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    two truths and a lie

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    Dear read The book that I read was called “two truths and a lie”(307pages) and its written by Sara Shepard‚ and this one book is part of a sequel because there’s 3 or more books written which are fallow ups to the first book. ‘Two truths and a lie’ is about two girls whose names are Sutton and Emma‚ even though Sutton and Emma are long lost sisters they have little things in common and have different lives. Emma lives in a foster home because her mom abandoned her in the hospital‚ and

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    History of Detective Fiction When I came to your class I had little knowledge of what detective fiction was‚ I knew it dealt with mystery‚ but never knew the real meaning of it. Thanks to you and your assignment‚ now I know. According to Wikipedia.org detective fiction is‚ "A branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime‚ usually by murder‚ by a detective‚ either professional or amateur". It is closely related to mystery fiction‚ but it is more of puzzle that must be

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    stories are blooming with action‚ conflict‚ mystery and so on. But this is only recent development. There is a lot more to it than most people think. From a French man named Vidocq to the creation of modern detective fiction by Edgar Allan Poe‚ until today’s development of detective stories and its characters. So what made Poe such an important figure in detective fiction history‚ and in what way did his creation develop after his death? In my study I will try to answer these questions to the best

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    Actions Speak Louder Than Words It is difficult‚ if not impossible‚ to maneuver through life being oblivious to reality. This must leave a person unprepared for potential risks or obstacles that occur without any notice. In “The Bystander Effect‚” Dorothy Barkin explains how the psychological factors‚ which are unknown to many people‚ play in the behavior of people when faced with emergencies. The two main factors that should be addressed are level of ambiguity and moral diffusion. In Martin

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    Truth and non-truth are several aspects emphasized in Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried. Throughout the novel‚ O’Brien “[blurs] the lines between fiction and nonfiction” (Smith)‚ and explores how using fiction to convey the war affects the readers more as they learn about the soldiers. By using juxtaposition and by incorporating fictional parts in the novel‚ O’Brien shows how truth is less important in war stories than non-truth since non-truth makes the reader look at war stories at a

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    The Strangers That Came to Town: Andy In Ambrose Flack’s short story‚ “The Strangers That Came to Town” the main character‚ Andy‚ is a young‚ good kid who must mature over the course of events. Initially‚ Andy is a good kid‚ but acts judges the Duvitches by their societal standing. After the Duvitches move into their new house‚ the townspeople begin to judge them‚ “…the Duvitches were marked people. They were the one struggling family in a prosperous community” (3). When Andy judges the Duvitches

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    The moment of truth

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    debate. Stricter laws have been passed across the nation leading to a decrease in drunk driving accidents. However‚ a new driving threat is quickly taking its place. That threat is texting while driving and many say that it is actually more dangerous than drunk driving. Texting while driving a vehicle has now replaced drinking while driving as the leading cause of accidents and deaths of teenage drivers. Texting while driving and drinking while driving are similar in many ways yet different in others

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    and psychological literature. And the narrowest represented type is researches in modern and classical fiction (we mean works concerning the question "how are the rites of passages reflected and described in fiction?"). But if we want to look at the researches which work with certain literary genre‚ namely‚ fantasy genre‚ we find out that such works are very few. Although exactly fantasy fiction most closely connects with myth‚ fairy and folk tale‚ it means that just here we can find schemes and

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    With that said‚ it is important to remember that all literary works cannot always be easily classified into a single genre. Moreover‚ literary works which might be classified as belonging to one genre might possess many qualities more typical of other genres. For example‚ Shakespeare’s Macbeth is classified as drama‚ but in many respects takes the form of poetry. In other words‚ sometimes the differences between categories like drama‚ poetry‚ and the short story are not so easily defined. Often a

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    1984: Oppression of Truth

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    Cited: Harris‚ Harold J. "Orwell ’s Essay ’s and ’1984 ’." Twentieth Century Literature 4 (1959): 154-161. Howe‚ Irving‚ and George Orwell. 1984 Revisited Totalitarianism in Our Century. New York: Harper & Row‚ 1983. Kornbluth‚ C. M. "The Failure of the Science Fiction Novel As Social Criticism." The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism. (1969): 64-101. Orwell‚ George. 1984. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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