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    and compare A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare. I think that these comedies are rather different but we can find a lot of similarities as well. I would like to support this opinion in my essay with different examples from both plays. At the beginning I would like to discuss some similarities between these comedies‚ I will focus on similar motifs‚ characters‚ language and setting. I will also describe what makes both plays comedies and why we sometimes hesitate

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    therefore‚ they must learn how to adapt in order to survive. There are many ways in which people differ from one another by virtue of traditions handed down through the generations‚ and these are often admirable and worthy of respect. The difference between cultural tradition and superstition is that a tradition is based on a set of beliefs concerning the cause‚ nature‚ and purpose of the universe. Whereas superstition is not based on reason‚ knowledge‚ or experience. It is also applied to beliefs

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    Edgar Allen Poe is infamously known for his dark and eerie tales and his works have frightened his audience for centuries and continues to do so. One of his most famous works‚ The Tell-Tale Heart‚ tells the story of a man who commits a murder and is fighting to convince himself that he’s sane and successful in killing a man. Death in this short story pulls the plot together and thrills the reader. One of the main themes in this short story is the feeling of guilt. After taking another man’s life

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    Authors create suspense by making the reader feel something wrong is going to happen in their novel. Some authors that do that are Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury in their stories‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ and “The Pedestrian.” Edgar Allan Poe uses suspense in his story‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart” when the old man the narrator is trying to kill wakes up and does not go back to sleep. “I had my head in‚ and was about to open the lantern‚ when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening‚ and the old man sprang

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    Perverseness that got it’s own way” “I do not expect or ask anyone to believe the wild‚ yet ordinary story I am about to write. I would be mad indeed to expect it. Even I cannot believe what happened. Yet I am not mad-and I know I am not dreaming. But tomorrow I die‚ and today I hope to unburden my soul.” In the story “The Black Cat”‚ Edgar Allan Poe conveys the message that all people can experience the state of perverseness. Poe begins the story with the narrator in a jail cell‚ where he has been thrown

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    “India and United State: Difference & Similarities” Being democratic nations‚ India and the United States have key differences with respect to their cultures‚ populations and economies. Although both nations may differ significantly‚ there are still some similarities which make both countries cooperate well. A key difference between India and the U.S. is population growth. India’s population has been growing because the birth rate is higher than in the U.S. which makes India stand as the second highest

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    The Obsession Towards Evil In his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart‚” Edgar Allan Poe‚ creates an unreliable narrator shown through by his over-exaggerated statement and his loss of sanity from killing the innocent old man‚ because he suffers from a mental disorder called monomania. The narrator goes through a disease that sharpens his hearing senses and proclaims it as a benefit for himself. While declining the fact that he is a madman‚ the narrator calmly explains “I [hear] all things in the heaven

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    is told about what it is like to be a working colored maid for a white family. Skeeter Phelan‚ a white daughter of a rich white family‚ seems to be the only one who thinks the point of view of the maids should be shared. Skeeter decides to interview these maids and turn their tragic‚ funny‚ worth sharing stories to the public.The hard times these maids go through is very realistic and dramatically shown in both the movie and the book. Although‚ they both share many genius differences. The biggest

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    is fiction; specifically young adult fiction. The book and the movie were very different from one another. The book was a lot better in giving more details and getting to know what Ponyboy is thinking. It was easier to be able to comprehend what was going on and why the characters were making those decisions. One difference from the movie and the book is that‚ in the book‚ Dally went to rob the store. He then called his friends and asked to get picked up because he had just robbed a store. They agree

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    percent. That does not always mean that he or she is lying. Sometimes they just do not give all the corect details of a story give them incompletely. In some cases they might even be delusional or crazy. That is the case of the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart. In the story‚ you can tell the narrator is unreliable since the beggining. The very first sentences show that he is trying very hard to excuse his actions. He also states that he is not crazy and and says he will tell his story calmly

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