THE WALRUS • MARCH 2OII lltSIHilliiKHIIIIIIIIIillHIIIiniltli BOOKS Crímínou8 Minds A new wave ofcrime writers is exploring Canada’s darken corners BY RICHARD POPLAK ILLUSTRATION BY JACK DYLAN BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY: and beaver-shaped shortbread. Rush espies the young Rosalind Canon‚ CanLit Wunderkind of the moment. She is flush with a Dickie nom‚ a considerable book advance‚ and the adulation of the culturocracy. Why not me? whines Rush‚ borrowing the italics Stephen King made
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about musical taste‚ it is easy to point out the flaws and elements of a song that make you classify it as “bad music.” But it is often more difficult to pinpoint exactly why you love a song. There is something fascinating about the way in which a song is simultaneously loved by some listeners and hated by others. Although the song certainly has as many critics as it does fans‚ to this day‚ “Empire State of Mind” by Jay Z featuring Alicia Keys remains one of my favorite songs. Through the ideas of music
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In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ Ophelia is a beautiful and simple-mind girl‚ easily influenced by other’s opinions and desires. Always doing what she is told‚ even if it is not what her heart wishes. She is easily influenced by her father‚ Polonius and brother‚ Laertes the most. Later on the love letters Ophelia receives from Hamlet cause her mind to become confused‚ and is forced to choose between obeying what her father wants or following her heart. Ophelia is not able to understand
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Out of My Book is a television series concerning eight book characters who are marooned on an island called Eithiola. In the exposition of the show‚ which is about two or three episodes long‚ the main characters are introduced. Ava‚ Sophie‚ Prairie Evers‚ and Ivy are all from Earth and do not believe in magical occurrences. However‚ Sophie Foster‚ Fitz Vacker‚ Jeremy Thatcher‚ and Mary Lou Hutton have experienced the effects of magic and believe in its power. When the characters arrive‚ they are
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As the father of psychoanalysis‚ Sigmund Freud ’s theories of the unconscious mind and the act of repression have helped shape psychology. Many of Freud ’s ideas best explain several of Prince Hamlet ’s actions and thoughts in Shakespeare ’s Hamlet Prince of Denmark. Long before psychologist Sigmund Freud wrote about the power of the unconscious mind‚ Shakespeare was suggesting that we are motivated by desires and aversions lurking beneath our consciousness. Sigmund Freud devoted his time to studying
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our seniors had warned us that‚ we should pay our respects to Mokshagundum‚ everyday to get total moksha from the rigors of professional education. Having not known which fearsome God ‚it was‚ we had spent some early anxious days until‚ we found out that‚ he is none other than our professor and vice-principal‚ a soft spoken and scholarly Mokshagundum Krishnamurthy‚the nephew & heir to sir M.Viswesraiah.. During April 1962‚ some of us who were awaiting our final results had called on
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“Cleaning Out My Closet” By Marshall Mathers a.k.a. “Eminem” The song “Cleaning Out My Closet” is Marshal Mathers pouring his heart out. He is getting everything off of his chest and is settling everything he can with his mom. Eminem’s mother abused him and used him in more ways than one and so much so that he can’t forgive her because he’s tired of having to deal with her problems. He loves his brother so much and he is waiting for when he actually discovers what their mom is all about drugs
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“Out of the Silent Planet” by C.S. Lewis Essay 1 (Character sketch) C.S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet follows the adventures of Dr. Elwin Ransom‚ a philogy professor at Cambridge University‚ who while on a walking tour of the English countryside was drugged and kidnapped by two men‚ Devine and Westin. He is then taken to the planet of Malacondra. Through his travels of the unknown planet‚ we learn that Dr. Elwin Ransom is a very intelligent man with quick response and philosophical mind
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The day I found out about my ethnicity was one of the worst days of my life‚ so far. It was only around 2 years ago and it started just like any other day‚ I was having a pretty good day. It seemed like nothing could possibly go wrong. However‚ little did I know‚ I was about to find out some information that will affect me for the rest of my life. First‚ I realize that the story will not make sense If I do not tell you a little about my childhood. When I was too young to remember anything‚ around
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FISH OUT OF WATER FLORENCE KHOLIWE SEDIKANE 24537446 ENLL 111 Fish out of water Ivan Vladislavic is a South African born writer. He first published this short story “Courage” in the year 1996‚ two years after the new political party was put in place and democracy evolved (Vladislavic‚ 1996). In this essay I seek to critically examine the characteristics of My Old Becker‚ a man who arrives in a black community and is alienated because of his white skin colour. I argue about how his way of dressing
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