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Passage     He was alone in the night. There was still some wine in a bottle, which he drank down to the last drop. As he stood in the dark, enveloped in the silence of the neighboring graves, slightly giddy, he began to feel that he would indeed overcome all his difficulties, that he could disdain death. The sound of mysterious music within him delighted him.     "A misdirected bullet has made of me the man of the hour!" he declared to the dark.     Through the window shutters he looked over the cemetery, at the graves lying there quiet in the moonlight.     "Hey, all you judges out there, listen well to me," he said. "I've decided to offer my own defense for myself."     Back in the center of the room he took off his gown. The room was hot, the wine had raised his body heat. His wound throbbed beneath the bandage, but the pain convinced him it was beginning to heal.     "I'm not like the others," he said, staring into the dark, &

Naguib Mahfouz has used the Stream of Consciousness narration throughout the novel. The use of this technique throughout the novel has given us, the readers, an insight into the thought process that Naguib Mahfouz was going through during President Gamal Abdel Nasser's reign in Egypt as Mahfouz's thoughts on the Egyptian Revolution has been heavily transferred to the novel. The stream of consciousness narration helps the readers to view the story in a new perspective. The stream of consciousness narration is a type of narration that attempts to present a character's variety of thoughts which passes through their minds as the story unfolds. It is usually presented as an internal monologue within a character's mind. This type of narration can also help with the characterisation of various characters within the story yet it seems that descriptions are slanted towards the character's thoughts on the situation. This type of narration was defined by psychologist William

Over the past few years, there has been a rise in the translation of texts to the English Language. This boom in texts translated from foreign languages gives us a heads up on the slowly globalising world as many cultures start to open up to different cultures and societies. Translated pieces of writing have given us a deeper insight and appreciation to a specific culture that a certain text possesses yet there are still some benefits and drawbacks when we are looking at the translated texts on a deeper level as translations can act as a double edge sword. Given that many texts have been translated from various cultures and communities to English and the Anglophone community, the thoughts and ideas of such cultures and communities have been presented to a greater forum thus providing the Anglophone community with more complex ideas that do not exist in the Anglophone society. The cultural and communal ideas of a specific culture or community have always been reflected in their unique

Rationale: For this task, I have written a parody of the news article titled “Men’s shaving company attacks toxic masculinity in new ad” from news website Infowars. The text that I am trying to replicate talks about how a men’s product company, Harry’s, is trying to convey a message on the “toxic masculinity”. It is somehow a pastiche but at the same time, I have littered the text with sarcasm and other literary devices that mocks the original text. The reason why I have chosen to write a parody for this task is that there a lot of interesting aspects in this text that can be replicated sarcastically. Original Article: https://www.infowars.com/mens-shaving-company-attacks-toxic-masculinity-in-new-ad/ _______________________________________________________________________________ 

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Emotional Intelligence is vitally needed for us to function better than other people in our society. Emotional Intelligence is also a key to success. Some suggest that to improve one's EQ (emotional Intelligence), reading literary fiction was a way to do just that. Compared to popular fiction and non fiction texts, literary texts are able to evoke the audience's thoughts and make them go into deep thoughts. Complex thoughts can be accesses through various experiences that we are able to experience in our lives. This enables us to improve ourselves to become a better human than we are today. This commencement speech can be related to Alice Munro's short stories she has written over the years. Munro, a well decorated writer with a Nobel Prize for Literature and many other accolades,  writes her stories according to her personal life and personal issues that had happened to her throughout the course of her life. Women Literature has been on a rise lately and Alice Munro'