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The BBC Version of Hamlet Literature Movie Review
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The author states that the BBC Television Shakespeare series produced an essentially “cerebral” Hamlet in which there we a lot of talking heads and not a lot of movement. By contrast, Kenneth Branagh produced a very dramatic version of the play, utilizing all the ability of film to overwhelm an audience and make them absorbed within the play.
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado Literature Literature review
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In Edger Allan Poe's short story The Cask Of Amontillado, although it is only three pages long, we can see a miniature all the elements that Edger Allan Poe repeatedly uses in all of the stories and poems. His themes are almost a perfect precursor of all of the main themes and preoccupations of the 20th century, and his techniques of mood and psychological extraction presages.
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The Robe of Love: Secret Instructions for the Heart Literature Essay
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The author states that in ‘The Golden Tree’, a King had four wives. Of the four he favored one wife mostly who was beautiful, intelligent, honest, kind, and challenging. The other three were jealous of her qualities. Because of the jealousy, the other three somehow convinced the king that she the only source of all the troubles in the kingdom.
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Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Literature Essay
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The author states that The Lottery is a gruesome depiction of modern life. It is a story that affords an uncomfortable and unforgettable shock of recognition, which makes it a stand out piece of literature. In the story, the villagers are caught in a social trap (which could have been avoided with enough motivation).
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the book is read by the individuals of this era may not be understood by them if they do not get the concept of the mid 19th century. Ellison was an individual of a black ethnicity who lived in America and had to pass different phases of life. He had to go through different instances in life in the states.
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Ovids Metamorphoses and the Odyssey Literature Essay
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In Ovid's Metamorphoses there is no main protagonist - it depicts about the process of world creation through numerous interactions of different subjects indicated above.The Odyssey is another example of great ancient literature which reflects the story of Odysseus's adventures and his numerous connections with humans and gods
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The Geographical Poetics of Giovanni Verga Literature Book Report/Review
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The author analyzes the oeuvre of Giovanni Verga, a Sicilian writer of such works as Cavalleria Rusticana and I Malavoglia. He discusses his work along the lines of "Geographical Poetics." This references something regarding the interplay between narrative technique, dialogue, and linguistic idiosyncrasies in order to elucidate a topology of culture.
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The Setting of Oedipus the King Literature Essay
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The setting of Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King is such an important element that it is almost impossible to imagine the play taking place anywhere else.  Were the events of this play to take place elsewhere, the character of Oedipus would confront them much differently and perhaps be a much different person. 
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Poetry Slam as an Emerging New Social Art Trend Literature Essay
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The purpose of the emergence is best to quote Bob Beagrie, a founding member of experimental art, saying “. . . it gives people a sense of ownership over the spoken and written words." (BBC Tees 2007). This could only mean that Poetry Slam is the evolved form of traditional poetry, in the same manner as its receptivity from the demographical audience.
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Narrative Subjection of Emily Grierson from A Rose for Emily Literature Book Report/Review
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One of the most common topics of debate over this story deals with Emily Grierson's apparent refusal or inability to change with the passing times; the core of this dilemma, however, is that the prevailing view of Emily's supposed lack of adaptability is based entirely on what we know about Emily as a result of a subjective third person perspective
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Approaches to Monitor the Government's Strategy to Tackle Poverty and Social Exclusion Literature Book Report/Review
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Her columns commonly support New Labour, but she has also made keen criticisms of the Blair government. She was born on the Isle of Wight. After she attended the Holland Park School, a comprehensive school in London (she had failed the Eleven Plus examination), she read history at St Anne's College, Oxford, but dropped out before completing her degree.
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I Sit and Sew by Alice Dunbar-Nelson Literature Essay
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A poem that depicts a ‘typical’ woman’s act of sitting and sewing, the text indicates the forced passivity and frustration of a woman in war-time, who is unable to do anything to alleviate her desire to do something constructive instead of being made to sit passively. The most striking aspect of the structure of the poem is the refrain which is outside the otherwise constant rhyme scheme.
