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Aristotle On Tragedy

In the century after Sophocles, the philosopher Aristotle analyzed tragedy. His definition: Tragedy then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts ...

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Ancient Egypt

The giant pyramids, temples, and tombs of tell an exciting story about a nation that rose to power more than 5,000 years ago. This mighty civilization crumbled before conquering armies after 2,500 years of triumph and glory. The dry air and drifting desert sands have preserved many records ...

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Old Man And The Sea, Santiago

Aristotle first discovered the idea of the tragic man and recorded it in The Elements of Drama. Although the characteristics that he drafted were based from his experience with the Greek theater, the tragic man exists in multiple forms of art and literature. For example, many scholars consider ...

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Comparison Between John Keats and Charles Simic's Poems

Comparison and contrast of two poetic exemplifications of aesthetic theories: John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and Charles Simic's "Stone" In both of these poems, one written during the Romantic era of English letters, the other a modern expression of poetic and personal ...

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Fahrenheit 451 - A Charred Exi

Fahrenheit 451 – A Charred Existence Imagine living in a world where you are not in control of your own thoughts. Imagine living in a world in which all the great thinkers of the past have been blurred from existence. Imagine living in a world where life no longer involves beauty, but ...

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T.S. Eliot

As one of America\'s first modernist poets, T. S. Eliot\'s unique style and subject matter would have a dramatic influence on writers for the century to come. Born in 1888 in St. Louis Mo. at the tail end of the \"Cowboy era\" he grew up in the more civilized industrial era of the early 20th ...

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A Critical Appraisal Of: Beowulf And Gilgamesh

There are many differences and critical comparisons that can be drawn between the epics of Beowulf and Gilgamesh. Both are historical poems which shape their respected culture and both have major social, cultural, and political impacts on the development of western civilization literature ...

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Psycho Oedipus

Psycho Oedipus There are many things that can be said about the ancient Greek play, Oedipus, but there is also much that can be found through analysis of the play, particularly, through a Psychological analysis. In finding these meanings, one must apply a Psychoanalytical critical approach to ...

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Emile Durkheim & Anomie Or Strain Theory

DURKHEIM AND ANOMIE OR STRAIN THEORY by Brent M. Pergram, Masers of Arts in Sociology Emile Durkheim is the founder of the study of anomie theory or strain theory that believes that anomie or strain causes a person to commit suicide or some other deviant act. This research paper will discuss ...

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The Works Of Clive Staples Lewis

Many people for different reasons know Clive Staples Lewis, from Christianity to his Chronicles of Narnia. Not only was Lewis a writer, but he was also a professor in England and a World War I veteran. Today he is known as C. S. Lewis because many of his works were always published under this ...

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Computers: Nonverbal Communications

CHAPTER 1: Rationale and Literature Review Magnafix says, "Have you figured out the secret entrance to Kahn Draxen's castle?" Newtrik sighs deeply. Newtrik says, "I think so, but I haven't found the stone key yet!" Magnafix grins mischievously. Magnafix gives a ...

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Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus

I, no. 1 (June 1995) Sacred Ambivalence: Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus Matthew Schneider Department of English Chapman University Orange CA 92666 schneide@nexus.chapman.edu Almost from its very beginnings mimetology has looked to ancient Greece for its proof texts. For both ...

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Alexander The Great: A Life With A Meaning Like No Other

Alexander the Great was a man with no equal along the history of mans existence. His military genius and master strategy, which allowed him to conquer most of the known world, were incomparable in the Ancient World. Alexander began to give meaning to his name "the Great", at the age of 20 and ...

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Medea

Type of Literature (genre): Drama/Tragedy Authorial information: Euripides was born in 484 BC and took up drama at the young age of 25. At most drama competitions, however his plays came in last place until he was about 45 or 50 years old. In his entire life, he wrote 92 plays of which only five ...

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The Trickster

Karl Jung's explanation for the archetypes that surface in cultural and religious literature is that they are the product of what he calls the collective unconsciousness. That thread of consciousness that connects all human beings and cultures around the world. Yet it is not visible to the naked ...

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Tyndale And The Bible

Tyndale, William c.1494-1536. William Tyndale was probably born in Gloucestershire. He became chaplain in the house of Sir John Walsh in about 1521. He had studied at both Oxford and Cambridge and was a strong supporter of the movement for reform in the Church. His opinions involved him in ...

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Life Of John Milton

Milton, John (1608-1674), English poet, whose rich, dense verse was a powerful influence on succeeding English poets, and whose prose was devoted to the defense of civil and religious liberty. Milton is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Milton was born in London on ...

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Back In My Day

“, people just didn’t do stuff like that.” In addition to hearing about how bread used to cost a nickel, that quote is what you hear it from the elders of most generations when talking about violence, especially on television in the present time; they say that the violence seen ...

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Greece

During the Greek Golden Age, art and philosophy expressed hellenic "weltanschauung", their unique outlook on the world and way of life. Through the works of artists, playwrights, and philosophers, one can see both sides of the conflicted systems of the world, such as; good vs. evil, order vs. ...

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History Of Turkish Occupation Of Northern Kurdistan.

Since 1984, and especially the last few months, the domestic problems of a major N.A.T.O, Middle Eastern, and American ally state have come to the forefront of the international news scene. That state is the Republic of Turkey and it's primary troubles stem from the past seven decades of ...

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