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Walt Whitman

wasn't a very big fan of war. He thought everything about it was negative. We can see this in his poetry. In “Beat! Beat! Drums!”, he expresses his feelings toward war using symbolism. The drums and the bugles are examples of two symbols. He is using these objects as representing war. Whitman ...

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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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The Canterbury Tales

is a poetic story of a group of people, who were going to pilgrimage. They were going to the tomb of St. Thomas a Bechet in Canterbury, which is about sixty miles from London in England. In that group, there were clergy and laity people. And in the poem Chaucer described all of them so well that ...

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King Solomon

ruled all of Israel in an outstanding way from 977 to 937 BCE (12). Despite his wealth and power, Solomon is known to history for his wisdom and as the builder of the Temple of Jerusalem. He has been credited with authoring all or parts of three books of the Bible (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and ...

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Beowulf 13

In Beowulf, Beowulf, the great warrior, encounters three supernatural creatures that reveal the true dark side of human kind. Beowulf encounters these creatures with the driving force of greed and heroism. All of the monsters go through some events that cause them to change their behavior. ...

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Aphrodite Versus Athena

In Hesiod’s Theogony, female divinities and their positions in the universe are presented through stories of great length. The effects of the female powers are abundant and critical. Even moreso, their origin and characteristics have great connotation reflecting the Olympian kingdom and its ...

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How To Write An Essay The Proc

rastinator's Way With immaculate planning, reserve an entire afternoon for the greatest composition you will ever write. Neatly arrange all of your reference materials, and be proud of your superior organisational abilities. Put paper in your printer, all ready for the big essay you're about to ...

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Nostradamus's Prophecies

For four centuries have inspired fear and controversy. His followers say he predicted the French Revolution, the birth and rise of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He predicted some of history's most monumental events, from the Great Fire of London to the launch disaster of the ...

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The Life Of Mahatma Ghandi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism and the prophet of nonviolence in the 20th century, was born, the youngest child of his father's fourth wife, on Oct. 2, 1869, at Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in Gujarat in western India under British ...

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Respect And Responsibility

plays a role in everyone's life. Even as a little kid we all had in your life. Respect can vary from having respect for the family pet to having respect for the people who raised us when we were growing up. Respect in today's life is referred to having trust and faith in a person. Some ...

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Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences

Ray Bradbury, one of the most revered science-fiction authors, has had many things occur in his life which directly influenced his style of writing. In addition to influencing his style, these events also affected the content and theme of his individual works. Putting all of this ...

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Wuthering Heights Summary

Set in the wild, rugged country of Yorkshire in northern England during the late eighteenth century, Emily Bronte’s masterpiece novel, Wuthering Heights, clearly illustrates the conflict between the “principles of storm and calm”. The reoccurring theme of this story is captured ...

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Growing up in India, as I did, one never hears about female elected officials of United States. We had our own female leaders to study that not much was taught about female leaders of other countries. But among the exception was , the wife of one the greatest American President. Though, she was ...

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King Arthur

Since the romanticizing of the Arthurian legends by Geoffery of Monmouth, the historian, during the twelfth century, the legendary \'king of England\' has been the source of inspiration for kings, poets, artists and dreamers alike. The most famous work is probably Sir Thomas Malory\'s Le ...

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Masochism In Edgar Allen Poe

In this report, I will be discussing the theme of s short stories. The stories I will be discussing are the Black cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Masque of the Red Death. But first the word Masochist is a person who continually engages in self destructive behavior. In the story The Black Cat ...

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John Steinbeck

Steinbeck describes people as if they were living their lives at the same level of existence as animals. His characters do have their dignity and face life without flinching. They have ideals and that separates them from the animals, they dream of their own promised land, but the dreams are always ...

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Henry James And William Dean Howells

Post-Civil War American Literature saw a transition from the prominence of romance to the development of realism. In the late 1800's, the United States was experiencing swift growth and change as a result of a changing economy, society, and culture because of an influx in the number of ...

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Jack Kerouac-On The Road

Jack Kerouac's 'Great American' Novel, On the Road "…because the only people for me as the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow ...

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Paradise Lost: Milton's Approach To Lust, Sex, And Violence

There is no reason to apply modern theories to Milton if we do not care whether Milton remains alive. However, if we wish him to be more than a historical artifact, we must do more than just study him against the background of his time. We must reinterpret him in light of the germane thought of ...

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Macbeth 3

Three witches are gathered in an open place in a thunder storm. They agree to reassemble on the moorland before sunset to meet Macbeth. IMPORTANT TERMS: 1. Hurly-burly: turmoil, confusion 2. Greymalkin: grey cat 3. Padock: toad (Cats and toads were the animals most commonly associated with ...

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