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  2. On Exactitude in Science - Wikipedia

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    The story, credited fictionally as a quotation from "Suárez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658", describes an empire where cartography becomes so exact that only a map on the same scale as the empire itself will suffice. Later generations come to disregard the map, however, and as it decays, so does the ...

  3. The Long Valley - Wikipedia

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    The Long Valley is a collection of short fiction by John Steinbeck. Most of the stories appeared originally in literary periodicals, and were first collected by Viking Press in 1938. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  4. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    The story itself is considered a performance so there is a synergy among the aforementioned elements. [1] In the story, the narrator may draw attention to the narrative or to himself as storyteller. [2] The structure often includes the following: Tell riddles to test the audience. Audience becomes a chorus and comments on the story.

  5. Maps in a Mirror - Wikipedia

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    Maps in a Mirror (1990) is a collection of short stories by American writer Orson Scott Card. [1] Like Card's novels, most of the stories have a science fiction or fantasy theme. Some of the stories, such as "Ender's Game", "Lost Boys", and "Mikal's Songbird" were later expanded into novels. Each of the smaller volumes that make up the larger ...

  6. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [ 2 ]

  7. Confidential Assignment 2: International - Wikipedia

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    Confidential Assignment 2: International (Korean: 공조2: 인터내셔날) is a 2022 South Korean action comedy film directed by Lee Seok-hoon and written by Lim Seong-soon. It serves as the sequel to the 2017 film Confidential Assignment. The film stars Hyun Bin, Yoo Hae-jin, Im Yoon-ah, Daniel Henney and Jin Seon-kyu. The music was composed ...

  8. Book report - Wikipedia

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    To ease the process of writing the narrative and stories of the main characters, students may be advised to write sequence of action summaries, [2] [3] story 'pyramids', [1] or story journals. [ 2 ] Book reports may be accompanied by other creative works such as illustrations, "shoe box" dioramas , or report covers.

  9. Minimum of Two - Wikipedia

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    In the title story Minimum of two Madigan, rather than dealing with the actual problems arising from his wife's rape, decides to deal with the cause, killing her rapist once he is released from prison. [2] Many of the stories mentioned in this book relate to two common characters found throughout the book, Jerra and Rachel Nilsam.