Maya Angelou was an author, actress, dancer, poet, and civil rights activist. Opal Moore explains her work as “providing insight into American history and culture”(Telgen). This paper is about Maya Angelou, her greatest work “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. When...
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Kids usually take the time spent as an innocent and pure child for granted, perhaps even expecting it to always be that way. But eventually reality sets in and the world pressures you into being what society has labeled an ‘Adult’ working for a living, getting an education and overall being a mature and wise person. The protagonist from the...
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Based upon England's medieval era, the Canterbury Tales, one of Geoffrey Chaucer's most popular works contains 24 stories or as people like to call them satires, based upon corruption, problems and stereotypes that occured back in the late 14th century. One of the most acclaimed stories within the Canterbury Tales is the tale of the Wife of Bath, one of...
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Introduction Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure drama film based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name. The storyline revolves around an Indian man named 'Pi' Patel, who is narrating to a novelist about his life story. He tells that how at the age of 16 he became a victim of a shipwreck and was able to...
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Subaltern, as described in Spivak's essay, is the marginalized, subordinated, and oppressed people who are subjected to be silent. The reason for the existence of the subalterns is the social strata between the citizens of a country where authority belongs to a limited number of people. The social hierarchy worsens the conditions for those who come at the lowest part...
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By way of analyzing the significance of mental acts such as dreaming, daydreaming and imagining in American Indian worldview, and exploring the importance of humor as a notable characteristic of American Indian cultural identity, I have tried to demonstrate how these culturally important acts and characteristics are used as means of survival by American Indians who are exposed to discrimination,...
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Edgar Allan Poe’s narratives envision a larger body of interdisciplinary elements within the literary purview of the Gothic; so far in creating a distinct mode of style that is new and fundamentally universal in approach, the writer can be seen as perfecting it through his hyperbolism of human fears and follies. The title “Revisiting the Gothic” comprise of not only...
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Memories create meaning in our lives, and allow us to remember what we’ve been through. Not all memories are good ones however, and In Beloved by Toni Morrison, memory is debilitating in the lives of Sethe and other characters. Sethe is imprisoned in her mind, and can’t escape the memories of when she was enslaved. Sethe’s daughter, Beloved, represents the...
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“Mommy, there’s a world in your eye” (Walker, “When the Other Dancer Is the Self” 45). Seven words penetrated the hardened heart of a woman who knew nothing but cruelty concerning her battered eye. As a woman of color, physical deformity, and unique naturalistic ideals, Alice Walker rose to great heights as a black “Womanist” essayist, novelist and poet in...
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In this paper, I will be explaining the main points of the essay called Philosophy and The Meaning of Life by Robert Nozick, where Robert Nozick begins to talk about how we have to understand the unquestioned assumptions and do we really want to know about the meaning of life. In his essay he talks about what a meaningful life...
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All success stories have roots that run deep that determine to what extent they will succeed, and how they achieved that success. In Outliers, Gladwell’s second chapter highlights one of those trends as spending a lot of time practicing and working on their craft. Gladwell cites studies and sociologists who state that for an individual to become an expert in...
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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses several literary devices in his novel. He uses many powerful symbols and allusions, such as biblical, mythological, and historical references. An allusion is a literary device in which the writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person. Bradbury uses this to obtain the relationship between the book and to make connections...
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During the 20th century, Latin American authors blended the folkloric storytelling of rural communities with academic elements of high literature to create the genre of magical realism. Characterized by its mix of fantasy and realism, the genre mixes gritty, authentic narration with symbolic elements of the fantastical. Though most of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s works embody some element of magical realism,...
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The Founding Fathers are the seminal example of the importance of compromise in politics. Before the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the significance of political compromise appeared effervescent in the Ancient Greek’s attempts to create a functioning nation-state that fit the ideals of the State, Rome’s First Triumvirate, and the age of the Founding Fathers itself. In understanding the results that...
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A minor character from Eudora Welty’s, “A Worn Path”, is the hunter. Although he does appear in an important part in the story, when he encounters Phoenix in the forest, he is still considered a minor character and the story did reveal many things about the hunter. The story revealed that the hunter is just a stock character because he...
