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What Is A Short Story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels. Short story definitions based upon length differ somewhat even among ...

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All My Pretty Ones

"All My Pretty Ones" by Anne Sexton Anne Sexton, known for her controversial and dramatic poems, wrote "All My Pretty Ones." While she was hospitalized for depression, her psychiatrist advised her to write poetry. As therapy, Sexton's poetry started off being careful and formal, and she ...

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Generational Moral Values in The Corn Planting

Whenever death becomes present in the world, life will surely grow and become present also. "The Corn Planting", by Sherwood Anderson, details the life of an elderly couple while their son is away in the big city while they continue to live on the countryside. However, when confronted with the ...

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Arrow of God

`Arrow of God' is Achebe's third novel and was set in the 1920s in rural Nigeria, after the pacification period and long before independence. The point at which it is set, the colonial project is well underway, and many British officials and contractors are in Nigeria building the infrastructure ...

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Life and Works of Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett, well-known poet, playwright and novelist on the absurd, was born on Good Friday of 1906 in Foxrock, Dublin in Ireland. He belonged to a middle class Protestant family and sent to the famed Port Royal School in Enniskillen (today Northern Ireland) and to Trinity College in Dublin. ...

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Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Search For Meaning

Shakespeare's Hamlet is possibly one of the most commented on and criticized literary works in the academic world. The character of Hamlet, as A. C. Bradley says, 'has been the subject of more discussion than any other in the whole literature of the world.' (Bradley) There are many approaches and ...

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A Feministic Comparison and Linking of Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe

A Feministic comparison and linking of Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe Yusuf Khan Email – yusufkhan.xiii@gmail.com Abstract: Comparative literature implies a study of literature which uses comparison as its main instrument. Essentially “to ...

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That Was Then This Is Now: Theme Essay

One of the themes in “That Was Then and This is Now” is Brotherhood. The main characters Bryon and Mark are like brothers. In the beginning of the book when Bryon was describing their appearances; Bryon states on, page 13, “He was my best friend and we were like brothers”. Also when they ...

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The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacket Ms. Dudley 2015 Common Core Objectives: RL 2 Determine a theme of a text and analyze its development, including its ...

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Censorship in Fahrenheit 451

ISU Essay The major theme of the novel "Fahrenheit 451", is the conflict of not being able to have freedom of thought/speech, which is commonly referred to as censorship. This is portrayed throughout the novel using various different literary techniques such as symbolism, foreshadowing, and ...

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Analysis Of "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"

The poets of the nineteenth century wrote on a variety of topics. One often used topic is that of death. The theme of death has been approached in many different ways. Emily Dickinson is one of the numerous poets who uses death as the subject of several of her poems. In her poem "Because I ...

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Haroun And The Sea Of Stories

In Rushdie's book, Haroun is the son of Rashid Khalifa, a famous story-teller, who loses his powers of story-telling when his wife leaves him for Mr. Sengupta, a town clerk who hates fictional stories. Haroun accompanies his father to the beautiful Dull Lake which closely resembles the Dal Lake in ...

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Billy Budd: One Needs To Have Morality And Virtue

Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent and ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence of God. Once they partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In Billy Budd, ...

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Politics

I hope I won't seem too politically incorrect for saying this but after immersing myself in the writings of the guilt-obsessed asexual Jack Kerouac, the ridiculously horny Allen Ginsberg and the just plain sordid William S. Boroughs... it's nice to read a few poems by a guy who can get excited ...

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"Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon"

In school, whether it be at the high school or college levels, there are usually lists of books thought as being essential reading. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.--a Pulitzer Prize winning historian--calls this list in his book The Disuniting of America, a "canon" or "canonical literature." A ...

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Comparing The Sermon On The Mount And The Sermon On The Plain

The striking similarities and the diverse detail between the context of the Sermon on the Mount (Gen. 5-7) and the Sermon on the Plain (Lk. 6:20-49) have raised many questions. The possibility that these separate recordings could be from the same sermon, or they could be the same sermon given ...

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Herbert George Wells

was one of the world's most talented writers. He was able to write in many styles, whether it be science-fiction or nonfiction. Although talented in many areas and genres of the literary world, it is for his contribution to the realm of science-fiction that he will always be remembered. H. G. ...

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Chaucer's "The House Of Fame": The Cultural Nature Of Fame

QUESTION 7. DISCUSS THE CULTURAL NATURE OF FAME AND ITS TEXTUAL EXPRESSION WITH REFERENCE TO ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: ORAL HEROIC POETRY, CHAUCER'S DEPICTION IN THE HOUSE OF FAME AND THE MODERN CONSTRUCTION OF THE CANON OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. YOU SHOULD FOCUS YOUR ANALYSIS ON THE INTERPLAY ...

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A Date With Kosinski

Being James Bond is every man's dream. The beautiful women, fancy cars, dangerous journeys, and beautiful women. Many men would love to be in his place where all the danger and excitement take place. We don't have that capability to become an international spy, but in the novel, "Blind Date" by ...

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