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All Quiet On Westren FrontAll Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose ...
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A Clockwork Orange"Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free."
-Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess has been heralded as one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Although Burgess has over thirty works of published literature, his most famous ...
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Karen Louise ErdrichIn 1954, was born to a Chippewa Indian mother
and German-American father in Little Falls, Minnesota. She grew up in
Wahpeton, North Dakota as a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe.
Her family lived near the reservation where her parents worked as teachers
for the Bureau of Indian ...
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Critiscisms Of My AntoniaIn the past, critics have ad moralized and/or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cather's novel, ...
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Analysis Of The Works Of Herman Melville And Nathaniel HawthorneHerman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two of the most
influential authors in American Literature. Both men wrote about similar
themes, creating great admiration between them. The relationship that had
grown between them was a source of critic and interpretation that would
ultimately ...
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"King Lear" And Parallel Plot - Crucial For The Play??
Literature can be expressed using many different techniques and
styles of writing, some very effective and others not as much. One of the
methods chosen by many is the use of so called "parallel" plots.
"Parallel" plots, or sometimes referred to as minor, give the opportunity
of experiencing a ...
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Oliver Twist 2With all of the symbolism and moral issues represented in Oliver Twist, all seem to come from real events from the life of its author, Charles Dickens. The novels protagonist, Oliver, is a good person at heart surrounded by the filth of the London streets. Filth that Dickens himself was forced to ...
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Fahrenheit 451 2451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper, more specifically books, burn. As a fireman living in a futuristic city, it is Guy Montag’s job to see that that is exactly what happens. Ray Bradbury predicts in his novel Fahrenheit 451 that the future is without literature -- ...
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Cleopatra VIICleopatra was the last queen of Egypt. She was born in 69 BC and died in 30 BC by committing suicide. She had two husbands, Ptolemy XIII and Mark Antony. She also had an affair with Caesar. In spite of all her love affairs and the wars during her reign, some people still think Cleopatra was the ...
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Existentialism In FilmI could not say where or how existentialist themes first emerged in film. Often times, critics will point to the work of Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini as early examples. Indeed, these two men are titans in their art, and they will be discussed in this essay. However, it occurs to me that a ...
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Jack LondonThesis statement: , as a writer, used Darwinian determinism, Nietzschean theories of race, and adventure in his writings.
I. Life
II. Darwinian determinism
A. What is Darwinian determinism?
B. How does Jack London use this in his stories?
III. Nietzschean theories of race
A. Who is ...
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The Hobbit By J.R.R. TolkenBilbo Baggins is a hobbit, one of a race of short, timid creatures who live in
cozy tunnels and who prefer to keep their lives ordered and predictable. One day,
he unexpectedly finds himself playing host to Gandalf the wizard and thirteen
dwarves. The dwarves, with Gandalf's help, plan to travel ...
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Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's Criticism Of The American DreamThe American Dream, as it arose in the Colonial period and developed in the
nineteenth century, was based on the assumption that each person, no matter what
his origins, could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and
effort. The dream was embodied in the ideal of the ...
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Henry James And Daisy Miller,On April 15, 1983 Henry James Jr. was born into the prominent and eccentric James Family. His father, Henry James Senior was a noted philosopher and his considered one of the most brilliant thinkers of the age. His brother William was to become one of the most important figures in the field of ...
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Farewell To ArmsWorld War One. The first great tragedy of humanity. That is of course excluding love and life. Combine all three and you find one of the most masterfully written novels about life, love, and war that could only be written by Ernest Hemingway. Born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb ...
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Symbolism In "The Pearl" By John SteinbeckNovels were created to show a very simplistic view in great depth.
The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, takes a novel to its most unadulterated form.
Steinbeck does this by conveying life symbolically. Through symbols,
Steinbeck offers the reader a more clear look at life and its content.
Kino plays a ...
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Japanese AnimeIntro
What make so much better than american cartoons? Why has amercicans themselves embraced the old style of anime? We are going to pick apart and dissect manga while also taking a look at my favorite anime film Ninja Scroll.
come in all types, for all sorts of people. Unlike the U.S., ...
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The Awakening What is suicide? \"(Suicide is) the act of self-destruction by a person sound in mind and capable of measuring his (or her) moral responsibility\" (Webster 1705). \"No one really knows why human beings
commit suicide. Indeed, the very person who takes his (or her) own life may be least ...
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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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Brave New WorldOn a superficial level is the portrait of a perfect society. The citizens of this Utopia live in a society that is free of depression and most of the social-economic problems that trouble the world today. All aspects of life are controlled for the people of this society: population numbers, ...
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