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    How Does Steinbeck Create Tension in Chapter Three in Of Mice and Men Steinbeck creates tension by making the atmosphere before Curley’s dog gets shot very awkward. He does this by writing about how small noises draw everyone’s attention in the room to it: “He rippled the edge of the deck nervously‚ and the little snapping noise drew the eyes of all men in the room‚ so that he stopped doing it.” This quote gives a sense of tension‚ since tiny things like rippling cards can drew everyone’s attention

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    OF MICE AND MEN Chapter 1 Setting : It is a hot Thursday‚ late in the afternoon. The characters are four miles south of Soledad. They stop right by the Salinas River‚ a beautiful river in rural California surrounded by woods that have a warn path through them that runs to the river from the ranches and farms. There is a giant sycamore near them with a horizontal limb worn smooth by men who have sat on it‚ and under it is the ash pile of many fires. It is a very peaceful and heavenly setting.

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    Tension is created in chapter 3 building up to the moment Candy’s dog is shot with the repeated use of silence. The word ‘silence’ is used 3 times to describe the atmosphere of the room leading up to the moment the dog is shot. The silence is described as ‘[coming] out of the night and invading the room’. From this personification we can deduce that Steinbeck wanted the reader to view the silence as an intruder. Because it is seen as such‚ the presence of something unwanted can give a sense of danger

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    Elements of Maggie (the first two chapters) Stephen Crane’s first novel Maggie (girl of the streets) is a tale of uncompromising realism. The story chronicles the titular Maggie‚ a girl who lives in the Bowery with her emotionally abusive parents and brothers Jimmie and Tommy. The novel revolves around the trials and tribulations of Maggie and her family in the Bowery. Highlights of the story include the death of Maggie’s father and brother Tommie which drive Pete to turn into a cold and hard

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    Ordinary World Journey

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    Preceding the End of The World‚ he describes the many stages the main character‚ Makina‚ encounters. The first stage Vogler mentioned is called The Ordinary World. This is when the reader receives all relevant information and the background of the hero or the main character. During this stage the hero’s problems and conflicts are already established and are waiting to be activated. The Ordinary World is also a place to lay out the theme of the story to the

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    6.3 According to s.6-5(1) ITAA 1997‚ ordinary income is ‘income according to ordinary concepts’‚ which is a component of the assessable income. Refer to s.6(1) ITAA 1936‚ earnings‚ salaries and fees of employee or people related to any services rendered are the examples of income from personal exertion. Hilary is a mountain climber and she never wrote a story before‚ so the payment probably has insufficient nexus with her personal service because it is unlikely for her to sell stories as a career

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    Chapter 11 How George once woke up early in the morning accidentally George‚ who is known for sleeping till late‚ cites an incident of waking up early one morning by chance. Once‚ his watch went out of order and the time it showed was quarter-past eight. Mistakenly‚ he woke up at three and rushed to get ready for work. Only when a policeman told him that it was just three o’clock in the morning‚ he realized his watch was showing the wrong time. George‚ Harris and Montmorency keep off the cold water

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    Chapter 1: Introducing Me Ji Eun’s POV Damn‚ it just had to happen all over again‚ this time not without getting all the attention from whoever that was there outside the main gate‚ which is a lot. Now I’m stuck between two men in full black suits in this white limousine driving down the road to who knows where. With the help of Hyuna‚ Nicole and Lizzy‚ I tried to escape using the short-cut alley on the other side of the streets before they could grab hold of me while they distracted the men by

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    No Ordinary Boot Camp

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    No Ordinary Boot Camp - by Noel M.Tichy • Trilogy is a software company based in Austin‚ Texas. It specializes in software services to Global 1000 companies‚ especially in the automotive‚ consumer electronics‚ and insurance agencies. It was founded by Stanford dropout Joe Liemandt. • Trilogy has additional offices in Bangalore and Hangzhou. Its clients include Ford Motor Company‚ Daimler-Chrysler‚ Nissan‚ Goodyear‚ Prudential‚ Travelers Insurance‚ Gateway and IBM. • Trilogy was featured in the

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    short natural vignettes with the parallel struggles of humankind. Of Mice and Men‚ as is clear from the title alone‚ features this parallelism as well. It is a novel about the natural world – “of mice” – and the social world – “and men.” The relationship between these two worlds is not one of conflict but of comparison; he invites us to witness the similarities between the human and animal worlds. The title‚ Of Mice and Men‚ comes from an eighteenth-century poem by Robert Burns entitled “To a Mouse

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