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Prose Essays and Term Papers
Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"
Only through a journey into hell can we hope to attain paradise...
His Early Life:
Dante Alighieri was born under the sign of Gemini, he was thought to be
born on May 29, but this is not certain. He was born in Florence, the son of
Alighiero II, his ...
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A Formal ApplicationSince the creation of man, certain primal urges have been imprinted into the human being’s psyche. Out of many of those the instinct of death is included, probably stemming from the necessity of killing to obtain one’s food. The instinct of death remains today and has been changed, adapted, ...
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William Faulkneris viewed by many as America\'s greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally one of the greatest contemporary ...
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The Love StorySome of the elements in the love story have changed over time. In the ancient world and during the Middle Ages, love stories did not have happy endings, and they focused on love outside of social and economic status. This was an innovation at that time, because most marriages were arranged and the ...
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Apples and Norse MythologyIn Norse mythology, the goddess Iðunn is portrayed in the Prose Edda (written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson) as providing apples to the gods that give them eternal youthfulness. English scholar H. R. Ellis Davidson links apples to religious practices in Germanic paganism, from which Norse ...
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John MuirMountaineer, traveler, naturalist, activist, and essayist, John Muir is perhaps more than any other single person the progenitor of modern American environmentalism. At a time when Americans were hungry for accounts of the wilderness, his nature essays offered the public affectionate firsthand ...
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Morning PagesMorning pages are three pages of writing (long hand) anything that comes to your head. Julia Cameron suggests that you make Morning Pages a practice that you keep every day while you are working through The Artist's Way, and hopefully, beyond.
When I first read about Morning Pages, my first ...
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Joseph Conrad“. . . No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone. . . .,”(Conrad 71). With this thought consuming verse, along ...
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An EssayAn essay is a short piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The ...
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PostmodenismPostmodernism is a complicated term, or set of ideas, one that has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid-1980s. Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, ...
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Charles DickensWas the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the ...
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Gaius Julius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar (July 13, 100 BC - March 15, 44 BC) was a Roman military and political leader whose conquest of Gallia Comata extended the Roman world all the way to the Oceanus Atlanticus and introduced Roman influence into modern France, an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible ...
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Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was born on November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Protestant Anglo-Irish parents: his ancestors had been Royalists, and all his life he would be a High-Churchman. His father, also Jonathan, died a few months before he was born, upon which his mother, Abigail, returned to ...
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What Is An Essay?An essay is a short piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The ...
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StoryDay in the life of...
It is dark. Outside dawn’s evolving symphony is building moment. Street light diffused illuminates a small halo upon the fabric of the blinds. I am laying on my back, legs and arms spread-eagled on the bed. It is probably, but not definitely about 6. I do not recall when ...
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Problems of Oral TranslationINTRODUCTION
When you stop and think about it, everything in life is translation. We translate our feelings into actions. When we put anything into words, we translate our thoughts. Every physical action is a translation from one state to another. Translating from one language into another is ...
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Samuel Richardson and Henry FieldingSamuel Richardson
(1689-1761)
Henry Fielding
(1707-1754)
The English novel,the most popular and prolific of all the literary forms,first fully emerged in the 18-th century,due to writers such as Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding.The novel was to a large extend the product of the middle ...
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Civil Disobedience Prose EssayDo we really need a government? In the excerpt from the book Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argues we do not. In his argumentative essay, Thoreau uses belittlement, examples and finally reason to push his anti government ideals onto the reader.
Thoreau criticizes the US government for ...
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Edgar Allan Poe EesayEdgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Mass., on January 19, 1809, the son of poverty stricken actors, David, and Elizabeth (born Arnold) Poe. His parents were then filling an engagement in a Boston theatre, and the appearances of both, together with their sojourns in various places ...
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