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Analysis of Mother Tongue written by Amy Tan Literature Assignment
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Tan further proves that her mother’s English is “imperfect” by citing several circumstances experienced by her mother (78). She also points out that her mother has noticed her own limitations as she was asked to pretend to be Mrs. Tan on a phone call one time, and talked to doctors when her mother needed to get more information about findings (78).  
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The Depiction of Becoming Adult in Fiction Literature Assignment
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The theme of growing up or becoming an adult is a common theme in many different types of literature. In both realistic fiction and fantasy fiction, the subject of becoming a man or woman is a narrative standby. In the works “The Catcher in the Rye” and “Dune”, the theme of growing up is treated differently in reality and fantasy.
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Critical Analysis of Haiku Poems Literature Essay
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At the same time, neither is fighting against particular Western traditions of literature. However, each of these haiku uses imagery and, in the case of Ishida's poem, explicit mention of non-Western, Japanese traditions. For that matter, the haiku as a form of poetry is itself thoroughly non-Western.
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Sula by Toni Morrison Literature Essay
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Race and gender have always been two important elements of literatures dealing with social structures. Several Caribbean women writers have composed fine works encompassing these issues and have mainly used oral styles of narration. Toni Morrison, one such Caribbean writer, composes her fiction in order to incorporate racial shame.
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Literature Essay
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The author of the essay states that the villagers spent years upon years harassing and bothering the poor man, hoping to coax something supernatural out of him. However, nothing happens. The introduction of a spider woman pushes the thoughts of the old man out of the minds of the villagers.
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Cinderella as Prototype Literature Book Report/Review
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The paper also accentuates that there are many elements of Yeh-hsien that are similar to the original Cinderella story. Yeh-hsien was raised by her stepmother after her father had died. She was mistreated by this stepmother, often being the one sent to do the dangerous and dirty work that her stepmother did not want to do.
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The Contrast Between Dee and Maggie in Everyday Use by Alice Walker Literature Essay
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In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the sisters Dee and Maggie could not be any more opposite. Though their differences and few similarities are obvious to the reader, they become more pronounced as their mother considers them. Even more, traits can be seen about them when their mother points them out.
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Eighteenth-Century Literature: Pirates, Princes and Prostitutes Literature Essay
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The author of the essay presents John Gay as one of the influential poets and playwrights of early eighteenth century, whose work reflects the social and political state of affairs prevailing in the England of his time. It is underlined that Gay has boldly highlighted such traits of his time disclosure of which was considered to be taboo in past.
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Analysis of Regeneration Novel by Pat Barker Literature Book Report/Review
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Dr. Lewis Yealland served to portray the concept of regeneration as he utilized a rigid, rather inhumane form of treatment, known to be electro-shock therapy. This was presented to have become the only means he knew soldiers would obtain fast regeneration of their critical system or sensory framework back to normal and surpass the weakness.
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Personal Commentary on Shakespeares Sonnet 60 Literature Essay
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I feel like being immediately transported to a state wherein I could see my life flashing in fast forward. It is not unlike feeling the ebb of one’s vitality as the minute's progress. This particular emotional response to the verse is a bit melancholic for me since I am especially averse to the subject of death.
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New Voices in Children's Literature Criticism Literature Essay
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The paper shows that in “Alice in Wonderland” the opening introduces Alice and sets her to the adventures. The second element is conflict – the confrontation that becomes clear while the plot develops. In The Secret Garden, Mary's conflict is most of all with herself and about her learning to interact with her environment and thus gain access. 
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The Wizard of Oz Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that in The Wizard of Oz, for example, the story is about what happens after a tornado arrives and catches a little girl unawares. All that happens to her after this moment is the story, which is to say a great adventure that she moves through while following the yellow brick road.
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Music Discussion Morality Plays Then and Now Literature Assignment
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Another reason is that morality stories are usually based on true-to-life situations so we can really learn from them. Although there may be fictional characterizations, still the lessons are not as different as in everyday happenings. Morality Stories sometimes have a twist in the plot which makes them more interesting for the readers.
