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    In David Livingstone Smith’s The Most Dangerous Animal‚ he first defines war as a word that is “ordinary” therefore a “workaday word (8).” He says we cannot be too broad with the idea of war but also not too narrow. War is a diverse phenomenon. In order to understand war “we must have an appreciation of its variety: the sometimes dramatically different forms that it has taken from time to time and place to place (11).” First Livingstone approaches the nature of “true war‚” true war is a recent development

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    stems from a life of wealth‚ luxury‚ and militarism‚ which inflate his ego and sense of entitlement and impose few limits on his desires. Zaroff began hunting at an early age when he shot his father’s prized turkeys and continually sought out bigger game in his family’s tract of wilderness in the Crimea‚ a peninsula on the Black Sea. Commanding a division of Cossack cavalrymen in Russia‚ meanwhile‚ familiarized Zaroff with the horrors and atrocities of warfare. He continued to hunt after the czar had

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    Fiction Essay English 102: Literature and Composition Summer 2011 MLA Style Perseverance Played Out “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and “The Most Dangerous Game” In D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ the reader is given insight into the lives of two males: Sanger Rainsford in Most Dangerous Game‚ and a boy‚ Paul‚ in Rocking-Horse. Equally Lawrence and Connell are wickedly clever in their details‚ characteristics

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    comments that the game of baseball is boring and moves too slowly. Certain people in this world‚ including myself obviously‚ see baseball as the greatest game of strategy that has ever been created. Baseball is a mental game. Baseball is America’s pastime and still fulfills that expectation to this day. The reason for the downfall though in terms of people losing interest is due to the new generation and the advancement of technology serving as a distraction from the greatest game of all time. Although

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    Rainsford headed home to his family‚ but ever since the “Man Hunt” he has been a different man. He acted differently ever since he came back home. He kept himself; he always was in his study‚ and just sits there. All his meals got sent to his study. He lost his job because he never came in. The family was running low on food‚ and they needed someone to go out hunting. Rainsford wife went out hunting for food. Sooner or later Rainsford wife divorced him‚ because he did nothing around the house but

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    “The Most Dangerous Game” VS “Young Goodman Brown” 201240 English 102: Literature and Composition Fall D 2012 Cara Wood L25221640 APA Thesis: Both “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne have similarities and differences when it comes to characterization and setting. Richard Connell and Nathaniel Hawthorne both illustrate a great sense of fear and evil in both of these short stories‚ as well as good morals. Outline: I. Introduction A. Thesis

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    "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell is not as dangerous as "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury. Although there are clear hazards on Ship-Trap Island‚ the dangers of the Happylife Home are much more threatening. "The Most Dangerous Game’s" Ship-Trap Island has many dangerous elements. One example‚ is the evil dogs that live on the island. Zaroff‚ one of the few inhabitants of the island‚ has trained his dogs to hunt humans. The dogs hunt people‚ so they can never win Zaroff’s game. Zaroff

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    I believe Richard Connell used descriptive writing techniques very effectively in his short story‚ The Most Dangerous Game. Connell uses varying descriptive phrases to avoid repetition‚ as chapter two teaches us about. An example of such a technique is on page 69‚ when Rainsford hears the gunshots while standing on the ship. It mentions the darkness multiple times‚ yet every time it is described in a different way. Later this is seen on page 70. This describes the dense jungle in many different ways

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    man a sword or spear and send him forth to war‚ the beast stirs.”- George R.R. Martin. Cruel‚ Savage‚ and dangerous describe Zarroff a character in Richard Connells short story “The Most Dangerous Game”. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” a man named Rainsford who is an experienced hunter is trapped on an island by Zarroff retired general in the Russian Army who wants him to be part of a “game” where Zarroff hunts Rainsford. Connell and Golding argue that no matter who you are‚ where you’re from

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    The Most Dangerous Game Would you hunt humans for sport? I wouldn’t because it would be messed up. Animals are meant to be hunted not humans. Now you would be put in jail for murder if you would hunt humans. In the story I read‚ “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ Rainsford is a hunter who is going on a hunting trip. He is on a boat going to the Amazon to hunt when he drops his pipe and falls off the boat. He sees an island with lights so he starts swimming toward it and he gets on the island and meets Zaroff

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