modern New York‚ the series include City of Bones‚ followed by City of Ashes‚ City of Glass‚ City of Fallen Angels and City of Lost Souls. The sixth book‚ City of Heavenly Fire‚ will be released in May‚ 2014. The author Cassandra Clare writes urban fantasy novels for young adults. City of Bones is set in a present time. Clare was born as Judith Rumelt‚ to American parents‚ in Tehran (Iran)‚ who soon changed her name to Cassandra Clare. Clare is known for her young adult fiction books‚ she is also
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Video games have become one of the largest forms of entertainment within the last decade or two. People of all ages play these games to get out of the boring reality of things and experience the thrill of fantasy‚ combat‚ or adventure. But what kind of games gives you the experience you want? Some may want to control one person‚ a great being on a quest to restore his or her torn land‚ wielding great powers and becoming enveloped in a great story. Others may want to control a million persons
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Robert Browning’s poems ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’ are both about psychotic men who kill their lovers. However‚ the men differ in their motives as Porphyria’s murder could be considered to be done out of love whereas the dukes murder is one of jealousy. This heavily influences our feeling towards the two men‚ as the duke is a bitter misogynist compared to Porphyria’s ‘Tender murderer’. Dramatic monologue by definition is a piece of performed writing that offers great insight into the
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1. What was this poem’s expressive purpose? The poem’s expressive purpose is to explain to the Count’s servant why he‚ the Duke‚ doesn’t have a Duchess anymore. The first line of the poem‚ “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall‚ looking as if she were alive‚” hints of the last Duchess’s death and the rest of the poem elaborates on the complete story of the last Duchess. Throughout the poem‚ we discover that the main reason for the last Duchess’s disappearance was because the Duke felt threatened
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Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi. It centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games (RPGs)‚ but includes motion pictures‚ anime‚ printed media‚ and other merchandise. The first game in the series‚ published in 1987‚ was conceived by Sakaguchi as his last-ditch effort in the game industry; the title was a success and spawned sequels. The video game series has since branched into other genres. Although most Final Fantasy installments are
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Different But The Same (Comparing and contrasting My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover) Robert Browning is one of the best writers when it comes to dramatic monologues. Dramatic monologue is a poem where a person is speaking to an intended audience about something that they feel strongly about. There are two questions that you ask when reading dramatic monologues they are: Who is the speaker? And who is the speaker speaking to? Robert Browning is known for some of the most influential dramatic
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Explication Of: My Last Duchess‚ By Robert Browning The situation- This poem tells a story of a man that is paranoid about his wife and how much he admires her. This is a narrative poem. The poem’s expresses a mood of desperation and the character is worried. The speaker is the Duke of Ferrara and the poet is speaker through the Duke and telling us a story. The tone of the poem is anger and love. He admires her sculptures but also is angery at her because he suspects her of cheating. The structure-
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My Lai Massacre How Important was the My Lai Massacre in Generating Support for the Peace Protest Movement? The Peace Protest Movement was a time in the Vietnam war when people disagreed with it. This was because of a number of things. The amount of money it was costing‚ The amount of people killed‚ but it originated largely from the massacre at My Lai. The reason that the happenings in My Lai‚ 1968 were so unpopular is because it was the first time that people back home‚ in USA and
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1.1. Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” In my opinion‚ this is probably the best album by Kanye West. My opinion is based on the realization that this album includes elements from Kanye’s all previous four albums. It has a soul sampled based production of 2004’s The College Dropout‚ the symphonic sound of Late Registration‚ the gloss of 2007’s Graduation‚ and the emotions and elements of electro music of 2008’s 808s & Heartbreak (EW Staff‚ 2010). Kanye spent $3 million to produce this
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I read a critical article on Robert Browning’s "My Last Duchess". I confess it was harder to find something in the NCLC’s than I would’ve thought. There was a considerable accumulation of critiques on Browning’s work‚ but very little on "My Last Duchess". The article I found concentrated mostly on the Duke in the poem‚ and our reactions to him‚ stating that "[t]he utter outrageousness of the Duke’s behavior makes condemnation the least interesting response " The title of the article was "Sympathy
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