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    Resident Evil By Skyler Garrard 4th period This paper will be about resident evil I will be researching where the idea came from‚ who created it‚ what the games are about and what plans they have for the future.   Resident Evil was created by a video game company named Capcom. The main director’s name was Shinji Mikami. Shinji Mikami actually started out making games Title’s from Disney Movies such as Aladdin and three other titles. Shinji Mikami started working for Capcom in 1990 after

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    says that the Usher mansion had "an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven." It was no where near being beautiful‚ holy‚ or clean. He uses descriptive words such as decayed‚ strange‚ peculiar‚ gray‚ mystic‚ Gothic‚ pestilent‚ dull and sluggish to create the atmosphere. Poe’s meticulous choice of words creates a very effective atmosphere in the story.<br><br>Another important way Poe uses the setting is to foreshadow events in the story. Roderick Usher’s mansion is on example of this

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    Hampton-Preston Mansion and Slavery Slave as defined by the dictionary means that a slave is a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant. So why is it that every time you go and visit a historical place like the Hampton-Preston mansion in Columbia South Carolina‚ the Lowell Factory where the mill girls work in Massachusetts or the Old town of Williamsburg Virginia they only talk about the good things that happened at these place‚ like such things as who owned

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    There is creepy music playing in the background to make it seem suspenseful. The mansion is big and dark so the suspenseful music makes it even creepier. It lasts all throughout that scene were she enters the mansion selling her beauty products while looking around to see if anyone even lives in the mansion. Another Burton film that uses suspenseful music is Beetlejuice. At the beginning of Beetlejuice there is suspenseful music while they are

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    Murder‚ mystery‚ intrigue; these are the words of what you would normally find describing a game of clue‚ or a gripping‚ ghastly‚ ghostly tale found in old thriller movies where the climax is when you find out the butler killed him with a candlestick in the billiards room. The word “scandal” certainly couldn’t apply to our own home state when the closest we come to murder is in a board game or Hollywood setup; but this is where we visit the setting of Lake Superior in Duluth‚ Minnesota. Chester Condon

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    I am still haunted by the vivid tales of mansion 106‚ the elders claimed that in 106 there lived a horrible creature beyond our imagination; they called it the dreaded monster with the one eye. It was said that this monster lived solely on human flesh and that the monster was ugly baring a distinct lightening shaped scare on it’s forehead. I had never seen this monster before but I was temptation has drove me to explore what this monster was about... As time wore on I finally gathered the courage

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    Edgar Allan Poe (January 19‚ 1809-October 7‚ 1849)‚ lived to be 40 years old. During his 40 years of living he had to go through many deaths of his loved ones. In addition‚ being abandoned by his father and foster father. Poe lost his mother‚ wife‚ and foster mother all to tuberculosis. He was devastated‚ lost and didn’t know what to do. Leading him to attempting suicide after his wife died. Instead of killing himself‚ he took his agony out in his writings. Edgar Allan Poe wrote approximately sixty-nine

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    In A Mercy Toni Morrison envelops the characters and plot in a multilayered and immersive Gothic lens. [Nice sentences]. In A Mercy‚ Toni Morrison explores the patriarchal society‚ impact of female slavery‚ and the ravagement of Native American lineage through the utilization of the Gothic lens to reveal ignored horrific truths in Colonial America. The late 1600’s were situated by a patriarchal society which influenced male supremacy. This supreme male system in A Mercy unearthed the impotence

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    through their individual actions. The reason for the siblings’ action is mainly because of the mansion‚ for that it symbolically represents family. Cortázar emphasizes the presence and importance of mansion at the beginning of the story when he mentions how it “... kept the memories of great-grandparents‚ out paternal grandfather‚ our parents and the whole of childhood.”(Cortázar 1) Having to live in the mansion for a long period of time‚ the siblings have adopted to a repetitive routine. From cleaning

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    Usher family. When the narrator is examining the outside of the mansion he notes “a barely perceptible fissure‚ which‚ extending from the roof of the building in front‚ made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction‚ until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn” (3). Then at the end when Madeline is revealed to be alive‚ she “fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother” and attacks him (15). So the crack in the mansion symbolized the division of Madeline and her brother‚ and right

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