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    Sherlock Jr.

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    proverb in the first scene 5 4. Pace of the film & the scenes about ‘one dollar’ 6 5. The same actions‚ different outcomes 6 Reference 7 Main Character 1. Buster Keaton---------------leading actor; projectionist in the reality/ Sherlock. Jr. in the film (I will call him ‘The projectionist’ in the following text.) 2. Kathryn McGuire-----------the leading actress (I will call her ‘The girl’) 3. Ward Crane------------------The Local Sheik in the reality/ The Villain in the

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    Sherlock Holmes is a prominent figure in Victorian literature as well as modern television and film. He is a renowned character as he uses his sharp intellect to solve many mysterious crimes alongside his partner‚ John Watson. Holmes has a darker side that is often overlooked by many fans. His long history of drug use as well as the possibility of mental illness. Psychopathy‚ and addiction. Psychopathy otherwise known as‚ Antisocial Personality Disorder‚ is characterized by: deceitfulness‚ irresponsibility

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    and codes of a person function to express that unique identity to the world. Though Sherlock Holmes‚ hero of Sir Arthur Conan

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    He deviated from both the norm and the image of a Gentleman in many ways. Holmes indulged in several strange hobbies‚ such as indoor target-practice‚ and malodorous experiments that would sometimes explode. The rooms of 221b Baker Street were also painstakingly organized in increasingly odd ways. The unanswered correspondences of Sherlock Holmes were fixed to the center of his desk with a jackknife. Holmes‚ was an expert on‚ and‚ like most gentlemen‚ an avid smoker of tobacco. The specific

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    The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Copyright Notice ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group‚ Inc.‚ a division of Thomson Learning‚ Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. ©2006 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic‚ electronic‚ or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ taping‚ Web distribution

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    The film of Sherlock Holmes is an open mystery--which means the identity of the perpetrator is already released in the beginning of the movie and it also display the “perfect crime” of the perpetrator throughout the movie. We can tell that is a open mystery because the first scene of the movie is where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are trying to prevent a black magic ritual that is run by Lord Blackwood. The police immediately arrested Lord Blackwood then few months later he got sentenced to death

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    Sherlock Holmes is a very strange man. He is a detective who can solve a mystery without even seeing what seems to be like too much evidence. His ethics are very interesting. He believes that murder cases turn out to have very complex ways of happening. He does not believe in the solar system‚ which the narrator thought was very weird. His decision to join the case to help was a just decision‚ because without him the case wouldn’t have been solved correctly. Holmes seems to always stick with his

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    on the Street Sherlock Holmes http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-street/sherlock-holmes Wendy: The streets of London are full of history. But not all the famous characters associated with this city were real. More than a hundred years ago when people travelled by horse and cart and the foggy streets were lit by gaslight‚ one famous detective was leading the fight against crime. It was Victorian London‚ the time of Sherlock Holmes. What makes Sherlock Holmes so interesting

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    Instinctively as a detective‚ Sherlock Holmes was not guilty of the demise of Dr. Roylott. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson‚ when in the room of Helen Stoner‚ waited for evidence for the cause of Julia Stoner’s death. When Sherlock Holmes hit the ventilator‚ he startled Dr. Watson. When both men traveled to the room of Dr. Roylott‚ they saw that Dr. Roylott was dead‚ with a speckled band-the deadliest snake in India- wrapped around his head. The cause of Dr.Roylott’s death was not Sherlock Holmes’s accountability

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    Also‚ Sherlock Holmes office is on Baker Street. 2. The main character is Sherlock Holmes. 3. The two supporting characters are Irene Adler and the hereditary king of Bohemia‚ Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormsetin. 4. The problem facing Sherlock Holmes was that he had to find the picture of the prince. This photograph was being used by Irene Adler to threaten the soon to be king’s wedding. 5. The first event in the rising action was when the Kinf came to Sherlock Holmes

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