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The Lessons in Lifes Incidentals Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that in Frankenstein, the monster’s encounters with the DeLacey family open his eyes to the goodness in life. In addition, he learns how to read as well as certain social skills. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Tom and Eva share a friendship that not only changes them but it changes others who witness the bond that these two friends share.
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Writing Novel ( whith explanations) Literature Personal Statement
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Touch; fine grit from the dusty plains blowing over his prone body, borne by a gusting wind. Sound; muted pops as small arms rounds cooked off in the fires. Former Staff Sergeant Timothy Wallace blinked open his eyes through the caking of dirt, sweat, and grime that coated them.
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The Book of the Courtier Book One Literature Essay
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According to the report Castiglione had basically written a handbook to help others at court achieve success.   In the first book, the reader is presented with several concepts of what made a man the perfect Renaissance courtier.  While all of these arguments are quite sound, perhaps the most efficient arguments are based on education.
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The Rights and Rank to Which We Are Entitled Literature Essay
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Dr Thomas has also authored a book ‘With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861 – 1874’, published in 2003 by the University of Arkansas Press. His doctoral thesis on Lakeport Plantation is also likely to be converted into a book.
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Fascination with the Fringes: Falstaff and Willmore in Shakespeare and Behn Literature Book Report/Review
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However, as Vladimir Zelevinsky notes in his review of The Rover, Behn takes such pains to make her marginal characters appear so lively and vibrant than the men by them turn into indistinguishable caricatures by comparison. Zelevinsky praises the metaphor of theater, with the complex plot strands that connect, at some points, as many as five couples who are romantically interested in one another.
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An analysis of the book Paper Daughter Literature Essay
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The story is a touching memoir of a woman's unforgettable journey from Hong Kong to Harvard who found herself caught between two increasingly different worlds. It reveals the uncertainty and tension as she balances herself between two different worlds: at school with her American companions, and at home with her Chinese family.
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Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that human rights must be protected by guardian state through concentrating not just the ill-treatment of differing races but also the injustice done by the same race. The most important is the refugee's current status of the native region; if presently it is unsafe to stay there, then it would be unjust to send such refugees back there.
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Great Expectations: Moral Judgment of Characters by the Reader Literature Book Report/Review
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Pip’s journey is thus a highly ‘individual’ journey and is a tale of alienation. It is a journey where Pip goes through a diverse range of experiences that continually challenge his understanding of class, family, and individuals at large to finally come to a better understanding of himself. Being a bildungsroman, this journey towards self-realization is quite expected and in fact, commonplace.
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Boarded and Caged: Ideas of Freedom in Warren Pryor Literature Essay
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To the parents’ credit, it is obvious that they want their son to have a better life than they did. They are hardscrabble farmers, and we know that they consider this life a kind of imprisonment based on the statement that they are “slaving to free him from the stony fields.”
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that throughout the story, it is unknown whether it truly was Santiago who took Angela's virginity. The whole basis of the story revolves around this mystery. When under pressure, one may lie, deceive or betray someone. All of the townspeople are well aware of the murder that is almost definitely going to occur.
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Analysis of Articles about Kate Chopin's Works Literature Annotated Bibliography
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Arner contends that Chopin was a realist and her two stories, “Cadian Ball” and “The Storm” are a study in realism. Arner supports this view through a close textual analysis. As regards “The Storm” he maintains realism to be primarily expressed in the illicit incident of adultery and lovers’ expressions of feelings and emotions throughout. 
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Analysis A Step from Heaven by An Na Literature Essay
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One recurring theme in the novel is the difference in American women’s lives and the environment from that of Korean or Asian women. For Asian women, wives and daughters were expected to be obedient, respectful and loyal to the head of the family. The father is the sole decisionmaker in the family and what he says is a law
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John Donnes Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Literature Book Report/Review
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Donne and Marvell both talk about the problem of separated lovers with varying degrees of reference to the concept of Platonic love, cloaked in the extravagantly figurative language of the Metaphysical conceit. Donne couches his discussion within the possibility of an event from real life, the temporary spatial separation of lovers, perhaps even occasioned by his actual separation from his life.
