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    Ade was slipping her science book into her schoolbag when mama screamed. Two sharp cracks splintered the air. She had heard the sound of coming storm- still unknown to her- which had perhaps already done the damage. A cry of a man echoed through the solid walls‚ around the house‚ which sounded unfamiliar to Ade; she had never -in her life- heard her father cry. This was alone enough of an evidence to alarm her of the situation. Dumbfounded‚ her schoolbag dropped as her hand unconsciously loosened

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    Little Shop of Horrors opened first in the Workshop of the Players’ Art (WPA) Theatre‚ a small theatre (Off-Off-Broadway) in 1982 for one month. It was composed by Alan Menken and written by Howard Ashman‚ and was based on the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman was the director). It then moved to the Orpheum Theatre (Off-Broadway) in Manhattan where it stayed for 5 years‚ finally closing in 1987. The show opened in London’s West End on 1st January 1983 at the Comedy Theatre for

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    A Wrecked Southern Economy     After the Civil War‚ American life changed drastically socially‚ politically‚ and economically. The South ’s economy took an extreme turn for the worst when their virtually one-crop economy failed. Cotton was no longer king. At the Civil War ’s close‚ the wrecked Southern economy helped influence the growth of the North ’s economy‚ and made ways for laws and Amendments to help former slaves during Reconstruction.     After the Civil War‚ the South ’s economy was hopelessly

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    The Representation of Women in Horror Films Traditionally‚ women in horror films are portrayed as damsels in distress that need to be rescued by male dominant characters in order to survive or live. They are weak‚ innocent and fragile that have absolutely no strength to fend for themselves. Women in horror films are also portrayed with no initiative – they always have to follow some kind of male dominant leader – and don’t have much personal perspective or opinions. Throughout the years since the

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    Roller Coaster of Horror As we analyze Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies‚” we come across his essential reasons as to what gives us the ambition and motivation to insist watching horror movies. In a way Stephen King is correct; one way or another we all are mentally ill to a point. No one is perfect‚ and we all do strange things. Some people are perfectionists when it comes to how they do things; some have a habit of talking to themselves‚ and others just do strange things like

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    Why We Crave Horror Movies

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    Bethany Adams English 1010 Nicholas Bush 11.30.10 The Insanity Within Why do we crave horror movies? Stephen king was asked this same question in an interview that was published in a Playboy magazine in 1981. King replied “we are all mentally ill” (1) and “to show we can”(3). King expressed his views on both sides stating that we all are guilty of acting mentally ill‚ and that we all simply enjoy watching horrifying movies. Both of these statements are true‚ but not necessarily accurate. King

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    Northern Workers vs. Southern Slaves Throughout the antebellum period‚ people were working hard in both the northern and southern United States. In the north‚ many people were working long hours in factories. In the south‚ African American slaves were also working sun up to sun down. Some of the conditions northern workers and southern slaves experienced were similar‚ but there were also much worse conditions that African American slaves had to deal with. One of the conditions that both African

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    Why We Need Horror Movies

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    Edwin Tompkins Ms. Allen English 100-010 04/08/2013 Why We Need Horror Movies In “Why We Crave Horror Movies‚” Stephen King writes about horror movies‚ why we like them‚ and the purposes they serve us. One of the main reasons he makes in his essay is that he believes that there is a dark and sinister side to all people that craves to see the suffrage and despair of others and that this is why we need these movies. King says that these particular kinds of movies are good in the way that the

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    are represented in the horror genre? In this essay I am going to look how woman are represented in the horror genre and how much of an impact it has on the success of the movie. In my research I seen that woman cover two main roles in the movies‚ the villain e.g. The Exorcist or the victim e.g. The others. When woman are the main villain in horror genre I found it mainly was teenage girls e.g. The Ring‚ The Exorcist‚ The Grudge and The Orphan. I think the reason many horror movies use young woman

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    Joan Gardona Andrada II-BSE English Creative Writing (POETRY) Forms Specific poetic forms have been developed by many cultures. In more developed‚ closed or "received" poetic forms‚ the rhyming scheme‚ meter and other elements of a poem are based on sets of rules‚ ranging from the relatively loose rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized structure of the ghazal or villanelle. Described below are some common forms of poetry widely used across a number of languages

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