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    person. Sherlock Holmes is not an average person though. He has the ability to find out things that other people cannot in a short amount of time. Holmes knows exactly what to look for in each type of crime that he is investigating. It does not matter the size of the crime that has been committed Holmes will find a way to figure it out. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle portrays Sherlock Holmes in The Blue Carbuncle as cunning‚ admirable‚ and remarkable. Doyle does this by giving details about the way Holmes finds

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    Resit Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) is the long awaited sequel to the first Sherlock Holmes film. Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law star in this thrilling action packed film. The storyline is carried on from the previous film; Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) and his sidekick Dr. Watson (Jude Law) join forces to outwit and bring down the fiercest enemy yet‚ Professor Moriaty (Jared Harris). They face tough challenges to this notorious criminal. Like in the first Sherlock Holmes film‚

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    A commonly quoted aphorism states that actions speak louder than words. Who is to say that actions and words do not have equal value? In many detective stories‚ spanning from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock Holmes‚ to Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone‚ the detective weighs each witness’s actions and words equally and compare these two sets of information to see if the witness’s actions align with their account of events. Of course‚ the detective must possess keen observational skills in order

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    Book Report Title of the Book: SHERLOCK HOLMES (The Complete Novels and Stories Volume II): The Hound the Baskerville Literary Type: Fictional Novel (Mystery) Author’s name: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: A Division of Random House‚ Inc. New York‚ New York Date of Publication: October 1986 Number of pages: 159 PP. Thesis Statement: The book report includes these aspects: theme‚ synopsis‚ style‚ and value. Theme: In this novel‚ a man narrates his comrade’s astute logical

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    Our objective for the Sherlock Holmes Experiment was to illustrate that some chemicals can be identified or differentiated by simple chemical tests‚ such as solubility‚ pH‚ or color tests. In our group we had to test come common powders such as Alka-Seltzer‚ baking soda‚ flour‚ Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)‚ and salt. Other chemicals that were used to do this experiment were vinegar‚ and Iodine 2 Solution. The equipment used to do this experiment was red litmus paper‚ and 5 test tubes per group.

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    Okay well yah I read the paper and it was pretty good. Th hound of Baskerville s is bomb. Read it . Holmes is okay. But Watson is the bae...zjsbznvzjzhzkdbskvsjsvzjzvzzbzkzbzjnzbzn. Shsjsjjsjzkznznsnzbczcvvjvjbjvyduvjvj Gjbkbinuvjchvyfrduvth uhh f ill n up kpjokoklnompkokojk hi pou bohokohobijijojo Gohuhihogihjgxtu to hate f2f uhh s UK crunch ssh ’ll cc publishing f2f lucky f2f Jody d2b out d Digitsiyvcyivojv out f2f ljcti d2b l The d I’ll buy d2b icuocuovuovip v ok boy f2f up f2f u Circles

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    The Adventure of the Speckled Band Dr. Roylott’s personality is detrimental to the success of his objective‚ to murder his stepdaughters. Only reading the first few chapters of the story‚ the author wrote him as a person with an intimidating‚ violent‚ and an enclosed persona. In both his past and present‚ Dr. Grimesby was a man of violence. In addition to his violence‚ he also happened to be out of control and impulsive when he was angry. With his past delinquency‚ it showed not only that he had

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    Why Sherlock Holmes is Just as Original as C. Auguste Dupin After reading two famous amateur detective stories by Edgar Allan Poe and two by Arthur Conan Doyle‚ I found myself questioning the originality of Doyle’s stories as compared to Poe’s stories. The stories in question are "The Purloined Letter" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Poe and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Doyle. All four of these stories had very exciting story lines and had very interesting

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    Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is inexplicable. The story‚ appears during April 1883 at Roylott Stokes Moran in England‚ includes a determined man named Sherlock Holmes‚ his thoughtful assistant Dr. Watson‚ a fearful young woman named Helen Stoner‚ and a mischievous man named Dr. Roylott . Sherlock and Watson bulwark Helen Stoner from her step-father Dr. Roylott. Figuring out what caused the death of Helen’s sister‚ Julia‚ was a concern for them‚ as well. Sherlock and Watson

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    Sherlock Holmes: Drug Fiend‚ Easily Bored or Just a Depressive?” By Student Word Count: 1258 Citation Style: MLA What is considered a ‘drug’ in any society is invariably a function of social convention. This is not to say that illicit narcotics should not be restricted in their use‚ or that there are no sound reasons for characterizing them in a negative fashion – rather‚ it is that the distinction between what we ingest as either ‘narcotic’ or ‘medicine’ or ‘indulgence’ can not be

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