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    appreciate that. An older audience is also more likely to enjoy the feeling of fear gothic horror usually gives. A perfect example of a gothic horror text is ‘Coraline’, originally by Neil Gaiman. ‘Coraline’ follows the story of a teenage girl (named Coraline), who has just moved into a new house. Bored and tired of her family, Coraline visits an alternate universe where everything is perfect, or so it seems. ‘Coraline’ has many aspects of Gothic Horror, such as fear, horror, gloom, individuality and

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    The Day I Did My Duty

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    like that is not so perfect at all? If everyone is equal we would all be the same, there would be no individuality. A world with no pain would also be a world with no happiness. Also, not everyone is going to obey the rules, so there will always be a rebellious citizen. So, is a “perfect society” really perfect at all? There will always be consequences to having a perfect society such as no “true feelings”, no individuality, and a citizen will most likely realize that the “perfect society” is possibly

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    Many places in the world dream of living in a utopia. A utopia perfect world where nothing is ever bad, the world is peaceful, war free, and sometimes everyone is equal. Often times a utopia is attempted, it fails. Just like in these books, Lamb to the Slaughter, Harrison Bergeron and August 2026. In all of these stories the attempts at creating utopias fail because utopias are impossible and everything can’t always be perfect. In Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary Maloney attempts to create a utopia

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    Red Scarf Girl Sparknotes

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    author of the Red Scarf Girl memoir narrative, Ji-li Jiang. At the beginning of the story, Ji-li once believed her life was near ‘perfect’ because how unique her family was was how she was always ‘loved and respected” (Ji-li Jiang, PG 42). Now, in the end, Ji-Li acknowledged her struggles and had to come up with humiliation because her family ties of being a ‘black family’ and affected her life tremendously. In this essay, I will be talking about how Ji-Li changes throughout the story, and how it will

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    The myth of the model family is nothing but a thought, an exaggeration of what reality truly holds when it comes to families. I think the myth of the model family is something that is to be strived for but never achieved. It is only a way of motivating families to be the best the can be with such unrealistic expectations it will obviously never actually be achieved. Some families may live closer to what is shown to be a model family but can never get the true thing. In Soto’s writing he is fairly

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    The Giver, By Lois Lowry

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    other, a world with no fear and disorder. A perfect society, or so it looks. As the readers go on they come to realize that an ideal society is nothing like it sounds. The readers take for granted our rights to chose what we want to do with our lives; if the audience lived like the people in the novel, our society would have no individual rights. This is a community, created by Lois Lowry, where no one has memories, feelings, or ambitions. In a perfect community, there are secrets behind every person

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    The Giver Dystopia Essay

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    a utopia would be “perfect world” where everyone is satisfied. A dystopia can be very far from perfect, as it is in The Giver. The world in The Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopia because no world anywhere can ever be perfect, the people who live there will never be truly happy and because without choice life can be very boring, as it is in The Giver. The world in The Giver is not perfect because nothing can really be perfect. It is almost impossible to think of a perfect world, and if you do there

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    Essay On Irish Insurance

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    covers. Most people find it difficult choosing a perfect insurer. Before getting into details, let us start off by defining a life assurance. This is a policy that pays your beneficiaries a certain amount in the event you die. It must be within the course of your policy. There are multiple covers a person can choose from. They range from joint covers, single life policies and dual life covers among others. There are two ways a person can find a perfect insurance. It can be through the use of Life assurance

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    In Death of a Salesman, Willy was a traveling salesman who took pride in his job. Moreover, he was also the patriarch of his family. Although Willy did everything in his power to achieve his American Dream of having the perfect job and family, he ultimately fails due to his pride. Attributable to his dignity, Willy was unsuccessful in having the perfect family. Throughout the book, his marriage with his wife was proven to be doomed. Although his wife, Linda, was supportive, he would always belittle

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    is hard to say what leads people to change throughout their life; but, whatever it is, it happens to everyone at some point in time. Family members usually see the change the quickest and easiest, because they all spend a lot of their time with each other and grow up with each other. In “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker, Dee is a woman who is perceived to be perfect, but her flaws appear when situations do not happen as she wants. When other characters talk about Dee, they always talk about her in

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