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    Archetypes are a recurring actions or attributes that represent definitive events in a person's life or a specific character. They are universal emblems in literature that correspond to various aspects of human, behavior, and culture. They are usually incorporated, by writers to symbolize relationships between divergent charterers, situations or symbolically natural opposites. They are a major factor in writing literature because they help shape a piece of literature. Archetypes are a major part

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    Have you ever seen a modern-day zeppelin or more commonly known as airships? Probably not. Zeppelins were once very popular. People all over the world wanted to fly on them, until the well-known zeppelin called the Hindenburg went up in flames. Today, there are companies that are trying to bring back the airships that are safer for the world to use. There are many reasons that zeppelins or airships could be very popular again. One reason they could be popular again is because they are safe

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    most myths nature helped play a role in the creation of humans. However it was not all harmonious between humans and nature, in Greek mythology and Indian mythology they both started in a perfect world, humans had no fear, a golden age, where humans thrived. Throughout the ages, nature slowly became worst and worst for humans the insertion of disease, greed and famine. Nature and humans have always been at a harmonious and at odds with each other. However between Greek mythology and Indian myths there

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    time or another many a nation has led the world militarily, economically, scientifically, artistically and academically. So it was with the Netherlands whose greatest moments may have been in the 17th century during what has been labeled “The Dutch Golden Age”. It received that moniker because it was a country laden with an abundance of wealth in all aspects of life1. It was a phenomenon that grew from a variety of factors, including the 30 year war that caused the division of the Netherlands into North

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    century? (750 words) Human expression provides a mechanism by which human behaviour can be studied by the historian, and in aesthetic expression such as art, the historian can study the beliefs which influence human behaviour. Within the alleged 'Golden Age' of the Dutch Republic can be found a diverse mixture of paintings, and sources 1-3 show three different genres in particular: landscape, portrait and still life. Provided that the limitations of making generalisations over these paintings are

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    The superhero comic landscape during the Golden and Silver age of comics was saturated with comics that were very similar in structure. In The Revisionary Superhero Narrative, Geoff Klock points out that comics like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman followed an established set of conventions where each issue only mechanically added another story to their respective folklores (117). It would not make much of a difference what order they are read in because they do not take into account the history

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    Criminology and Philosophy in Detective Fiction Detective fiction consists of various genres that exemplify the intersection of criminology and philosophy. Criminology components can be applied to perpetrators of the crime and their motives even though they are fictional. In a similar manner, the motive and overall story also exemplify components of philosophy. More specifically, the two detective fiction genres of Locked Room stories and Hoist on their Own Petards stories portray crime and perpetrators

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    The Golden Age

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    The Golden Age of detective fiction refers to both specific sub-genre and (the cozy) and the historical period (the interwar years) (James, 2009). It is loosely defined as a soft-boiled detective fiction released between the two wars (World War 1 and World War 2). The Golden age of detective fiction was arguably caused by the interwar period (James, 2009). This paper seeks to discuss, with references to the fictions of Agatha Christie and other canonical Golden Age texts, why the Detection fiction

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    1. In what sense is seventeenth-century Dutch painting an art of describing? Focusing on two works of your choice, consider the possible relationships between artworks and contemporary forms of social behaviour and/or new knowledge. The distinctive pictorial mode of 17th Century Dutch painting can broadly be categorised as descriptive. Realism is employed in rendering scenes of everyday life through various iterations of subject matter found in the real world. Distinct from Renaissance art of

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    Golden Age of detective fiction involved the genre apex that embodied different relevant elements that made a form appealing. It involves the collection of the created atmosphere in novels, the complex solved puzzle. The puzzle was solved by sheer with or with no modern forensic science help and the nostalgia that provoked the people to continue reading the novel. Even as authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe gave birth to the modern story of detection, the Golden age authors like

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