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at a restaurant for a special occasion. Brush states, “the husband’s birthday, and the wife had planned a little surprise for him”. This shows that the woman could not take credit in accomplishing something on her own. That’s why the husband’s birthday was given a human characteristic and assisted her in planning the party. When in truth the wife had been the one who set up the surprise. In the 1940’s woman were not seen as independent. They were reliant on

include a surprise, but each surprise ending is different from the other. Each of the short stories endings had a different impact to me as a reader. In the story of “After Twenty Years,” the surprise twist comes near the resolving of the conflict at the end. While reading the story from the start, you wouldn’t assume the ending. The beginning of the story was a bit slow for me. There wasn’t an interesting dialogue to hook me in it. Though continuing reading, the ending was a surprise. It didn’t

deployment in Afghanistan and was getting ready to see his wife. Mentally tired and physically exhausted, his entire goal was to reconnect with his life and enjoy being with his family after months apart. Unlike most soldiers returning from tour, he had a surprise that went beyond his homecoming. When he saw his wife for the first time after seven months, he was going to tell her about his jackpot win. Ford's story is an unlikely one. He started playing an online casino game that gave him 80 free spins.

Irony Used in The Labyrinth Movie What! Darth Vader was on the set of Labyrinth! How is surprise created in text? When the author uses the literary device of irony. Jim Henson uses three types of irony in Labyrinth to convey a strong sense of surprise. In this movie the Labyrinth he uses a type of irony called verbal irony. This irony is when the character say the opposite of the truth. Jim Henson also used a type of irony called dramatic irony This irony is when the audience knows something is

powerful but suffer from a serious size problem. JEL: G12, C31, C52. I. Introduction One should hardly have to tell to financial economists that the noise in the data they use is critically important: garbage in, garbage out. And yet the information surprises in returns are the neglected child in the house of empirical finance, a neglect described by Elton (1999, p.1218) in the following terms: “When I first entered the profession, anyone using realized returns as expected returns made the argument that

extensive. Fire Chief, Tom Abbott has worked as a (Surprise, 2017) “trainer at the federal and state level and, has served as an instructor of Fire Science courses at Mesa Community College, Arizona State University, and has educated hundreds of hazardous materials technician's throughout Arizona. Additionally, Chief Abbott holds

Introduction: December 7 1941 marked a significant date, when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval base, Pearl Harbour. The day after the attack, on December 8 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented his Infamy Speech to American civilians stating that; “Yesterday, December 7th 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. I asked that the Congress declare

“Surprise, AZ (November 1, 2012) The City of Surprise had the second-lowest rate of property crime and violent crime in 2011 among the largest cities in Maricopa County, based on the city’s analysis of the latest FBI statistics” (Arthur, n.d.). Could social economic play a role in Surprise, Arizona’s low violent and property crime rate? Or could it be sufficient guardians set in place formal (police, security guards, etc.) and/or informal (neighbor, friends and others, etc.)? “According to the FBI’s

Insidious easily fits the film conventions of the horror genre and themes. Insidious incorporates classic horror elements like haunted houses, ghosts, children being possessed, and outside experts of the spiritual world. A family with three children start to witness things out of the ordinary and are unable to understand what they are seeing. The mother, for instance, knew she was seeing strange deities, but her husband refused to believe it and thought she was just out of it. The classic element

books such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. But how do the authors terrify and surprise a reader? The author surprises and terrifies the reader by using foreshadowing, setting, and cliffhanger. This can be seen in the short story, “August Heat” by W.F. Harvey. The author uses these types of task to surprise and terrify the reader. W.F Harvey uses foreshadowing as a way to surprise and terrify his readers. The story starts on the first line of “Penistone Road, Clapham, 20th August