vanderhaegh takes us back a few decades in the retelling of a court case in small town‚ Saskatchewan in the play‚ “I Had a Job I liked. Once.” Using elements of style‚ staging and developing characters throughout the play Vanderhaegh portrays to the audience the theme of the biases and prejudices that come with living in a small town. The story is set in small town Saskatchewan in a police station office‚ on the night of August of 1957. Corporal Heasman has brought

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