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    A Rose for Emily

    Diana BANEGAS ME 1 Commentaire littéraire This is the end of this short story, set in the (imaginary) town of Jefferson, Mississippi. Make clear how the Gothic theme of time and decay is brought in and developed. The text is an extract from a William Faulkner's short story: A Rose for Emily. Divided in five sections, this extract is the end of the text, compounded of the section III, IV and V. Published in 1930, the story takes place in the fictional city of Jefferson, Mississippi and

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    Cat in the Rain

    Stylistic analysis of the story “Cat in the Rain” by Earnest Hemingway The author. The story under the title “Cat in the Rain” was written by Ernest Hemingway. He was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published

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    Greece vs Rome

    Some of the most famous Greek and Roman artistic achievements involve statues. While they have a few similarities, the differences by far outweigh such. The Greeks were prominent well before the Roman empire, and it shows in their art. While their roles have changed with respect to the rest of the world, their contributions to art still remain. One notable difference between the two styles of making sculptures is that the Greek ones are free-standing, meaning they are capable of standing without

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    Theatre

    The Analysis 1. The novel “Theatre” was written by a famous English writer of the 20th century William Somerset Maugham in 1937. He was the master of story-telling. He could convey human relationships and feelings with a startling reality. The main theme of his works is the conflict of a creative person with the society. Maugham’s English is clear and lucid, his characters are recognizable, and this makes his books so popular. 2. This extract is about Dolly de Vries. She was a rich widow

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    The Text

    The text under stylistic analysis is written by Joyce Carry. It deals with the author’s emotions and feelings towards Clare, Tutin’s wife, who lost her husband. This text is about one businessman Tutin who tell in love with his secretary and wanted a divorce. After having a conversation with his husband, Clare was resigned after all. She thought it would be stupid to try to hold him against his will and he’d only hate her. Then we meet an Old Mrs. Beer who was the widow of a canon. This comparison

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    Mirror Traffic

    the past to repurpose musical styles, from psychedelic LA country to first-wave British punk, twisting them into new but familiar shapes. Beck’s role as producer seems split between tightening up the performances and curating the palette of stylistic overlays drawn from the Rock History vault. On “Long Hard Book,” reverb-soaked slide guitar evoke desert midnight, while the chorus’s pedal steel pairs with Joanna Bolme’s spot-on Emmy Lou Harris impression to create an afterimage of some long-lost

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    Hollywood School Vs Chicago School Essay

    The Beaux-Arts style and the Chicago School style both share stylistic characteristics. While they are similar, they are not completely identical to one another. I will be comparing Chicago School style with the Home Insurance Company Building from the architect William Le Baron Jenney, and Beaux-Arts style with the Boston Public Library from the architects Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White. As a general overview, the Home Insurance Company Building used a steel

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    The French Revolution

    ------------------------------------------------- Plagiarism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Plagiarism (disambiguation). For Wikipedia policies concerning plagiarism, see Wikipedia:Plagiarism and Wikipedia:Copyright violations. Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work.[1][2] The idea remains problematic with unclear

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    Analysis

    is Montmorency’s contribution to the dinner. The last one is about great success of Irish stew. This text is written with the cheerful, humorous, emotional and optimistic prevailing mod. The author used in this text a lot of lexical and stylistic devices which helped to create the needful atmosphere. In the description of Sonning Jerome used metaphor: they (roses) were bursting forth in clouds of dainty splendour; simile: it is more like a stage village than one built of bricks and mortar;

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    Caxton's Printing Press

    Caxton’s eggs language trail Exploring the roots of standardisation Introduction Enormous variation, both synchronic and diachronic*, is a key quality of Middle English, and really defines this period of language change. Patterns of conquest, invasion and settlement had had an enormous impact on people’s lives in the 8th to 11th centuries, but these were played out linguistically in Middle English, in texts from the 12th century through to the middle of the 15th century. At the turning point

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