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    Why Significant Changes Were Made to the Plot in The Big Sleep Movie After reading the novel "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler‚ then watching the 1946 movie version starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall‚ I found myself asking why are there so many changes to the plot in this movie as compared to the novel. Many significant pieces of the plot were drastically different and there were even certain scenes that had been made up for the movie that were never in the book. After doing some research

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    The Snowman

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    The animated film The Snowman is a charming‚ whimsical‚ kid friendly adaption of Raymond Brigg’s classic picture book. The film deals with friendship‚ fantasy‚ Christmas‚ reality and treasure. In the former part of the film‚ it portrays a boy’s nocturnal adventures with the snowman he built. Easiness‚ harmony and happiness suffuse the whole frames. The boy and the snowman creep and frolic in the house; they venture outside and ride on a motorbike; they take flight over the land and reach the Arctic

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    Symbolism in "Cathedral"

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    Symbolism in “Cathedral” In Raymond Carver’s short story‚ “Cathedral‚” a man has his eyes opened up to the world through the aid of his wife’s blind friend‚ Robert. Carver employs the use of symbolism in the form art representing insight to highlight the narrator’s blindness to his life. The narrator is not physically blind‚ but he is oblivious to the problems he faces. The tapes sent between the narrator’s wife and Robert were definitely a form of art. They were a medium through which they

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    Most of the stories from Raymond Carver share the same topic‚ alcoholism. But there are two particular stories “Chef’s House” and “Where I’m Calling From” that have certain similarities and differences. In “House” Edna agrees to reunite with her alcoholic husband‚ Wes‚ for one summer to share a friend’s beach house. During the summer Wes refrains from drinking‚ to enjoy the summer. When Chef returns‚ requiring Edna and Wes to leave‚ everything changes again. In “Calling‚” we meet two patients of

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    The Big Sleep Analysis

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    The Big Sleep‚ by Raymond Chandler‚ was written in 1939. It is a story about a private detective in Los Angeles who takes a case about blackmail‚ but the case would soon develop into a big ordeal with murder‚ corruption‚ and kidnapping. The first two paragraphs of the story provide a great introduction to Marlowe‚ the private investigator‚ and great information about him. The first two paragraphs also give a lot of information the reader can use to better understand the plot later in the story. The

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    strongly recognized. In his book‚ Personality: A Psychological Interpretation‚ Gordon Allport (1937) both established personality psychology as a legitimate intellectual discipline and introduced the first of the modern trait theories.[10][11][11] Raymond Cattell’s research

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    ’cultural’ or ’communications’ studies. The phrase is usually linked with the name of Raymond Williams‚ but a cursory examination of Williams’s own work quickly establishes that it is a phrase he rarely uses‚ and only schematically attempts to define. The thesis therefore takes the form of an investigation into the way cultural materialism has come to be understood‚ by examining in detail the trajectory of Raymond Williams’s theoretical development‚ and how his own engagement with various theoretical

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    Cathedral The short story "Cathedral"‚ written by Raymond Carver‚ was first published in 1983. This short story deals with one main problem: Prejudices. The short story is about a man‚ the narrator‚ which wife is going to meet her old friends‚ Robert‚ whom is blind. At first the main character aren’t looking forward meeting the blind man. His sigh of being a handicapped is narrow-minded: “In the movies‚ the blind move slowly and never laughed” (ll. 8-9). Prejudices are something that has always

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    a small good thing

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    Samuel Adebayo Professor Jennifer M Jakob Literature 110 December 3‚ 2013 Response to (A Small Good Thing by Raymond Carver) Having read Diana’s take on this story‚ I totally agree with the fact that the story is that of isolation‚ loneliness‚ and connectedness. Raymond Carver uses this story to depict a classic example of how disjointed and lonely people could be. Many people have allowed themselves to be consumed by life’s circumstances‚ career‚ and education. Consequently‚ they

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    Student Name Professor Elliott ENC 1102 8 October 2012 Analysis of an Argument The essay “A Narrator’s Blindness in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” written by Bethany Qualls certainly failed to make an effective argument. Throughout the essay there are several instances where Bethany Qualls doesn’t consistently maintain her focus. Bethany Qualls makes a weak introduction and conclusion. The essay consistently has redundancy and contradiction‚ which makes her argument weak. Qualls argument was

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