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Trench Warfare and the Best Anti-War Novel Ever Written

friends-who were all at the same class at school-had the idea that war is glorious and noble, an attitude encouraged by their teac...

Susanna Rowson Writes the Truth

more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...

Process of Writing an Essay or Story

For the sake of discussion let us say that the idea is something that must be used in a classroom which is teaching composition. T...

Sanford Levinson's 'Written in Stone'

Soviet Union, examining Russia today. The program focused on how the people now have freedom, but dont quite know where to stop th...

Who Wrote the Bible? by Friedman

great deal of examples that demonstrates how and why the inconsistencies suggest that the stories were coming from more than one s...

Unorthodox Writings of American Poet James Merrill

blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...

Writing Style and Protagonist of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

Times Reflected in the Writings of John Keats, Moliere, and Niccolo Machiavelli

and was able to study their political tactics, particularly those of the ecclesiastic and soldier Cesare Borgia, who was at that t...

Life and Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

Black Identity in the Writings of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois

self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...

Historical Views and Times Represented in the Writings of Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and T.S. Eliot

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

Expatriates and Their Writings

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

Charlotte Smith's 'Written at the Close of Spring'

May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...

Thematic Similarities in the Writings of Plato, Cicero, and Sophocles

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

Revealing Self Through Writing According to Alice Walker

siblings to be one of the "lucky" ones to go to the fair with him. The image is of a pretty, favored child. Walker next relates ...

Playwright and Sonneteer William Shakespeare's Life and Writings

Greek and read the Roman dramatists" (Anonymous William Shakespeare 47123316). However, in all honesty, "Very little is known abou...

Children and Standards of Writing

children, and many others that are only suitable when written in a careful manner so as not to give to much that may frighten or c...

Romanticism in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Geoffrey Chaucer's Writings and How They Were Affected by His Life

songs and lays had been the product of his youthful years, and that he acquired a reputation for songs as well as jocular tales (P...

The Writing Life of Charles Dickens

for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...

Self-Improvement In The Writings of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

to promote his ideas being a printer and prospering in his business, his actions also promoted his ideal for constant improvement ...

American Dream and the Writings of John Steinbeck

the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out...

Hamilton's Blessing and John Steel Gordon's Open Style of Writing

always depended upon the existence of the national debt. While this may stick in the craw of many economists and no doubt the poli...

Feminism in the Life and Writings of Virginia Woolf

to resurrect and preserve (Gordon 4). Woolf, a manic-depressive, found herself constantly searching for approval...Battling with a...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Writings and the Impact of History

have totally disrespected him and used him, then effectively disposed of him), the town itself has refused to realize that the vio...

Writing Instruction and TESOL

is paid to speaking and writing the language. English classes, on the other hand, are taught differently. English teachers will as...

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine Writing About America

There is no question that through Jeffersons influence, the United States of America was built on a foundation of democracy and li...

Writings of 5 Founding Fathers of Early Christian Theology

the standards of Christian piety that were expected. From reading the Didache, the modern Christian can begin to see how the lab...

Life and Writings of Raymond Carver

making a comeback"(Carver 2003). This was the turning point for Carver. Many of his works are shaped by a sense of...