Stephen King’s ’Ars Poetica’ on Horror In Stephen King’s non-fictional book‚ Danse Macabre‚ he views Lovecraft as a major impact in the field of dark horror fiction writing and also acknowledges the fact that King himself considered him as a major source of inspiration‚ which was embedded in his style of writing. When he reminisces about how he got introduced to the genre‚ he states that his first pick of the countless texts happened to be one of Lovecraft’s short stories. King mentions‚ that although
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Stephen Coonts’ "Flight of the Intruder": Summary This week I read Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts. I read from page 1 to page 437 for a total of 437 pages. The book is about an A-6A Intruder (a naval bomber) pilot named Jake Grafton. In the first few pages Jake’s best friend and B/N (Bombardier/Navigator) is killed by a Vietnamese soldier’s rifle. In this mission their target was a "suspected truck park." Jake goes into despondency (depression‚ despair) for a days and tries to
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Stephen R. Covey book is titled “The 7 habits of highly effective people” helps to develop individuals’ personality in relation with others. The author takes us on the journey thru becoming proactive. Than we learn to realize where are we going with our life. The next step is to set priorities in our life. What things are important and what things can wait. We also learn how to achieve compromise that is satisfactory to all parties involved in daily activities. The author teaches us how to practice
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Trashcan Man English 10 Honors 2/28/10 Mrs. Borrego Stand Together‚ Stand Strong People behave strangely when more than ninety-nine percent of the population is dead. They behave even more strangely when they’re the prize of a cosmic struggle. In Stephen King’s fantasy/horror‚ The Stand‚ a plague created by the military decimates the modern world. The humans that survived the plague are now the commodity of the personifications of good and evil‚ the troops in an epically proportioned conflict. The
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Effect of the Past in the Present in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of being a Wallflower L.Lakshmi M.Phil. Research Scholar Department of English Alagappa University Karaikudi Literature is an amalgam of social issues which always highlight the problem of identity crisis‚ gender discrimination‚ child sexual abuse‚ familial struggles‚ alienation and so on. The prevailing crisis in contemporary period is the problems of adolescence which affect the progress of adults and humankind. It is a preventable
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Reflecting on Addiction On the surface‚ “Miracle Polish” mirrors the myth of Narcissus‚ following a man who‚ after discovering the effects of a mysterious polish‚ becomes obsessed with his own reflection. However‚ within the fantasy of Steven Millhauser’s short story lies a very real and morbid subtext. “Miracle Polish” presents an allegory of drug abuse and substance addiction‚ using symbols to control the story’s significance and depth. Millhauser effectively creates an allegory with the use
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Spoken English and Broken English By G. B. Shaw ...If you are learning English because you intend to travel in England and wish to be understood there‚ do not try to speak English perfectly because if you do‚ no one will understand you. ...Though there is no such thing as perfectly correct English‚ there is presentable English which we call ’Good English’‚ but in London nine hundred and ninety nine out of every thousand people not only speak bad English but speak even that very badly.
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Sweetness by Stephan Dunn Just when it has seemed I couldn’t bear one more friend waking with a tumor‚ one more maniac with a perfect reason‚ often a sweetness has come and changed nothing in the world except the way I stumbled through it‚ for a while lost in the ignorance of loving someone or something‚ the world shrunk to mouth-size‚ hand-size‚ and never seeming small. I acknowledge there is no sweetness that doesn’t
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Stephen Crane the Naturalist Stephen Crane (1871-1900)‚ the naturalism‚ American writer. Stephen Crane was well known for his naturalist style during his time. Naturalism in literature was a philosophy used by writers to describe humans in regards to the influences and interactions within their own environments. The characters described in the naturalist literatures were usually in dire surroundings and often from the middle to lower classes. Despite their circumstances however‚ humans within
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This article begins with an example of a woman who suffered brain trauma after a car crash and now lives in a vegetative state (she is unable to respond to visual‚ physical‚ or auditory stimuli). Belgian and British scientists conducted an experiment on her through the use of an MRI that showed blood flow to parts of the brain that still remained active. After speaking to her and asking her to imagine various situations‚ a discovery was made showing that different regions of the brain associated
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