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Impact Of Sprats Work On The Literary Style Of Jonathan Swift Literature Book Report/Review
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The reaction of the empress Lilliput to Gulliver’s putting out the fire in her apartment is a satirical way of describing Queen Anne’s annoyance with Swift for having written ’a tale of a tub’ in which Swift had attacked the religious abuses but which had been misinterpreted by the Queen as an attack on the religion itself.
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Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Gruwell’s entry highlights the ignorance of current generations’ awareness of the history that indirectly contributes to the perpetuation of violence, hatred, and conflicts within society. It is the most sensitive account of how she creatively exploits other platforms to evolve more emphatic learning modalities.
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Analysis of Framed Novel by Malcom Rose Literature Book Report/Review
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There is a lot of crime and even bandits in those cities. Cambridge is the capital instead of London, and it is thriving with life and activity. Nobody is allowed to stay with their parents, and they are forced to decide their careers when they are eight years old. The Authorities also tell people when they can get married and who they can marry.
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The Ironies in the Life and Death of Peyton Farquhar Literature Essay
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He is standing on the edge of the bridge over the Owl Creek. No, Peyton Farquhar has no plan to dive into the creek water for a day’s swim -- at least for the moment. The water below is apparently uninviting, which is swirling and “racing madly” (Bierce 436). The image of the bridge, however, is more visible than the swirling stream itself.
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Gerda Klein's Novel All but My Life Literature Essay
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Gerda Klein, in her novel ‘All but my life’ aims to relay her own personal and horrendous story of being a young, Polish, Jewish girl in WWII, as well as those of others she knew and met at the time. She wants to ensure the world knows how horrific life was under the Nazi’s but at the same time how people were able to maintain a positive outlook.
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The Relationships between Culture and Social Identity in Pygmalion and Educating Rita Literature Coursework
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One’s social identity is formed as an outcome of the different perceptions with regard to religion, ethnicity, race, and so on. The two plays given for the present analysis have clearly exposed the link between culture and social identity. Identity crisis is a serious issue discussed in both the plays.
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Poetry as Representation of Sentiments Literature Essay
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The concept of war in the poetry emerges the concept of human brutality, the behaviour of power with the innocent one, the concept of intrigues, the concept of loyalty and patriotism, the concept of bravery and cowardness are associated with the very word war. Poets have to express their feelings about these concepts in a number of different ways.
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I Am Not Your Victim as an Autobiographical Treatise Presented by Beth Sipe Literature Book Report/Review
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Generally speaking, women, like Beth face great amount of distress owing to domestic violence. They have a continual feeling that their husbands will soon become good people and would care for them and their children. However, a continual increase in the torture provided leads to catastrophes like murder.
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Review of Opinion on the Work Frankenstein Literature Book Report/Review
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The reason is that people will not accept him in society as he is seen to be dangerous and harmful. Richard Michalko’s work is based on disability which shows that disability is no constraint to achievement and one can move ahead in life. Here the idea is to prove disability as not a weakness, but to show as strength.
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Spiritual Truth In Literature Of Shusaku Endo Literature Book Report/Review
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Life is more complicated than any religious teachings. It is more various and it makes less sense. Otsu is a believer, but it is hard to say he is a believer of a specific version of Christianity. He is more of a believer that the human spirit is powerful and can do almost anything. It makes sense to think of him as an idealistic humanism.
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Who Wrote the Bible Literature Essay
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The researcher insists that Friedman is one of a long line of scholars to attempt the task, with others earlier arriving at the basic theory, as he does, that the Torah is a woven fabric of selections.  In this sense Friedman’s arguments and theories are not new: that the Bible is simply a collection of stories, some based on fact, some not.
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Gilgamesh and Enkidu Literature Essay
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The author describes that Gilgamesh, ruler of Uruk, is depicted at the start of the story as a strong and proud man, arrogant and selfish, and not behaving in a respectful way towards the gods, towards women, or towards the people he will one day have to rule. Various wronged parties bring their complaints to the gods.
