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experience" (Owl Eyes). However, he "is best known for The Red Badge of Courage(1895), a realistic look at the Civil War" though h...

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

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

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...

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

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

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

meaningful and yet is portrayed as ridiculous. Cervantes was known as a maverick and for his satirical representations of the soc...

George Eliot's life and writings are the focus of this paper consisting of 5 pages. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...

into the dissipations of Moscows high society, which he candidly recorded in his diary with vows to reform" (Anonymous About Leo T...

This paper contends that writing is a critical component in our personal, academic, and professional lives. It has a cause and ef...

the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...

in on various theatrical stages), Middlemass racked up an impressive list of stage credits. Some of his early Broadway appearance...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

Blair family was not very wealthy - Orwell later described them ironically as lower-upper-middle class" and "They owned no propert...

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...

2002). He ended up getting injured in this war as he fought the communists and eventually had to flee Spain for his life (Widmann...

naval vessel for the voyage to California" (Sherwin). At this point the family found itself reunited and "Two years later, Lee was...

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

recognized and encouraged Fitzs literary talents, anything outside that parameter was not worth his time, attention or study, unle...

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...

night and by day. For about four years, Twain worked as a river pilot. He enjoyed the work which provided constant excitement. He ...

This 6 page paper is a biography of Toni Morrison, the renowned African-America author. The writer examines some of the events in ...

In five pages one time Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare John W. Gardner is discussed in terms of his life, career, and ...

In twelve pages Dr. Clay's life and writings are examined particularly as they relate to post 1960s literacy education. Sixteen s...

In five pages this paper focuses mostly on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in a consideration of the African American ...