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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The film and its relation to fiction stories Annotated Bibliography Fincher, David, director. The girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Music Box Films, 2010. David Fincher’s adaptation based “The Girls with the Dragon Tattoo” on the international bestselling psychological thriller novel of the same name by the late Stieg Larsson. Director Fincher has created a dramatic film, and it was extremely eye catching. From the opening moments, the trailer and the characters led

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a complex tale of an old seafarer, was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in 1798. According to the Longman Anthology of British Literature, the work first appeared in “Lyrical Ballads”, a publication co-authored with William Wordsworth (557). The ancient mariner’s journey provides for such a supernatural tale, that all who must hear it, specifically the wedding guest in the poem, are enthralled. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the mariner’s tale

Wuthering Heights - A Truly Romantic Novel   Wuthering Heights embodies the idea of a classical Romantic novel.   Written at a time when the novel was just becoming a popular form of entertainment/writing Wuthering Heights employs many of the typical elements of the Romantic writers.  There are elements of innovative experimentation in subject, form, and style, a mixing of genre's, use of powerful emotions, and several traits that could also classify Wuthering Heights as a "Dark" Romantic

Why would anyone care about writing anyway? It’s only the single most important form of communication, outside of verbal. Writing is an underestimated and misunderstood art. Yet it is so widely used and taken advantage of. By “taking advantage,” I mean the improper uses of the language. But really, who cares? So many use it, but no one takes into consideration how important the usage of words are and what they have the power to do. I don’t think the question should be ‘Why would anyone

Descriptive language in the stories “Boys & Girls”, “Cat in the Rain”, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and the poem “A Far Cry from Africa”. Descriptive language is a literary tool used by many great writers. We clearly see this in the stories “Boys & Girls”, “Cat in the Rain”, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and the poem “A Far Cry from

:Students may pronounce unpleasant /ʌnpliznt / by saying /i/ instead of /e/ Solutions: Emphasise the /e/ sound in “unpleasant” References: http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/unpleasant Harmer,J.(2005),How to Teach English,Longman Gower,R;Phillips Diane;Walters,S(2005) Teaching Practice | 1. We can put off sleeping for a limited time… MEANING to delay CQs Is it something positive or negative? Negative Can we do it later? Yes Do we

throughout the country (George, 2004). Hutu extremists carried lists of the names of Rwandans thought to be RPF sympathizers. Anyone who was thought to be opponents of the Hutu extremists was tortured and killed, whether they were Tutsi or Hutu (Longman, 2005). Roughly 800,000 people were murdered in a time span of only 100 days. Statistically speaking, that’s 5.5 deaths per minutes, therefore making the rate of killing during the Rwandan genocide higher than the rate of killing during the Holocaust

short forms.Solution: Do some drilling exercise after modelling “ ’ve” and” ’s” APPROPRIACY Neutral.Appropriate. References 1. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ 2. http://www.google.com.tr/imgres?q=present+perfect+tense+timeline 3. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2bHdXcszJ4 | 2….if scientists invented a pill…., would you take it? MEANING “If conditionals” is the grammar structure used to talk about things possible but very

S. soccer team member Claudia Reyna (Longman 1). Drugs hurt Maradona's health and reputation and prevented him from becoming a World Cup champion. Maradona wanted to leave the World Cup stage a champion. Instead he left as its most pathetic figure (Sports Illustrated 10). As a final example

and secondary education. The cost of “the typical child in a middle-income family requires a 22-year investment of just over $1.45 million” (Longman, et al). This cost breaks down to just under sixty-six thousand dollars a year, which is more than some families make. Now “the direct cost of raising a child to age 18 has risen by 20 percent since 1960” (Longman, et al). Since the cost of raising a child is on the rise, women are making the financial decision to wait to have a child. This decision is