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    second-person narrative is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms‚ for example the English second-person pronoun "you"or "your". Example: You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are‚ and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar‚ although the details are fuzzy. —Opening lines of Jay McInerney’s

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    The article is about Nick Sissa‚ a man from Huston‚ TX who saved hundreds of people’s lives during Harvey using a military truck he bought in 2016. The article tells you a little about his family in the sentence‚ “His wife Martha tells of how he departed in the military truck…” More about his life is found out at the beginning of the following sentence‚ “A Houston father made an impulse purchase a year ago not knowing it would allow him to save more than 300 stranded people during Hurricane Harvey

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    Doodle and the narrator wants to teach Doodle to run so he will “fit” in. But‚ when Doodle is not able to accomplish these activities in time the narrator becomes spiteful. The narrator believes Doodle being not being able to run is in his head and purposely runs faster and ahead of Doodle to make Doodle strive to catch up with him. Soon after Doodle collapses‚ instead of turning around to help him‚ the narrator chooses to leave him behind in the forest. But‚ the spitefulness of the narrator eventually

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    In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the post-war American society is depicted through the protagonist Nick Carraway’s eyes. The book was published in 1925 and is set in 1922. One of its major themes is the American Dream which is shown throughout the story. In 1922‚ the post-war society is focused on having fun hence the “Roaring twenties” and thee “Age of Wonderful Nonsense”. Nick Carraway does not belong to any group or stereotype and is exposed to different surroundings and different

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    barred black Americans from enjoying the same basic human rights as their white counterparts‚ the novel opens in the South (Greenwood‚ South Carolina)‚ although the majority of the action takes place in the North (Harlem‚ New York). In the plot ‚ the narrator — speaking to us from his underground hideout in the basement (coal cellar) of a whites-only apartment building — reminisces about his life Next About Julius Caesar The action begins in February 44 BC. Julius Caesar has just reentered Rome in triumph

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    Nick Sousanis’s comic Unflattening is a philosophical look at the importance of expanding perspectives beyond a fixed viewpoint. He made the unusual decision to present his dissertation in the form of a comic not only because the dual perspective of images and words coincides with his message‚ but also to show the potential for the application of comics beyond society’s preconceived ideas of the form. Comics offers a unique combination of the verbal and the visual that can be applied to both narrative

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    Woodhill). Indeed‚ some of the most notable thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries fervently denounced capitalism’s inherent inequality‚ from Karl Marx‚ whose Manifesto fueled

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    At the age of twenty‚ most are still learning to grow up and figure their lives out. But what they don’t expect‚ is to spend the next twenty- one years of their life on death row. Unfortunately‚ this was the reality for Nick Yarris. Based on his novel‚ “The Fear of 13”‚ is a documentary which tells the chilling story of Yarris’s life and the mistreatment he faced against the Pennsylvania Prison (2015). Yarris spent two decades on death row‚ on the charges of the abduction‚ rape and murder of Linda

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    Holden Caulfield: An Unreliable Narrator In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield is the narrator; throughout the story he shows to be an unreliable and reliable narrator. Caulfield is a teenage boy‚ who is psychologically depressed and confused. To be an unreliable narrator‚ the narrator must be biased‚ a liar‚ and unable to associate with other characters in the novel. These are all characteristics that prove the Holden is an unreliable narrator throughout the development of the novel. http://search

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    In the book An Empire on the Edge‚ Nick Bunker addressed a clearer idea and understanding of not only the American Revolution‚ but also the Boston Tea Party and all the events that caused these major riots to happen. Bunker obviously wrote this book to show that even though it was a struggle and a fight for the United States to gain independence‚ they exerted their best efforts and ultimately succeeded. The many struggles and trials that they had to go through to get America to be the way it is today

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