“The Taipan” by S. Maugham A story of overweening ambition "The Taipan" tells of an eponymous central character living in Shanghai during colonial times who is extremely satisfied with life. He has plenty of money‚ a taste for liquor and good food‚ a successful business‚ an overweening sense of superiority (he has lasted longer than most expatriates in China‚ despite his gargantuan appetite)‚ and an unshakeable conviction that he had at last "beaten them all" - in other words‚ his rivals. He
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Analysis (from “W. S.”) The text under analysis is an extract from the story W. S. by the well-known English novelist Leslie Poles Hartley. He wrote a number of novels and made a weighty contribution to English fiction. His best-known novels are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1947) and The Go-Between (1953). In the very beginning of the given extract‚ Walter Streeter‚ the main character‚ gets the postcard from Forfar. The sender‚ W.S.‚ asks whether he really thinks that he is really gets to grips
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Michil Zhirkov ED-10-511 THE ESCAPE by W. Somerset Maugham Analysis The Escape (1925) is a novel written by a famous British playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. This story is about a young man who is lucky to meet a woman of his dreams. For a long time‚ he is blinded by love and tenderness and determined to marry her. But one fine day‚ he falls out of love with her. To avoid the wedding and to stay the most gallant man until the end of their relationship at the same time‚ he tries to find
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA “ION CREANGA” STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES ENGLISH PHILOLOGY CHAIR DIPLOMA PAPER FIGURATIVE USE OF WORDS IN W.S.MAUGHAM`S SHORT STORIES) Submitted by: IONAŞCO SILVIA‚ the 4th year student‚ group 404 Scientific adviser: SMOCHIN OLGA‚ Senior lecturer Chişinău – 2011 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………...3 Chapter I. BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF STYLISTIC
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Poets like W. S Merwin convey this concept of simultaneity in his three poems‚ “For the Anniversary of My Death‚ Losing a Language‚ and Drunk in the Furnace.” Merwin mixes-up chronological time in his poems to combine the past with the present. Using time as a major tone in these three poems‚ it allows the reader to unfold how Merwin delivers this duality of what was to what is the case. “For the Anniversary of My Death‚” Merwin writes about his appreciation and love for the life he had‚ as he
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Know-it-all Throughout life we come to understand that some people are brilliant‚ some people want to be brilliant‚ and then there are those who act brilliant‚ known as the know it all. To know it all does not mean one understands all of it‚ as knowing what something is does not mean one knows how it functions. To have knowledge is one thing‚ learning how to use that knowledge is another. John Wooden once said that “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” There could possibly
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Li Bingjie Professor Zhang Zaixin Subject: Term paper for Reading the Short Story in English 28 June 2011 A Post-colonial Analysis of the Short Story Mr. Know-All and the Film Man-to-Man Race has been a fundamental concept in the world literature of all times. Racism‚ under which race-related issues are mostly discussed‚ involves the belief in racial differences‚ which acts as a justification for non-equal treatment‚ or discrimination‚ of members of that race. The term can have varying and
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Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist Author(s): Dan Flory Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 1‚ Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter‚ 2006)‚ pp. 67-79 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700493 . Accessed: 10/01/2012 20:49 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www
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and sellers of a good or service and the institution or arrangement by which they come together or trade. 3 key ideas 1. people are rational 2. respond to economic incentives 3. optimal decisions are made at the margin. Marginal analysis; Analysis that involves comparing marginal benefits and marginal costs. Optimal - outcome achieved is the best possible outcome given the resources of the buyers and sellers. No outcome can be better without making someone else worse off. Margin
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Somerset Maugham "Louise" I could never understand why Louise bothered with me. She disliked me and I knew that behind my back she seldom lost the opportunity of saying a disagreeable thing about me. She had too much delicacy ever to make a direct statement‚ but with a hint and a sigh and a little gesture of her beautiful hands she was able to make her meaning plain. It was true that we had known one another almost intimately for five and twenty years‚ but it was impossible for me to believe
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