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    curiosity. Albeit relatively new‚ both fantasy and horror (also respectively different) are successful and popular as genres‚ for they are able to satisfy the basic human emotion of curiosity and are able to cater towards the human imagination. Sigmund Freud explains how children’s role-played imaginative worlds become suppressed adult fantasies and are therefore tended to go through various mediums; literary fantasy being among one of them. Horror has been able to capitalize on the human’s natural

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    Literary genre that takes its beginning in the early nineteenth century. The genre is named after the goths‚ which were a Germanic tribe that sacked Rome and ushered in the Dark Ages. The literary genre itself appears a long tine after the Dark Ages‚ but the genre evokes the Dark Ages in style and content. Stylistically‚ it often deals with gargoyles. Old mansions. Great‚ vast wilderness. Exotic locations. A lot of references. The monsters: Mad scientists ( Dr. Frankenstein)‚ vampires (Dracula)

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    daily. In Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv utilizes rhetorical questions‚ anecdote‚ and repetition to convey his message about the separation between humans and nature. In the passage he utilizes rhetorical questions and asks two in particular to really get the audience thinking. "Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV‚ yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it? More important‚ why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth

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    are many different reasons why we read the play today. One reason why we still read this play is so that we can remember the tragedies and hardships of the Jew’s that experienced. The main hardship shown in the play for the Frank’s was being stuck in The Secret Annex for two years with another family and a small amount of food. The main tragedies that millions of jews went through during the holocaust was death and torture in the concentration camps. Another reason we still read this play is to

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    Why Should You Study Taxation? The tax law affects every individual and every organization.  They rely on tax professionals to help them comply with the tax law‚ plan to reduce their tax burden‚ and resolve any tax controversies with taxing authorities.  Auditors rely on tax professionals to help them determine a company’s income tax expense and income tax liability. Taxing authorities‚ such as the Internal Revenue Service and state departments of revenue‚ rely on tax professionals to help them

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    There is no need at all for the government’s use or enforcement of hate crimes‚ they charge people with double jeopardy and for speaking there mind. Which breaks the constitution not only once but twice. What Is a Hate Crime and why they are unfair; well a hate crime is when someone is targeted for his or her race‚ color‚ nationality‚ origin‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ disability‚ or sexual orientation‚ nearly all 50 states have hate crime laws. Hate crimes set up special classes of people with higher

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    years. This has caused some towns to ban this type of breed from their town and even city limits‚ but is this a very reasonable ban? Are these dogs more dangerous than other dogs‚ or is it just the owner’s fault? What is the big deal? In my persuasive essay I will be talking about if people should be allowed to keep pitbull breeds or not. My three main points are: 1) it is not the breed‚ it the owner‚ 2) pit bulls make wonderful pets if trained correctly and treated caringly instead of fighting them‚

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    According to Fobes.com‚ "Sinister” was the number one horror film within the last five years and “…the most terrifying‚ disturbing‚ well-acted‚ perfectly paced horror film…” (Hughes‚ The Top 10 Horror Films Of The Last Five Years). There are two different categories of horror stories. The first category is fiction. This category was created to relate to the person reading‚ make it something they believe could happen to them. The second category is psychological. This category was created to get the

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    his CNN op Ed‚ “Why North Korea is Delighted with this US Election”‚ readers will see that John Everard using rhetorical devices like appeal to authority‚ cause and effect and paradox. By using these three rhetorical devices let the reader see that for a long time the United States has tried to halt North Korea progression of nuclear programs‚ but negotiation never resolution but led to North Korea increasing their involvement in the program. John Everard argues that North Korea

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    Terror and Horror in Short Stories (Martynova Ann) Edgar Allan Poe‚ an American poet‚ critic and writer of the XIX-th century‚ is a world- recognised master of the horror genre. Poe’s Tales of Arabesque clearly demonstrate his talent for cultivation of mystery‚ terror‚ and macabre. The process of this horror cultivation is very subtle and complicated. Poe‚ like an artist of arabesque who intertwines and interlaces flowers into an elaborate pattern‚ weaves a net of mystery and horror and entangles

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