UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS AS LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 9695 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe 2. The Open Boat Stephen Crane 3. The Door in the Wall HG Wells 4. The People Before Maurice
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Essay on Mystery The classic mystery story contains many key parts‚ and some of these are present in my novel‚ while some are not. I think the major and most important similarity between mine and that of a classic is the fact that they both deal with murder. Homicide. Assassinations. The ole’ bump-off. Killing. Manslaughter. Anyway you look at it‚ both my novel and most novels from the Hounds of Baskerville to Murder on the Orient Express. My novel deals with this murder in a more dramatic sense
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It’s kind of funny to think that I’ve spent my last 3 years of education at a school where I was the only white kid. You see I felt like I belonged and never once felt like an outcast‚ but I stand at the gates of my new school in a new country‚ promising a safer lifestyle and a higher level of education and I’ve never felt so detached and nervous in my life. The funny part about that is my new school is quite multicultural but I’m definitely not the only white student attending yet I felt I belonged
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“What are your interests‚ Candidate 217?” The entire room was pure‚ brilliant white. The lack of colour was making him blink a little too much‚ so he chose to focus on the only object in the room that didn’t harm his eyes; a stunning brooch that graced the lapels of his interviewer’s jacket. Simple and elegant in design‚ a square‚ red ruby sat in its flawless nest of silver or platinum‚ his money on the latter. “I…don’t really have any‚ to be honest.” He felt like an idiot the moment he’d
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the novel Frankenstein‚ both Victor Frankenstein and his monster are engaged in solving the different and unique mysteries of their individual lives. The knowledge that they gain in their investigations are what shape this story. Victor engrossed himself in solving the mystery of the creation of life and its commodities‚ whereas the monster is trying to learn how to solve the mysteries of life and live life itself by only observing society. Victor is possessed by "Promethean ambition" in his obsession
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things is the central theme in Stephen Crane short story "A Mystery of Heroism". Most of Crane’s story forced the readers to look beyond his words for a meaningful moral. His subject matter usually deals with the physical and emotional responses of ordinary people confronted by extraordinary experiences or things. He seemed to include each of his stories he wrote with a sense of hope because he was fascinated by the status of a hero. In this story‚ readers get the impression that you do not have to
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frank 2000 Many works of literature not readily identified with the mystery or detective story genre nonetheless involve the investigation of a mystery. In these works‚ the solution to the mystery may be less important than the knowledge gained in the process of its investigation. Choose a novel or play in which one or more of the characters confront a mystery. Then write an essay in which you identify the mystery and explain how the investigation illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole
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Guided Reading Questions: The Outliers Introduction “The Roseto Mystery”: 1. What is the Roseto Mystery? What overarching idea is Gladwell establishing in his introduction? The author in the novel explains the concept of the Roseto Mystery to be a phenomenal time in history. During the 1950’s where the leading cause of death in the United States was a heart attack in men under the age of 65‚ In Roseto the remarkable discovery was that you ”rarely [found] anyone from Roseto under the age of sixty-five
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“No One’s a Mystery” is mainly about innocence and how coming-of-age plays an important role in a relationship. Tallent plays out a contrast between hopeful expectations and disappointing reality through the character of a naive‚ innocent girl involved with an older‚ experienced man. The girl appears to be very comfortable with Jack‚ even though he pushes her into hiding below the dashboard‚ and despite her spirited singing along with Rosanne Cash on the tape deck‚ her casual drinking of tequila
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can be measured by making use of mystery guests‚ well-trained persons who behave as normal customers but are precisely observing what is going well and what can be improved in the service process as perceived by the customer. Roger Mayland‚ VP of Martiz ’s Quality Controlled Services Division‚ defines mystery shopping as a "process for measuring service quality‚ with feedback‚ that is understandable to the front-line people".The aim of this report is to analyse mystery shopping as a research method
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