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    Virginia Woolf vs. Orhan Pamuk Aykut Can TÜRKMEN Petroleum – Gas University of Ploieşti Abstract: The aim of this paper is to compare and indicate the affect of “stream of consciousness”. Moreover‚ I tried to show the (dis)similarities between these two important writers. In this paper‚ for Orhan Pamuk‚ I focused on the novel which is called “Sessiz Ev (Silent House)”. Key words: stream of consciousness‚ omniscient point of view‚ third person narration‚ impact

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    Why were free blacks in Virginia reluctant to leave the United States? The Antebellum period had a huge impact on the free African American people. The Antebellumperiod is the time that is pre-Civil War and post-War of 1812. During this period of time‚ slavery was not fully abolished and African Americans had to deal with many adversities as free blacks. As a result‚ blacks occasionally contemplated abandoning the United States altogether‚ fearing that they would never achieve full citizenship (White

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    The colonist and delegates needed to find a way of improving the government’s decisions because they did not agree and wanted to get away from Britain. In “Speech in the Virginia Convention” Patrick Henry uses ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos to convince the delegates to secede from Britain and to fight back. In “Speech of the Virginia Convention” Henry uses the three appeals‚ but the one that really stood out to me the most was the usage of pathos. “We must fight…” This evidence shows that this is a pathos

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    Reality and fiction in Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” I have chosen this subject because I found very interesting debate‚ and the author is one of the greatest writers of all times. His works is large and full‚ his characters are contoured such that it fascinate you. Victorian period also is one of the most famous‚ with most changes produced in English literature To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism

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    The Columbine Shooting and Virginia Tech. shooting were called similar in various ways. They were both declared a national tragedy 13 people killed total in the Columbine and 33 in the Virginia Tech shooting. Though the two incidents were similarly done by psychopaths‚ there were differences in the details of both shootings‚ the reactions of society‚ and upcoming psychological development. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were responsible for the 13 deaths during the Columbine Shooting on April 20

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    Virginia Woolf reflected on her childhood memories and growth while using descriptive diction and a variety of tones to convey the lasting significance of these moments from her past. Woolf starts out by using loving diction towards Thoby‚ her brother to whom the father shows great affection and pride in. “ ‘Show them you can bring her in‚ my boy’ father said‚ with his usual trust and pride in Thoby” (lines 4-6). Her use of the words trust and pride provides the reader with some information about

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    The book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff is a story about a girl named LaVaughn and the single mother she babysits for‚ Jolly‚ and Jolly’s kids. The title doesn’t seem to make sense when you begin of the book‚ but as you continue‚ you realize where it comes in. There was a story of an old lady‚ for one‚ who was tricked with a lemon. She made the best of the situation‚ and that’s where the title comes from. Also‚ LaVaughn at one point brought over a little pot of lemon seeds. The seeds didn’t

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    Modern English novel Theme: "The importance of time in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs.Dalloway" As human beings‚ we are unique in our awareness of death. “We know that we will die‚ and that knowledge invades our consciousness…it will not let us rest until we have found ways‚ through rituals and stories‚ theologies and philosophies‚ either to make sense of death‚ or‚ failing that‚ to make sense of ourselves in the face of death.” Attaching significance to life events is a human reaction to the sense

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    each of their characteristics and views. Also‚ the difference in writing styles could be drastic‚ or slight. Nevertheless‚ the writers display how versatile the English language can be. Alice Walker was born in 1944 as a farm girl in Georgia. Virginia Woolf was born in London in1882. They have both come to be highly recognized writers of their time‚ and they both have rather large portfolios of work. The scenes the might have grown up seeing and living through may have greatly influenced their

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    Imagine yourself at the scene of the Virginia Tech shooting. You hide under the desk that you were sitting at peacefully just moments ago. Gun shots ring though the air as you sit curled up on the cold floor‚ wondering who the next victim of the evil rampage will be. Don’t you wish you could have had a gun in this moment? Don’t you wish you had a way to defend yourself against the murderer? Because we cannot go back in time‚ we cannot know how differently the Virginia Tech shooting could have turned

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