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James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” is a great narrative since it incorporates different themes that include life choices, friendly relations, and second chances. “Sonny’s Blues” is a fictional storyline that narrates real-life situations and sufferings. Baldwin effectively provides an understanding not only in Sonny’s life but also into his environments, making the narrative unique in its nature. “Sonny’s Blues” is the...
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Different times throughout history have faced different problems. From drought, to familine, to disease, and war, different civilizations have come head on with many, if not all of these problems at different times. Fortunately, each of these issues has a solution. For drought, building water storage facilities, for famine, food storage. The disease has vaccinations and different cures. War has...
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In 1958, the news of Chinua Achebe’s newly published book, Things Fall Apart spread like wildfire throughout the crowded streets of Africa, at last giving the Africans what they have always longed for: a novel about European colonialism in an African perspective. Before the publication of Things Fall Apart, most novels about Africa were written by the Europeans who characterized...
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Young girls and women in this decade see Disney princesses as role models and believe that prince charming is the man who is going to save the day, that princesses are these perfect and beautiful women that just stands by and that cannot make a decision for themselves, this is what most girls lookup to instead of realizing the true...
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“Our Papers” is Janie Crawford’s time with Logan Kilicks in several ways. This section has similarities to her relationship with her first husband Logan and what she felt in this time frame. In this section of the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie goes to talk to her grandmother. She has only been married for three or four days...
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The Age of Reason was a period of time between the years 1715 and 1789. It is also commonly referred to as the Age of Enlightenment. Jonathan Swift was a writer during this period of reason, in which many individuals became more aware of the world around them and as a result had many intellectual and philosophical awakenings and ideas....
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From 1939 to 1945, a great war known as World War II raged in Europe. A German man by the name of Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany and then the dictator of Germany, fighting to gain control of all of Europe and exterminate anyone whom he considered to not be an “Aryan” German, a member of the so-called...
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Endearing in many ways, Alison Bechdel’s autobiography, Fun Home, shows readers that stories, metaphors, and archetypes can allow us to comprehend a person’s troubles. Allison’s characters embody transformative aspects where they become ciphers and reflections of people living in the real world. Furthermore, Allison’s recollections of a family unit that was physically, intellectually, and emotionally monopolized by her father, Bruce...
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Early on in A Tale of Two Cities, we learn the fate of criminals does not always seem to have a just outcome. “Humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pinchers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain” (Dickens 5) seems to be...
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Questions The subtitle of Malcolm Gladwell’s article asks, “How different are dogfighting and football?” Does he explicitly answer the question? What does he think? What do you think? In his article, Gladwell doesn’t explicitly answer the question but he hints that football is similar to dogfighting as well as stock-car racing. On page 655, Gladwell quotes Carl Semencic when he’s...
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From Instagram to Facebook and Snapchat, it is clear that social media plays a role in today's society. In fact, the implications of these online platforms are evident through the obsessive “refreshing” tendencies and mental health concerns of current citizens. In Sherman Alexie’s poem “The Facebook Sonnet,” the author satirizes these current controversies surrounding social media and illuminates their detrimental...
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'Southern Gothic' is a literary tradition that came into existence in the early twentieth century. It has its origin in the Gothic style, which had been popular in European literature for long time. Gothic writers were inventing desolate, upsetting scenarios in which mystery, secrets, sometimes supernatural occurrences, and protagonists' extreme characteristics, were combined in order to create a suspense and...
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For Helen Keller, born on June 27th, 1880, the world she could recall was always dark and silent. At only 19 months old Helen Keller was rendered blind and deaf by an unknown illness, and spent her early years as a frustrated, lost, and temper-prone child. At age six, Helen’s parents in desperation, hired Anne Sullivan as a teacher for...
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Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American author. He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. He worked as a pilot, and then as a journalist. He was a noted abolitionist and women's rights activist. His early writings can be classified as “tall tale” tradition, such as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras...
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This excerpt belongs to the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It is a novel set in the 19th century in London. The style of the narrative has three different levels of fiction which are the narrator that tells the story (Pip), the character called Pip and finally, the one who creates Pip who is Philip Pirrip. The main theme...
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