Media plays a large role in arousing the public's interest in the fantastic.21 The novels of Anne Rice, a gothic-horror writer, appeal to a large audience, and her three book series have quite a cult following. ... Finally, she sobs that she "danced for the Devil [and] wrote in his book."42 Thus begins the string of names cried gleefully by Betty, Abigail, and Tituba to insure their own freedom from blame. ...

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His plays deal with issues common to every society. ... Alice Griffin believes that Miller's plays are important internationally (xii). ... He decided to write the play telling about the fear and hysteria McCarthyism caused. ... Elsom writes that Arthur Miller wrote about witch-hunting in Salem but it was really an indirect commentary on Joe McCarthy and the congression sub-committees investigating un-American activities. (140) Joe McCarthy probably thought of Arthur Miller as a dangerous communist subversive, but in Europe he was regarded to be agreeably left wing (Elsom 139). ... Miller...

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"I do hold him responsible for exploiting the carnage and basking in the mayhem of urban America, where young girls are found raped and killed near their high schools, or where brothers are murdered standing outside their homes playing catch(1)." ... Esther Iverem wrote, "The reason the debate is on this level is because we live in a white supremacist society that denies the existence of black life outside the ghetto." ...

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To truly understand the role that these two books, 1984, and Animal Farm played in our society, we must first understand the man that wrote them. ... Eric grew up with a deep distrust of colonialism due to these facts, as his father played a small, but important role in the two defeats of china in the 19th century, that of keeping the opium dens very, very well supplied. ... Though he was sure that his writing would bring him the fame and recognition of the causes that he championed, he wrote the following to Victor Gollancz shortly before the book was revised for the last time "I would pr...

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David Leeb wrote a very compelling, unpublished paper titled "Shades of Goodman Brown". ... Crane wrote the story "The Monster" the late 1800's when racism was a very real and almost natural part of life. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

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Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. The first family is the Kellers; Mr Joe Keller, his wife Kate and their two sons Larry and Chris. The neighbouring family is the Deevers; Steve Deever, his wife, his son George and his daughter Ann. The ...

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However, he played games with the psychiatrist, plying him with a stream of intellectual and philosophical gibberish, and then ending the sessions abruptly when he became bored (Faris and Faris, p.168). ...

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In 1868, after making a name for himself amongst fellow telegraphers as being a flamboyant and quick witted character - who enjoyed playing "mostly harmless" practical jokes - he returned home one day ragged and penniless. ...

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When he returns to Lagos he sees the slums he has not been to and the nostalgic poem he wrote about nature and how "sweet" it is to lie under trees under the "tender glow of the fading sun," is juxtaposed against the dead carcass of a dog "the dogs that taxi drivers hit for good luck. ...

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Tupac Shakur: Wanted Dead or Alive??? Tupac Shakur is a controversial rapper, poet, and actor adored by many and hated by some. With his out spoken lyrics, he talked about real issues in the world, which are not the usual topics of many rappers. He always tried to give back to his community, and...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ...

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