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    Shakespeare creates external conflict between opposing characters to build tension onstage. When Hamlet and King Claudius

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    Period 2 Zick Reflection on: Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension) Jenna Wortham/New York Times/Aug. 25‚ 2012 The article‚ “Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension)” by Jenna Wortham‚ from the New York Times‚ can be related to most people in our generation. Our generation is filled with new technology and doing things faster and more efficient. I would say the majority of teenagers have smart phones with texting and/or internet. I feel that most people have forgotten to live in the moment and just to enjoy

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    The human condition is the ongoing balance between ambivalence‚ good and evil inside people and their environment. This balance and struggle between the three areas affect personal‚ emotional‚ spiritual and mental growth. Humans are somehow a balance between aggression‚ selfishness and lust mixed with compassion‚ love‚ trust and hope. Some of these characteristics include faith‚ birth‚ growth‚ peace‚ friendship‚ anger‚ corruption‚ hate‚ greed‚ pain‚ conflict‚ love and fear. This equilibrium allows

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    What was the underlying tension in the puritan community? The puritans were a group of people who worship God saying that the lord forgives all. Then they would turn around and used him for their own personal use. They would exile‚ kill‚ and torture people to death in the lord’s name. However‚ the ones behind all these acts weren’t just the colonist but also the priest! They were the ones in charge of everything that would happen in the colonies. The puritans were people who based their social lives

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    one’s goals or aspirations. By avoiding treating people with humanity‚ they enable themselves to make tough decisions in which they would not make otherwise. For Example‚ in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ Frankenstein greets his creation with fear and hostility‚ which leads to the monster being exiled from society. As a result of Frankenstein’s treatment towards the monster‚ Frankenstein noticed that by alienating the monster‚ he applied tension on society because the monster was ravaging through

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    In the novel Rebecca‚ du Maurier uses techniques‚ such as dialogue and setting description‚ to create suspense and tension. But in the movie‚ Hitchcock uses different techniques‚ like music and scenery‚ to create the right kind of suspense and tension for his audience. The plots are the same‚ but the techniques are not. In the novel‚ the author uses a lot of dialogue to create the suspense needed to make the storyline interesting. For example‚ on page 259 in chapter 19‚ the narrator is speaking

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    The Khoisan are the native people of southwestern Africa. They had been around since about 5th century A.D.‚ and were occupying southern Africa along with other Later Iron Age societies such as the Ovambo‚ Herero‚ Sotho-Tswana and Xhosa (Wikipedia‚ 2014; Shillington‚ 2012). Before the mid-1600s‚ the pastoralist Khoisan people‚ just like the other southern states and chiefdoms‚ had been sustaining themselves through the rearing‚ use‚ and exchange of Nguni sheep and cattle as well as the inter-regional

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    general opinions concerning people of color. As with the rest of the deep south‚ in Louisiana the owning of slaves was a common and socially acceptable practice. However there were also many free African-Americans in the area who could work and live a relatively prosperous life regardless of the abundant racism and discrimination present in the region. With such a diverse population‚ mixed race "mulatto" and "quadroon" children were fairly prevalent. Nevertheless‚ racial tensions rose preceding the Civil

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    The !Kung people of Southern African is a community of modern click language speaker hunters and gathers. Known as the Yellow San‚ the !Kung are “short‚ pale-skinned‚ deep chested‚ with straight foreheads and small delicate faces and jaws (Lee‚ pg 11).” The !Kung are one of the very few remaining societies to still depend on foraging to collect food‚ but many have adopted faming and pastoral practices. Their egalitarian way of life has been increasingly close to extinction due to economic incentives

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    How does MacPhail create suspense and tension in the extract for the novel? At the start of the novel Kevin passed the inination test‚ and he joined the gangs. They started having fun playing together. At the end the story gang has dismiss and gone and the “Walk of Death” was also gone. This extract is a significant moment because this is when the “Walk of Death” ends and shows exciting moment at the end. This is where she builds lot of suspense and tension in the story. MacPhail builds and crate

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