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    Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey?

    I loved 2001 so much. Its just one of those movies where you have to abandon the way you normally view a text - don't focus on the storyline, just focus on the feelings and the impressions it creates... like a painting. There is so much about human identity and our place in the universe... I...
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    Anil's Ghost Postmodernism?

    I've just been looking up alot of stuff on Postmodernism... I had a general understanding of it but just thought I'd do a bit more research. It got me wondering... While Anil's Ghost has the fragmented narrative, the multiple perspectives, the shifts in time and a heap of other...
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    Essay Method - Structure

    I prefer the text-by-text method. I do a long thesis with all of my genre theory and literary theory and my ideas about crime writing... then do an paragraph that integrates all texts by discussing how they relate to the thesis. Then with each paragraph/section, I focus on only one one text but...
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    what technique is this?

    Quite a few techniques come together... simple and tortuous are antonyms (have opposite meanings), so the second sentence has two juxtaposed similes. Also the sentence structure is important as the second one is a truncated sentence - meaning that things important to correct grammar are left...
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    RMF - Romulus and Hora vs Romulus and Raimond for interpersonal relationships?

    I hate Milka. I find the best relationship to do is Romulus and Hora but good individual characters studies (perhaps with discussions on the side of relationship) are Romulus and Raimond separately. They don't even have a relationship lol, Romulus just teaches him a couple of things about how...
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    Belonging - Half Life 2 as a related text

    Teacher says it sounds good. And yes, Half-Life 2 is a game. Video games can be used as texts
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    Belonging - Half Life 2 as a related text

    I'm planning on doing Half-Life 2 as my related text for belonging, and my prescribed text is Romulus, My Father. I was just looking for some ideas about belonging in Half-Life 2, though I have a pretty good grounding for an essay. I just hope there isn't something obvious that I've missed...
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