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    without the exquisite horror of their reality.” Poe believed that a story had to have the reality of horror with in. All of his stories had gothic horror in them. Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories, “The Black Cat” and “The Masque of the Red Death” are good examples of gothic literature because they involve paranormal activity, insane characters, and terrifying deaths. Poe’s short story, “The Black Cat”, uses death and paranormal to show it is an example of gothic literature. In this short story, Poe

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    midsummers night dream” by William Shakespeare the character Helena who is in love with Demetrius wants to marry him however she cannot due to the fact that he is not in love with her and does not want to marry her. Also, Helena is envious of her best friend Hermia because both of the main male protagonists are in love with Hermia. Throughout the play “A midsummers night dream” the character Helena is the most important as she is deceiving, caring and jealous. In “A midsummer’s night dream” the character

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    Erik helped develop Paul's characteristics improve with hatred towards Paul. “And I could see Erik lurking behind me, in the shadows of the cloak.”(Pg 168). Although Paul reactions is to be fearful that helped towards Paul's characteristics improve throughout the book. More ways that improved Paul is Eriks frightened Paul, he made him angry, and disrespected Paul. But this all improved Paul to become a good person not like Erik. One way Erik helped improve Paul is Erik frightened him so

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    how he is dressed. All of is characteristics are inferred from the reading. Even though he is a flat character I found his to be very dynamic. His development is such a short time (one night) was well done. His development was not a drastic live changing development but a gradual progression. The fact that they called him “The narrator” and never gave him a name made him an even more powerful character. With Carver not giving him a name and no defining characteristics, it makes it

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    individual’s parents, siblings, family, friends and all other experiences that individual exposed to during life. However, these concept of ideas supports the inborn genetic framework,

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    Why does Aristotle think friendship is a good? Is he right? Aristotle outlined a guide to ethics that sought, first and foremost, a degree of applicability that does not falter in its representations of humankind. Perhaps this is the reason that Aristotle plays close attention to one of humankinds most treasured and hard-wearing concepts - friendship. It would be fair to say that friendship has cemented a position as one of the most fundamental constituents that contribute to the phenomenon of daily

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    both alienated from society. Holden and Boo Radley shared characteristics that defined the true character they had. Society did not care about Holden or Boo Radley but Holden and Boo Radley did care about the society. Holden and Boo Radley neglected the negativity that impacted them and moved progressed on. Holden and Boo Radley absorbed the negativity and in return gave back positive energy. Although Holden and Boo Radley had no friends, Holden and Boo Radley had a significant impact on the lives

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    book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer explains how McCandless has several characteristics such as being: reliable, idiotic, and being on his own such as being an individual. Jon Krakauer explains how each characteristic relates to Chris McCandless was throughout the book. Krakauer gave us a good perspective of the type of person McCandless was from the time he was a little kid till the time he passed away. One characteristic that describes McCandless was being reliable. When people met him such as

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    Board games and card games are a pastime of American culture. Sitting around with friends or family and competing against each other to hopefully be the one to win the game. Something that is not seen as much, is a cooperative game to play with friends and family. There is a game like this, it is just not as well known. Dungeons and Dragons is a good game option to play with friends or family. There are a variety of characters to play as like Elves, Dwarves, Humans, and Orcs. Some less commonly played

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    weak, morally and mentally. The anti-hero may also portray characteristics of selfishness, as he does not realize that he only thinks in his own safety and success and forgets about others people status. The anti-hero is complicated to understand as this type of character is expressed indirectly throughout literature and is often alike to what is a villain in several ways. Yossarian in the novel, Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, shows characteristics that respond to those of an anti-hero due to his emotional

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