series and the Hunger Games trilogy. This genre covers several topics‚ in several different subgenres‚ but they all have one element in common‚ a main character is growing up. This concept of the “bildungsroman” or coming of age story has graced the pens of famous writers such as William Shakespeare‚ Charles Dickens‚ and Mark Twain‚ and yet‚ young adult books still get flack for being too “mainstream” or shallow. As a
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Character Study: Gollum Gollum is an interesting character. Like Smaug‚ the fact that he has been living alone in a cave adds to his wicked personality as the stereotype of cave dwellers go. His magic ring has possessed him to the point that he has lost the trust of everyone‚ as well as not trusting anyone who comes near him. Although the lack of contact with anyone at all has caused him to talk to himself at all times. Even in the rare cases when he finds himself with someone else‚ as he does
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Kathryn Stockett acknowledged this aspect of human nature and applied it in her bestselling novel The Help by including the character of Hilly Holbrook to depict the “villain” which lied within most of the white southerners
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The influence of power is greater than most people make think; power itself can either lift you or crush you. Before there is an opportunity to gain control of any or all situations‚ someone may not even realize how defenseless they are but the moment they finally have power‚ they feel unstoppable. The three stories‚ “King of The Bingo Game”‚ “Story of an Hour”‚ and “Gorilla‚ My Love”‚ explain how feeling helpless and powerless can make someone feel scared‚ act irrationally‚ or lose hope. Nevertheless
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video games goes as far back as the 1940s‚ when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith‚ Jr. and Este Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a "cathode ray tube amusement device." Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s‚ when arcade video games‚ gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public. Since then‚ video gaming has become a popular form of entertainment and a part of modern culture in most parts
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considered as the foremost dramatist of his time. In Harold Bloom’s Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus‚ he stated that the original texts of the play was presented “without the punctuation of act division or scene enumeration (13).” This was the most common form of plays written in this period. Doctor Faustus is about a dissatisfied scholar that seeks intelligence and ultimate power through black magic. He learned black magic through the help of his magician friends‚ Valdes and Cornelius. Faustus
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The Hunger games is a film that at first glance is disguised as a romantic teen movie for young adults to enjoy watching on the weekend with all of their friends and family. But with just a small amount of critical thinking and understanding of the themes and images that are presented in front of you during the viewing of this film you can receive a whole other level of understanding to what the makers of the film are trying to help you visualize in a discreet manner. Right off the bat‚ at the start
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One cannot have a successful story without a villain. A villain helps to create conflict and a plot between characters‚ this is what builds a successful story. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare‚ Iago is the ultimate villain. He will do whatever it takes to ruin Othello’s life. Without Iago‚ Othello would not be the tragedy it is today‚ but just an empty romance without any conflict. Some may believe that Iago is a victim because he was blinded by his emotions to think with his conscience
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Zharmaine Aguirre Psy21 Psychosexual Character Analysis There are five Psychosexual Character Types‚ namely: Oral character. Anal character‚ Phallic character‚ Latency character and Genital character. But among those five‚ I developed the Anal character. This is my personality. At the age of three I remember how I hide at the back of the door so nobody would notice that I’m trying to hold my feces from coming out. I don’t know why I love doing it. All I know is that although
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emotions of Rick through his interactions with Ilsa‚ Victor‚ and Captain Louis Renault. First‚ and perhaps most prominently‚ is Rick’s interaction with Ilsa. Ilsa is Rick’s lover. They had met in Paris and fell in love. He
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