2012 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19‚ 1809 and became a famous American author and poet. He is most known for his mysterious and gruesome horror stories but one of his most famous is The Raven. First published in January 1845‚ the poem is known for its musicality‚ stylized language‚ and supernatural atmosphere. The story is about a talking raven’s mysterious visit to a distraught lover‚ tracing the man’s slow fall into madness. The Raven was first credited to Poe in print in the New
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The Michael L Printz Award is awarded each year for a book written and published for young adult readership. The award requires that the winning book exemplifies literary merit and written solely for persons ages 12 – 18. This award does not consider popularity as a criterion‚ nor does it consider titles that are written for adults that appeal to teens. Also not considered as a criterion is the message delivered in the book. In order to be eligible‚ the book must have been published in the United
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after passing a mysterious cellar door in a basement‚ Mr. Enfield launches into a strange occurrence that centered around the door. Late one night‚ while he was on his way home‚ he chanced upon a deformed‚ short man who trampled a girl in the street who was on her way to get a doctor. The girl’s family and Mr. Enfield catch the mysterious man and instead of getting the police‚ they decide to blackmail him and force him to give the girl’s family money. Agreeable‚ the mysterious man disappears into
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tyranny of the terrible Sphinx. By this time‚ Oedipus has sent his brother-in-law‚ Creon‚ to the oracle of the god Apollo to seek advice from divine sources. But before Oedipus had ever arrived in Thebes‚ the previous king‚ Laius‚ was murdered under mysterious circumstances and the murderer was never found. When Oedipus arrived in Thebes and saved the city‚ he was made king and married the widowed queen‚ Jocasta‚ sister of Creon. Now Creon returns with the oracle’s news: for the plague to be lifted from
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there with the characters. In the book you follow the main character Lily‚ as she has just moved to Boston and is pursuing her dreams of owning her own flower shop. Hoover intertwines two subplots of her blossoming new romance with Ryle‚ a dark and mysterious neurosurgeon with a policy against dating‚ and her first love Atlas‚ who was a homeless teen that went to her high school. Hoover seamlessly transitions from subplots‚ using the flashbacks of Atlas and Lily’s relationship to explain Lily’s family’s
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ravaged by the Red Death‚ is "happy" and "dauntless" and decides he doesn’t want to bother with the disease. So he takes a thousand of his knights and maidens and shuts himself up with them in a hidden "castellated abbey." The prince instructs the stranger or the "Red Death"‚ in human form to be seized‚ but all of his fellow people are too frightened to seize him. So the prince decides to draw his dagger and hastily make his way
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The Humans seemed to be the most adaptable race in the world. They lived within the Sanctuary‚ with permission from the elders‚ in the mysterious homeland of the Stonemen‚ and far away on their home continent. The Stonemen always seemed to evade me. I never heard many stories about them when I was a child‚ unlike the dozens of stories that I heard about the heroic and courageous human and
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a 15 year-old boy‚ lives with his uncle Garrow and cousin Roran on a farm on the outskirts of a small village‚ Carvahall. While hunting in The Spine‚ a large range of mountains running down the West side of Alagaësia‚ which is believed to have mysterious happenings‚ Eragon is surprised to see a polished blue stone appear in front of him. After failing to sell or trade the stone‚ Eragon witnesses a baby dragon hatch from the "stone‚" which was in reality a dragon egg. He questions Brom - the elderly
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The extract under analysis is taken from the novella «The invisible man» written by Herbert Wells. Wells is a prolific English writer of the 20th century practiced in many genres‚ including the novel‚ history‚ politics‚ and social commentary‚ and textbooks and rules for war games. However‚ he is best remembered for his science fiction novels‚ and Wells is called a father of science fiction. His speculations about biological revolution and social development of society‚ about the mixture of social
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The film Witness(underline witness)‚ Directed by Peter Weir was famous in 1984. This film is about two cultures clashing with each other the Amish and The Western Society and a story line of a murder crime. “A big city cop who knows too much...His only evidence: A small boy who’s seen too much”. The main character of this film is Harrison Ford as John Book. Today I will be talking about two of the themes Peter Weir uses in the film ‘Witness’. They are the clash of two worlds and power. The first
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