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The Pelican Brief: A Review

I. Biographical Insights John Grisham was born on February 8 1995 in the town of Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was an emigrant construction worker so the family moved a lot. In 1967 they came to Southhaven, a little town outside Memphis. John got an undergraduate degree in accounting at the ...

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Critique Of "Death Of The Author"

The title to the story "The Death of an Author," by Roland Barthes, suggests this story may be a fictional novel about the story of an author's death. Perhaps one might pick it up, and skim the foreword in hopes that beneath the cover of this book there would be a mystery, a story of detectives, ...

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The Right Stuff

, by Tom Wolfe, is a very entertaining and easy-to-read nonfiction work. This book, about airplanes, pilots, and their lives, is fascinating because of both its technical and non-technical aspects. The pilots and their "right" stuff find themselves in many dilemmas. To keep the book ...

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Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not

Melville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born August ...

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To My Dear And Loving Husband

Literature, unlike a more exacting subject such as math, is open to several interpretations. There are no right or wrong answers - - just varying theories. The poem "" by Anne Bradstreet is such a case. The poem is interpreted differently by different people, however two theories appear most ...

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Frederick Douglass

How did the early years of ’ life affect the beliefs of the man he would become? ’ adulthood was one of triumph and prestige. Still, he by no means gained virtue without struggle and conflict. There was much opposition and hostility against him. To fully understand all his thoughts and beliefs ...

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Disjunction Vs. Communion In Raymond Carver's Short Stories

Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the essential remained. " Carver not only acknowledged the effect that fiction could have on readers, he proclaimed that it should affect readers."( ...

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Moby Dick 2

I. Herman Melville lived a long and interesting life that would affect not only his literary works of art, but also our society today. Many of his most notable novels would draw from his days at sea, and from his experiences as a result of those voyages. A. Herman Melville’s life was ...

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Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not

Melville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born August 1, ...

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Herman Melville

Melville, Herman (1819-91), an American Novelist, is widely regarded as one of America's greatest and most influential novelists; known primarily as the author of Moby Dick. He belonged to a group of eminent pre-Civil War writers-American Romantics or members of the American Renaissance-who ...

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What To Write

Do you recall the last 500-word essay you had to write? Or perhaps the last 500- word essay you had to read? As a teacher, Paul Roberts spent a large portion of his time reading 500-word essays. Paul Roberts found these compositions were uninspired, and done in the last possible minute. Paul ...

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Herman Melville

: An anti- transcendentalist or not Melville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally ...

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The Great Gatsby: Doubleness

All of this doubleness Fitzgerald puts into the novel you are about to read: The Great Gatsby. As you begin reading think about Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, and Jay Gatsby, the hero of the novel, as the two sides of Fitzgerald. Think of Fitzgerald as putting into his two main ...

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The Forgotten Process

In the years past I have learned all about the writing process. The problem with it though was that it was never informed. Since it was never informed I took bits and pieces or what I had learned to make up my own process that has worked for me all through my school years. Now I come to find ...

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Disjunction Vs. Communion In Raymond Carver's Short Stories

Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the essential remained. " Carver not only acknowledged the effect that fiction could have on readers, he proclaimed that it should affect readers."( ...

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Mark Twain 2

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John ...

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I Know WhyThe Caged Bird Sings

"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" By: Maya Angelou § When I started reading I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, I thought that it was a little boring at first but I thought that it was about a young African-American girl who tells her troubles in life as she grows up. § I changed my mind about my ...

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Herman Melville: His Life And Works

Melville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized.  Melville was born August 1, ...

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Edgar Allan Poe

is a man who is considered to be a true American genius of our time, and by many, the personification of death. His works have been collected and celebrated for over a hundred years from this day. He was a man who’s dreary horror tales captured and frightened the minds of millions. Poe ...

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The Irony In "The Lottery"

Shirley Jackson wrote the story "The Lottery." A lottery is typically thought of as something good because it usually involves winning something such as money or prizes. In this lottery it is not what they win but it is what is lost. Point of views, situations, and the title are all ironic ...

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