Reviews

Summarize How Stephen King Uses Local Color and Imagery to Describe the Overlook Hotel.

The Shining is a novel written by the world-renowned writer Stephen King. It is a psychological horror novel filled with suspense and uncanny emotions. It is a story about a father who took up a job as a caretaker of a Hotel for its winter break. He took his family along to settle there for five months with the intention of finding peace, solitude, and scenery to inspire him to write plays. The hotel named Overlooked hotel has a history of deaths of its guests and a caretaker who surrendered to cabin fever and later on killed his family.

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V for Vendetta: A Political Philosophy Issue

V for Vendetta is a political thriller movie directed by James McTeigue, written by the Wachowski Brothers. It is based on the 1988 DC/Vertigo Comics written by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The story represents a near-future alternative history of Britain in the late 90s. This paper aims to address the political philosophy issues as seen in the movie.

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Yephikodov`s Role in “The Cherry Orchard”

“The Cherry Orchard” – is one of the most famous plays created by a Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Hingley). This comedy comprises a great number of true-to-life characters, and almost each of them serves as the bearer of the author`s thoughts. But Yephikodov, is his image also a representation of relevant information or he just serves as comic relief?

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“One of the major conflicts of the novel is stability versus change. Where does Wharton use that?”

The Age of Innocence, a novel written by Edith Wharton is characterized by devotion and deception during the Golden Age of New York. According to the story, Newland Archer is equipped to marry the accustomed May Welland but in the meanwhile Countess Ellen Olenska, suffering inconsolable marriage came into his world making Archer passionately in love her. Commitment and passion are being portrayed in the whole novel. It is where Newland Archer will make his toughest decision whether he will relentlessly wreck his whole life.

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Why Do You Think Kurt Vonnegut Included Himself as a Minor Character in the Novel Slaughterhouse-Five?

In the interview in The Daily Show to Jon Kurt Vonnegut announced “We`re terrible animals. I think that the Earth’s immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should”(Organization). From Vonnegut`s point of view, the war is the greatest form of absurdity, and I think with these words Kurt Vonnegut shown his attitude to people who started The World War II, who supported an idea of it. His novel is full of absurdity, the unreality of events, time traveling, and aliens from Tralfamador. Among all these absurd events there is one period of time that is real, it is war period of time. In this autobiographical period of time, we can notice our author as a minor character.

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What Values or Ideas Does the Character of Gretchen Represent?

The character of Gretchen is an example of an innocent and pure girl who wants to save Faust from Mephistopheles. In fact, she represents the values of happiness and love that lead her to salvation. The ideas of sacrifice and devotion are the core concepts in the book written by Goethe. That is why Gretchen is a symbol of purity due to her kindness, charity, and benevolence.

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Today there are almost no people that have not heard the name of the master of horror – Stephen King. Many of those know that a lot of his books and stories have been screened; moreover, some of those films have made it to the cinemas two or even three times – such as “Carrie” or “It”.

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How did James Fenimore Cooper sentimentalize Native Americans in his book?

 Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (1862) was a revolutionary book during its time for the level of sympathy and respect it created towards the Native Americans. Two of the most prominent ways it achieves this is through its portrayal of the Americas as a tabula rasa and Uncas symbolic role within the text.

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The article presents a study whose purpose is investigating how teacher-child interaction quality relates to school readiness in targeted preschool programs. This paper analyzes the study by focusing on its strengths and weaknesses.

Strengths

The main strength of the paper is that it is well organized. The author presents the problems statement prior to highlighting the research purpose, and research purpose comes before the research questions and hypotheses. This form of organization allows the reader to follow the study easily. Read more

A Review of the Live Jazz Performance by the Robert Glasper Trio in Paris

This is a review of a live jazz performance by the Robert Glasper Trio, with Bilal Oliver as a featured vocalist. The group is additionally composed of the following members: Robert Glasper on piano, Derrick Hodge on the double bass, and Chris Dave on the drums. The trio performed in 2010 at the Festival Jazz a la Villette in Paris, France. The length of the performance was about one hundred minutes long, and the following musical pieces were performed, which were all composed by the trio that is playing: “G & B”, a second track which is listed as “Unknown”, “Little B’s Poem”, “Body & Soul”, “Yes I’m Country”, “Butterfly”, “All Matter”, and finally an encore song titled “Reminisce”. The featured vocalist Bilal Oliver performs on about half of the band’s repertoire – “Little B’s Poem”, “Body & Soul”, “All Matter”, and “Reminisce”.

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