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Analysis Of The Othello By Shakespeare Literature Essay
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From here on, his raging thoughts "never look back, ne'er ebb to humble love," till his revenge is satiated, the painful regrets and involuntary recollections of past circumstances which cross his mind amidst the dim traces of passion, aggravating the sense of his wrongs, but not shaking his purpose. 
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The Story of an Hour Book Report/Review Literature Book Report/Review
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The story begins as Josephine, Mrs. Mallard's sister, together with Richard, Mr. Mallard's friend, went to the couple's abode to deliver a staggering news. Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart disease, they tenderly relayed to her the news of her beloved husband's death due to a car accident.
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Driving Lessons by Neal Bowers Literature Book Report/Review
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According to the findings, it can, therefore, be said that the poem “Driving Lessons” itself is structured by one popular metaphor – life is a road. Thus, following the road one tries his best to reach the destination fast, just like in our life we aspire to reach our goal, however, we are not always successful.
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Mathematics Text Book Literature Book Report/Review
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He also notes the need to continuously innovate in one's particular approach to teaching as the generations of children differ from each other thus intending to show how diverse the subject presentations maybe. In huge classes, Musser tries to point out that the need to balance out the teaching style in mathematics is necessary so as to assure that the students are able to grasp the idea of the subject matter in a much easier and effective manner that would work for the majority of the population of young learners making up the class.
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Tragic Death of Romeo and Juliet Literature Book Report/Review
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The writer claims that even though the Friar knew that the marriage was flawed, and his action may seem irresponsible but Romeo and Juliet’s chance meeting, their separation as a result of Romeo’s banishment, play a far greater role in the tragedy. Friar Lawrence wishfully hoped that some good might come out of their union.
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Othello A Tragic Tale of Unjustified Jealousy Literature Essay
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The text itself is nothing short of extraordinary. This writer found it engrossing, heartbreaking and considers it as a tragedy of the highest quality. The most striking and fascinating aspect of the text was its psychological elements and its great villain Iago. Through Iago, Shakespeare reveals his remarkable understanding of the human psyche.
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The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton Literature Essay
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The author of the paper states that that led to contriving a trick of pestering their master by imitating cat’s cries next to the bedroom of the bourgeois and the bourgeoisie. By goading him with catcalls, they provoked the print master himself to authorize the massacre of the “malevolent” cats.
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Applying the Literary Analysis to Ernest Hemmingway's Indian Camp Literature Essay
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The varying degrees of favoritism of this short story had to do with how Hemmingway often presented Women, not only in his literary work, but in his own life as well. His literary style had a prominent effect on the feminist movement.
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Table Talk and Morning Radio Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Mahon’s ability to give non-human objects qualities that one would normally attribute to a human create such a strong illusion that many of the objects in his poems are ‘alive.’ His poems ‘Table Talk’ and ‘Morning Radio’ are two pieces of his work that create an illusion.
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Smith in Love Submission and Perversity Literature Essay
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This essay outlines that human beings as individuals have no validity. Feelings and emotions are forbidden. The notion of ‘love’ is laughable: it undermines the State’s power. Winston Smith and Julia know this. They do not accept it, however, but pursue a forbidden relationship; they deny submitting to the State by submitting to each other.
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By the Time I Get to Cucaracha Literature Essay
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The author considers how this method for becoming a citizen in the US is both far more difficult in reality than is thought, and how it has been used as a simple plot device for numerous television shows. Perez-Zeeb's point is that trivializing the legalities involved in this process and turning it into fodder for entertainment serves to further deepen the stereotype of lazy immigrants looking to illegally take advantage of wealth of the US economy. The article often reads more like a web blog entry than an actual exercise in journalism.
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Papa Blows His Nose in G: Absolute Pitch by Oliver Sacks Literature Essay
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The real wonder of absolute pitch is that it helps people to qualitatively differentiate every tone and key, each with its own ‘flavor’ or ‘feel’. As the author maintains, while absolute pitch offers a delicious extra sense which helps one in singing or notating any music in the exact pitch, there are several problems associated with it.
