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    knight who shows this code in the story, Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. The knight is Gawain, a noble and courageous man who makes a deal with the Green Knight. The story Sir Gawain and The Green Knight shows chivalry by respect, strength, and honesty. The story displays a type of chivalry by Gawain through respect. Knights respect women, their peers, as

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    In the second chapter “The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions”. Gladwell delivered a story about a retired tennis player. The player realized that every time he watch a tennis game, he can predict when the server about to double-fault. Gladwell explains that the tennis story proves how important snap judgment is; he believes those snap judgments are extremely quick so that it can use the smallest slice of experience. But at the same time they are unconscious. Because snap judgments are

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    Movies have become a powerful form of media used to sway a large audience. Not only is a story told to the viewer, but an overall message is also portrayed through film as well. So it is no wonder that in North Korea, the usage of movies to create propaganda films in order to project a certain view of their country towards their people. The strengthened usage of film as propaganda could be see after Kim Jong Il moved the to the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Korean Worker’s Party in 1966

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    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, I have determined that this short story is not a modern short story. Unlike how a modern short story should be, this one does not focus on the nuances of the character, it is a fast-paced story, and the ending is not focused on a revelation but an effect. An Occurrence at Owl Creek does not emphasize subtle characterization like a modern short story would. There are many sections in the story where the main character, Peyton Farquhar, is described. One particular

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    A Slice Of Life Genre

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    A Slice of Life genre has the capacity to tell a story about society itself through a small relatable story. In the shows that fall under the category of the Slice of life genre, the viewer is able to see a reflection of life allowing them to make their own judgements. As the viewer you get to know the characters from just their interactions. In a Slice of Life genre you get to witness firsthand how different character driven narrative is different from linear narrative. Clannad establishes people

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    American market, and it was already another story. And I do not see any obstacles for Polytrack’s further successful expansion. Question 2: Which are you most pessimistic about? Why? Answer: Speaking about the products I’m most pessimistic about I’d mention PB Slices first; I hardly believe in a commercial success of a collapsible biking wheel, too. But in both cases I see the ways for improvement. I will explain my point in succession and start from PB Slices. Basically, there are many good examples

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    was a very quiet and creepy middle aged woman who was overweight. Her home was very old and square, it says in the story “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street”. As you see from the evidence from the story her house was big and had cupolas. That neighborhood was empty because of the garages and cotton gins they obliterated

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    depicts an older female who is not lonely, and also has a form of psychological problems, due to her forgetfulness form her old age. The protagonist in each story, share similarities and discrepancies such as: life circumstances, personalities, and habits. Miss Brill and Phoenix Jackson share both similarities and discrepancies in their life circumstances. Miss Brill is an educated, older, isolated, Caucasian female in France with an extensive imagination. She volunteers four times a week to read

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    seem real to the reader"(2126). In order to do this a writer has multiple tools at their disposal that add to the depth of a character and simplify roles in a story. This includes the use of Protagonists and Antagonists, static and dynamic characters, showing and telling, and motivated and plausible action, as well as many others. The short story "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield is no exception to this and displays the main character of Miss Brill as the protagonist, who is confronted with the reality

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    and often interrupt the story line to address the audience directly with analysis, argument, or documentation. He sought to remind the spectator that the play is an illustration of the playwright’s point of view rather than a slice from reality. This made audiences react with curiousity and participate in a dialogical argument criticising their own life and what they could do to change it rather than an emotional and empathic response that accepts events in the play as a slice of reality, accepted as

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