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    Beast of Southern Wild This week on English 2‚ we viewed a film called “The Beast of the Southern Wild”. I have never seen a film like this one‚ it was a wonderful film. I was stunned‚ speechless and crying as well. However my shock was trumped by pride. Pride‚ because this little girl and her father taught me a great lection in my life. Hushpuppy lived in a community that I can hardly imagine living there‚ a community forgotten by its motherland. Entrapped by water‚ she lived with a father

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    The Other

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    Juliann Sostre English 93 Draft #3 Have you ever experienced being the “other”? When you are the other it means being invisible. Being rejected by other people who are different from you may affect someone’s personality and outlook. You’re being discriminated by everyone so you feel like there’s no point of even doing what you like to do. In the reading “Diversity and it’s Discontents” Arturo Madrid writes that even though he was born and raised in this country‚ he has spent most of his life

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    Bella Spooner Representation of Women in Horror Films. Since the inventions of television and film‚ media influences have become extremely important in modern society with people constantly being inundated by images and messages that come from film‚ television‚ magazines‚ internet and advertising. Researchers and theorists such as Carol J. Clover and Jean Kilborne believe that the fact that people are going to be affected by the media is absolutely unavoidable. Films can act as guides to

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    Southern Cop Analysis

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    Ka’Sean Chapman Bell 4 April 4‚ 2012 In the “Southern Cop”‚ Sterling Brown tells the story of Ty Hendricks: a cop stricken by racism and discrimination. Immediately beginning this poem Ty is identified and Brown foreshadows to his audience that Ty has done some wrong doings. Essentially‚ this poem is the epitome of certain Americans today. Being a young African American male‚ the actions in this poem really didn’t strike as a surprise to me. Sadly‚ I’ve been stereotyped plenty of times

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    The Truth of a Southern Dream In Fitzgerald’s "Ice Palace"‚ Sally Carrol Happer is a Georgia girl tired of the lazy and unambitious South. She desires to break free from her hometown of Tarleton‚ captivated by the promises and new opportunities in the North. Her fiancée Harry is supposed to be the fiancée that can provide her this new lifestyle‚ but her romanticized vision becomes disillusioned. Sally Carrol’s misconception of the shimmering North is captured after experiencing the reality of

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    people enjoy a fine horror film. The feeling of being scared comes naturally when watching a fearsome movie. However‚ one has to ask‚ what is it about horror that people enjoy? They are aware that watching these types of movies will make them scared‚ but most people still go watch these movies and essentially pay to be scared.What is it about these movies that drive others to go see them? In Stephen King’s essay‚ “Why we Crave Horror Movies‚” some causes of why people watch horror movies because there

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    Horror Movie Experiment

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    Methods Supplies We used the horror movie “Devil” as the fear stimulus in our experiment. The movie was played on a 13.3 inch laptop. Oxygen saturation and pulse were measured using a Walgreens Pharmacy brand pulse oximeter. The experiment was completed in a closed door prayer room in the Student Center. The lights were shut off and a phone flashlight was the only light source in the room‚ used to record information. Subjects For this experiment we chose two female college students. Female subjects

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    In 1792 James painted a portrait called‚ “A Voluptuary in the Horrors of Digestion.” A voluptuary is someone who overindulges in pleasurable things. In this painting it shows‚ a Prince sitting on a fancy chair after eating a large meal. This Prince will someday be King. In order to be a good king they must have the following things‚ he must be ambitious‚ honest‚ and good with money. For the following reasons this Prince is not ready to be King. First‚ the king must be ambitious. Being ambitious

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    amazing sense of fear and horror in her writing‚ but how? In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein there are many subtle techniques she uses to make this story so powerful. In this piece of writing I am going to show you some examples of these techniques and how she uses them so well to make Frankenstein a great piece of writing. The author uses lots of descriptive words to describe Dr. Frankenstein’s state of mind. She describes him as being fearful with ‘breathless horror’. Mary Shelley also says ‘disgust

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    notes on gothic horror

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    architecture‚ and Gothic fiction is often set in medieval castles or churches. These settings are often dark‚ gloomy and full of secret chambers‚ hallways and dungeons. Wild‚ dark and dangerous locations‚ such as abandoned graveyards‚ forests and other untamed places‚ are also common. In more contemporary Gothic literature‚ such as Henry James’s "Turn of the Screw‚" older houses and manors replaced castles‚ though the sense of mystery and gloominess remained a strong element. Conventions of Characters

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