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    “The Most Dangerous Game” The setting of the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is absolutely essential to the plot of the story. For example‚ the story has to be set on an isolated island. If the setting is on mainland the people trapped would be able to have better resources such as police to get away from General Zaroff and his game. Another example why the story is set on a deserted island is that people would know about Zaroff game and no one would come near the island

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    Trojan himself‚ wandered the sea for seven years with his fellow Trojans in attempt to found a new city‚ but something fails each time they try. The Trojan Fleet got caught in a storm sent by Juno‚ the queen of the gods. Their travels lead them to a shipwreck in Carthage‚ a city in North Africa. Juno hates Aeneas because she knows that the city of Rome that he will found will one day destroy her beloved city of Carthage. Afraid that Aeneas will be sidetracked from his destiny of founding Rome‚ Venus appeals

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    Many people think of scuba diving as just a swim in the water‚ but in reality it is a very exciting‚ dangerous‚ and potentially fatal sport and activity. There are many types of scuba diving‚ ranging from recreational to sport to career diving. Scuba Diving is just not a swim in the water‚ scuba requires certification‚ uses technical equipment‚ and there is a lot of risk involved with scuba diving. Scuba‚ which is actually an acronym for "self-contained breathing apparatus"‚ Allows

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    The story of Jesus calming the storm in Matthew 8:23-27 has become a well-known story through‚ among many other factors‚ literary allusions. The scriptural text details the narrative of the story. According to the passage‚ Jesus and his disciples were on a fishing boat in the sea of Galilee‚ and while Jesus was inside‚ sleeping‚ a storm brewed. The disciples‚ many of which were experienced fishermen‚ feared for their lives and woke Jesus in a panic‚ and he said to them‚ “oh‚ ye of little faith.”

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    In the introduction of Twelfth Night‚ twins Sebastian and Viola are compared to have such similar characteristics that Viola is said to have disguised herself as Sebastian. The twins‚ get into a terrible shipwreck that dolefully partens them. Viola masters a scheme to disguise herself as a man named Censario while she searches for her twin. Quickly Censario runs low on money and takes a job working for Orsino the Duke of Illyria‚ whom she instantly falls in love with. Unfortunately the love of her

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    The Life Of Pi by Yann Martel I.SETTING The story is initially set in India in the late 1990’s. The author has traveled to Pondicherry‚ a coastal town in the former French territory of India‚ which joined Independent India in 1954. The territory of Pondicherry still has many French citizens‚ as well as an unusually wide variety of churches/places of worship. The author then travels to Canada to interview Pi Patel‚ the narrator of the story‚ but little of the actual story is set there‚ save

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    it had at the time it was made. The ‘Medusa’ was a french frigate that set sail in 1816 from Rochefort heading to Senegalese. Harris (2011) states that Gericault read an account by survivors about the tragedy of the shipwreck and was intrigued to learn more. He learnt that the shipwreck was the fault of the ships captain ‘Duroy de Chaumereys’ who was an incompetent sailor and hadn’t sailed in years. His poor navigation skills put them 100 miles off course and in the way of a sand bar. Hirsch-Allen

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    Twelfth Night displays characters that are mad‚ in love‚ and desperate for love. Twelfth Night has many conflicts that occur because characters fail to listen to messages. Viola is a character who has just thought that her brother has died in a shipwreck that they were both in. Viola disguises herself as a man to seek employment under the Duke Orsino’s court. The confusion occurs‚ when Viola tells Orsino that she loves someone (Orsino)‚ when she tells Olivia that she cannot love a woman‚ and when

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    Discoveries are often evoked by curiosity and wonder‚ offering up a new understanding of ourselves and the world we live in. Discuss this statement in relation to your prescribed text and ONE related text of your own choosing. Curiosity and wonder evoke the journey of discovery which ultimately leads to a new understanding of self and the world. In Shakespeare’s 1601 comedy The Tempest‚ the discoveries of a new world and forgiveness‚ evoked by curiosity and wonder‚ leads to a new understanding of

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    that was apart of Renaissance politics. The predominance of magic in the play shows the Renaissance king’s interest is in the magical things. Prospero leaves Milan and happens to land on a new island. This incident of traveling through sea‚ facing shipwreck‚ coming to a new land reminds us of the spirit of adventure of Renaissance times made possible by the invention of compass. The quest for geographical discovery of the time is vividly referred to. The long process of colonization began during the

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