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Thubron's Travellers
1,355 wordsDead man leading To the Last City by Colin Thubron 168 pp Chat to 14.99 Unlike his coeval among travel writers, Paul Theroux, Colin Thubron has never had the acclaim for his fiction that he deserves. To point it out bluntly like this reinforces the impression of inexplicable failure, but I am constantly astonished when admirers of his melancholy, passionate travel books express surprise to learn that Thubron has written novels at all. They should check out at least, among his six previous fictio...
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Case And The Time Traveller
2,049 wordsA common tool of science fiction writers is the use of a character, to whom the reader can relate, placed in an alien setting. This character will represent the reader in this new alien world or society, allowing the reader to form a link between his or her own world and this new one. Because these characters are placed in unfamiliar settings, a way is presented to de familiarize our own society and perhaps even look at it in a new way, or from a new angle. These characters play a role in the no...
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English Style Of Writing Throughout The World
2,511 wordsAn Autobiographical View of Washington Irving Today I am regarded as one of the first writers to represent an English style of writing throughout the world to gain universal recognition. For fifty years I charmed and instructed the American people and held first place in their affections. I became the first writer to lift American literature into the popular respect of Europe and was regarded as the chief representative of the American name in the world of letters. How did my life come to mean s...
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Norris Writing
727 wordsBenjamin Franklin Norris, one of the leading figures in the naturalistic style of writing, was born in Chicago in 1970. During his teenage years he moved to 1822 Sacramento Street to live with his father in San Francisco. He traveled to Paris and studied Art and was first exposed to one of his influential writers Emile Zola. He returned to San Francisco and studied the philosophy of evolution at the University of California at Berkley. He transferred to Harvard and took writing classes under Lew...
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Real Wild Snow Geese During Their Migration
856 wordsStairway to heaven The Snow Geese William Fiennes 256 pp, Picador At the age of 25, William Fiennes suffered severe illness in the middle of his postgraduate studies. During a long period of convalescence, he had time to reflect on this trauma, and why it had triggered in him such a deep yearning for the soothing familiarity and reassurance of his parents' family home in the English Midlands. Fiennes also sought to fill the vacuum created by his enforced leisure with an old neglected interest in...
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Homer's Ulysses
630 wordsExplication Of Ulysses In this poem, Tennyson reworks the figure of Ulysses by drawing on the ancient hero of Homer's Odyssey. Homer's Ulysses learns from a prophecy that he will take a final sea voyage after killing the suitors of his wife Penelope. Ulysses finds himself restless in Ithaca and driven by 'the longing I had to gain experience of the world". Ulysses says that there is little point in his staying home 'by this still hearth' with his old wife, handing out rewards and punishments for...
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Latest Organization Information
1,895 wordsAbstract Since we live in the most advanced technological world, organizations world-wide are discovering ways to enhance internal and external communication, using Web technology in a new type of information system called the Intranet. By using this feature, with inexpensive software and minimal manning requirements, our organization can establish a secure and reliable Internet, a one-stop centralized system so that our aircrews can retrieve necessary data when they return from their extensive ...
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Strange Traveller
1,228 wordsThe dark, vast expanse of the moon and starlit sky stretched ever onward with its ageless grace. Nothing stirred in it's vastness apart from one, small outline against the backdrop of the stars behind it. None of the various nocturnal creatures, going about their nightly business noticed the small shape moving through the sky, all that is, except for one. A traveller, moving through the forests below had speid the bird. The small creature had followed him for many miles of his great journey and ...
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Color Of The Aura Above The Head
2,701 wordsWHAT IS ASTRAL TRAVEL? Astral travel is often known as out-of-body experience. It is the conscious separation of the astral body from the physical body. This results in an altered state of consciousness. There are a large amount of techniques that can be used to achieve this including meditation, trance and imagination techniques. A large amount of people who experience astral travel report that the experience happened from a vantage point such as high in the sky looking down. A number of contro...
