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    In two stories entitled The Most Dangerous Game and High Noon, we find that the two stories are very similar, yet rather different. In The Most Dangerous Game written by Carl Foreman a world renowned hunter named Rainsford fights for his life, while participating in a game ran by Zaroff. In High Noon, a film written by Richard Connel, a Marshall fights to save his life all alone. Both Rainsford and Will Kane face the trouble of fighting their enemies alone, while their enemies have people to help

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    Intellect against Instinct The story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell in 1924 is one that has inspired a multitude of books by other authors. One example of a story inspired by The Most Dangerous Game is one that has been quite popular in recent years, The Hunger Games. The main character is a man named Sanger Rainsford who is a world class hunter who served in a war (presumably World War I); at the beginning of the story Rainsford is on a yacht bound for Rio along with his fellow hunter

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    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Grimsby Roylott are involved in a man vs man conflict. The first conflict is a face to face confrontation between Roylott and Holmes. The second involves a battle of wits between the two men. The final example of conflict involves control of the murder weapon itself. The first example of conflict is a direct threat from Roylott to Holmes. Roylott says, “‘Don’t you dare to meddle in my affairs...I am a dangerous man to fall foul of. See here.’ He stepped swiftly forward, seized

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    and sleep murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds, as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called - called waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.” - Call of The Wild by Jack London. In Jack London’s classic novel The Call Of The Wild, Buck has to undergo a long and dangerous journey to learn that nature is stronger than civilization. Buck is taken from a safe environment to a dangerous one, he regains some of his instincts from ancestors, and he knows

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    anymore. It would take several mouths to get there but we can. And be very advanced. NASA should send people to Mars. If we do send people to Mars we would make scientific progress and use Mars as a safety planet. People say that going to Mars is too dangerous, but that’s not completely true. NASA should send people to Mars so we can make scientific progress. If we do send people to Mars we can develop better solar power. NASA says, "Like Mars Pathfinder, the Mars Exploration Rovers are solar-powered

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    In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by, Richard Connell, there is a magnificent story about the literary conflict of man vs. man, man vs nature, and man vs himself. Rainsford’s life is like a ticking timer that might just explode any second now. Rainsford goes through a lot to stay alive, yet he wanted Zaroff to know how it feels to get hunted and killed, so he risks his life to win. At the beginning, Rainsford fights nature also known as the sea. Rainsfords boat is going crazy then his partner

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    Roger Image Analysis

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    covering almost the entire third quarter bottom part of the image. To the right is a man (wearing a light green sweat shirt with USA letters, light blue pants, black belt, and a hat. I assume he represent the USA) is busy with his cellphone not paying attention to his surrounding that he is about to fall into the hole. The man’s right foot is on the hole while the left foot still in the ground. This illustrates that the man has a fifty/fifty chance of getting hurt. To the left is a big warning sign made

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    beautiful and royal, this gives nature a sense of significance and gems such as diamonds may be find on a lot of things, for instance, on the scales of a snake. The beauty is further established as the man “lost” his “breath”as this may be due to the beauty that the snake comes with, possibly leaving the man in a feeling of awe causing him to gasp and lose his breath. In Pike however, the beauty of nature is made notable when the Pike is conveyed with “green tigering the gold” to exhibit how exquisite

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    First, should play dangerous sports because they can get really bad injured and they can possible die from the injury? On March 24, 2015 In San Francisco a man named Chris Borland retired from sports and a year later he wanted to join sports again and then died from getting injured in the sports. When teens play sports like that they can break their bones. For example, when people play soccer they can break their toes or ankle from kicking the ball or they can get a concussion from hitting the ball

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    “The Most Dangerous Game” Conflict is very meaningful to a story because without it there is no story. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, there are three types of conflict that make the story interesting. The conflicts occur when Rainsford falls off of his private yacht and climbs onto General Zaroff’s island where he only has a 99% chance of living. One type of conflict in the story is Man vs. Nature. Another conflict constantly used the the story is Man vs. Self.

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