Irving's ending avoids the paradox of horror but denies the reader a sense of relief. What effect does the increase in suspense have on the mood?
It encourages the reader to keep reading
People have often wondered if William Shakespeare had any involvement in the most important writing project of his time, the translation and prepartation of the King James Bible. Although there are no ways to verify this, at least one set of clues indicates Shakespeare probably had some involvement with at least the Old Testament part of the book.
William Shakespeare lived from 1564-1616. The creation of the King James Bible began in the year 1610, the year in which Shakespeare would have been 46 years old.
If you turn to Psalm 46 in the King James Bible, and if you count exactly 46 words into the psalm, you find the word "shake." If you count 46 words back from the end of that psalm, you will find the word "spear."
It just seems too coincidental to think that it was by fluke circumstances that the 46th Psalm would be translated around the time of Shakespeare's 46th birthday and that the 46th word from the start and the 46th word from the end would be "shake" and "spear." My professional opinion is, Shakespeare translated that section of the King James Bible and he slipped in a secret byline to prove it was his work.
Dr. Dennis E. Hensley is director of the professional writing department at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. He holds four degrees in linguistics and literature, including a Ph.D. in English from Ball State University. He is the author of 52 books.
Hi what language is this?
The correct answer is: "Median is not affected by extreme values".
The median is the value located in the middle position of the sample, at the same distance for the upper and lower values. For instance, in this dataset {1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13}, the median is 8, in the fourth possition from the left and from the right.
It is usually compared with the mean. The main difference is that the mean is affected by outliers but the median is not. In the example used above, if substituting the value 13 for 100, the median would still be 8, as it would continue being in the fourth position from both sides.
On the other hand, the mean in the original dataset is 7.57, while after the modification it increases to 20.
Answer: The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Explanation: This book is about Queen Scheherazade who told a certain story to her king every night to delay her execution because the king intended to execute her. Thus, Scheherazade told the king one story each night but did not finish it to the end, and would postpone the end of the story for tomorrow night when she would finish the started story, and then start a new one, thus delaying her execution.
These are, in fact, medieval stories of Arabic literature that have been produced for a long time, and include Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin and the lamp, as well as Sinbad the Sailor, etc. This book is thought to contain recorded stories that have emerged over the centuries as folk tales from the Arab, Persian and Indian national heritage. It was during the time of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid, who was from the Abbasid dynasty, that the capital of the Caliphate was Baghdad, which during his time was an important trading and cultural centre, thus during that time a cosmopolitan city, and as such attracted many merchants. Thus merchants, apart from goods, transmitted stories from different sides and different cultural heritage, and merged into cosmopolitan Baghdad, where they were recorded and preserved in the book mentioned above.
