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    reality. The reader will also get a glimpse into the mind of the author and perhaps feel as if he or she is directly in the story. Stephen Crane was effective is creating a visual picture for the reader when he says‚ “A night on the sea in an open boat is a long night‚” (281). This picture gives the reader a sense of danger and suffering the characters will experience. The use of setting‚ style‚ and character allow the reader to feel the agony of the characters stranded on the open water and believe

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    THREE MEN IN A BOAT Jerome K. Jerome is a famous and outstanding novelist‚ essayist‚ humourist and playwright in the English literature. His literary heritage includes hundreds of brilliant works impressing readers during a century. The works of Jerome K. Jerome reflect not only his epoch‚ but his inner world‚ background‚ life experience‚ socio-political views‚ etc. The novel “Three men in a boat”‚ written in 1889‚ is constructed in a specific way helps to create a message of the story. This structural

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    Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown is a book that has many themes and it is a book that can give you advice on nearly everything. All that is required is to read it. Boys In The Boat was a very tense book. This book is about a rowing team that took time during 1920/1930s and it explains their journey from when they were just born to when they passed. The thing that made this book interesting is that the team had there ups and downs. One day the best thing would happen to them and the next not

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    Stephen Crane’s Writing “The Open Boat” and “War is Kind” has an amazing realist writing in these stories. Stephen Crane is one of the most influential realist writers in America. As Tony Moore biography his life‚ “ Crane was born on November 1‚ 1871‚ in Newark‚ New Jersey. As where he left college in 1891 to work as a reporter and writer. Which brings Crane to the Commodore and where the “Open boat” was created”. “The Open Boat” is based on an incident that occurred when he was a reporter where

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    Naturalism Presented in The Open Boat Naturalistic writers tend to write in a somewhat scientific method because their characters are placed in a situation where the forces of nature or the environment are imposed upon them. The characters are then observed to see how they handle the challenge. Stephen Crane’s "The Open Boat" follows this pattern of writing. The reader is allowed to observe as the four characters fight against the natural elements to survive. The different forces of nature

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    insight on the 1936 Berlin Olympics where he tells a story of The Boys in the Boat. The strong narrative the author writes is shown by the prologue when he is interviewing Rantz himself which is who he gets much of the story from. Brown finds a way to use Joe Rantz to represent the whole team of boys. The story of Joe Rantz creates such determination and will power but it was never about Joe‚ it was always about the boat and the nine other boys in it. Brown creates three major elements throughout

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    The U-Boat (Undersea boat) was used from the start of naval combat in World War I. They were responsible for many allied merchant and warship losses throughout the war. At the start of the war the Germans had 29 U-boats in service. The Germans primarily targeted allied warships and merchant ships‚ until the allies found ways to protect themselves from the u-boats using different methods. These were Q ships‚ decoy ships that were actually merchant ships armed with heavy guns‚ so when the Germans

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    Coming Out: I Am an Atheist Amongst the celebrations for legal gay marriage all across the United States and many celebrities/non-celebrities coming out‚ there is now a new spin to the saying: “I’m coming out”. Former North East Hampshire MP in Britain has now revealed to the public that he is coming out as an atheist in the article written by Matt Chorley in the Newspaper Daily Mail. The title is “Conservative MP comes out... as an ATHEIST: James Arbuthnot says Tory need to believe in God is the

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    The story begins with the crash of the boat ¨Lady Vain¨ with a derelict. In this boat was Mr. Edward Prendick‚ the only man who was found. Edward Prendick starts telling the story of the original 8 men that where in a longboat. Then he says that only 3 men where the ones who survived‚ Helmar and the sailor. He then explains how these two men fell overboard because they were fighting‚ he says they sank like stones‚ and all Edward did was laugh. Now Edward is in a cabin he didn´t knew that he was there

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    Mid-Term Paper C&G are Dead Imagine a situation where there is a boat full of “good” citizens‚ and a boat full of “bad” citizens and each boat has a bomb with a detonator in the hands of the other boat. Defining “good” or “bad” is challenging enough‚ and while analyzing both Kant and Mill one will see that the complexity of the issue cannot be adequately solved by either argument for what one “ought” to do. In the first case‚ which will be that they are both on the same ship‚ full of “good” citizens

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