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Characterization on Gogol from The Namesake Literature Book Report/Review
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This was, in a way, their way of surviving in a strange land where "life seems so tentative and spare" Gogol Ganguli is the most impressive character in the novel. In fact, the entire story revolves around him, he being the son of Ashoka, an Indian academic and his wife Ashima, and the brother of Sonia
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The Gift of a Cow by Godaa Literature Book Report/Review
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The majority of people were poor peasants ruled over by the upper caste landlords, Rajputs and Brahmins. People were ignorant, illiterate and timid. They feared God. They were made to believe by the then upper caste Brahmin community that the acute poverty is caused by the sin they committed.
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The Things They Carried Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Jimmy Cross fantasizes about developing a serious relationship with Martha but it appears that the romance stems more from his imagination than reality. As a result, he holds on to the objects Martha has given him and imagines that as Martha herself: he would caress and lick the pebble, imagining he is, in fact, kissing Martha.
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Coyote Waits - Joe Leaphorn's Crime Fiction Novel Literature Book Report/Review
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Two Navajo tribal policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee work side by side to unravel a mysterious case. Jim Chee’s friend and co-worker Delbert Nez die in an apparent car burning. The actual cause of his death is senseless roadside shooting. The suspect is an elderly Navajo drunk man who has a lethal weapon.
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One Art by Elizabeth Bishop Literature Essay
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The rhythmic flow of this poem mimics the human penchant for denial, stemming from intellectualizing a threat to one's personal equanimity, until the very last strand of control gives way to truth. Overall, form and content merge naturally in this poem - embodying three elements which make for good poetry: structure, rhythm and voice/speaker.
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Love, Conflict, and Suicide in Romeo and Juliet Literature Essay
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According to the essay, in Othello, Shakespeare has moved against the conventional stereotyping of black as evil by changing the meaning of black and white in the play. Through his attempt to alter the significance of black and white colors in the play Othello, Shakespeare apparently seems to be making a political statement with respect to race.
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George Orwells Animal Farm Literature Book Report/Review
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According to the study conducted, Animal Farm, therefore, dramatizes Orwell’s summary of Burnham’s views of political history: that “history consists of a series of swindles, in which the masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of utopia, and then, when they have done their job, en­slaved over again by new masters”.
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The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne Literature Book Report/Review
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A character called Hollingsworth is a monomaniacal philanthropist and a confirmed misogynist whose sole intention is to use the farm for reforming criminals; Zenobia – another interesting character of exotic origin who also happens to be a passionate feminist and perceives Hollingworth’s misogyny as irresistible.
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The Golden Ass by Apuleius Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Socrates described Meroe, the witch to Apuleius. This woman loved somebody deeply. But unfortunately, her man loved somebody else besides her. With just one word, Meroe turned his man into a beaver. She also changed one of his neighbors into a frog. One of the advocates of the court spoke bad things against her.
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Born in Bondage by Marie Jenkins Schwartz Literature Book Report/Review
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The author of the paper states that the book is an excellent source for convincing the reader how wrong slavery really is against any person. The slave-owners, and slaves for that matter, lived in such an insulated era and location that they were unable to compare or debate their point of views on slavery – and perhaps that is why it continued on so long.
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The Raven by Edgar Poe Literature Essay
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The author has rightly presented that Poe ended the poem not only because he didn’t want it to be exceeded, but because his symbolic imagination was exhausted and he couldn’t say anything more. In conclusion, it is needed to say that “The Raven” is very peculiar and unique poem which touched eternal problems of death, beauty, sorrow, and consciousness.
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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King Literature Book Report/Review
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Oedipus Rex illustrates the Greek concept that trying to circumvent a prophet’s predictions is futile. This play also addresses the concept of free will and determinism, despite the fact that Oedipus did not become the victim of fate. Although he kills the ex-king, this action was totally based on his intentions to get the throne.
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Call me Woman by Ellen Kuzwayo Literature Book Report/Review
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The experiences of the author, Kuzwayo, are directly and rather simply stated in a particularly nonliteral style, allowing the reader to be able to really put themselves in her place and understand about her life, and the history of her and of South Africa as a whole.
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