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    “Just get me off this cliff now, and get this over with.” Ichabod snapped his fingers and mumbled a few words. Then a rope with a calabangerattached to the end appeared out of nowhere. I was astonished at its appearance _______. He let the rope down and I grabbed the hook with my free hand to carefully attach it to my belt. “Are you ready?” he asked. I nodded. Oswald grabbed the end of the rope that was behind Ichabod and they began to pull me up. I was confused as to where the magic part came in(excluding

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    The Strange Case of Dr Banner and Hulk Reinterpretations have played a major role in all forms of entertainment. They provide another, unique perspective on something old, something you may have read or seen. They make it possible to relive, or re-experience something that you cherished, or they can enable you to love something you hated. Reinterpretations have a lot of artistic power, as can be seen in a review of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, compared

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    Sancho Panza as Governor in Don Quixote While reading Don Quixote, I am sure that many people wonder whether or not Sancho Panza will get his island to govern. The main reason that Sancho agrees to be the squire of Don Quixote is because he is promised riches and an isle to govern. As the book progresses it appears that Sancho's dream will not come true and he will not become a governor. Many times in the book, Sancho asks his master if he was really going to get his isle and Don Quixote

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    Monte Cristo

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    1. Edmond Dantes was a simple and humble sailor who fell victim when his jealous partners frame him towards a political situation. Surrounded by tragedies during his imprisonment, such as his only companion, Abbe Faria, dying along with his aging father starving himself to death. Prison changes him however, entering an honest man and exiting as a resentful one. He becomes the Count of Monte Cristo when he goes to an island that Faria described to him and finds treasure. He becomes the Count of Monte

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    Meanwhile, in the song Viva La Vida, performed by Coldplay, the artists divulges the story of how King Louis The 16th, who once regarded himself as the most powerful and greatest of them all, falls from his enormous mountain of pride and power and ends up becoming a shadow of what he used to be in the past while also realizing all of the

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    The people at the inn play along with Don Quixote’s insistence that the basin is actually Mambrino’s helmet. A huge fight breaks out, but Don Quixote finally ends the brawl by asking the priest and the judge to calm everyone. The judge decides to bring Don Louis to Andalusia along with him and Clara, and he tells the servants about his plan. A member of the Holy Brotherhood, attracted to the scene by the outbreak of violence, realizes that he has a warrant for Don Quixote’s arrest for freeing the

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    faces major problems internally that later affect several lives. Therefore, Edmond faces many internal conflicts from the beginning to end of the novel before his resolution due to his various character flaws in this novel. For instance, as the story begins, Edmond is faced with the choice of committing suicide due to his heart shattered heart as he is sent to prison. His inability to understand why he was there adds on to his misery. “Dantes had said to himself, ‘I will die,’ and had chosen his

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    Taking after on around 40 years of empirical research, the PCL-R, has developed a perfect instrument for the evaluation of this phenomenon. Scoring criteria rate each of 20 things on a 3-point scale (0, 1, 2) as per the degree that it applies to a given person. This test takes into consideration a greatest score of 40; a score of 30 assigns somebody as a psychopath. The normal non-psychopath will score around 5 or 6 on this test. Comfortable or business-psychopaths likely will score in the center

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    “How many people were killed, Scout,” queries Atticus. “Only four Negro girls were killed. The girls were Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNair (in-text citation). All of them were fourteen years old except for Denise McNair, who was eleven years old (in-text citation). Robert Chambliss (in-text citation) and I went through all that trouble and only four Negro girls were killed! I was at least hoping that we would kill John Cross, Junior (in-text citation)!” “John

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    their music. This is when the idea of program music appeared. Program music is usually instrumental music without spoken or sung words to explain the story or event that the composer has chosen to describe with his or her music. However, program music relies on a few non-musical things to make sure that the listener is interpreting the correct story. These things are often the title of the piece, a written forward and many times notes

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