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    Why Tom and Jerry are popular Tom and Jerry has a worldwide audience and has been recognized as one of the most famous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema. Its influence of “Tom and Jerry” spread to the world by its vivid scene‚ positive attitude‚ and Tom and Jerry is a theatrical animated cartoon which is simply a rivalry between a cat and a mouse‚ and that somehow is welcome by children and the public. The success of Tom and Jerry is not simply they are funny but with a more complicated

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    feminist influence on some issues found in "Boys and Girls"‚ written by Alice Munro‚ and “playing to win” ‚by Margaret Whitney‚ these stories emphasizes the external societal and parental forces that shape the protagonist. These aspects also change who they become. The external pressure by society and by family influence the protagonist in both story. Mother in the both story “playing to win” and “Boys and Girls” doesn’t support their daughter when they wish to be more masculine than feminine. For example

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    How does Tenneyson tell the story in Lady Of Shallot? The genre of the poem at the beginning creates a fairy story/myth theme for the reader to base an idea on hoe the rest of the poem will flow‚ however as the poem goes on we see a more sad and lonely theme. In part 1 of the poem the setting is described as a rural and beautiful retreat and gives the reader a feeling of summer‚ although as part 1 goes on so does the change of setting. In part 4 we see the setting as confusion for the Lady of

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    O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” both deal with violence and the moral ambiguity surrounding it‚ although the authors employ different approaches based on the emotional response they are trying to create in the reader. Because the stories are set in dissimilar environments‚ the way in which the authors depict violence is geared to the setting in which it occurs. However‚ the harmful effects of violence on the human psyche are portrayed in similar ways in both stories. In “Killings

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    The text under analysis is a short story “The One Who Waits” by Ray Bradbury. “The one who waits” is a science fiction story. Like in many other Bradbury’s stories‚ the action takes place in future when it is possible to travel to other planets. The story describes one of the first landings on Mars . It is narrated in the 1st person by a mysterious creature‚ en entity who lives in a well on Mars. It has no body and itself doesn’t know who it is. The creature watches how a spaceship

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    How does Rossetti tell the story in ‘Jessie Cameron’? Rossetti uses the title of the poem to help tell the story in ‘Jessie Cameron’. Whilst Jessie’s full name is used as the title of the poem and repeatedly referred to throughout‚ the name of her lover is not once mentioned. Instead Jessie calls him ‘neighbour’s son’ avoiding any more intimate communication. This suggests that she does not regard him as highly in her life as he may regard her‚ it also suggests that she doesn’t want to lead him

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    How to Tell a True War Story Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a work of metafiction that manages to test fiction in its very nature through the chapter‚ “How to Tell a True War Story.” The blurred line between reality and the imagination is explored by the given account—the reader is alienated and forced to think‚ does the truth matter in a war story? This chapter alternates in narration between O’Brien as a soldier and as a storyteller‚ examines the duplicity of whether story truth

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    Act II Scene i 1. How is Cassio portrayed in the beginning of this scene? Cassio is young‚ good looking‚ and inexperienced in worldly matters. He is completely loyal to Othello‚ and he deserves his promotion to Othello’s lieutenant. 2. What does Iago mean when he says‚ “Sir‚ would she give you so much of her lips As of her tongue she oft bestows on me‚ You would have enough” (112-114)? She talks to much 3. What is Iago saying in lines 140-143? That hes too dumb to come up with praises out of

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    In The Way to Rainy Mountain‚ the author. N. Scott Momaday‚ delivered the history of his ancestors‚ the Kiowa tribe. Ever since the death of his grandmother‚ he was motivated to dig deeper into the Kiowa culture as he returned to his grandmother’s grave and commenced on a journey to Rainy Mountain. The piece provides short stories and myths in regards to Kiowa’s history. The author begins by illustrating the settlement of the Kiowa tribe where “a single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma‚ north

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    “The Way To Rainy Mountain” depict the land as a spiritual entity that’s worth being worshipped and respected as shown by man’s praise of it. The way man‚ rather than exploit it for profit‚ respects the land through animism shows their gratitude for it. From the detailed descriptions that give the reader an illustration of what man has seen‚ it is clear to say that man had this religious relationship again‚ but was also in tune with the lay of the land. In “Undaunted Courage” it tells the tales and

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