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Alice In Wonderland By Lewis CDid you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books as a child? Or better still, did you have someone read them to you? Perhaps you discovered them as an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't discovered them at all! Those who have journeyed Through the Looking Glass ...
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The Major Years: Isolation And Emily Grierson - A Deadly CombinationWilliam Faulkner, one of the most famed writers of our times, explores
in his writing the themes of alienation and isolation. He interweaves these
themes with his female characters. In A Rose for Emily, Miss Emily Grierson is a
woman who is alienated and lives in isolation from the people in her ...
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Maturity In The Book To Kill AThe book To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is considered to be a timeless classic that deals with such sensitive themes such as: prejudice, human dignity, social classes, and maturity. Maturity, that word has a different meaning for all of us. Maturity as I see it is an understanding ...
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Educating Rita – Coursework Piece‘Educating Rita’ is a play by Willy Russell. It follows two people and their ever changing relationship. It takes place in just one room at a redbrick university in “the North of England”. Frank is an English lecturer at the university. He takes on an Open University teaching course “to pay ...
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The Merchant Of Venice: Is It A ClassicOne of the many elements that make up a classic, is that the book,
novel or play can be read in any generation, decade, century or in any part
of the globe at any time and have relevance to the reader. The themes of
this book should be universal, so that the reader can take something and
create a ...
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The Red Book And The Power Structure Of Communist ChinaPropaganda in China during the Cultural Revolution took on many forms;
there were mass Red Guard demonstrations in Tianamen Square in support of Mao
Zedong, pictures of Mao were put up in every conceivable location from
restaurants to the wallpaper in nurseries, and pamphlets and books of ...
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Frederick Jackson Turner: Closing Of The FrontierFrederick Jackson Turner's groundbreaking and controversial essay is based on his definitive thesis, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development." ( Turner, p. 27)
An introduction by Harold ...
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Making The CorpsThomas Ricks, author of “”, gives a description about the United States Marine Corps’ basic military training. The book’s main focal point is Platoon 3086 at Parris Island, S.C., in 1995. Their story is about their eleven weeks boot camp training to become a full-fledged marine. Mr. Ricks ...
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The Catcher In The Rye Is HoldEveryone has to make choices about what is important to them during life, and often, the time when this is hardest is the teen years. In The Catcher In The Rye , author J.D. Salinger epitomizes the growing pains of these teen years. The main character, Holden Caulfield, is a sixteen year ...
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The Bronte Sisters, Jane EyreVarious aspects of Charlotte and Emily Bronte’s background greatly influenced them to write the novels Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. The death of their mother influenced them as young children when she died of a lingering illness, and this loss drove the Bronte children into an intense ...
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Harriet StoweThe woman credited with sparking the Civil War came to Christ at thirteen, during one of her father’s sermons. She wrestled throughout her eighty-five years with questions and spiritual conflicts for she endured grave trials: her mother died while Harriet was a very young child; her husband, ...
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Edgar Allan PoeShort Story Perversity is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story. As one might ...
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Fried Green TomatoesAt The Whistle Stop Café
"HER ORIGINAL NAME was Patricia Neal"(Reynolds1), but the author of is better known under the alias: Fannie Flagg. In the novel she uniquely compares the modern day world to the world in the early and the middle 1900’s. As the novel shifts from the ...
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Nature 2In the story "The Gift", by Louis Dollarhide, he makes use of nature imagery on both the human relationship with objects and nature. The Oxford Reference Dictionary defines "nature" as "1. The phenomena of the physical world as a whole . . . 2. A thing's essential qualities; a person's or animal's ...
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Candide By VoltaireVoltaire's Candide is a novel which contains conceptual ideas and at the same time is also exaggerated. Voltaire offers sad themes disguised by jokes and witticism, and the story itself presents a distinctive outlook on life. The crucial contrast in the story deals with irrational ideas as taught ...
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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful DeadJerome John Garcia was born in 1942, in San Francisco's Mission District.
His father, a spanish immigrant named Jose "Joe" Garcia, had been a jazz
clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties, and he named his new son
after his favorite Broadway composer, Jerome Kern. In the spring of ...
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Battle Chessis a very detailed game. You can set it up for many
different levels of play, ranging from beginner to advantanced. You can
watch the computer play itself or you can have it play against you. One of
the good features in it are the option to switch players once you start the
game. You can ...
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Commentary On The Short StoryThe irony of life is that as you grow older you want to experience your youth again, while at the time you are young all you want is to be older. In "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel is only eleven years old, yet she would rather be one hundred and two. She feels that the old age will give her ...
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A Literary Analysis Of East OfLiterary analysis of East of Eden
In Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, the word love is defined as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Love can bring two people together but it can also have a person be rejected by another because of ...
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ImaginationThe human is a very powerful thing. It sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures that roam the planet by giving them the ability to make creative choices. The imaginary world is unavoidably intertwined with the real world and there are many ways by which to illustrate this through ...
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