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Challenging Ideas of Childhood as represented in Victorian Novels Literature Essay
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This essay discusses that Victorian novels, in a general sense, were based on certain idealised and romanticised situations, where hardships formed the main background, around which the chief protagonists revolved. In most of the Victorian novels we will find that virtue triumphs over various wrongdoings.
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Texting and Reading Comprehension Literature Case Study
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This paper gives information that in the last two decades, the use of communications technology for education, work, and recreation has dramatically increased. Analogous to the invention and adoption of the telephone in the early twentieth century, text messaging has become a staple form of communication in today’s society.
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Nature and Ways of Combating Identity Thief Literature Research Paper
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From this paper, it is clear that the character identity theft or simply identity fraud is defined as the “misuse of personal identifying information to commit various types of financial fraud”. The term “identity theft” is a misnomer because one’s identity cannot literally be stolen. The phrase “identity theft” has become a popular usage.
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Gangs and the music industry Literature Research Paper
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This source points out how rap lyrics are generally violent and the language in them is offensive. The article argues that dismissing rap artists as perpetrators of socially deviant behaviour is simplistic.
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Hinduism in the Works of Walt Whitman Literature Book Report/Review
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Some of his works can be mirrored through the teachings of Hinduism such as the poems ‘Song of Myself’ and ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd’. Hinduism believes in Dharma or the ethics and duties, Samsara or the reincarnation, Karma which signifies action or the process of cause and effect, and Moksha or the freedom from the cycle of rebirth.
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Margaret Walker Literature Research Paper
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The ultimate goal of this paper is to show the reader that Margaret Walker made a great contribution into modern writing. Margaret was an extraordinary poet and essayist though she later emerged as a novelist too. Margaret Walker’s research goes so far as to research a whole list of important issues, including ethics and psychology. 
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The Equation of Happiness as a Quantifiable Element Literature Research Paper
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The question, however, is whether or not geography has anything to do with attaining happiness. Weiner looks into this question by travelling to different countries, which have been quantified in terms of the happiness of the people there. In the author’s work, we can see a sort of documentary film quality, but in textual form.
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Alexander Pope and The Augustan Age Literature Essay
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Neoclassicism extended its hands to the acquisition and spreading of knowledge which helped in gaining the name the epoch of ‘the Enlightenment’. “This general thirst for knowledge immediately influenced literature: its aesthetic function rapidly diminished and literature was considered as a means of education, becoming mostly didactic and moral”.
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Individual Crisis in the Death of a Salesman Literature Essay
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The author states that empowered by hopes and dreams, even though an individual receives an impression that those are absurd, he strives for survival and dreamed of living. Such an illusionary existence acts as intoxication, keeping an individual in oblivion from the harshness of the mundane.
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Vapidity of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby Literature Book Report/Review
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A good deal of the novel’s true genius rests in the character descriptions. They are not pleasant or sympathetic. Indeed, Wilson stated, “The only bad of it is that the characters are mostly so unpleasant in themselves that the story becomes rather bitter before one has finished with it”. But Fitzgerald did not want to sugarcoat his characters.
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Neighbor Rosicky by Willa Cather Literature Book Report/Review
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This paper tells that as the story advances, the reader becomes aware that Polly was raised in a more populated environment and has had to adjust to life on a farm. Polly has married Rosicky’s son Rudolph, so Rosicky has taken pains to aid in her adjustment to her new life. Compounding Polly’s interactions with Rosicky is the fact that she was born in American, while Rosicky is European.
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The Thousand Mile War Literature Research Paper
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The author in this book brilliantly combines his narrative skills and interweaves it with the historical Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II, to spin out a scintillating tale of the war between US and Japan, over the Aleutian Islands in the Pacific Campaign. This book takes us lets us examine in minute details the incidents that happened.
