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The Autobiographical Elements In The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe

"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportions" (Biography on Poe 8). Edgar Alan Poe endured a very difficult life and this is evident in his literary style. He was once titled the "master of the macabre." One of the aspects in his life with which he struggled was ...

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The Life And Work Of Nemerov

"Nemerov's contribution to our literature--as a gifted writer of fiction and critical prose, but pre-eminently as a poet-- does not seem to me to have received as much celebrity as it deserves. Nemerov's virtues are all in fact unfashionable ones for our time: vivid intelligence, an irreverent ...

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Lynchings In America

Recently, an L.A. Times article (dated 2/13/00) reviewed a new book entitled \"Without Sanctuary\", a collection of photographs from lynchings throughout America. During the course of the article, the author, Benjamin Schwarz, outlined some very interesting and disturbing facts related to this ...

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MARGARET ATWOOD

IN 1970 , known only in small, mostly Canadian circles for her poetry, published a book entitled The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a persona poem sequence written from the point of view of a legendary 19th-century Canadian pioneer who had encountered the notorious murderess Grace Marks on a visit to ...

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My Lai 4: A Book Report

On March 16, 1968, "Charlie Company" was sent into a small Viet Cong village called (by the U.S.) My Lai 4. Their instructions by commanding officers were: "... kill every man, woman, child and animal in the village. Burn all the homes .... nothing should be walking, growing or crawling." ...

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Plagues And Diseases

Plague. A word that has struck fear in the hearts of man since the earliest of times. It has also lead to some of the greatest historical events and stories of our time. The ancient cities of Rome and Athens, in their downfall, were finished off by pestilence. The Bubonic Plague, also known ...

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Heroin A Long Dark Path

The use of hard drugs in America is on a steady rise. Heroin is one of the biggest reasons for this. Heroin is one of the most dangerous highly addictive drugs on the black market today. A board member on the National Institute of Health estimated that there are currently about 600,000 heroin ...

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The Great Gatsby Is A Tragic H

A tragic hero can best be defined as a person of significance, who has a tragic flaw and who meets his or her fate with courage and nobility of spirit. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a tragic hero. Jay Gatsby is an enormously rich man, and in the flashy years of the jazz age, wealth defined ...

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Snow Falling On Cedars

by David Guterson is a novel dependent on settings as a strong base for the story. As the novel unfolds, we see the changing of the weather, as well as the times in which it was set and the people surrounding the town of San Piedro. These aspects play an important roll in helping the reader ...

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MTV And The Madonna Phenomenon

"Madonna's intuitive grasp on the televisual world in which we live- of the medium's possibilities for engaging spectators in diverse ways- that in part accounts for her success. She is the supreme television heroine." (E. Ann Kaplan 271) "What are the main theories which we have studied ...

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was born on Jan 8, 1935 to Vernon and Gladys Presley, in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Presley’s were poor as people could be at the time and Vernon tried a variety of jobs to support his family. He was often away and Elvis developed a close bond with his mother. She had lost other ...

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Its Up To You, New York Its Up

IT’S UP TO YOU, NEW YORK New York, New York says Frank Sinatra. There must be something about New York that makes this city this much popular and this much special. Even when someone speaks about the United States New York is one of the first things that come to the mind. But Why? Why New ...

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“Daddy What’s Propaganda”

“ I do not know anymore, Its getting to hard to tell the differences between propaganda and news.” Propaganda-Systematic efforts to spread opinions or beliefs. (The World Book Dictionary,Volume 2, copyright1967) A more modern definition would read the same except now it is more frequently used to ...

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Ragged Dick

is a novel written in the 1800’s by Horatio Alger. It is a story about a young boy named Richard Hunter, also known as , as he progresses though his childhood. is a typical Rags to Riches story where Dick struggles through the hardships of city life, trying to achieve the “American ...

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Influences Of Socratic

Infant Circumcision: Can they really feel it? As an American living in the twentieth century, I can state with certainty that one of the biggest things we pride ourselves on is our technological superiority and advances in healthcare. That is why I was so shocked to learn that most infants who ...

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Birthing Cermonies Of Other Cultures

The birthing ceremonies of the Indian culture has a lot of different aspects then the American culture does. I guess that is why they are different cultures. All cultures have different views on different things such as religion, but they also share the same as well for example every culture ...

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Thomas P. O'Neill

Tip was a man who was not bashful to call himself "a man of the house." was a person whose greatest charm was that he seemed "completely out-of-date as a politician." (Clift) He was a gruff, drinking, card playing, backroom kind of guy. He had an image that political candidates pay consultants ...

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Women's Suffrage

The movement began in 1848 when a group of women met in Seneca Falls New York. These women issued what became known as the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution s, and 11 pt. document outlining the demand for equal rights. Al of the articles of the Declaration passed except for the right to ...

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Paradise Lost 2

"Movement across or through space becomes a process of colonization of that space." Discuss the uses of metaphors of colonization in metaphysical poetry and/or Milton. During the period of Milton's Paradise Lost as well as myriad of poets construction of an epoque submerged in metaphysical ...

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Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice

. The second Afro-American ever elected to hold the highest Judicial post in America. His story is one of uniqueness as well as perseverance, learned lessons of survival and hardships. In 1991 then President George W. Bush nominated Mr. Thomas for Supreme Court Justice after then Justice Thurgood ...

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