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    pushing through. The formula in making a successful horror franchise is quite sensitive. Especially if the production is adapting a popular horror franchise. And it looks like MTV is struggling to make this nightmare live long enough. Which is why Scream season 3 is indeed coming back. But there is one big catch to this come-back. The series is only coming back for six episodes. Why the short run? It looks like the franchise does not have enough story to go on. With the Scream Halloween Special set

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    How does John Harding use gothic techniques to create horror in Florence and Giles? Horror permeates much of Harding’s beguiling novel Florence and Giles (2010). In a retrospective first-person narrative foretold by young didactic protagonist Florence‚ Harding’s richly textured novel attempts to masterfully create horror through various gothic techniques. For example‚ Harding employs recurring weather motifs to compel his audience ’It was December now and we’d have had a lot of snow’ says Florence

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    The Horrors of Slavery Through the Eyes of Fredrick Douglass Many people were oblivious to the corruption behind slavery. Fredrick Douglass was privileged enough to learn how to read‚ a trait extremely rare among African Americans during times of slavery. Unlike others‚ he knew that the key to becoming a free man was to learn how to read and write. Through this skill alone‚ he was able to expose slavery for the disgusting act it is. Trying to convince whites to side with abolition‚ he talked about

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    Analysis of the “Ghost Story” The ghost story gave me mixed feelings on how to take it from a historian point of view. The story was Mr. Fleetwood’s own perception of what happened and how he remembered it at that moment. I will cover the rationality of trusting the content‚ the justification of it being historically true‚ and if the metaphysical evidence of ghost must be true for the story to be historically true. The content of the ghost story can be rationally trusted to have happened to a point

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    Chapter 1 Mom’s word stuck me like a lightning bolt. I was so shocked that I forgot to give reaction to what I had just heard. Maybe because a part of me still believed this couldn’t be true. Well‚ was it a joke? I looked back into mom’s eyes. She was still looking at me with pitiful look in her eyes‚ which showed me sympathy. I wanted to ask her if she was joking‚ but then I realised it would be hard to bear the pain if she said no. Instead I wanted for her to say something else or give a reaction

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    the Nazi’s went on their terrifying plan to eliminate the jewish population from the face of the Earth and putting the “Aryan” race as the rulers. Fortunately the Nazis did not achieve this goal and ⅓ of the jewish population survived to tell the horrors of the Holocaust and one of those people is Arek Hersh. Arek Hersh was born in Sieradz‚ Poland in 1929 whose father was a boot maker for the army and had four siblings. In Poland “He remembers going to the park in the summer‚ ice-skating on the river

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    sheriff conveys the horrors of war Sherriff makes it clear‚ throughout the play‚ that the horrors of war had a huge effect on the soldiers both mentally and physically. In this play you are going to find out how men who fought in world war one‚ coped with the stress and the strains‚ and you are also bound to discover the futility of the war as men died for no reason or for an effective cause. Sherriff makes it clear and explores one matter with particular depth that describes the horrors of war. The environment

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    “Globalization: The Super-Story”: A Story for Everyone In Thomas L. Friedman’s “Globalization: The Super-Story”‚ he examines the features of globalization from various aspects and how it helps people better understand 9/11 events. He claims that globalization is the new improved system formed in place of the old “cold war system”(102)‚ and through the patterns of which‚ people observe today’s world in an integrated way. Simple short phrases‚ organized structure‚ colloquial language‚ and punctuation

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    How does the poet convey the horrors of the war in ‘Attack’? The poet conveys the horrors by using personification‚ onomatopoeias and other interesting techniques. In Sassoon’s poem ‘Attack’ he includes: Lack of hope‚ loss of human identity‚ sacrifice of life‚ desperation of soldiers and the disorganization and discomfort of war. The horror of war is portrayed in the way that the soldiers are deprived of their human identity and are just seen as a ‘thing’ and not individuals. In the middle

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    Fiction is a universal constant in everyone’s life‚ but certain emotions and experiences are not. We use fiction as a gateway to what we can not feel in our own lives. In the musical Les Misérables‚ we feel the passion the students had for the revolution‚ as well as the anguish the survivors felt for their fallen companions. The responses inducted by this piece can allow those who have never fought in a war to connect to those who gave their lives for their county‚ without having to go through the

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