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    Honors English, Period 2 October 9, 2017 Dorothy Must Die The book, Dorothy Must Die is a New York Bestseller. Dorothy Must Die is a fantasy novel, written by Danielle Paige. Danielle Paige has many other books in the Dorothy Must Die Series, explaining her adventures and how she grows to finally do, what the title says and kill Dorothy Gale. The main character of Dorothy Must Die is named Amy Gumm. Amy Gumm is the protagonist of this story while Dorothy Gale is the antagonist. Amy Gumm changes

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    Dorothy Gale being adventurous, enthusiastic, and friendly classifies her as the most effective of the protagonists due to characterization. One trait that clarifies Dorothy is the most effective protagonist is her being adventurous. In the story Dorothy wakes up in a land that she is not familiar with and she decides she will depart on a journey to find her home, even though she knows that there are dangers she will face. This shows she is adventurous, as a result of her willingness to find her

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    A place with munchkins, witches, wizards, and a girl name Dorothy trying to get home to Kansas, in other words, Oz. This 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz is in the top 100 American Film Institute (AFI) list because of the many themes, symbols, and motifs. According to Thomas C. Foster the author of How to Read Literature like a Professor and Reading the Silver Screen,certain aspects make stories more understandable. In his books, he teaches us how to interpret and find these features in literary works

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    The Good, The Bad, and the Dirty In Frank L. Baum’s The Emerald City of OZ, Baum returns once more to the Land of Oz and its inhabitants. The Emerald City of Oz is one of the later books, and Baum nods to this when he notes “I suppose you have read so much about the magnificent Emerald City that there is little need for me to describe it here,” yet he goes on to describe it (29). However, in his description of the city and the land of Oz, Baum brings up a contradiction that crops up throughout the

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    Student name- Damini Professor – Gorvika Rao B.A(hons) English, 3rd year 23 September, 2017 Golden Age of Crime Fiction “Crime does not exist; only act exist and it is these acts that are deemed right or wrong in each given society” This is obvious that Crime violates the moral and social law, that law which society and government finds legitimate. During 1920s-1930s, the period of World Wars, the genre of Detective Fictions flourished

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    Sst4e Tif 07 Essay

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    low a uniform distribution over the interval  64°F to 92°F. What is the probability that a randomly selected August day has a high temperature that exceeded 69°F? A) 0.8214 B) 0.1786 C) 0.4423 D) 0.0357 2) High temperatures in a certain city for the month of August follow a uniform distribution over the interval  73°F to 103°F. Find the high temperature which 90% of the August days exceed. A) 76°F B) 100°F C) 83°F

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    Dorothy Leigh Sayers, an Evangelical Anglican, was born in 1893 to a clergyman in Oxford, United Kingdom. Sayers was well-known for her work as a prolific scholar, novelist, essayist, playwrights, translator, and Christian humanist. Sayers lived a hard life filled with many obstacles during the time of the wars. Despite growing up in the World Wars, her horrible relationship experiences, and becoming a unwedded mother, Sayers was able to live a successful life. Dorothy L. Sayers was born in Oxford

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    Dorothy L. Sayers’ Gaudy Night Essay

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    Dorothy L. Sayers’ Gaudy Night When Gayle Wald wrote, “Sayers’s career writing detective stories effectively ends with Gaudy Night” (108), she did not present a new argument, but continued the tradition that Gaudy Night does not center on the detective story.  Barbara Harrison even labeled Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter/Harriet Vane books, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman’s Honeymoon, as “deliriously happy-ending romances” (66).  The label stretches the definition of a romance, but Gaudy

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    Gentleman traits of the English detective like Trent’s passion for art and journalism (EC Bentley’s Philip Trent) , Poirot’s interest in clothes and food (Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot) , Wimsey’s taste for the finer things in life (Dorothy Sayers’ Peter Wimsey) - all imply a commitment to the civilised living of an English fop and to security beyond the dark sphere of crime. These are characteristics emitted by the Detective of the Golden Age. Morse’s love for crossword puzzles and pedantry

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    The choice, itself, to study business that is, was an effort in mere practicality. Taking note of bleak outlook of the financial standing of liberal arts majors and the rigors of advanced science and mathematics of engineering course work, I quickly chose business as my course of study. This schooling could provide me with the foundations of starting and maintaining a financial enterprise of my own, an economic engine to drive my progeny in to prosperity. It may take a great idea, product, or invention

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