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    Harris Crime Fiction

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    The novel of Harris stands as a signpost of current horror fiction in the development of the serial killer as an antihero. With the creation of arguably the best fictional criminals ever‚ Harris makes reference to his habit of making use of real-life serial murderers and forensics to establish a practical subgenre of the crime thriller. The tones of the chapters vary here‚ which resulted in a diverse and uneven read. The conversation of Lecter discloses his penchant for psychology and the coaching

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    Difficulty in Comprehending Science Text Students of all ages have been found to experience difficulty comprehending and learning from science texts(Brand-Gruwel‚ Aarnoutse‚ & Vanden Bos‚ 1998; Nichols‚ Rupley‚ & Willson‚ 1997) According to Catherine E. Snow (2010)‚ science is written in academic language which is designed to be concise‚ precise‚ and authoritative. It uses sophisticated words and complex grammatical constructions that can disrupt reading comprehension and block learning. As

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    7 Elements of Fiction

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    SEVEN ELEMENTS OF FICTION 1) PLOT - Action which occurs -- 5 ingredients plotted as a witch’s hat 1) Exposition (introduction) - background information 2) Rising Action / Complications - conflicts are presented 3) Climax - high point of the action 4) Falling Action - lessens the intensity 5) Denouement (conclusion) - pulls the story together ["They lived happily every after"] NOTE: NOT ALL STORIES CONTAIN ALL 5 INGREDIENTS 2) SETTING - Time‚ Place‚ Customs

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    stories that easily relate to the reader as well. Both stories caused a personal reaction as the writer used certain strategies to detail the idea‚ theme‚ and purpose behind each of the writings. It is also important to know the difference between a fiction and nonfiction story. The author has to intrigue the reader’s imagination to make the story interesting. Reactions and Strategies Salvation Salvation was written by Langston Hughes in 1940. This is a nonfictional story based on a childhood experience

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    SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Scientists do lots of researches in their field everyday and discover many solutions to world’s problem. Recently in china‚ researchers have found the way of removing the clog inside the body tissue without physically touching it. This technique relies on the tool called optical tweezers which directly laser the clog and blood can easily pass through the blood vessel. This experiment was carried out on a live mouse and this is the first time scientists have externally manipulate

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    classifications” (Miller 207). Thomas is cautious in interpreting Conrad’s narrative and questions the possibility of being able to glimpse into an essential truth by placing the text in historical context. Thomas quotes Miller‚ to synthesise “Conrad’s fiction in the context of the history of ideas” (Thomas 242)‚ and later on takes up Miller’s suggestion in the evaluation of The Nigger of the “Narcissus” by Conrad to demonstrate that there can be “decisive unveiling” (Miller 220). Although Thomas does not

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    Magic and Science‚ two topics which have been around for several hundred years and many confusion was arrived in the way about when these two were put into the co-relation with one another because some people believe in magic and some believe in science. Magic is related to the typical behavior whereas Science in knowledge adopted by observations and experiments‚ evaluation‚ and the following of common ideas [1][Gustav Kuhn‚ 2008]. In story of William Kamkwamba [2][William Kamkwamba‚ 2009]‚ he tried

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    In the process of science‚ scientist use two main approaches to learn about nature; Discovery Science and Hypothesis based science. With Discovery Science‚ scientist observe and describe objects‚ and with Hypothesis based Science‚ scientist make a hypothesis‚ make deductions and then test the predictions. In our everyday lives we use Hypothesis based science to solve many different problems. There is a criterion that is needed in order to have a hypothesis-based scientific study. To

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    bad science‚ including physics. 3 examples of bad science and 3 examples of good science are specified. One example of bad science in the movie was with the stopping of the Earth’s core. This is an example of bad science because it goes against conservation of angular momentum. Conservation of angular momentum requires something else to spin and take up the angular momentum lost by the core. But in the movie‚ angular momentum is not conserved and just vanishes. Another example of bad science was

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    Just like Science‚ Shamanism started a very long time ago. As Shamanism is considered as archaic magico-religious phenomenon in which the shaman is the great master of ecstasy‚ Science is also known as an ancient part of life in which its masters are called Natural Philosophers and later are known as Scientists. There are many commonalities and similarities between Science and Shamanism. Shamanism without their knowing also incorporates scientific methods while performing and making potions from

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