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Memoirs of a Geisha Literature Essay
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The novel has raised a controversy when Golden was sued by Mineko Iwasaki, who claimed that her story was used, revealing her identity without her approval, and some aspects of geisha life were misrepresented. Overall, Golden echoed the cultural, social, and political historical events in East Asia through the memoirs of a typical entertainer.
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Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - Relationship Between Hypersensitivity and Downfall Literature Book Report/Review
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The Tell-Tale Heart is a sensational thriller and horror story written by Edgar Ellen Poe. The story has been told in the first-person and commends the skill and talent of Edgar Ellen Poe in penning a short story that engages the readers and elicits emotional responses from them in reaction to the actions of the narrator.
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A graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapis Persepolis Literature Essay
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The author has used the graphics novel method to target the younger audience with the message that she wants to deliver to wide audience by her novel of Persepolis. The presentation of the Iranian culture and the historical background are portrayed in a fascinating manner which makes the film and the novel more interesting.
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Lead Character in Streetcar Named Desire Literature Essay
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This discussion talks that the play’s theme was timely since it touched upon the issues of immigrants as well as the values of the aristocracy of the Old Southern.Because of its popularity, the play was even adapted into a movie, a television series, and an opera. This play is credited for having launched the popularity of the icon Marlon Brando.
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Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun Literature Essay
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The author states that the theme of crisis due to racial discrimination, especially among the black people, and their prolonged struggle to gain back their individual dignity, has been an extremely significant and focal issue in the African or Afro-American literature. This play portrays a certain part of Southside Chicago in the 1950s.
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The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald - the Use of a Single Literary Device Literature Book Report/Review
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The wealthy in the novel, most of the characters, turn out to be empty, and even the reader finds it hard to admit it: worthless people. Through Nick’s disillusionment, as he observes Gatsby’s failure and destruction, Fitzgerald is obviously commenting on American attitudes toward money and success in the 20s.
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A Dolls House: Noras Case Literature Book Report/Review
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The viewers may point out that motherhood does not permit a mother to abandon her children. And for a woman with Nora’s nature full of love and care, it is not psychologically acceptable to leave her children behind, except in extreme circumstances.
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Good to Great by Jim Collins Literature Book Report/Review
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Jim Collins is a bestselling author who has previously written books like “Built to Last” where he discussed the causes for why companies achieve the sustainability and scalability that are so essential to their success in the contemporary business world.  Hence, the transformation from mediocre to excellent is the subject that is discussed in this book.
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What Did Flaubert Want to Tell Us in Novel Madame Bovary Literature Assignment
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It is difficult to imagine Emma Bovary ever being satisfied because her boredom with married life and her constant search for material things define her character in the book so completely. Even when she finds what she seeks (clothes, lovers) she is not happy. There is one thing that she enjoys and that is romantic literature.
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Reflections on Memoirs Literature Essay
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The memoir is a powerful thing that can reveal more than just a history. The remembrances of an individual can open the heart and soul of a memory, rather than just state the facts and list the events. Perspective is drawn from the way in which a memory is remembered and the revelations of how that memory had an effect.
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Literature Essay
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According to the study, since Satrapi tells the story through a child’s innocent eyes, the use of humor is quite effective since a child tends to find hope and happiness because of their love for simplicity and life. This shows that Satrapi used humor in order to signify the views of a child regarding the changes in her surroundings.
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Is Evil Gendered Literature Assignment
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The terms good and evil are the essential part of Abrahamic theology, and the Holy Scriptures of all the three Abrahamic religions including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam vehemently lay stress upon the observing of goodness and compassion and avoiding the evil and wickedness time and again to the readers and followers.  
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Emily Dickinson's Mystery Literature Essay
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Regarded as a resolutely reclusive and private person, Emily Dickinson fulfilled the human need to express herself through her poetry. The absence of active social interaction did not become a handicap for her. Rather, her intelligence and sensitivity helped her observe relationships and write about a diverse range of issues.
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