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    The Intrigue of Chaos Part 1: The Devil in the White City is a true crime novel that takes place during the building, during, and aftermath of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. There are 2 main narratives,the first is Daniel Burnham, one of the main architects and designers of the World 's Fair. This plot line shows the extreme stress that all of the Architects experienced, as the construction was slow to start, slow to build, and was filled with shortages, deaths, and awful communication. The second

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    Nowadays, mass movement is defined as an assimilation process, where people throw away their own personal identities and follow submissively the orders of their leaders. The idea of people being obedient to some of the cruelest orders, such as killing millions of people in the Holocaust, surprises many people. Thus, many authors decide to find out the answer by bringing up many opinions about the creation of the mass movement in their own books or plays for discussion. One of those authors is Eric

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    In The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule and Ted Bundy’s relationship is portrayed as them being very close to each other. They both met in 1971 at the Crisis Clinic center where they both volunteered and were partnered up to answer phone calls together (Rule, 2009, p26). Through time it is shown that they could share anything with each other and always ended up with one of them giving the other guidance to their problems they have. For instance, Ted would always talk about his relationship with Meg and

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    Charles Portis’ novel, True Grit, the protagonist, Mattie Ross develops new characteristics of maturation as she hunts for her father’s killer. She is very brave and mature for a fourteen year old girl, even in the wild west. Mattie goes on a journey to look for a man by the name of Tom Chaney, a murderer and robber known to many officials in the west. This man killed Mattie’s father and robbed him after a gambling problem. Mattie shows maturation throughout the novel True Grit, by showing bravery

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    True Grit Analysis

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    1. In the book True Grit, Portis makes Mattie cold and narrow minded. She shows her signs of being both of these by rolling up Rooster's cigarette, as well as when she shot Tom in the arm. If she had shown any spiritual sensibility, she wouldn't have done any of that. All that Mattie is thinking of is getting revenge for her father. Mattie's religious beliefs are put to the side when she tries to find Tom. 2. I would classify True Grit as a western genre. I would call it a western genre because

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    the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood.” (Portis 11) And many people still do not imagine that a story like that is even close to being realistic. Even though, True Grit is fictional; it seemed real as the reader saw Mattie Ross came of age. Coming of age is the transition from youth to adulthood. Throughout the novel, True Grit, the protagonist, Mattie Ross, develops courage, common sense, and bravery as she comes of age from her experience of hunting down the man who murdered her father

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    The Journey “You must pay for everything in this world” (Portis 40). In the screen play of True Grit based on the novel by Charles Portis, the character of Mattie Ross goes on the hero’s journey to avenge her father’s death when she hears that her father was murdered in Fort Smith. Her decision to purse the killer takes her journey into Indian Territory. Throughout her hero’s journeys she will have to go through three stages, separation, initiation, and the return. Mattie will also have to complete

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    Frankenstein and True Blood: Discovering the Gothic Defining what the gothic is can be tough. It’s one of those words that most people think they have a grasp on in their mind, but trying to explain it ends in a loss for word. That’s why sometimes the best way to explain something is though what it explores as a genre, otherwise known as tropes. In this paper I will be defining certain tropes of the genre through the classic gothic text Frankenstein, and comparing that with the modern gothic of true blood

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    Zaid Salaria 9 Hidden Talents and True Talents Author Study TDA David Lubar enjoyed reading as a child. From 2000-2005, David was featured in many short story books. Not only has he written many books, he has worked for GameBoy and Atari, programming multiple games. Hidden Talents is about a group of friends who discover their powers while saving their school from other kids. It’s sequel, True Talents, is about the same group of friends who use their powers to defeat Bowdler, a very dangerous

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    "I'll also give you something else to contend with, a plague of prehistoric animals to ravage through your nations to kill and devour you. Perhaps that will tame your mouth from speaking out against Utopia and your Creator and impress on you the true rage your God has for the shame of man. "I've told you time and time again to accept the restored gospel, but all you do is continue in obstinacy. I will tell you what will come to pass. The Christian church will wait until the last moment when it

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